Insta-rec: The Three Second Answer

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Title: The Three Second Answer
Author: Jenn (seperis)
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Rating: PG-13
Length: ~5,500 words
Why I'm reccing this fic: Ray suddenly realizes he's in the middle of the Arctic, where he can never tell what time it is, he does not want to know what the hell it is he's eating, and the highlight of his day is stumping Fraser, which doesn't happen that often--not that he's counting. *cough* Throw in some flashbacks to show how he got there, stir in some classic snark, add one adorable Dief and a few additional epiphanies, and the result is happily ever after. This fic is made of 100% pure Ray!glee, with ample helpings of Fraser!love on the side!

Anyone who's a fan of Jenn's writing in other fandoms is dancing for joy that she's fallen for Due South. Those who don't know her yet will read her Ray voice, and dance for joy, anyway!

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The Three Second Answer

Admin: Amnesty Challenge Closed

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Pack up your massage tables and take down that map of Canada: this week's Amnesty Recs Challenge is closed!

Coming up this week: belmanoir takes over the asylum to recommend a few good fics. Take it away, Bel!

Constable Fraser of the Royal Canadian Dork Patrol

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So my theme for my guest-recs is...DORKINESS! Because one of the things that I love love love about this show is that all three main characters are not cool guys in any kind of conventional sense. They are not slick dressers. They are not good at romance. They don't always know the right thing to say. They are obsessive about strange things. GIANT DORKS. And I love that, because there's a reason the word "adorkable" exists. Also, "smoking hot like a hot smoking thing."

So I'm going to do three posts, each dedicated to the dorkitude of one of our three boys. Fraser today, Kowalski on Wednesday, and Vecchio on Friday (see, I'm doing them in alphabetical order so that there can be no accusations of favoritism). So. Behind the cut, screencaps, quotes, and some fics!

( It's one of my areas of abiding interest. )

So. These are slanted heavily towards F/V, of course---please rec your favorite F/K/V and F/K dorky!Fraser stories! These are all also fairly recent because all my bookmarks to off-lj fic were lost when my hard drive died a while ago and it's gonna take a LONG time to build them back up. So please, rec your favorite older fics and off-lj fics too!

Special Fandom Appreciation Day Notice

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Hi all,

Breaking in here in the midst of belmanoir's awesome week of Dork Factor Recs to make a special announcement. As most of you know, china_shop is running a Fandom Appreciation Challenge, and some of the challenge tasks include sending feedback to authors or making story/pairing/theme recommendations. If you feel like it, please feel free to post your recs here, or put a link up to your Fandom Appreciation entry in this comm. The more recs the merrier, I figure, since story recs are great for the fandom as a whole and a wonderful boost for the story authors. So, go nuts! The current challenge asks you to rec three stories that are at least 6 months old, and we here at ds_recsredux would be very happy to provide you with a platform to do so.

Okay, back to our regularly scheduled programming. DORKS!

Fandom Appreciation Day 2 - Three Older Story Recs

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My three story recs for Day 2 of the Fandom Appreciation Challenge. The goal was to rec three stories that are at least six months old. Here's what I came up with:

Title: In Chicago the Weather is Warm
Author: estrella30
Pairing: F/K
Rating: PG
Length: ~2000 words
Why I'm reccing this fic:

estrella30 is a terrific writer and she's penned a number of fandom classics, but I've always admired this story for its unique perspective on the events following "Call of the Wild." It's a rare Fraser-POV story (in second person, no less!) and we get four months of Fraser pining for Ray and finally deciding that a life half-lived isn't a life at all. I really like E's take on the issue of duty here, and what the North means to Fraser in that sense. It's an interesting story and a quick read. Give it a try if you haven't yet read it.

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Title: Guns Don't Kill People
Author: qe2
Pairing: F/K
Rating: NC-17
Length: ~8,000 words
Why I'm reccing this fic:

As a veteran of the fandom, qe2 has a lot of terrific story credits to her name. I usually associate her stuff with smoking hot porn and great RayK character pieces, and so this story is a bit of a departure. It's a dark and complex look at Fraser's battle with depression, and the way in which Ray helps him get through it. "Guns" is a remarkably brave story, and Q does an excellent job of illustrating Fraser's emotional impulse to cut through numbness using sex and connection. The incendiary NC-17 scene halfway through left me pretty shaken: it's absolutely spot-on, in terms of Ray and Fraser's trust issues and their exploration of bondage, and the emotional details--anger, pain, tremulous hope, love, compassion--ring out clear as a bell. It's not exactly an easy story to read, but it's an amazing look at the F/K dynamic that also happens to be rich in psycho-sexual drama.

