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Episodic Romance by little-b (R)
Fandom: DUE SOUTH
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Length: Around 70,000 words
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
buzzylittleb
Author Website: The Leisure Hive
Why this must be read:
Ray wakes up.
It's a long, delirious yarn that combines casefic, meta, the paranormal, and romance in a way I've never seen before. Um, outside of canon, anyway.
I was honestly amazed not to find this fic recced here already, because it's one of my touchstone fics for the fandom.
It's not an easy story to get into: it's stream-of-consciousness, and this RayK's head is packed full of disjointed thoughts, fireworks, snark, and insecurities, all shoving each other for space. (And that's before he starts tripping out of his skull.) But it's amazingly vivid, involving, and surprising, bringing in multiple seasons' worth of story and excellent scene-setting, creating a really compelling mystery, a romance, and a meta argument, all at once.
"It's a wonderful conceit, Ray, how the circularity of the narrative effectively resets the status quo in each episode thus removing the need for the viewer to watch the episodes consecutively and providing a pleasing symmetry to the whole endeavour."
Only Fraser would find repetitive shit interesting, but then he gets to write out envelopes for the Ice Queen's diplomatic sashays. Ray tells him so. Sticks his finger in the big broad Mountie chest, tries to mess with the perfect henley, which looks too good for something that's been slept in, let alone slept in on Ray's ratty couch.
Fraser laughs, giggles, whatever you fucking call it because guys don't giggle, especially guys like Fraser. In Ray's head Fraser has a deep manly laugh, not the weird giggle thing he has going. Ray's brain does overdubs, sometimes, and when Fraser doesn't quite react right, it goes all wonky. Like a record player skipping tracks and he has to move the needle 'cause this track ain't dancing music.
"But, Ray–" Fraser begins, before he tears Ray's world into little pieces and burns them and then jumps on them, politely, unintentionally "–surely, you would have to admit that the idea that everything goes back to the beginning at the end of the adventure and nothing has repercussions is quite wonderful. There are times, Ray, when I truly wish the world worked like that… it would be quite… it would be so much less painful."
Ray knows Fraser's saying something important, Fraserish important, important to Fraser; but he doesn't really take that in. Not at all.
Ray's realising that life is just like that, and nothing will ever change.
Episodic Romance
Pairing: Fraser/Kowalski
Length: Around 70,000 words
Author on LJ:
buzzylittlebAuthor Website: The Leisure Hive
Why this must be read:
Ray wakes up.
It's a long, delirious yarn that combines casefic, meta, the paranormal, and romance in a way I've never seen before. Um, outside of canon, anyway.
I was honestly amazed not to find this fic recced here already, because it's one of my touchstone fics for the fandom.
It's not an easy story to get into: it's stream-of-consciousness, and this RayK's head is packed full of disjointed thoughts, fireworks, snark, and insecurities, all shoving each other for space. (And that's before he starts tripping out of his skull.) But it's amazingly vivid, involving, and surprising, bringing in multiple seasons' worth of story and excellent scene-setting, creating a really compelling mystery, a romance, and a meta argument, all at once.
"It's a wonderful conceit, Ray, how the circularity of the narrative effectively resets the status quo in each episode thus removing the need for the viewer to watch the episodes consecutively and providing a pleasing symmetry to the whole endeavour."
Only Fraser would find repetitive shit interesting, but then he gets to write out envelopes for the Ice Queen's diplomatic sashays. Ray tells him so. Sticks his finger in the big broad Mountie chest, tries to mess with the perfect henley, which looks too good for something that's been slept in, let alone slept in on Ray's ratty couch.
Fraser laughs, giggles, whatever you fucking call it because guys don't giggle, especially guys like Fraser. In Ray's head Fraser has a deep manly laugh, not the weird giggle thing he has going. Ray's brain does overdubs, sometimes, and when Fraser doesn't quite react right, it goes all wonky. Like a record player skipping tracks and he has to move the needle 'cause this track ain't dancing music.
"But, Ray–" Fraser begins, before he tears Ray's world into little pieces and burns them and then jumps on them, politely, unintentionally "–surely, you would have to admit that the idea that everything goes back to the beginning at the end of the adventure and nothing has repercussions is quite wonderful. There are times, Ray, when I truly wish the world worked like that… it would be quite… it would be so much less painful."
Ray knows Fraser's saying something important, Fraserish important, important to Fraser; but he doesn't really take that in. Not at all.
Ray's realising that life is just like that, and nothing will ever change.
Episodic Romance
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In all seriousness, I cannot recommend this story highly enough; I'll be first to say that it sometimes isn't an easy read but it is so finely textured, so deeply layered, so funny and in character and sexy and awesome that it would be a crime to skip it. Oh I'm so glad this is getting recced! ♥
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I was so sure it must have been recced before; I checked to see, just because I was thinking I could maybe rec one of her other fics, and lo and behold...! It really is an amazing piece of work.