Couple of Fic Recs
Sep. 15th, 2018 04:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maplemoodWell. It's been A Week. I'm keeping on top of homework (for the most part), but not much else; I'm not one of those people who necessarily needs to write every day in order to feel creative/satisfied, but more days than not would be great. I haven't had a chance to sit down, decompress, and write something that isn't related to schoolwork this entire week, and it's starting to get to me. Hopefully I can get a thing or two started over the weekend and move on from there.
But anyway! I did manage to catch up and comment on the major two in-progress Reylo fics I'm subscribed to right now, and they were both lovely, as usual:
landscape with a blur of conquerors by diasterisms: I've talked about this one before, and the last couple of chapters have been seriously amazing--sweet and sexy and emotionally brutal. I love that even though Rey and Ben are finally "together" they're still far from being completely open and honest with each other (of course), and so there's still such a wonderful sense of tension and foreboding running through even their softest scenes.
The Soiled Doves by fernybranca: I don't think I've talked about this one before? It's a Regency, Marriage of Convenience AU full of some of the same tropes that I adored in conquerors but with a very different twist, and the writing style mimics Austen and Austen-esque romances so perfectly that it's sometimes hard to remember that I'm not reading a published book (which, yeah, I feel like I say this about every fic I like, but in my defense, there are a LOT of good fics out there). It also does a great job of exploring both the ways in which Ben failed his parents and the ways in which he was failed by them, which makes for a nice balance you don't find in many fics. Or at least I haven't.
I ended up having to default from both of the exchanges I signed up for over the summer, which made me feel terrible, but I still got two wonderful gift fics:
Remember by celeste9: Rose Tico & Amilyn Holdo, aka the friendship of my dreams. I really, really wanted a fic where Amilyn comforts Rose after Paige's death, and this one delivered all the emotional hurt/comfort and female friendship/female mentor feels I could have hoped for.
Staring at the Same Stars by Missy: Another sweet and sad story focused around female friendship; this one's about Wendy Darling and Tiger Lily. The style and tone of this fic really reminded me of the style and tone of the original book--there was such a wonderful wistfulness to it.
But anyway! I did manage to catch up and comment on the major two in-progress Reylo fics I'm subscribed to right now, and they were both lovely, as usual:
landscape with a blur of conquerors by diasterisms: I've talked about this one before, and the last couple of chapters have been seriously amazing--sweet and sexy and emotionally brutal. I love that even though Rey and Ben are finally "together" they're still far from being completely open and honest with each other (of course), and so there's still such a wonderful sense of tension and foreboding running through even their softest scenes.
The Soiled Doves by fernybranca: I don't think I've talked about this one before? It's a Regency, Marriage of Convenience AU full of some of the same tropes that I adored in conquerors but with a very different twist, and the writing style mimics Austen and Austen-esque romances so perfectly that it's sometimes hard to remember that I'm not reading a published book (which, yeah, I feel like I say this about every fic I like, but in my defense, there are a LOT of good fics out there). It also does a great job of exploring both the ways in which Ben failed his parents and the ways in which he was failed by them, which makes for a nice balance you don't find in many fics. Or at least I haven't.
I ended up having to default from both of the exchanges I signed up for over the summer, which made me feel terrible, but I still got two wonderful gift fics:
Remember by celeste9: Rose Tico & Amilyn Holdo, aka the friendship of my dreams. I really, really wanted a fic where Amilyn comforts Rose after Paige's death, and this one delivered all the emotional hurt/comfort and female friendship/female mentor feels I could have hoped for.
Staring at the Same Stars by Missy: Another sweet and sad story focused around female friendship; this one's about Wendy Darling and Tiger Lily. The style and tone of this fic really reminded me of the style and tone of the original book--there was such a wonderful wistfulness to it.
