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Winter Recommendations
A couple of great reads for a cold winter's day =)
Title: Steel and Salt
Author: Scribe Figaro
Universe: Canon
Genre: Romance
Rating: Y
Warning: Citrus
Pairing: Miroku/Sango
Word Length: 4,815
URL: http://www.mediaminer.org/fanfic/view_ch.php/164651/581058/
Author's Summary: Miroku recovers from the injuries sustained with the group in the Oni's Stomach. After awaking to Sango's vigil, the two decide to share some well-earned intimacy. Canon, or close enough to it.
Why I'm recommending this piece: Because for all I love the Mir/San corner of fandom, it seems a grand majority of the authors who currently reside here are afraid to write intimacy for this pairing. Don't get me wrong - higher rated fic doesn't automatically mean greatness...and, after all, I also write mostly T-rated fic myself - but its refreshing and exciting to see someone else's take on the sort of intense, romantic, sexual bond these two form over the course of the canon story and beyond. This piece is set around mid-manga, after the end of the first anime, and it slips into the universe so well. It's beautiful, erotic, and mature all at once, definitely a rare trifecta to find in any fandom. There's a reason we like to call Scribe Figaro the GOD OF ALL MIR/SAN FANDOM, and he just proves his worthiness with this piece =)
Title: A Pillow of Twisted Grass
Author: Milareppa (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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Universe: Pre-canon
Genre: Drama
Rating: K+
Warning: A bit of violence
Pairing: Miroku/Sango
Word Length: 11,921
URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5633658/1/
Author's Summary: As two children struggle with the hardships life throws their way, they have no way of knowing how the physical distance separating them hides their shared destiny.
Why I'm recommending this piece: This is one of the most beautiful yet haunting pre-canon stories I've ever read. The author traces the childhoods of Miroku and Sango, finding and illuminating those key events which define them as characters, and shape the destinies we begin to glimpse as they're introduced into the manga. It's full of recurring motifs, drawing on the canon as well as Japanese culture, and the end result is something I'm just a sucker for - learning how and why characters find each other and what ultimately brings them together.
As always, you can also check out my recommendations post, which I try to update as I find wonderfully fantastic new fics worth sharing and squeeing over :D
Title: Steel and Salt
Author: Scribe Figaro
Universe: Canon
Genre: Romance
Rating: Y
Warning: Citrus
Pairing: Miroku/Sango
Word Length: 4,815
URL: http://www.mediaminer.org/fanfic/view_ch.php/164651/581058/
Author's Summary: Miroku recovers from the injuries sustained with the group in the Oni's Stomach. After awaking to Sango's vigil, the two decide to share some well-earned intimacy. Canon, or close enough to it.
Why I'm recommending this piece: Because for all I love the Mir/San corner of fandom, it seems a grand majority of the authors who currently reside here are afraid to write intimacy for this pairing. Don't get me wrong - higher rated fic doesn't automatically mean greatness...and, after all, I also write mostly T-rated fic myself - but its refreshing and exciting to see someone else's take on the sort of intense, romantic, sexual bond these two form over the course of the canon story and beyond. This piece is set around mid-manga, after the end of the first anime, and it slips into the universe so well. It's beautiful, erotic, and mature all at once, definitely a rare trifecta to find in any fandom. There's a reason we like to call Scribe Figaro the GOD OF ALL MIR/SAN FANDOM, and he just proves his worthiness with this piece =)
Title: A Pillow of Twisted Grass
Author: Milareppa (
zigsa)Universe: Pre-canon
Genre: Drama
Rating: K+
Warning: A bit of violence
Pairing: Miroku/Sango
Word Length: 11,921
URL: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5633658/1/
Author's Summary: As two children struggle with the hardships life throws their way, they have no way of knowing how the physical distance separating them hides their shared destiny.
Why I'm recommending this piece: This is one of the most beautiful yet haunting pre-canon stories I've ever read. The author traces the childhoods of Miroku and Sango, finding and illuminating those key events which define them as characters, and shape the destinies we begin to glimpse as they're introduced into the manga. It's full of recurring motifs, drawing on the canon as well as Japanese culture, and the end result is something I'm just a sucker for - learning how and why characters find each other and what ultimately brings them together.
As always, you can also check out my recommendations post, which I try to update as I find wonderfully fantastic new fics worth sharing and squeeing over :D
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I just read over your rec list again.
I cannot, and will not ever be so organized. Sigh. I definitely admire it, though.
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I considered it - but apparently that's where a lot of people went to school after the last economic downturn, and let's face it - libraries aren't exactly flush with new jobs :P But if my dream was always to live in a library, you know working in one isn't far behind...:P
I cannot, and will not ever be so organized. Sigh. I definitely admire it, though.
>.>
<.<
I may or may not currently be working on a pro!fic romance genre rec list which is about twice as complicated...but definitely worth it :D
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I'm always happiest surrounded by books. Hubby and I are wracking our brains out trying to figure out where we can put one more book case...that would be our 8th....I keep saying I'm going to do a proper catalog of them; I have software that can do it, and I can even get most of the pertinant info off the Library of Congress' site, but I haven't gotten a round tuit yet. Ah well.
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Me, too - I enjoy ordering things and making systems efficient. I think that's why I like my current job so much, because if ever there was a need/place for organization, it's a busy-ass research lab, LOL :P
I'm always happiest surrounded by books.
Me, too.
I never thought of having a catalog for my books (which I still need to take pictures of, I realize), but I'm sure I could whip up a spreadsheet or something fairly easily. I only tend to buy what I absolutely want to own, so I have a good idea of what I have already, if that makes any sense :P
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The purpose of the catalog really wouldn't be for the titles. It would be so I could do key word searches. Sometimes I forget which fact came out of which book, especially in history texts that are collections of articles by different writers.
Not counting all the little crafting books, which tend to be slender, I suspect we're easily pushing at least 2000 volumes, not counting my collection of digital books. I'm kind of scared to count. After a while, it gets hard to remember which book what fact was in. The marc software libraries use really is designed to help cross reference better. I like it, having used it.
But don't know if I'll ever really get around to doing it.
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o.O Talk about a full-time job! Even I'm not quite that intense in my leisure activities...
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Oooh! Oooh! Me, Mr. Kotter! Me! I want to see it! ^_~
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