Minotaurs (![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
minotaurs.livejournal.com) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
crack_van2005-01-25 10:35 am
minotaurs.livejournal.com) wrote in crack_van2005-01-25 10:35 am
Ledishka by Amber (NC17)
Fandom: POPSLASH
Pairing: Chris/Justin, Justin/Lance
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: Just So Pretty
Why this must be read:
I was going to rec one more Career AU, but found I'd lost the link to it. So instead, I'm going to move on to my favorite sub-genre: Historicals. In these stories, the authors place our boys in some historical setting, with more or less accuracy. Sometimes the setting is the center of the story, and the boys just along for the ride. Other times, the aim is see how these particular personalities might mesh in a different cultural matrix. The best are those that use the boys to illuminate the history, and the history to distill their characters.
Ledishka, along with its sequal Proschai and a short Coda are set during the Russian Revolution. I could let it go at that - Russian Revolution!SYNC!! - but these are so much more. Amber both illustrates the human cost of the political upheaval, and draws our guys with razor-sharp outlines. Justin and Chris shine within their flaws, and fit beautifully into that time without loosing what makes them uniquely them. All this, plus lushly melancholy prose, make these stories prime examples of how an AU can shed new light on our old favorites.
Ledishka
Proschai
Coda
Pairing: Chris/Justin, Justin/Lance
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: Just So Pretty
Why this must be read:
I was going to rec one more Career AU, but found I'd lost the link to it. So instead, I'm going to move on to my favorite sub-genre: Historicals. In these stories, the authors place our boys in some historical setting, with more or less accuracy. Sometimes the setting is the center of the story, and the boys just along for the ride. Other times, the aim is see how these particular personalities might mesh in a different cultural matrix. The best are those that use the boys to illuminate the history, and the history to distill their characters.
Ledishka, along with its sequal Proschai and a short Coda are set during the Russian Revolution. I could let it go at that - Russian Revolution!SYNC!! - but these are so much more. Amber both illustrates the human cost of the political upheaval, and draws our guys with razor-sharp outlines. Justin and Chris shine within their flaws, and fit beautifully into that time without loosing what makes them uniquely them. All this, plus lushly melancholy prose, make these stories prime examples of how an AU can shed new light on our old favorites.
Ledishka
Proschai
Coda