Northern Exposure, various characters and pairings both het and slash. Fifty teeny snippets (written for a series of challenge prompts) which add up to a picture of life in Cicely.
I can’t even characterize this in my standard pairing lists. The fanfiction cliches we know and love, applied to the animal characters of due South. In the first section, Diefenbaker wakes up female…and it just gets crackier.
An illustrated and rhyming answer to the sga_flashfic “Ways to Die” challenge, a la Edward Gorey. Randomly spoilery for various eps up through S4, will make you grin like a loon.
Fraser/RayK, Fraser/OFC. Fraser rescues an Inuit woman from a snowstorm; though she doesn’t speak to him, her presence gives him strength to rebuild his life after his failure to keep a relationship with Ray. Some readers probably see this as unbearably sad, because the OTP is broken at the start, but I read it as a hopeful and affirming story as Fraser and the woman lift each other from despair.
Fraser is dying, and Ray Vecchio comes to Canada for a final visit. It’s so sharp and clear and heartfelt - and heartbreaking. I love the imagining of Ray Kowalski as competent and brusque and intensely private in his love for Fraser. Showing the story through Ray Vecchio’s eyes works really well.
AU. Fraser leaves with Victoria, and makes one last phone call to Ray. It’s just a little scene, just a sliver of the story, but it’s so rich in what it shows and what it doesn’t. The Vecchio voice is fantastic.
Posted as F/K/V, but it’s really F/K plus F/V plus a tiny bit of Ray/Ray hatesex. Also a little RayV/Stella. This is lovely and angsty, with incredible structure, but man, is it fucked up. At the end my heart just aches for poor Ray Vecchio - well, really, for all of them. (And for Stella, too!)
A classic “hero’s journey” in which faint heart never won fair, well, never mind. This is awesome and funny and smooth, with a structure that makes my structure-loving-brain happy, and so many clever lines I don’t know where to start admiring.
Second person POV, but it’s short enough that it doesn’t get irritating, and it works well with the casual voice. Two guys named Ray thrown over by a Mountie and a lawyer. What are the odds, right?
Geoffrey, Oliver, Charles gen. An astonishing AU take on a plot element in the third season. The story read entirely like the show: I heard every bit of dialogue in my head, I saw every bit of staging. And in my head I was going, oh my GOD oh my GOD, as I realized where the story was going.
Oliver/Geoffrey. Pre-season 1, a somewhat drunk and maudlin Oliver tells the story of how he discovered Geoffrey to a jaded bartender. The voice is fantastic, and the characterization very believable. The allusion in the title makes me grin, but the grin is gone by the sobering end.
Aubrey/Maturin (readable as gen). While recovering from the torture he endured at Port Mahon, Stephen agrees to a swim with Jack. This is magnificent! The style is so beautifully O’Brian that I’m not convinced this isn’t a missing scene that I just missed on my first reading of canon.
Could be considered either Fraser/Vecchio or gen, depending on how you read it. Victoria shows up in Vegas, and the Bookman responds. What a fabulous angsty gem of a story this is.
Post-CotW, Ray and Fraser get together, but it doesn’t work out. I have a deep love for this story despite (because of!) its bleakness and unhappiness. I don’t have an OTP, and I don’t have a fixed idea of the characters, so any good author who starts with canon can convince me of any particulars, and I don’t need a happy ending (or hell, everyone alive at the end, even). I adore emotionally-stunted Fraser, who is really locked inside his own skull in many ways even as he embraces the loneliness of the great unbounded Arctic, who has things he needs more than love. And I adore the idea of a Ray who defines himself by his relationships but has so much difficulty coming to terms with the definition of himself as queer. (It strikes me as oddly and ironically subversive, in slash, to have a character who is unhappy with his sexuality, and to acknowledge the gritty realities of anti-gay prejudice rather than either pretending that the world approves, or waving the question away entirely.)
I loved this. It’s a kind of AU take on the end of the series, I guess, because the circumstances around Vecchio meeting Kowalski are entirely different, but oh, man, this is awesome. Victoria is caught in Atlanta, Fraser must go there to give a statement, Vecchio calls Ray K and warns him that Fraser is probably going to go crazy - and it turns out that crazy, for Fraser, means drinking heavily and sexing up everything in sight. (Including Ray, of course.) Yum.