Drive-by recs

[selenak]

Star Trek:

The Dance. Fantastic story about Gaila, with fabulous world-building around all things Orion. I love with when fanfic writers take all the various and contradictory bits canon has on an alien culture and weave them into a cohorent hole!

Alias:

You know, I love the new AO3 archive, I really do. Those tags are neat. Of course, sometimes they provide frustration (as in: "still nobody but me writes Abigail Brand? Damm. Wait! crossedwires has posted her stories with Brand in them as well, hooray! But I already knew them. Why not more Brand love, fandom?"), but sometimes they are rewarding. As in: "hooray, more stories with Arvin Sloane in them! And some of them I didn't know before." This one, by nomadicwriter, is actually an ensemble story, or collection of drabbles weaving a whole, if you like, covering the entire run of the show (and before), and that messy, fascinating tangled web of relationships between the Bristows, Arvin Sloane and the Derevkos:

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[andraste]

I think the moment I really fell in love with the AO3 was the moment I realised that with the click of a button I could cause it to bring up nothing but whatever kind of story I wanted. Drabbles, threesomes, gen friendship, prison stories ... AO3 will give me whatever I feel like!

[selenak]

It's a great archive. But now you're making me wonder whether I should go back and label some of fanfic as prison stories. :)