Fanworks Recs - 5 Total

[tomomichi]

Notes/Babbling: There is so much fanfic I want to read right now that I'm not getting any of it read. @_@ Well, I am, but very, very slowly. I just dumped over 4MB of fanfic onto my laptop to read through... I'm so not going to get any of that done, am? But here's what I have read and liked.
Series:
    Prince of Tennis - 1 Fanfic
    DNAngel - 1 Fanfic
    Gravitation - 2 Fanfics
    Yami no Matsuei - 1 Fanfic



- Prince of Tennis - Moment by Shi Lin - I find myself unsure of what to say about this fic to properly get across what I so adored about it. Part of it is that I adore these characters and the dynamics of this relationship so, so much, and I loved that all these gorgeous subtlties were presented in the fic. There's this... undefinable quality to them, something that's not quite elegance, intensity, subtlty, or intelligence, but containing all of those elements. This fic was... one moment in their friendship/relationship and it just... it said volumes about the dynamics between them and I absolutely loved the gorgeous writing that wove in all these little details. I'm never quite as happy as I am when I'm reading wonderful TezuFuji/FujiTezu fic. ^_~ (TezukaFuji/FujiTezuka.)

- Gravitation - Memory and Time (chapters 07 & 08) / License to Shrill (chapter 07) by Melody Mist - Normally, I try not to rec updated chapters of fics, because I've already rec'd a fic, if someone's interested, they can keep an eye out for it themselves and it's already in my archives if they're just stumbling over it for the first time. (And I'm not really doing a reviews page/blog here, I'm just finding stuff I like and sharing.) But I'm going to make an exception here because... well, really, because I want to. Because I originally read chapter 7 of Memory and Time when it was first posted and wound up doing not much more than skimming, a little disappointed in Yuki and Shuuichi's reunion. When Melody Mist posted two new chapters, I figured I'd reread to catch up and actually read all the way through and... maybe I was just in the right frame of mind or maybe it's just that these three story pieces together were just... so much more satisfying to me. Either way, I was just entranced again this time around.

I absolutely adore Melody Mist's writing, with License to Shrill she became one of my favorite Gravi authors immediately, because it's one of the best damned Gravi fics I've ever read. After reading these three chapters together, I have been put back into a Gravi mood and am just sparkling like crazy over it, after I honestly didn't know if I could ever fully get back into the series. I adore the way she writes, I adore her characterizations, I adore her Yuki retaining that edge of meanness, despite getting closer to Shuuichi, I adore that she takes her time with the stories. Plus? The final scene in chapter 7 of License to Shrill cracked me up. *laughs* XD XD XD (YukixShuuichi.)

- Yami no Matsuei - Ghost Ship by Laekin - (Note: I read this off one of the Yahoo!Groups MLs, and it's not up on Phantom Moon yet, but I'm sure it will be eventually. When it is, you should be able to find it from that link. ^_^;; ) Oh, this was perfect. Perfect, perfect, perfect. I had the stupidest grin on my face the entire time, because this was so damn much fun. XD I absolutely adore Laekin's take on my beloved Tatsumi and Watari, I cannot sparkle madly enough over the way she writes the characterizations (my only complaint would be that she uses nicknames and first times a little too often for characters who've had at least twenty years to call each other Tatsumi-san and Watari-san, but I had absolutely no complaints here *sparkles more*), and the writing itself was gorgeously smooth and readable. The entire situation was just effing fun, you could tell the author had a blast writing it, and it was just a joy to read. The last page or so of the fic just had me sparkling like mad and there are no words to describe how happy it makes me that such a talented author is writing for these two characters. (Some light Tatsumi+Watari vibes.)

- Gravitation - Faith by vethia and midori-chan - I admit that this story has its share of plot holes (if Shuuichi were missing, there would certainly be a large investigation to find him and plot elements/other characters were thrown in at wild random) and characterization issues (the whole thing seems rather... melodramatic and far-fetched, especially the Ryuuichi MPD stuff), but I found myself enjoying the fic anyway. The writing itself is good, very smooth and readable, which is always a big plus for me. I also really, really liked the way Yuki was characterizated--he was still mean and kind of a prick, but he had his moments of niceness and compassion. Plus, it was fun to see Yuki and Ryuuichi interacting, I giggled at a lot of the funnier moments of the fic. It's also very nice that this story is nice and long, so it's really satisfying. And... there's a certain element of... as I was reading, I became genuinely engrossed in the story, to the point that I read the first nine chapters (which were all that were posted) all in one sitting, which I rarely do. And now I have to know how it ends!! Wah! (Some YukixShuuichi.)

- DNAngel - Between by Shi Lin - You know, when I first got into DNAngel/DNAngel fanfic, I was expecting something fun and fluffy... and probably should have known better after Megami Kouhosei. >_> However, I think I'm glad it's turning out to be a lot more... substantive than I first thought, because... well, it's fics like this one that have me coming to genuinely care about the characters. What I liked most about this fic was... as I was reading... I sort of kept tensing up more and more, the further the story went along, reacting to the intensity of the story ratcheting up yet another notch again and again. I also liked the way the story started out, such a simple little thing for Satoshi to do, that routine, yet so... telling. And... just... this is why I have no favorite DNAngel character. There are times when I lean towards Dark being my favorite, but then I read a fic like this about Satoshi and Daisuke, where they're so... I don't want to say wonderful, because they hurt so much, but... that's as good a term as I can come up with... and I just want moremoremore of them! Well, that was a horrible rec, wasn't it? >_> (Some slight Satoshi+Daisuke.)