Fic Rec: Two Masters - Emily Veinglory (Man from Uncle)

[orockthro]

Hayyy kids! Taking a page out of scherwood 's book recently, I am going to start posting recs. I don't have a scheule or, frankly, even a plan. :) I just read a shit ton of fanfic, and want to share some of my favorites. Sometimes they'll be fic that are unequeled in writing, sometimes they'll be fic that just made me happy. It will be cross fandom and

Comments

[elmey]

I'm glad you're doing this!! I really love talking about good stories. I used to do extended reviews in my lj at the same time I did the crackvan recs and we got some good discussion going; but I've been lazy the last few years. It's so nice to have someone else do the heavy lifting and I can just kibitz ;)

I love this story. It's one of only a very very few first person Illya narratives that I find convincing--it is so hard to get his voice right. There's a delicacy in the writing, but Illya's voice isn't delicate, it's as you say, thoughtful and very analytical. And though the slash element plays a strong role, it's not a romance, we get a real sense of the forces pulling at Illya, the duty--and love that he feels towards his country. I thought this particular scene was wonderful too:

“I made my choice,” I said distantly. “It was a painful choice but not, in the end, a difficult one

[orockthro]

I didn't do as good a job as I'd have liked in bookmarking things when I first started voraciously eating my way through fic in this fandom. @__@ So it's going to be a, "shit I know I read something....and.... damn it" game for awhile. Also, a, "was this actually as good as I thought at the time??" game. I sometimes come out on the wrong side of that one. ;)

I'm glad you're into it though! It's really fun to talk about not just which fics are memorable, but why. Sometimes the reasons aren't logical, and then it's fun to parse out why we love them despite their flaws

[rusty_armour]

Oooooooh! Thanks for the fic recs/reviews! Both stories sound wonderfully intriguing! :-) I've been on a bit of an MFU kick again recently and have been looking for some good fic. I'll save these to my tablet using Instapaper.

[orockthro]

Yay! I've got a number of other fic to rec once I get off my butt and start writing about them and figuring out where I saved the links... There are some real gems out there, MFU and otherwise!
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