ext_57040 ([identity profile] seascribe.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] crack_van2013-07-22 10:03 pm
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The Longest Distance by Berty (Explicit)

Fandom: DUE SOUTH
Pairing: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Length: 9000 words
Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] bertybertle
Author Website: On the AO3
Why this must be read: It's an apocalypse story that's not exactly bleak, but it still packs a hell of an emotional punch.  It borrows the premise of Last Night (and so comes with a warning for impending major character death), and it has a very similar feel to that film, a sort of understated, claustrophobic feeling, while people continue being painfully, normally just people as time runs out.    It's a story about Ray spending the last days getting to Fraser, so they can come to terms with each other before the end, and it's about being together when that end comes.  It's not an easy story or a happy story, but it never feels hopeless.

The Longest Distance

[identity profile] ride-4ever.livejournal.com 2013-07-23 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
The comments I left on this fic in 2012 say how dearly I hold it. I'm glad you recced it and hope it gets a wide readership.

[identity profile] ride-4ever.livejournal.com 2013-07-23 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
Self-pimping : have you read my apocalypse!fic that was inspired by this fic?

[identity profile] ride-4ever.livejournal.com 2013-07-23 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
Getting Buried in Buffalo Jump fic on AO3 (http://archiveofourown.org/works/396192)