Turtle and Dief, Dief and Turtle

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This week's turtle recs revolve around Ray's pet, as he was introduced in Spy vs. Spy:

Ray: Fraser, the wolf can't stay here.
Fraser: Why not?
Ray: Because of the. . . uh. . . turtle.
Fraser: Dief has no interest in the turtle.
Ray: The turtle and the wolf are natural enemies, Fraser. Grrr. Fighting and they. . .
Fraser [to Dief]: Stay.
Dief: [bark]
Fraser: Would you lock the door behind us?
Ruth: I'll look after your turtle.

The first time I saw Turtle in fanfic was elementalv's Mortal Enemies, a very short but hilarious take on the canon snippet (Gen). It never fails to make me laugh out loud! But then I do have a special weakness for fics with an animal POV. Another wonderful Turtle POV fic is etcetera_cat's Vibrato, which really captures life as experienced from the aquarium (very mildly Fraser/RayK).

Dief has opinions about Turtle, too. mizface's Natural Enemies takes on their rivalry from Dief's POV (Gen). In abbybanks's Different, Dief cuts Turtle a little slack, as they're both invested in what happens with their humans (very mildly Fraser/RayK).

Finally, there's Stars' latest DS Sekrit Santa fic Freaks & Geeks (To Say Nothing of the Goat) (Fraser/RayK), a slightly angsty, delightfully wacky tale told from multiple points of view, including both a Dief-POV section and a Turtle-POV section. And the household gains a new pet. :-)

Next week, RayK and Fraser's relationship, as it intersects with Turtle.

Admin: new year, new format, new challenge

[ifreet.livejournal.com]

Happy 2010 everybody! First of all, many thanks to green_grrl for guest reccing this month. If you're enjoying her theme so far, please let her know! Turtles! Dief and Turtle! Yay!

But now, down to business! dessert_first and I would like to start the year off by shaking up the ds_recsredux format. Basically, we'd like to open up the conversation in comments! Here's how it will work: we post the weekly challenge topic. You make your response rec in the comments of the challenge post. Comment as often as you like, with as few or as many recs as you like. Use the coding on the userinfo page as a guideline if you want, or rec free-form if you'd rather -- just make sure to provide us with a link to the awesome thing you want us to see. Don't have a rec? Pop in to tell the other reccers they have good taste (and slip in an off-challenge rec if you feel moved)! Start a conversation, have fun, get interactive! And don't forget to feedback the writers/artists being recced. After a week, the challenge is closed, and we'll post the new one.

Remember, the community remains open to insta-rec posts at any time -- discover a creation in the dsss archive or on the noticeboard that you need to talk about? Go for it! A friend make you something? Pass it on! If you love it, someone else will, too.

Got it? Great! Or I should say, any questions? Hit us in the comments! The first challenge post goes up Monday!