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Remix Recs
May. 24th, 2010 10:59 amI won't be able to watch the Lost finale until later today (beautiful weather + staying with the Aged Parents make for very limited screentime), so please don't spoil me. However, last night I was able to sample some more of the new stories the Remix ficathon brought us in many a fandom, and here's a preliminary result:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Orientation (The Ways of Seeing Remix) : Buffy's lost one Watcher already. If Xander wants to step up to the plate, they'll have to come to an agreement. Post-Chosen story that uses Buffy's backstory from the movie and the Becoming flashback to great effect while highlighting her friendship with Xander, and the way the two have grown over the years. Friendship stories are rare, which is a shame, and this one makes me very happy indeed.
Microwave Meals (Quick, Easy and Sometimes Satisfying) - The I Can't Get No Satisfaction Remix : set between seasons 5 and 6, this one is Spike-centric and highlights his relationship with Dawn and the Scoobies' attempt to make do in the summer after The Gift.
Doctor Who
The Brigadier’s Weddings (The ‘Third Time Luckiest’ Remix) : For a man profoundly against public displays of emotion, the Brigadier had certainly had a lot of weddings. The Doctor is invited to Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart's third wedding, but accidentally goes to all of them. It's one of those fics uniting New and Classic Who characters that make me squee in an undignified way, when I'm not smiling or getting a bit misty-eyed in between. We get the Brig at three different stages in his long life, the Tenth Doctor (during the specials era, and hence without an ongoing companion) interacting with him, Liz Shaw, Sarah Jane, and barely avoiding the bachelor party Turlough throws (Turlough would). It's just a joy to read.
The Bees, The Bees (The Five Times Donna Met the Doctor Without Realising It Remix) : in which Donna, post-Runaway Bride and pre-Partners in Crime, runs into five different regenerations of the Doctor, and Ace. There can never be enough Ace. Great fun.
You Will Be Me (The When I'm Gone Ontological Tautology Remaster) : in which the Doctor and the Master, during life after life, never stop playing games. Mind-messing in a good way.
Harry Potter
Bellum omnium contra omnes (the Ancient History remix): Percy remembers idolising his older brothers growing up. He doesn't play favourites anymore. He's not exactly spoiled for choice. I've always had a soft spot for Percy (it must have been horrible growing up with the twins), was very glad he did not end the series as a corpse, and stories that explore him and his reasons for his post-OotP split with the rest of the Weaslys are something I really like to read. This story does it very well, via an encounter with his older brother Bill.
spoken word (the applied linguistics remix) : Dumbledore's backstory (with Grindlewald, with his sister, with his brother) was one of the most fascinating aspects of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. This story, like the one it remixes, uses it, but it also uses language, the way linguistics form our thoughts, for characterisation in an utterly compelling way.
Star Wars
What You Are (the Certain Point of View Remix): in which we get a look at Obi-Wan, Padme and Anakin at three different points in their lives. Beautiful character vignette.
Torchwood
Here's A Girl From A Dangerous Town (the Unbroken Heart Remix) : a fantastic portrait of a woman canon only gave us the name and a few hints about, Lucia Moretti. I love what the writer does with Lucia as a Torchwood agent (and after), Lucia and her relationship with Jack, and Lucia and her daughter. She emerges as a layered, complex woman whom I'd have loved to see on screen. Brilliant.
West Wing
The Truth About Her Life (Flickering Firebrand Remix) : Six Qumari women are in need of an intervention. CJ knows that she has compromised, but she has only bent and never broken. Great, great CJ voice, sharp and intense story.
My own remixee approves of my remix, which is always a pleasing relief to know, and I've had some feedback from people who never commented on my stories so far, which provides that special glee anonymous ficathons are there for.:) If you figure out which one is mine, oh flist, I shall write you a drabble. It's not a rare fandom as in Yuletide, and I've written stories in it before, but I don't think there is such an obvious giveaway in it as there was in last year's remix.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Orientation (The Ways of Seeing Remix) : Buffy's lost one Watcher already. If Xander wants to step up to the plate, they'll have to come to an agreement. Post-Chosen story that uses Buffy's backstory from the movie and the Becoming flashback to great effect while highlighting her friendship with Xander, and the way the two have grown over the years. Friendship stories are rare, which is a shame, and this one makes me very happy indeed.
Microwave Meals (Quick, Easy and Sometimes Satisfying) - The I Can't Get No Satisfaction Remix : set between seasons 5 and 6, this one is Spike-centric and highlights his relationship with Dawn and the Scoobies' attempt to make do in the summer after The Gift.
Doctor Who
The Brigadier’s Weddings (The ‘Third Time Luckiest’ Remix) : For a man profoundly against public displays of emotion, the Brigadier had certainly had a lot of weddings. The Doctor is invited to Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart's third wedding, but accidentally goes to all of them. It's one of those fics uniting New and Classic Who characters that make me squee in an undignified way, when I'm not smiling or getting a bit misty-eyed in between. We get the Brig at three different stages in his long life, the Tenth Doctor (during the specials era, and hence without an ongoing companion) interacting with him, Liz Shaw, Sarah Jane, and barely avoiding the bachelor party Turlough throws (Turlough would). It's just a joy to read.
The Bees, The Bees (The Five Times Donna Met the Doctor Without Realising It Remix) : in which Donna, post-Runaway Bride and pre-Partners in Crime, runs into five different regenerations of the Doctor, and Ace. There can never be enough Ace. Great fun.
You Will Be Me (The When I'm Gone Ontological Tautology Remaster) : in which the Doctor and the Master, during life after life, never stop playing games. Mind-messing in a good way.
Harry Potter
Bellum omnium contra omnes (the Ancient History remix): Percy remembers idolising his older brothers growing up. He doesn't play favourites anymore. He's not exactly spoiled for choice. I've always had a soft spot for Percy (it must have been horrible growing up with the twins), was very glad he did not end the series as a corpse, and stories that explore him and his reasons for his post-OotP split with the rest of the Weaslys are something I really like to read. This story does it very well, via an encounter with his older brother Bill.
spoken word (the applied linguistics remix) : Dumbledore's backstory (with Grindlewald, with his sister, with his brother) was one of the most fascinating aspects of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. This story, like the one it remixes, uses it, but it also uses language, the way linguistics form our thoughts, for characterisation in an utterly compelling way.
Star Wars
What You Are (the Certain Point of View Remix): in which we get a look at Obi-Wan, Padme and Anakin at three different points in their lives. Beautiful character vignette.
Torchwood
Here's A Girl From A Dangerous Town (the Unbroken Heart Remix) : a fantastic portrait of a woman canon only gave us the name and a few hints about, Lucia Moretti. I love what the writer does with Lucia as a Torchwood agent (and after), Lucia and her relationship with Jack, and Lucia and her daughter. She emerges as a layered, complex woman whom I'd have loved to see on screen. Brilliant.
West Wing
The Truth About Her Life (Flickering Firebrand Remix) : Six Qumari women are in need of an intervention. CJ knows that she has compromised, but she has only bent and never broken. Great, great CJ voice, sharp and intense story.
My own remixee approves of my remix, which is always a pleasing relief to know, and I've had some feedback from people who never commented on my stories so far, which provides that special glee anonymous ficathons are there for.:) If you figure out which one is mine, oh flist, I shall write you a drabble. It's not a rare fandom as in Yuletide, and I've written stories in it before, but I don't think there is such an obvious giveaway in it as there was in last year's remix.
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