thefourthvine | Yuletide: Reveal!

I wrote one story for Yuletide 2012, for the doughty

shrift, who gave me the best prompts in the world.

This Side of Paradise (17031 words) by thefourthvine
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: The Losers (2010)
Rating: Explicit
Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Carlos "Cougar" Alvarez/Jake Jensen
Summary:

"I'm a good boyfriend," Cougar said.

I tell you what: in the planning stages, this story seemed like it would be fun and short, but it really only delivered on the fun front. I blame Jensen. Key lesson learned this Yuletide: If you want to write a Yuletide story that's less than 10k, don't use the motormouth's point of view. Use the PoV of the laconic guy with the sarcastic eyebrows. I mean, Cougar doesn't go into lengthy digressions about rude Canadians and the etiquette of three-ways and Star Trek.

And speaking of geeky movies, I totally salute

thehoyden and

frostfire for pointing out, during my Fucking Chris Evans Is in Fucking Everything breakdown, that he's never been in Star Trek. (And I salute

frostfire for this conversation via IM while I was deep in the middle of writing this:

Frostfire: Hi! How are you?
Me: WEEPING BECAUSE SPOCK.
Frostfire: Did you watch Wrath of Khan again?
Me: DANTE'S PRAYER.
Frostfire: Awwwwwww.

Fandom: the place where people will always understand when you're sobbing incoherently about how he TOUCHES HIS CHAIR OH GOD.)

So, anyway. This story, thanks to Why Jake Can't Shut Up Jensen, became so long that I was in the painful position of not even being able to complain on Twitter about how long it was, because that might de-anon me. But it was a barrel of fun to write, for real.

And Nestra, Norah, Queue, and thehoyden were heroes of Yuletide for beta-reading this with such aplomb. Thanks, guys! Next year, I will try for shorter, and also way fewer run-on sentences. I swear.

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I'm very grateful you (wonderful reccer and fanfic writer) tried it regardless of what you thought about my description. Thank you so much for giving my opinion (the opinion of random person on the internet) a chance. I can't blame you for not getting into a WIP. I try to avoid WIPs nowadays too - I read that one when I was young to the ways of the internet.

I'm afraid I've taken that and your comment on how you like random recs, put them together and ended up with 'I should offer up *more recs*.' Except not WIP ones. And maybe more than one, so hopefully you'll like some of them.

So. Here?

This is the only X-men First Class fanfic that changes the events of the movie that I really believed. It also doesn't seem to be well known, so I think you may not have read it before. It does focus a lot on the main pairing (Charles and Eric, of course) but it does it so well I barely mind. http://archiveofourown.org/works/321051/chapters/516370

I don't know if you've read it, but if you haven't, The Seventeenth Step has lovely, lovely stories about Holmes and Watson. If you haven't read it, I would advise starting with this one. http://liquidfic.org/soloviolini.html

Equally, bendingsignpost has very good Sherlock fanfic. My favourite one is where John leads four different lives in four alternate universes (one that mostly follows canon, one where he got a sane flatmate, one where he's still in Afghanistan and one where he never became a soldier). He switches between them when he sleeps, which I imagine would be hard to keep track of, but the fic makes it easy to understand. It's interesting. http://archiveofourown.org/works/334557/chapters/540728

People have probably recced this to you before, but in case they haven't, Some Things Shouldn't Be A Chore is amusing. It's cute and fluffy and only a little bit serious, with a happy ending. And it made me laugh, so that's why I love it most of all the Avengers Steve/Tony fanfics (of which there are a lot and I've read most of them due to fondness for Tony). http://archiveofourown.org/works/381185/chapters/622952

This is last because I adore it so much the name of it will probably be forever in my memory. I'm not even entirely sure why - it just has such strong, vivid characters. Unlike the others, this one is pretty short. It's set in the Naruto universe and it's just - I would really like it if you tried to read it. The description is 'Naruto's parents don't so much fall in love as accidentally trip over it.' and it's so very true and it's my second favourite romantic story and. I have to stop or I'll be talking about this forever and adding nothing useful. http://archiveofourown.org/works/243023

And...hopefully one of those interests you. If not, I have more and now that I know you aren't opposed to it, I will cheerfully rec more and more fanfic.

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