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[commotiocordis]

I FOUND IT! trufaxyeah.

"It" meaning the fic I mentioned yesterday that I had been looking for. Finally. I tried googling everything I could think of, and finally I cut the search terms down to just "River/Talia" (since that was such a small bit of the fic, I hadn't even considered searching by that; instead I was doing things like Firefly Babylon 5 Crossover and Babylon 5 River/Jayne) and it was del.icio.us'd with that tag on somebody's account. One person. I refound this because one person bookmarked it. Thank you, whoever you are.

It's much more River/Jayne than I remembered. Firefly is one of those shows where I can see most pairings working, in some twisted way, when they're written into good fic. Though I don't tend to seek these other pairings out (I do Inara/Kaylee primarily, a few others on occasion), I tend to find them, somehow.

And then lose them. Thinking about the other oddish pairings I've read in Firefly lead me to thinking of this one (I've glorified it in my mind since I first read it because I haven't been able to find it either; I can't objectively tell how good it was) that was post-Serenity Inara/Zoe. I didn't expect to like that one when I opened it up. I'm not sure what lead me to open it up in the first place. Wash/Zoe is one of those pairings that you tend to just not touch. Hardly anyone does in FFverse, I've found, because they just work so well together. But it worked. Now that one's on my list of to-search-for fics.

I love this kind of fic. (Being the kind that this just-found fic belongs to.) So. . . abstract, almost, hugely confusing, with that ah-ha!gasp moment at the end when you realize what happened. I like it when I don't get all of it. I get most of it, the gist of it, but there are bits where I'm all "I know there's another meaning lying under this motif, but it's not clicking". And upon rereading, you grasp more of it, perhaps. And it's not so much that it doesn't make any sense at all, but it's more that you could put a bunch of different kinds of sense onto it.

Excellence. I spread out the reading of it over a good 2 hours, as I did other stuff (surfed around Netflix, mostly) and I can most definitively say that it was just as good as I remembered. (Good thing, too, because I put a good couple of hours into looking for it again.)

Comments

[rainbowjumpsuit.livejournal.com]

Dude, yes, there are so many good fics out there.
I miss your posts on Cameron/Cuddy.

[crashcart9.livejournal.com]

Hee. Me posting on CameronCuddy would require me writing CameronCuddy goodness. Though I liked that last one I threw on there. So I've posted fic more recently than lots. I wish I had more time to write, but even though I'm doing nothing most of the time, I can't get on the computer (and I just don't like writing fics on paper; they never get finished when I do that).