You Just Have To Leap and Being Small
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ds_recsreduxLooking over my bookmarks and memories, I really didn't have that many case!fics tagged. Still, I found two who are great examples of the genre.
Title: Being Small
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arrow00
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: seesaws between a stiff R and NC-17
Length: 6,239 words
Why I'm reccing this: Written for the superpower challenge over at ds_flashfiction, this story is pure crack!fic mixed with a rather out-there case. Ray has been shrinked to the size of an action doll, Fraser is helping him track down the paranoid scientist who shrunk him. It's wacky and tender and charming as the boys try to rectify the situation.
An excerpt:
"Do you need anything, Ray?" Fraser asks, looking down at him and, whoa, those are some nose hairs right there. Nicely trimmed and very shiny, but not as pretty as the rest of Fraser, that's for sure.
"Yeah, I'm still hungry," Ray shouts, gripping the side of the pouch. He shouts everything now, otherwise Fraser, even with his bat ears, has trouble understanding him. Even then, Ray's voice is funny, like it's bouncing off the air wrong, and it sounds way too high to fit his macho. "Get me some Cheetos," Ray yells, "and some water."
Fraser opens Ray's snack and then goes off to do research. It takes Ray about ten minutes to eat a single Cheeto, and he ends up covered in orange dust afterward, but when he's finished, Fraser very accommodatingly holds down the knob on the drinking fountain so Ray can stand in the basin and clean up. Fraser hovers over him the whole time so no one will see Ray making like a pixie.
Being Small
Title: You Just Have To Leap
Author:alex51324
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski, RayK/Stella (past)
Rating: R
Length: Long (167K)
Why I'm reccing this: Ray and Fraser are trying to figure out who exactly is trying to make Ray seem like an inept detective on a very serious case where a murderer has gone free. As a casefic, the plot works on the whos and whats and whys at the level of any dS episode. It also has tons and tons of humour. Everyone's voices (not just Fraser and Ray's) are en pointe. Plus, the story jumps between Ray's life growing up as someone trying to figure out who he is and the present Ray who has self-esteeem issues about his smarts. Finally, there is a constant undercurrent of UST between the boys which culminates on some sexy exchanges between Benton and Ray.
An excerpt:
"Okay, why don't I shove more of this insulation stuff down there, and you can make a big pile and hide in it."
Fraser thumbed his eyebrow. "Ah...why, exactly?"
"When the criminals come in, you can jump out of it like a swamp monster. It'll give you the advantage of surprise for a second or two."
"Ah. Well, if I were a criminal, and my prisoner jumped out of a pile of insulation like a swamp monster, I'd certainly be surprised," Fraser admitted.
"Do you have a better idea?"
"No."
"And then while you're surprising him with your swamp-monster act, I'll drop down out of the ceiling and surprise them even more."
"I don't suppose there's anything up there that could be used as a weapon."
He shined the flashlight around the cramped space. "Nope, just insulation. Do you want it or not?"
Fraser sighed. "Fine. I'll be a swamp monster."
You Just Have to Leap
Title: Being Small
Author:
arrow00 Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: seesaws between a stiff R and NC-17
Length: 6,239 words
Why I'm reccing this: Written for the superpower challenge over at ds_flashfiction, this story is pure crack!fic mixed with a rather out-there case. Ray has been shrinked to the size of an action doll, Fraser is helping him track down the paranoid scientist who shrunk him. It's wacky and tender and charming as the boys try to rectify the situation.
An excerpt:
"Do you need anything, Ray?" Fraser asks, looking down at him and, whoa, those are some nose hairs right there. Nicely trimmed and very shiny, but not as pretty as the rest of Fraser, that's for sure.
"Yeah, I'm still hungry," Ray shouts, gripping the side of the pouch. He shouts everything now, otherwise Fraser, even with his bat ears, has trouble understanding him. Even then, Ray's voice is funny, like it's bouncing off the air wrong, and it sounds way too high to fit his macho. "Get me some Cheetos," Ray yells, "and some water."
Fraser opens Ray's snack and then goes off to do research. It takes Ray about ten minutes to eat a single Cheeto, and he ends up covered in orange dust afterward, but when he's finished, Fraser very accommodatingly holds down the knob on the drinking fountain so Ray can stand in the basin and clean up. Fraser hovers over him the whole time so no one will see Ray making like a pixie.
Being Small
Title: You Just Have To Leap
Author:
alex51324 Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski, RayK/Stella (past)
Rating: R
Length: Long (167K)
Why I'm reccing this: Ray and Fraser are trying to figure out who exactly is trying to make Ray seem like an inept detective on a very serious case where a murderer has gone free. As a casefic, the plot works on the whos and whats and whys at the level of any dS episode. It also has tons and tons of humour. Everyone's voices (not just Fraser and Ray's) are en pointe. Plus, the story jumps between Ray's life growing up as someone trying to figure out who he is and the present Ray who has self-esteeem issues about his smarts. Finally, there is a constant undercurrent of UST between the boys which culminates on some sexy exchanges between Benton and Ray.
An excerpt:
"Okay, why don't I shove more of this insulation stuff down there, and you can make a big pile and hide in it."
Fraser thumbed his eyebrow. "Ah...why, exactly?"
"When the criminals come in, you can jump out of it like a swamp monster. It'll give you the advantage of surprise for a second or two."
"Ah. Well, if I were a criminal, and my prisoner jumped out of a pile of insulation like a swamp monster, I'd certainly be surprised," Fraser admitted.
"Do you have a better idea?"
"No."
"And then while you're surprising him with your swamp-monster act, I'll drop down out of the ceiling and surprise them even more."
"I don't suppose there's anything up there that could be used as a weapon."
He shined the flashlight around the cramped space. "Nope, just insulation. Do you want it or not?"
Fraser sighed. "Fine. I'll be a swamp monster."
You Just Have to Leap
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Date: 2009-04-20 02:51 am (UTC)I now have way, way too many open fic tabs on my browser :-) Thanks for reccing this week, Luc!
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Date: 2009-04-20 02:57 am (UTC)I had to go look up what bildungsroman meant, nos! Stop making me learn new things! It hurts!
Other words learned today because of you: entwicklungsroman, erziehungsroman and künstlerroman.
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Date: 2009-04-20 03:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-20 03:05 am (UTC)Oh, you too? At last count, there were 20+ open tabs on my browser...with only 6 non-fic/fandom ones...
Also, now that it's been posted, I gotta admit I was a little bit nervous about reccing "Being Small" since it barely covered the challenge.
Oh, and like
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Date: 2009-04-20 03:09 am (UTC)And "Being Small" totally fits! I mean, there's a case - hence it is casefic :-)
(And see, I throw around words like "bildungsroman" and then play it fast and loose with genre classification. My former lit profs would be horrified!)
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Date: 2009-04-20 03:18 am (UTC):: Finishes counting hers :: Grand total of open tabs: 28. Non-Fic or Fandom-related: 6. Fangirling, FTW!
I liken having all the fic/fandom open tabs to picking up a book, reading a few chapters and putting it aside.
And "Being Small" totally fits! I mean, there's a case - hence it is casefic :-)
Hee, I like your logic!
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Date: 2009-04-25 07:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-25 05:00 pm (UTC)I myself forgot to post a comment over at the DSA gushing about how much I loved "You Just Have to Leap". Eep!
I'll state that it was terribly late when I finished it reading (maybe 2-3 a.m.) and I had to be at work by 7 a.m.