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healingmirth) wrote2009-01-25 08:17 pm
healingmirth) wrote2009-01-25 08:17 pm
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Hi, more new fandoms!
So Momentary Paws (or, DO NOT WANT) by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
velithya showed up at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
epic_recs right after I finally watched Iron Man (which was great! and possibly not just because I love Robert Downey Jr.!) so, despite my complete unfamiliarity with the Avengers in particular or Marvel in general, I read it, and it was, as promised, very cute, despite the fact that I had no context for it. I think my next step from there was reading the Captain America/Iron Man ship manifesto or flipping through the marvel recs at crack_van but either way, I found myself totally immersed in Steve/Tony fandom for nearly a week.
One of the first things I read was the Resurrection-verse stories and they were... impressive? I really ought to re-read them someday, since I spent a lot of time trying to keep the characters straight. It's a "big" story, but it's set at a "big" time in the canon, so its ambition is understandable, if daunting to a new reader.
All things being equal, I think I liked their King of Infinite Space much better. It's got a much tighter focus on the Steve/Tony relationship for one, but it was also one of the last pieces I read, so its possible that my increased familiarity with the other characters made it an easier read as well.
I spent a little time skimming back throughcap_ironman and found crimsonquills's stuff which really needs to be a whole separate rec post (and I swear I recognize her name from somewhere, but can't figure out what I might have read or seen before). To make a long story short, she's responsible for my current detour into NCIS.
Playing the Odds by Katherine - NCIS, Gibbs/DiNozzo, NC-17 (eventually)
Long, and multiple POV characters. Tony has not had a great year, and when an old friend renews a job offer, he thinks it might be time to move on from NCIS in general, and Gibbs's team in particular. For my personal preferences, it's just skirting the line of, "okay, I get it, they're unhappy," and there's a decent amount of exposition of canon events, but not so much that I started skimming through sections. It's also got a great catalyst OFC.
On a sort of side note, I read a long Gibbs/DiNozzo story that was entirely from McGee's PoV (Ten Years On) and while it served the plot pretty well, I had a really hard time getting invested in the story. That's not at all the case with Playing the Odds.
velithya showed up at epic_recs right after I finally watched Iron Man (which was great! and possibly not just because I love Robert Downey Jr.!) so, despite my complete unfamiliarity with the Avengers in particular or Marvel in general, I read it, and it was, as promised, very cute, despite the fact that I had no context for it. I think my next step from there was reading the Captain America/Iron Man ship manifesto or flipping through the marvel recs at crack_van but either way, I found myself totally immersed in Steve/Tony fandom for nearly a week. One of the first things I read was the Resurrection-verse stories and they were... impressive? I really ought to re-read them someday, since I spent a lot of time trying to keep the characters straight. It's a "big" story, but it's set at a "big" time in the canon, so its ambition is understandable, if daunting to a new reader.
All things being equal, I think I liked their King of Infinite Space much better. It's got a much tighter focus on the Steve/Tony relationship for one, but it was also one of the last pieces I read, so its possible that my increased familiarity with the other characters made it an easier read as well.
I spent a little time skimming back through
cap_ironman and found crimsonquills's stuff which really needs to be a whole separate rec post (and I swear I recognize her name from somewhere, but can't figure out what I might have read or seen before). To make a long story short, she's responsible for my current detour into NCIS.Playing the Odds by Katherine - NCIS, Gibbs/DiNozzo, NC-17 (eventually)
Long, and multiple POV characters. Tony has not had a great year, and when an old friend renews a job offer, he thinks it might be time to move on from NCIS in general, and Gibbs's team in particular. For my personal preferences, it's just skirting the line of, "okay, I get it, they're unhappy," and there's a decent amount of exposition of canon events, but not so much that I started skimming through sections. It's also got a great catalyst OFC.
On a sort of side note, I read a long Gibbs/DiNozzo story that was entirely from McGee's PoV (Ten Years On) and while it served the plot pretty well, I had a really hard time getting invested in the story. That's not at all the case with Playing the Odds.