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Till human voices wake us, and we drown by Elizabeth Scripturient (NC-17)
Okay, let's try this again --- This time I'm not posting in the wee hours of the morning, so hopefully I won't screw up the formatting and links this time!
Fandom: FIREFLY
Pairing: River/Simon (not slash)
author on lj:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bigdirty
author website: Fictional Excursions
Why this must be read: This story is COMPLETELY AU and that's the only thing you know going into it other than the warnings Dark and fucked up. Explicit sex. Pleasurepain. Ambiguous consent. As such, I'm not totally revealing the pairing here, because figuring out the characters is part of the experience. If any of the previous warnings squicks you off, don't go there or check the withheld pairing first to make sure it's your cup of tea.
Explanations aside, the language within the story is beautiful. Combined with rich symbolism and frequent T.S. Eliot quotations, it draws the reader into the story and holds them there on with constant anticipations and an edge of dread that mirrors what is happening to the characters. This is not the typical type of story I seek out, though it is one of the pairings I do go for, but at the end I was very happy to have read it because it is so different than almost anything else available within the fandom or even that pairing. (That or I'm horribly protected in my little nook of fandom and you guys should take this opportunity to educate me with a plethora of recs). If you like AUs and don't mind dirty/bad/wrong in the context of plot, go and read this now. You won't regret it.
Till human voices wake us and we drown (click on the opening lines to get to the story)
Fandom: FIREFLY
Pairing: River/Simon (not slash)
author on lj:
bigdirtyauthor website: Fictional Excursions
Why this must be read: This story is COMPLETELY AU and that's the only thing you know going into it other than the warnings Dark and fucked up. Explicit sex. Pleasurepain. Ambiguous consent. As such, I'm not totally revealing the pairing here, because figuring out the characters is part of the experience. If any of the previous warnings squicks you off, don't go there or check the withheld pairing first to make sure it's your cup of tea.
Explanations aside, the language within the story is beautiful. Combined with rich symbolism and frequent T.S. Eliot quotations, it draws the reader into the story and holds them there on with constant anticipations and an edge of dread that mirrors what is happening to the characters. This is not the typical type of story I seek out, though it is one of the pairings I do go for, but at the end I was very happy to have read it because it is so different than almost anything else available within the fandom or even that pairing. (That or I'm horribly protected in my little nook of fandom and you guys should take this opportunity to educate me with a plethora of recs). If you like AUs and don't mind dirty/bad/wrong in the context of plot, go and read this now. You won't regret it.
Till human voices wake us and we drown (click on the opening lines to get to the story)
1. in the beginning (evening is spread out against the sky)
She wore a veil. Her entire outfit was scarves. She danced, stripping. Her body beneath the scarves was painted in dead languages. She had thought it a humorous touch, externalizing her internal death. As a practical matter, it meant she didn’t have to worry about anyone getting distracted reading her skin. She knew that would have been a problem since she catered to scholars.