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crack_van2005-06-07 11:34 pm
lady-smith.livejournal.com) wrote in crack_van2005-06-07 11:34 pm
Recipere by KodiakkeMax (PG-13)
Fandom: FARSCAPE
Pairing: None, Noranti-Centered Gen
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author Website: KodiakkeMax's Fiction
Why this must be read:
One of the wonderful things about Farscape fandom and the talented writers we have in it is that two of them can take very similar ideas and go in completely different directions with them. Having given you Anna S.'s odd-but-on-the-whole-sympathetic-and-identifiable Noranti, I now give you KodiakkeMax's Noranti, who is something entirely other.
As KodiakkeMax is in the running for being rec'd on crack_van for Farscape more times than any other author, I won't bore you with how she gets into the head of difficult characters, has a crisp involving prose style, or is just plain superhumanly good at sucking you in with her vivid depictions. Instead I will say this: close your eyes and try to imagine what is going on in Granny's head; how she perceives the world, and why she acts the way she does. Now realize that nothing you have imagined is close to how utterly alien this Noranti is, twisting the complex relationships aboard Season 4's Moya into a metaphor that is both obvious and unsettling.
Go, read, review, and see what the world tastes like with three eyes.
Recipere
Pairing: None, Noranti-Centered Gen
Author on LJ: Unknown
Author Website: KodiakkeMax's Fiction
Why this must be read:
One of the wonderful things about Farscape fandom and the talented writers we have in it is that two of them can take very similar ideas and go in completely different directions with them. Having given you Anna S.'s odd-but-on-the-whole-sympathetic-and-identifiable Noranti, I now give you KodiakkeMax's Noranti, who is something entirely other.
As KodiakkeMax is in the running for being rec'd on crack_van for Farscape more times than any other author, I won't bore you with how she gets into the head of difficult characters, has a crisp involving prose style, or is just plain superhumanly good at sucking you in with her vivid depictions. Instead I will say this: close your eyes and try to imagine what is going on in Granny's head; how she perceives the world, and why she acts the way she does. Now realize that nothing you have imagined is close to how utterly alien this Noranti is, twisting the complex relationships aboard Season 4's Moya into a metaphor that is both obvious and unsettling.
Stop to enjoy the crash of noise falling apart (Sikozu in the background with her words again). Listen to the calls of the herbs around her, dust motes tasting and nestling moistly in her crevices, seducing her with smells. A pinch of kittle-weed was heady for the senses and relaxing for the bowels. The meat was tender, so tender it had fallen from the bone. She'd forgotten -- had she forgotten? Wash off the skin and save. It would garnish him well and serve him up delicately. He cried out for the perfect sauce, but they wanted the leavings of his mind, brain-stem soup supped down and lapped with long pink tongues. Sikozu who ate so much so little, and Scorpius, always hungry. Little satisfaction in feeding them, they did not appreciate the complexity of the dish itself.
Go, read, review, and see what the world tastes like with three eyes.
Recipere