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A Monster By Any Other Name: Part 1 by lavinialavender & brosedshield [NC-17]
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maerhys and I am driving the van for Supernatural fandom this month. I am getting a late start but I have plenty of fic to rec in the next two and a half weeks. While Sam/Dean is my OTP, I will also be reccing rare pairs (especially anything with Jo Harvelle) and gen fic, which I have a deep, abiding love for too. I often start my runs with an epic that I especially love and this month is no different.
Fandom: SUPERNATURAL
Pairing: Sam/Dean [AU; not related]
Length: 115,000 words in 13 chapters
Author on LJ:lavinialavender & brosedshield
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Why this must be read: Let's start with the summary: Our story takes several steps away from canon. Dean Winchester is an only child. Mary died November 2nd, 1983, but neither in a fire nor on the ceiling. Five-year-old Sam is deported to a concentration camp for monsters. But the core remains the same. This is a love story.
Every once in a while, a story will surface that I decide out of hand is just not for me — usually because of the warnings or some other aspect I decide will not work for me. Following that pattern, I never should have taken a second look at the this masterpiece but the combination of time and more time pushed me to take a look. And, I am so grateful that I did because this is truly one of the best stories I've read ever and I am in awe at the work and energy the writers put into the world-building, characterizations, and plot twists.
Further, I am beyond pleased that this is a truly horrific tale that does not back down from being terrifying on several levels — there's no sensationalizing the violence and despair here. It's presented with details that callback to not so distant past and an uncertain future that I am sure many readers can relate to, and thus there is the real horror as presented in classics like 1984, Brave New World, and Parable of the Sower. This is an epic that defies category as it is not just horror, alternative universe, drama, romance, hurt/comfort or angst. It is every category due to the nuanced details that twine together to thread through a story that is, in so many ways, timeless, and has a universal appeal. It is about Sam and Dean, yes, but more than that, it's delves into who they are with and without each other and the men they are becoming as this world brutalizes them in different ways. I really cannot recommend this enough.
Take time with it, read the warnings, but trust that nothing is included to titillate through gore-porn and there are no easy answers. This is just book one, and I am waiting in a runner's crouch, ready to grab book two as soon as these ladies finish posting it [it's a WIP now]. A true gem in Supernatural fan fiction, fan fiction in general— a true gem of writing and story-telling power and elegance.
A Monster By Any Other Name
maerhys and I am driving the van for Supernatural fandom this month. I am getting a late start but I have plenty of fic to rec in the next two and a half weeks. While Sam/Dean is my OTP, I will also be reccing rare pairs (especially anything with Jo Harvelle) and gen fic, which I have a deep, abiding love for too. I often start my runs with an epic that I especially love and this month is no different. Fandom: SUPERNATURAL
Pairing: Sam/Dean [AU; not related]
Length: 115,000 words in 13 chapters
Author on LJ:
lavinialavender & brosedshieldAuthor Website:
freac_campWhy this must be read: Let's start with the summary: Our story takes several steps away from canon. Dean Winchester is an only child. Mary died November 2nd, 1983, but neither in a fire nor on the ceiling. Five-year-old Sam is deported to a concentration camp for monsters. But the core remains the same. This is a love story.
Every once in a while, a story will surface that I decide out of hand is just not for me — usually because of the warnings or some other aspect I decide will not work for me. Following that pattern, I never should have taken a second look at the this masterpiece but the combination of time and more time pushed me to take a look. And, I am so grateful that I did because this is truly one of the best stories I've read ever and I am in awe at the work and energy the writers put into the world-building, characterizations, and plot twists.
Further, I am beyond pleased that this is a truly horrific tale that does not back down from being terrifying on several levels — there's no sensationalizing the violence and despair here. It's presented with details that callback to not so distant past and an uncertain future that I am sure many readers can relate to, and thus there is the real horror as presented in classics like 1984, Brave New World, and Parable of the Sower. This is an epic that defies category as it is not just horror, alternative universe, drama, romance, hurt/comfort or angst. It is every category due to the nuanced details that twine together to thread through a story that is, in so many ways, timeless, and has a universal appeal. It is about Sam and Dean, yes, but more than that, it's delves into who they are with and without each other and the men they are becoming as this world brutalizes them in different ways. I really cannot recommend this enough.
Take time with it, read the warnings, but trust that nothing is included to titillate through gore-porn and there are no easy answers. This is just book one, and I am waiting in a runner's crouch, ready to grab book two as soon as these ladies finish posting it [it's a WIP now]. A true gem in Supernatural fan fiction, fan fiction in general— a true gem of writing and story-telling power and elegance.
A Monster By Any Other Name