I was soooo bummed to see SGU end - I felt it had more potential as a long arc-driven show than anything I'd seen since BSG got started. I was SO BUMMED when it got cancelled - it was really just hitting its stride in every way from character to universe to the gelling of the cast.
At any rate! OMG, THIS STORY!!! Force Over Distance hits most all of my kinks and a couple I never even knew I had (insert a whole post to Light here in which I dialog about her recent Service as Kink topic which made me VERY THINKY and which I need to actually type out).
I've developed a loathing of h/c stories over the years (the formulaic nature seems to mean that right quick every character is OUT of character), but this takes the trope and does it proper. Holy crap. Really, my only gripe about the story is how her lovely language apparently falls right out of her brain when the scene turns to even the slightest physical intimacy (I'm honestly tempted to search-and-replace every instance of "deepen" and "tangle" in the thing, argh!).
But...but... worldbuilding! Note-perfect character voices! Tension! Inventive narrative thinking! Tight tight story telling! Great control of long-form format! Beautiful language! Fantastic visceral descriptions for all 6 senses! And I've never seen narration via physics, math, computer code or stream-of-consciousness done anywhere NEAR this well, just effing FANTASTIC. I cannot imagine reading the insert At All Angles written by anyone and getting through it without glazing over, but she just NAILS it. Hash tables were never a better narrative invention! :D
And when she has to write sex using math....okay, then, she's SMOKIN'. Young and ai!Rush in the neural interface might be one of the hottest sex scenes I've read since the last Lightgetsin Dresden story hit the streets :D :D :D And oh so fucking painfully poignant. Everlovin' beautiful.
I've spent the better part of my day formatting all of her stories with proper chapter breaks for my Kindle (I'd just grabbed FoD via InstaPaper, but going to the trouble to format it properly is TOTALLY worth my while). This kind of formatting is a labor of love I only lavish on Mah Favorite Books :D
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*LAVISH FANNISH HUG*
I was soooo bummed to see SGU end - I felt it had more potential as a long arc-driven show than anything I'd seen since BSG got started. I was SO BUMMED when it got cancelled - it was really just hitting its stride in every way from character to universe to the gelling of the cast.
At any rate! OMG, THIS STORY!!! Force Over Distance hits most all of my kinks and a couple I never even knew I had (insert a whole post to Light here in which I dialog about her recent Service as Kink topic which made me VERY THINKY and which I need to actually type out).
I've developed a loathing of h/c stories over the years (the formulaic nature seems to mean that right quick every character is OUT of character), but this takes the trope and does it proper. Holy crap. Really, my only gripe about the story is how her lovely language apparently falls right out of her brain when the scene turns to even the slightest physical intimacy (I'm honestly tempted to search-and-replace every instance of "deepen" and "tangle" in the thing, argh!).
But...but... worldbuilding! Note-perfect character voices! Tension! Inventive narrative thinking! Tight tight story telling! Great control of long-form format! Beautiful language! Fantastic visceral descriptions for all 6 senses! And I've never seen narration via physics, math, computer code or stream-of-consciousness done anywhere NEAR this well, just effing FANTASTIC. I cannot imagine reading the insert At All Angles written by anyone and getting through it without glazing over, but she just NAILS it. Hash tables were never a better narrative invention! :D
And when she has to write sex using math....okay, then, she's SMOKIN'. Young and ai!Rush in the neural interface might be one of the hottest sex scenes I've read since the last Lightgetsin Dresden story hit the streets :D :D :D And oh so fucking painfully poignant. Everlovin' beautiful.
I've spent the better part of my day formatting all of her stories with proper chapter breaks for my Kindle (I'd just grabbed FoD via InstaPaper, but going to the trouble to format it properly is TOTALLY worth my while). This kind of formatting is a labor of love I only lavish on Mah Favorite Books :D
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!! *squash!*