Hieroglyfics Recs

Ray Kowalski/Geoffrey Tennant. This is a wonderful due South/Slings & Arrows crossover in which Ray and Geoffrey meet in an airport during a snowstorm. This is my favorite type of crossover (and actually reminds me quite a bit of my own dS/Wilby crossover Islands), in which the actor-identity aspect is exploited for the story, with the real pairing behind the scenes clearly Ray/Fraser, and the imagined intersection of the characters seems very true. Funny, sweet and sad, with a satisfying ending.

This awesome vid makes me flail with delight. I can’t imagine the technical artistry required to make a shippy vid about two characters who share only a tiny amount of screentime, whose relationship is 95% fanon, but SD Wolfpup has pulled it off beautifully. As constructed reality, it makes perfect narrative sense. I love it!

This is about what love does to people and what love makes people do. This is a wonderful story, evocative and beautiful and weary and sort of sad-sweet.

Views on Fraser’s shopping list, from Fraser, Ray, and Diefenbaker - and the last is the best.

I suspect a lot of people passed it by because it’s labeled as a deathfic - but it really only qualifies on a technicality, when you consider the content, and the end has an awesome payoff that’s a staple of many post-CotW stories but gets a fresh twist here.

Cold plus alone equals dead. See? Math is easy. This is really great. I love the voice, which makes the emotion work, and it’s actually really nice to see a story treat the real problem underlying “how do these guys manage to compromise on what comes after the Quest?” without waving things away or getting overly sentimental.

Heroes, Sylar gen. The metaphor is perfect, the vid perfectly creepy. This is not a vid I’d recommend for anyone who hasn’t watched the series (season 1 only), both because of spoilers and because a lot of the sense of the vid depends on the viewer’s knowlege of context, but if you’re a Heroes fan, it’s amazing.

Fraser and RayV friendship, Fraser/RayK, vid. I am very narrative-oriented when it comes to vids, and this one has a clear and engaging narrative, moving from Fraser “learning to fly” in Chicago with Vecchio, and then passing on his experience and knowledge to Kowalski. I think the change of POV works well here. Also, it doesn’t hurt that I adore Tom Petty. Nor that I wrote a F/K story with the same title, la la la.

Ray imagines, and Ray acts. This is gorgeous like a pendulum swinging, back and forth, around and about the true center, and the last line takes my breath away with its perfection.

Sort of a PWP, in which Fraser determinedly seduces Ray, but what sets this apart is the language, which does more for the characterization than a whole string of Fraser cliche. Very sexy, very believable.

Post CotW, Ray and Fraser stop to visit Maggie near Inuvik, get involved in an investigation, and figure out their relationship. This kind of reminds me of The End of the Road - no, wait, this is a happy story, but there’s something similar in the tone and style that I can’t quite identify. The writing is lovely, the plot involves things happenening - real, external things, that the characters respond to in convincingly in-character ways - and the sex is an integral part of the story, that somehow manages to be more breathtakingly erotic the less explicit it is. (In fact, the part I like least is the most explicit sex scene near the end, which seems tacked-on and gratuitous to me.)

What do Michael, Teyla (The Gift), John (Conversion), and Elia (Instinct) have in common? Heh. No science was harmed in the making of this vid, but it was sure bent a little - then again, SGA does that regularly, doesn’t it. This is hilarious, and the clip choice rocks like a rocking thing.