Recommendations and Reminiscinces.
Jan. 15th, 2001 10:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rsadelleI can't deal with any shit, my room is clean, I don't want to think and I can't write anything, so you get this, which has been in my head for a few days.
Molly wrote the lovely "Shimmer Like A Girl Should," and I decided to go out looking for other X-Men fan fiction. Because hers was movie canon, I went sorting through The X-Men: The Movie Fan Fiction Central, and came across "Agony and Ecstasy" by Dieben. The first thing that bothered me about the story was the description of Logan's claws as "steel." They're adamantium. The ending is also far too neat. However, what really bothered me was the way that Marie wasn't so much Marie as a combination of Marie, the movie version of Rogue, and Jubilee, the comic book version. This is not, of course, unique to this author, as that's more or less what they did with the character in making the movie.
X-Men was my first fandom, and I read a lot of X-Men fan fiction when I was in high school. The way that Marie was so much like comic canon Jubilee made me think of a Jubilee story that deeply affected me when I first read it: "Hold On" by Perri Smith.
I was delighted to find that the story still makes me cry. Delight may not be the emotion one would generally associate with tears, but what that means is that it is a truly good story, and its effect on me was not due to the fact that I was 15 when I first read it.
I was so affected by "Hold On" that I bought Sarah McLachlan's Freedom Sessions without ever having heard her music. I printed out the story and gave it to my best friend to read. She had a difficult time trying not to cry as she read it in class.
Even if you don't know the comic book canon, go read "Hold On." It'll be worth your while.
Molly wrote the lovely "Shimmer Like A Girl Should," and I decided to go out looking for other X-Men fan fiction. Because hers was movie canon, I went sorting through The X-Men: The Movie Fan Fiction Central, and came across "Agony and Ecstasy" by Dieben. The first thing that bothered me about the story was the description of Logan's claws as "steel." They're adamantium. The ending is also far too neat. However, what really bothered me was the way that Marie wasn't so much Marie as a combination of Marie, the movie version of Rogue, and Jubilee, the comic book version. This is not, of course, unique to this author, as that's more or less what they did with the character in making the movie.
X-Men was my first fandom, and I read a lot of X-Men fan fiction when I was in high school. The way that Marie was so much like comic canon Jubilee made me think of a Jubilee story that deeply affected me when I first read it: "Hold On" by Perri Smith.
I was delighted to find that the story still makes me cry. Delight may not be the emotion one would generally associate with tears, but what that means is that it is a truly good story, and its effect on me was not due to the fact that I was 15 when I first read it.
I was so affected by "Hold On" that I bought Sarah McLachlan's Freedom Sessions without ever having heard her music. I printed out the story and gave it to my best friend to read. She had a difficult time trying not to cry as she read it in class.
Even if you don't know the comic book canon, go read "Hold On." It'll be worth your while.