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In One of These Dreams by Silver (R)
Fandom: FARSCAPE
Pairing: John/Aeryn
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: unknown, though a few stories are at Redbeard's Archive
Why this must be read:
This is one of those stories that'll throw you for a loop, knock the breath out of you, make shivers run down your spine. It's almost five years old now, and it was talked about a lot at first, but not so much anymore.
This is one of those stories where the voice is so strong I actually like the first-person POV, and don't think it could be told any other way. (Normally first-person POV unsettles me a little, at least at first.)
In the olden days of the Farscape fandom, there were a lot of stories about various crewmembers being locked up in hospitals or labs back on Earth, and this is by far the best of them. This was back before Terra Firma aired, when Moya's crew was welcomed on Earth, if not exactly with open arms. This was back around the time of A Human Reaction, when we all remembered that Earth could be a scary place, and humans a scary species. It was before other parts of the storyline took a darker turn, and the fandom turned into itself looking for the darkness we all know and just can't get enough of.
In One of These Dreams by Silver
Pairing: John/Aeryn
Author on LJ: unknown
Author Website: unknown, though a few stories are at Redbeard's Archive
Why this must be read:
This is one of those stories that'll throw you for a loop, knock the breath out of you, make shivers run down your spine. It's almost five years old now, and it was talked about a lot at first, but not so much anymore.
This is one of those stories where the voice is so strong I actually like the first-person POV, and don't think it could be told any other way. (Normally first-person POV unsettles me a little, at least at first.)
In the olden days of the Farscape fandom, there were a lot of stories about various crewmembers being locked up in hospitals or labs back on Earth, and this is by far the best of them. This was back before Terra Firma aired, when Moya's crew was welcomed on Earth, if not exactly with open arms. This was back around the time of A Human Reaction, when we all remembered that Earth could be a scary place, and humans a scary species. It was before other parts of the storyline took a darker turn, and the fandom turned into itself looking for the darkness we all know and just can't get enough of.
He looked me straight in the eye. 'I think I'm mad,' he said plainly. 'I think I thought all this fucking crap up because something shitty has happened to me. It was all some kinda lucid dream, everything, everything I remember, some weird-ass nightmare horror story. It didn't happen, did it? Moya. Just…didn't happen.'
He wanted Moya to be real. He wanted to be the guy he described on that ship. He was delusional – the symptoms were classic, yet sincere. He said they found him in Farscape One in the middle of the Pacific ocean – I checked this, it was true. 'I made it up, didn't I? Of all the stupid things to do…'
In One of These Dreams by Silver