1 House/Wilson, 1 House/Cameron

[merrymeerkat]

My First Official Rec Ever: Anger Management
Author: moonlash (countesschiana@ yahoo.com)
Warnings: General darkness, adult themes, House/Wilson pre-slash.
Why you should go read it right now: Excellent speculation and insight into what makes Wilson tick, and what ticks him off. Be warned, though, this story will put you through an emotional meat

Comments

[princessdoe]

"Anger Management" is so good it gives me shivers. Wilson is so mild and lovable on the surface that a lot of time in fanfic he isn't drawn with any other qualities. His character has a great many other possibilities, and Moonlash's writing is so strong that I can see her idea of Wilson very clearly; all that sublimation, the buried anger and cankered violence beneath the everyday crust of sugar, and then the heavy bag.

[katakombs]

I liked "Anger Management", the pain and frustration came through. Wilson seems so nice most of the time, there have to be hidden depths that House relates to. Definitely a good fic to read.

While Contrast was interesting and elements of it worked nicely, there is much better H/C fic out there. It's a decent effort but too disjointed; certain notes are hit and hit well but it's without the melody holding it together. And Cameron is much too high school, I just wanted to slap her for being silly (and I'm a Cameron fan). House is better written, maybe because it's her POV, but he doesn't make much sense in his actions. It works if you need an H/C fix, but not if you're looking for something well-written on it's own merits.

Her heart was saturated in deep-blue pain and she knew it was being clenched between his pianists' fingers.
Gregory's lips were saturated in deep-red angst -- she wanted to kiss them until they bled white.
There's a bad Harlequin romance waiting for those lines.

[katakombs]

For the record, I think the House/Cameron fic you write is ten times better than this one. You should recommend some of your own next time, or get someone else to.

[merrymeerkat]

Mmm. OK. I am going to be brutally honest here: I want to keep a 1 to 1 rec ratio for the major ships, with the minor ships thrown in when I see something I like. The problem is, most of the H/C fic out there can't hold a candle to Contrast, and *definitely* can't compete with stories like Side Effects and Anger Management. I see your point about Cameron being somewhat "high school"- but the thing is, at times she does act it. The other problem with it (and I am guilty of this myself; as much as I like to think I was at the front end of the trend, I knew it was going to be one) is that 99.9999999% of H/C fic falls into the category of "Cameron is injured in some way and House realizes his feelings." Now, that's not to say there's not a good story to be told in that. I've read a lot of them and I like them, but recc'ing them seems pointless because, well, if you've read one

[katakombs]

I suspected this was going to happen, there isn't a way to talk about fanfic like we talk about standard literature because fanfic is written by people who have fun writing and shouldn't be held to the same standards as professional writers. I thought I'd give it a try though since that seemed to be the expectation of the site, at least I thought it was.

I don't have a problem with your 1 to 1 rec ratio, (although this is the only non H/W ship story here and I wasn't expecting a slash site). It's really the quality of the writing itself I have problems with. It has some good ideas but I didn't like the writing style of this story because I thought it was too overblown and purple prose. I really liked which was marvelous and violent and explosive and all the things she couldn't be because it was very descriptive and I think does apply to Cameron well but It was wonderful. It was the basis of her entire existance -- and the fact that Gregory always remained the same was a part of it. just made me cringe. Life is only like that