Corrupt me, please

[brightlywoven]

OK, here I am, stuck on night shift and there are NO PATIENTS!

I bought some study (which I don't yet feel like doing), but no novel, so I'm thinking, now is a good time for fanfic recommendations.

(That I can safely read on a work computer ;)

Comments

[dr-biscuit.livejournal.com]

Well, I've never done the active fandom thing, but my current reading/pop culture interests are

- Dorothy L Sayers
- Sherlock Holmes (+/-Mary Russell)
- Tolkien
- Harry Potter
- Thursday Next
- Buffy
- House
- Grey's Anatomy
- Hornblower

(feels deeply trashy, *sigh*)

Not ruling out slash (except in the DLS case), but can't download anything of that ilk onto work computer. Web addreses acceptable!

[dr-biscuit.livejournal.com]

Mainly interested in the good read/see what's out there kind of recs

[vescoiya.livejournal.com]

Okay, I don't know anything in the fandoms you mentioned so I'll rec this to tie you over till someone else responds.

http://lookingglass.thelightgetsin.com/ads01.html

It's novel length and is Miles Vorkosignan and Gregor Vorbarra. Slash never gets particularly explicit think never above PG-13 and might manage a PG if it was two girls and it reads like a novel with a plot and everything.

[cuiaalfheim.livejournal.com]

OOOH! Do you have any Vorkosigan fanfic that isn't slash? I'm just reading the books now...


Sorry, D, you know that I'm pretty new to this fanfic stuff, but if I had any fanfic, it'd be yours. :) Hope that the evening passes quietly and full of good reading.

[dr-biscuit.livejournal.com]

Difficult to complain about *not* having any work, is it?

(ooh, on the Peter front, I did stalk down some LPW fanfic, including an alternative universe where Miss Climpson doesn't find the evidence, Harriet is convicted and all goes to c**p. Very very very sad)

[vescoiya.livejournal.com]

http://www.dendarii.co.uk/FanFic/

This has all of the stuff that is out there pretty much. The summary should give you a good idea of what's inside.

[dr-biscuit.livejournal.com]

This is a new fandom to me (entirely), so I didn't end up persisting past the first 2 chapters, which I enjoyed, but probably not so much as if I'd known more about the universe. What's the fandom?

[cuiaalfheim.livejournal.com]

Trashy? No, no. CLASSY. Very classy.


(Eee for Peter!)

[dr-biscuit.livejournal.com]

Perhaps a mix ;)

(The area of my book-case dedicated to boarding school fiction is roughly equal to that taken up by 19th century lit! I love them both, but was more sentimentally attached to the former, so that's what made the 'move across the world' cut!)

[emily-shore.livejournal.com]

Do you know, I don't read fanfic in any of those fandoms? Alas. If I were feeling a little more functional I would try to collect some X-Files recs that might make sense to a non-fan, but I think that head cold is stalking me too. My apologies for not being more helpful!

[dr-biscuit.livejournal.com]

It's a nasty, nasty virus. I shall perhaps fall back on the study option.

[foreverdirt.livejournal.com]

From memory -- because I'm totally revising right now -- I'm pretty sure all these are worksafe.

Things you can read without knowing the show/book/etc:

Freedom's Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Lose (http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/61471.html) (Part Two (http://synecdochic.livejournal.com/61432.html)) by synedochic is Stargate: Atlantis fic, but while it's far more stunning with awareness of the characters, it can be co-opted to be about what happens to your scientist of choice after your sci fi show of choice is over.

But the university isn't as bad as some of the places he could have wound up. The lab space is shit, and the physics program is so easy a gifted two-year-old could sail through, but the chairman, Dr. Vail, is quite a nice man, despite being a completely retarded rhesus monkey.

If You've A Ready Mind (http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/maya/IYARM.html) by mistful is Harry Potter, Draco sorted into Ravenclaw. (To pull a quote, I had to click an "I am over 18" button, which implies maybe it's not as worksafe as I remember. But the first five or so chapters are, and you might want to save the rest for some other time. Though thinking about it more, there are non-explicit Adult Themes that might be the reason for the rating.)

"Hi," said a boy in the seat next to him, blinking behind glasses that reminded him of The Boy Who Was A Real Letdown, Actually. "I'm Terry Boot, I-"

Nice Work If You Can Get It (http://intimations.org/fanfic/asimov/Nice%20Work%20If%20You%20Can%20Get%20It.html) by astolat is set in Azimov's Robot Series, and is very charming and silly.

"Field work," he told the entrance interviewer, firmly, and that was when things started to go horribly, horribly wrong.

by bravecows. Master and Commander set in a boys school.

Maturin simply did not know how to behave. It was not so much that he repudiated the aspiration of every upstanding Englishman never to stand out in the crowd, as that he did not seem to realise that there was a crowd, or that there was any necessity for him to consider its opinion of his doings. He seemed to have no self-consciousness, that defining trait of the English schoolboy.

Things where you probably need to know the show/book/etc:

The Long Con (http://www.yuletidetreasure.org/archive/24/thelong.html) by lightgetsin is Vorkosigan fanfic -- she's written longer, better stories whose safe-for-workness I cannot vouch for, but I still love this one for the total "Oh, Ivan"-ness of it all.

Ivan stared after him, feeling that spinning sensation he'd come to identify as the centripetal force of a tightly focused will circling in on him. It was the sort of thing that Miles did when he needed someone to stand watch or do something illegal or carry his luggage.

Playing the Game (http://baked-goldfish.livejournal.com/1518239.html) by baked_goldfish is a paean to early seasons West Wing.

If the subject is baffled, if the subject is awed, then the subject is malleable - and, as a side benefit, the subject becomes funny to watch. (http://thewritegirls.populli.net/afrai/bees.html)

[dr-biscuit.livejournal.com]

The first 3 chapters of Draco the Ravenclaw kept me most usefully amused until the birth of baby with unfortunate problem (see below!). I love his burgeoning love for young Hermione, and the constant disappointment of parental expectation!

[dr-biscuit.livejournal.com]

It took me till the 5th night of the week to finish 'If you've a ready mind', giggling, giggling all the way. (*in a small voice*) I think I may now understand the glory of slash ;)