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Jun. 8th, 2007 03:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
commotiocordisFic recommendation of doom!
I've decided I want to start doing this more often, because I've got loads and loads of them (though a good two or three hundred less than pre-hard drive debacles 1, 2, and 3) that are old or from fandoms that are dying/not represented well on LJ or for some other reasons aren't getting their due. That and because fictionygoodness is love, and I want to share with people the stuff I enjoy. (Maybe I'll sign up to drive the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
crack_van at some point; that'd probably be a good idea.) But for now, this one.
Of The Ghost In My Bed
Author: Adi
Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager
Pairings: B'Elanna/Seven, Janeway/Seven
Rating: G [Reccer's note: She has it as G, but the one use of the 'O' word makes me personally want to bump it up a bit higher, just in case.]
Summary: Sometimes wanting is better than having, other times, it's much better than having.
This is way high up there on my list of favorite fics ever. It's one of the earliest ones I read and one that has stood up to years of rereading. It's dark and beautiful, and so perfectly understated. I find myself reading it in this half-whisper in my head, performing it like some odd kind of spoken word for myself, which I catch myself doing with particularly powerful passages and the the works I really like, the last paragraph particularly of this being a striking example of both.
It's too short really to give much more, but it manages to be a wholly complete little fic, which is impressive considering it's a meager 625 words. I've got one disagreement with the author's word choice; she uses 'orgasmed' where I feel that 'came' would have preserved the flow better, but all in all, this is right up there in my head (along with the more common choices of "Queen of Hearts", etc.) as the first things that come to mind when I think of B'Elanna/Seven fic.
So yes. Check it out if you've got a minute, send the author feedback if you've got a second more (her email is hyperlinked on her name under the story's title), and tell me what you thought of it if you've a moment past that. I'd be interested to know what people think.
I've decided I want to start doing this more often, because I've got loads and loads of them (though a good two or three hundred less than pre-hard drive debacles 1, 2, and 3) that are old or from fandoms that are dying/not represented well on LJ or for some other reasons aren't getting their due. That and because fictionygoodness is love, and I want to share with people the stuff I enjoy. (Maybe I'll sign up to drive the
crack_van at some point; that'd probably be a good idea.) But for now, this one.Of The Ghost In My Bed
Author: Adi
Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager
Pairings: B'Elanna/Seven, Janeway/Seven
Rating: G [Reccer's note: She has it as G, but the one use of the 'O' word makes me personally want to bump it up a bit higher, just in case.]
Summary: Sometimes wanting is better than having, other times, it's much better than having.
This is way high up there on my list of favorite fics ever. It's one of the earliest ones I read and one that has stood up to years of rereading. It's dark and beautiful, and so perfectly understated. I find myself reading it in this half-whisper in my head, performing it like some odd kind of spoken word for myself, which I catch myself doing with particularly powerful passages and the the works I really like, the last paragraph particularly of this being a striking example of both.
It's too short really to give much more, but it manages to be a wholly complete little fic, which is impressive considering it's a meager 625 words. I've got one disagreement with the author's word choice; she uses 'orgasmed' where I feel that 'came' would have preserved the flow better, but all in all, this is right up there in my head (along with the more common choices of "Queen of Hearts", etc.) as the first things that come to mind when I think of B'Elanna/Seven fic.
So yes. Check it out if you've got a minute, send the author feedback if you've got a second more (her email is hyperlinked on her name under the story's title), and tell me what you thought of it if you've a moment past that. I'd be interested to know what people think.
