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‘Calling,’ by Velma (PG-13-ish)
Fandom: POPSLASH
Pairing: Chris / Nick.
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
meteredlines, this week (Velma, stop changing pseuds, will you?). Most recently before this, was ‘viasaintpaul,’ which is the LJ link at the website. Don’t be confused, gentle reader.
Author Website: Alone So Far, for this one.
Why this must be read: This is my sole rec for the week now ending. I had a nice little set of themed recs, but Sandy Berger inadvertently snuck them away in his trousers, so…. Ah, well, a new week starts tomorrow.
One of the most common themes in popslash is the inevitability of the Destined Love, as we discussed earlier this month. And there’s something to that, both philosophically and as a literary device. But there’s also the countervailing point that Life Is What Happens Whilst One Was Making Other Plans. Life, that is, is about contingency, and happenstance, and results that don’t seem to make sense of the motives that invoked those results until much later, in hindsight. There are few better – or more affecting – fics of that realist school than this, and few that possess its subtle human insight.
READ … ‘Calling.’
Pairing: Chris / Nick.
Author on LJ:
meteredlines, this week (Velma, stop changing pseuds, will you?). Most recently before this, was ‘viasaintpaul,’ which is the LJ link at the website. Don’t be confused, gentle reader.Author Website: Alone So Far, for this one.
Why this must be read: This is my sole rec for the week now ending. I had a nice little set of themed recs, but Sandy Berger inadvertently snuck them away in his trousers, so…. Ah, well, a new week starts tomorrow.
One of the most common themes in popslash is the inevitability of the Destined Love, as we discussed earlier this month. And there’s something to that, both philosophically and as a literary device. But there’s also the countervailing point that Life Is What Happens Whilst One Was Making Other Plans. Life, that is, is about contingency, and happenstance, and results that don’t seem to make sense of the motives that invoked those results until much later, in hindsight. There are few better – or more affecting – fics of that realist school than this, and few that possess its subtle human insight.
READ … ‘Calling.’