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Week One: Random Fandom

I was going to go back and read all the yuletide fics from fandoms I love in all the years I've participated. Yeah... I only got through half of the first year. Oooops.

But I do have 3 very different stories to share with you from that small amount of fic I read. Basically, in my experience, yuletide (at least in the fandoms I enjoy) almost always puts out the very best fic. So, mostly I'd just like to recommend going to the list of fandoms and finding your faves.

I'll get you started:

The first one is from The Breakfast Club ♥ Through Yuletide, TBC has sort of become my jam. With this fic, I'm torn because I wish I would have read this before I ever wrote John Bender because it would have been my head canon so hard. But, I also am glad I hadn't because it would have been my head canon and then I wouldn't feel I could write for this fandom ever... So yeah.

Turn a New Page, Tear the Old One Out (8057 words) by shrift
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Breakfast Club (1985)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Underage
Relationships: John Bender/Brian Johnson
Characters: Brian Johnson, John Bender
Additional Tags: First Time, Angst, Good Things Come in Threes, Death
Series: Part 15 of Yuletide Fanworks
Summary:

People in Shermer had made up their minds about who John Bender was years ago. All John needed was the chance to prove them wrong.

This next one GUH, just these guys. These poor sad guys. ♥

These Are What We Stay Alive For (2672 words) by whiteskydays
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Dead Poets Society (1989)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Charlie Dalton/Neil Perry, Todd Anderson/Charlie Dalton, Knox/Chris, Todd Anderson/Neil Perry
Characters: Charlie Dalton, Todd Anderson, Neil Perry, Stephen Meeks, Knox Overstreet
Additional Tags: Podfic Welcome
Summary:

Snatches of poetry, beauty, romance, and love, as witnessed or experienced by Charlie Dalton.

And this last one is a great representation of the thing that yuletide does so very well, it takes just the weirdest things--Feminist Ryan Gosling, what--and makes these great stories that stick with you and get meta and make you think. This one takes the "Hey Girl" and just explores fan culture and the questions that we have to ask--especially for the people who write/follow RPF.

Plus it's epistolary. ♥

When Fics Take on a Life of Their Own (4359 words) by storiesfortravellers
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Critical Theory RPF, Feminist Ryan Gosling
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Michael Fassbender/James McAvoy
Characters: Feminist Ryan Gosling - Character, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Original Female Character, Fanfic Writer
Additional Tags: Slash, RPF, RPS - Freeform, Celebrities, Internet memes, Meme, Fandom, Feminist Themes, feminist theory, Epistolary, Domestic Violence
Summary:

A fanfic writer and Feminist Ryan Gosling discuss celebrity culture, gender and theory, and the political perils of Fassavoy fic.

Now I'm going to go and READ ALL THE WHITE COLLAR FIC!! w000000t!

Comments

[daria234.livejournal.com]

<3 <3 thanks for the rec!!

Off to bookmark the Dead Poets Society fic to read :)