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A 'Read This' on ds_flashback
I just wanted to note that I recommended a bunch of stories on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ds_flashback last night, all of them from the Documentation Challenge on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
ds_flashfiction last year. I know a couple people on my Friends List dabble/read occasionally in Due South fan fiction, so they might not be following the flashback community, so I thought I'd point out my recommendations in particular, because the stories this time are such wonderful examples of neat things you can do with fan fiction, where you can explore other ways of telling a story -- so there are epistolary stories, police call logs, background information files, medical exam records, insurance claims, and a student advisory record.
(Also for my non-slash fan friends, most of these stories can't really fit much in the way of slasherific material, and the lone story that does is clearly marked.)
I should mention here that most of these stories are by people I've friended since -- which totally surprised me, I really wasn't going down the list and looking for stuff by people I know -- I kept going, "Damn I liked that one!" reads, enjoys, lightbulb "ohmygawd that's by [friend]! I'd totally forgotten!"
I'm sortof vaguely worried that it looks like I like stories by my friends because they're my friends, which you know is often at least partly true because you'll give a story a better critical evaluation because you're favorably inclined towards the author -- call it the Lake Woebegone Effect.
But it's also true that what I share with some of my friends is a common esthetic mindset regarding Neat Things To Write About and Neat Ways To Write It and Striving To Write It Really Well... so I guess it's not surprising that I do think some of the stuff here is really extraordinary, there's an actual reason that I have an affinity for the stories they're writing.
Cause and effect is a really tricksy thing, okay?
(And there's a bunch more stories that I could have recommended, so if you're on my friends list and have a story in that particular challenge, it doesn't necessarily mean I don't like your story just as much, but when I reached six ohmygawd, I had to say "that's it, I've bent the rules as much as I can" because geeze, the guidelines recommend one story a week. It's not a hard and fast rule, and when there are shorts that you can aesthetically link together... and also, I don't think I've recommended more than one story at a time up to this point... so I'm due, right!)
(Theodosia pauses to placate her Inner!Joe with many random drugs)
(Or else your story has already been recommended on ds_flashback -- I'm looking at you,carlacoupe in particular, but there are others, too.)
ds_flashback last night, all of them from the Documentation Challenge on ds_flashfiction last year. I know a couple people on my Friends List dabble/read occasionally in Due South fan fiction, so they might not be following the flashback community, so I thought I'd point out my recommendations in particular, because the stories this time are such wonderful examples of neat things you can do with fan fiction, where you can explore other ways of telling a story -- so there are epistolary stories, police call logs, background information files, medical exam records, insurance claims, and a student advisory record. (Also for my non-slash fan friends, most of these stories can't really fit much in the way of slasherific material, and the lone story that does is clearly marked.)
I should mention here that most of these stories are by people I've friended since -- which totally surprised me, I really wasn't going down the list and looking for stuff by people I know -- I kept going, "Damn I liked that one!" reads, enjoys, lightbulb "ohmygawd that's by [friend]! I'd totally forgotten!"
I'm sortof vaguely worried that it looks like I like stories by my friends because they're my friends, which you know is often at least partly true because you'll give a story a better critical evaluation because you're favorably inclined towards the author -- call it the Lake Woebegone Effect.
But it's also true that what I share with some of my friends is a common esthetic mindset regarding Neat Things To Write About and Neat Ways To Write It and Striving To Write It Really Well... so I guess it's not surprising that I do think some of the stuff here is really extraordinary, there's an actual reason that I have an affinity for the stories they're writing.
Cause and effect is a really tricksy thing, okay?
(And there's a bunch more stories that I could have recommended, so if you're on my friends list and have a story in that particular challenge, it doesn't necessarily mean I don't like your story just as much, but when I reached six ohmygawd, I had to say "that's it, I've bent the rules as much as I can" because geeze, the guidelines recommend one story a week. It's not a hard and fast rule, and when there are shorts that you can aesthetically link together... and also, I don't think I've recommended more than one story at a time up to this point... so I'm due, right!)
(Theodosia pauses to placate her Inner!Joe with many random drugs)
(Or else your story has already been recommended on ds_flashback -- I'm looking at you,
carlacoupe in particular, but there are others, too.)
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