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Title: even the dreadful martyrdom (a thousand times remembered)
Author: omphale23
Pairing: F/V
Rating: R
Length: 2,600 words
Why I'm reccing this fic:

This was an unlikely story for omphale23 to write. She'd signed up for my beloved Team Angst for last year's dS Match challenge, and I'd jokingly suggested she try writing Fraser/Vecchio (she had Vecchio issues). O took on the challenge and this beautiful, sensitive and lyrical piece was the result. The structure is extraordinary: O takes us through Ray's childhood and his present relationship with Fraser, and then, when things reach a climax, time move backwards again, into Fraser's childhood and his relationship with Ray. We see Fraser and Vecchio fall in love, find each other, and fall apart, and the way time and memory wears on each of them. Fraser finds a new strength to ask for more, to demand open, honest love, and we discover the reasons why Vecchio can't give him that. Each fragment reveals a new truth, a new, brilliant insight into these complex characters, and the both the beginning and the end of the story come as devastating blows that carry the result of devastating truth.

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Fandom Appreciation Day 2 - Three Older Recs

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Title: Backwards
Author: denile11
Pairing: F/K
Rating: NC17
Length: 4,000+
Why I'm reccing this fic: because it's hot like a million suns. It's got a sweetly confused Ray, who is a little afraid to question his good luck. Still, Ray can't leave things well enough alone; he's got to know why Fraser is doing what he's doing. And since he's so good at interrogations, he's gonna interrogate the only witness to the so-called crimes - Dief. Or maybe bribe is a better description of what Ray does to get the information he needs...

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Backwards


Title:The Fine Art Of Cartography
Author: janne_d
Pairing: F/K
Rating: R
Length: 630 words
Why I'm reccing this fic: Written for the Sexual Exploration Challenge over at ds_flashfiction, this story takes a different view on the challenge, leaning heavily on the "exploration" part of the challenge. This story is astoundingly lyrical and beautiful, full of the imagery of Fraser's search for himself. As he explores Ray's emotional and physical geography, he starts to understand Ray. In return, Ray sees him.

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The Fine Art Of Cartography


Title: The Sin Eater
Author: heuradys
Pairing: F/K
Rating: R
Length: ~1,000 words
Why I'm reccing this fic: Because it's the perfect blend of Fraser's emotional melodrama and Ray's sweetly innocent pragmaticism. Fraser spends a rainy afternoon pondering the nature of sin in general and his sins in particular, after learning that a distant relative of Turnbull's was a sin-eater. Enter Ray, firmly anchored in the here-and-now, showing Fraser that sometimes a cookie is just a cookie.

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The Sin-Eater

Fandom Appreciation Day 2 - "Little Ray", "Luck", "One Two Three Two One"

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china_shop invited us to rec three older stories for Fandom Appreciation Week. I'm on a 'Vecchio in Vegas' kick right now, so I decided to rec three shining examples of the genre.

Title: Little Ray
Author: Giulietta mondschein1
Pairing: gen
Rating: PG
Length: 2625 words
Why I'm reccing this fic:

This story gives me chills each time I read it. The author uses some unique formatting to give us a glimpse into Ray's head in a pivotal moment during his time as Langouistini. It's utterly in character, and makes me wish that Benny was there to save him.

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Title: Luck
Author: Kat Allison katallison
Pairing: F/V
Rating: PG
Length: 3544 words
Why I'm reccing this fic:

Kat Allison shows us what happens when Vecchio runs into Victoria Metcalf in Vegas. So plausible, I have to remind myself it's not canon.

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Title: One Two Three Two One
Author: spuffyduds
Pairing: RV/SK, F/K, F/V, F/V/K
Rating: NC-17
Length: 7600 words
Why I'm reccing this fic:

Spuffyduds gives us a heart-wrenching portrait of Vecchio trying to come back from Vegas. It has an intricate, layered structure, building and destroying things in all three men's voices. This piece digs it's teeth into you from the first breathless paragraphs and never lets go.

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