like boys do by Luc Court

[aishuu.livejournal.com]

Fandom: SMALL FANDOMS - No Rest for the Wicked (Webcomic)

Pairing: Gen (November/Red, November/Perrault if you want to bring goggles)

Length: 1,900

Author: Luc Court

Author on LJ: rabbitprint

No Rest for the Wicked is an older web comic, and the creator is slow about releasing updates, but the story and art are still some of my favorites and fanfic fills in that aching gap while I wait for updates. If you like ABC's Once Upon a Time or the graphic novel Fables, this is in the same line: fairytale stories mushed together to tell a new story. This is actually my favorite spin.

This story by Luc Court has just the right blend of fairytale, character and little bit of creepy in it. Red is a complex character and hard to use as the POV, but Luc Court pulls off a fic from her perspective that feels like it would be cannon in the webcomic's universe.



Excerpt:

A long time ago when Red was very young, she asked her grandmother why it was fair for girls to hurt and boys to laugh at them. She had just turned thirteen not half a year ago, and her mother had taken her to the stream behind the shed, given her a dark set of linens and a bitter cup of tea to go with them. Once a month was much too often (in Red's opinion) for a stomach to cramp up and rags to be worn, wrung out in streams so they could stain the riverwater pink.



like boys do

Comments

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Oh noes, I needed another webcomic to read like I need another hole in my head. And yet, remixing of fairytales is one of my favorite genres (it all started with Neil Gaiman's Sandman comics).

[aishuu.livejournal.com]

*g* This one's worth it. The artist's style is striking and the story is original.

Sandman (and Good Omens and American Gods) have both been recced, so I'm not making any Gaiman recs. :)

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Read through the whole webcomic between that post and this one. Really nice to find a webcomic that not only features women not in a sexist light, but actually focuses on them, even (especially?) in a fantasy setting. Fey Winds (http://www.feywinds.com/) is the only other one I know in that category.

[aishuu.livejournal.com]

....are you attempting revenge for me taking up hours of your life? *bookmarks*

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

*looks shifty-eyed* Who me?

[gladdecease]

Gosh, I haven't thought about this comic in years! (I first picked it up mid-chapter 3, lost my link to the site during the post-chapter 4 interlude.) It's so nice to revisit it, both in the new pages and the fic.

[aishuu.livejournal.com]

The way you can tell something is good is that you want to revisit it. Glad this worked for you.