hradzka: plotty slash recs

hradzka (

hradzka) wrote,
@ 2012-02-19 05:06 pm UTC

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plotty slash recs

OK, continuing the gen meta: one reason I prefer gen and am grumpied by the ever-increasing amount of slash is that I want more from my story than most slash stories give me. I have a lot of least favorite kind of stories, but one of them is the story in which characters have issues that are caused/summed up by the fact that they are not fucking, and then there is a lot of YEARNING and FEELINGS, and then there is fucking and everyone is happy. Too often, the answer to the question, "why didn't they just get to the fucking earlier?" is "because then we couldn't have the YEARNING and FEELINGS."

So give me some recs of slash that doesn't do that! Plotty slash, in particular.

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bliumchik
2012-02-20 10:51 am UTC (link)

Actually what I've always loved about fandom (and a large part of my fandom has always been slash) is that it periodically produces something like Written By The Victors or Transfigurations or Transcendental - fics with significantly better plots than the average book/episode of the original. Your problem is a pretty standard variation on "90% of everything is kind of crap", which I have always got around primarily by being rec'd a good fic every so often and then reading everything else its author wrote rather than trawling through fandom communities.

Also, and this is actually more properly gen containing sex, but I got a great Ursula Le Guin fic for Yuletide. It's not plotty in the same way the others are, with an overarching goal or problem the characters have throughout - it's more of a worldbuilding fic, so may not be as good if you haven't read Left Hand of Darkness.

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	no subject bliumchik 2012-02-20 10:53 am UTC (link)
	(you might also have some luck identifying AO3 tags related to plot types you enjoy and narrowing down on them) (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

	no subject hradzka 2012-02-20 05:17 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks for the link, and the suggestion! (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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