A Rec, A Rec, My Fandom for a Rec!!!

[m31andy]

So yesterday was both the gig at the We Make Craft Fair and also the annual Professionals Christmas meet-up. The gig went well enough, and the meet-up was much fun. I finally got to put some faces to names (meeting the most wonderful byslantedlight and also the incredibly cool erushi). As is turning out to be inevitable, erushi and I ended up talking to a lovely girl about Life on Mars and promised to write down some recs on my journal for her.

So, especially for foxcat74, I would love to see your recs for someone who has seen the first series only, but doesn't mind spoilers, is looking for nice, sweet* slash featuring Gene, or, you know, anything else that she might like in that vein. Especially anything on mystical origins of Gene (am a little stumped there). Under the cut is mine and erushi's first stab at this, but pretty, pretty please add to this if you can.

1. Where to find recommendations

First off, lifein1973 is where all the cool kids hang out and the most wonderful lozenger8 (who is also a prolific and fantastic writer) has run several recommendations events. The best one to start with is Recommendations for First Time Readers, the rest of the Rec posts can be found here and here.

Life on Mars has a monthly presence on crack_van (except this month, which is Small Fandom Month) and you can check out the recs on the Life on Mars tag

2. Other good places to start

elfinessy is where most of us started out. You can find a list of her fic here. Some of it's a bit on the violent side, and I'd avoid Polar if you're not into Rape!fic, but it's good stuff and all warned for.

lozenger8 is where a lot of us also started out. Her fic list is here, complete with summaries so you don't accidentally stumble over her serial killer!Sam fics! I would personally recommend:
Nine Things Gene Hunt Did Which Pissed Sam Off and One Way Sam Returned the Favour (gen)
Five Fantasies Sam Tyler Didn’t Live (gen)
Aggressive Male Affection (slash, Sam/Gene)
Inverse (slash, Sam/Gene)
Brace Yourself (Here Comes the Blade), (slash, but more like case-fic. Sam/Gene)

A list of all porn posted to lifein1973 can be found here. It's in order of pairing and Sam/Gene is by far the biggest category. But there's other Gene slash on the list.

severa's Slashers guide is a light-hearted look at the relationship between Sam and Gene. It's picture-heavy, which is a bonus in my book.

3. Individual recommendations - Mystical Gene

mikes_grrl wrote Say It Ain't So. I wouldn't really call it sweet (there's technically character death, but it's mystical, so don't let that put you off), but it's certainly good fun.

To be honest, all the mystical origin stuff I know is fairly dark. We're not always a happy bunch!

4. Individual recommendations - Slash

Obviously, it being a Pros Meet, it makes sense that you may have seen The Professionals (*g*) so bistokids and dorcas_gustine's Life on Mars / The Professionals crossovers are perfect. It's a trilogy.
1. One in Every Port (Sam/Bodie)
2. Meeting of Minds (Sam/Doyle)
3. Old Habits Die Hard (Bodie/Sam/Doyle, Sam/Gene)

dorsetgirl wrote one of the sweetest/hottest/funniest alleyway encounters in What Do Girls Do?, Sam/Gene

halotolerant wrote That Old Zen Paradox. Not so much sweet as raw and real. Absolutely gorgeous.

constance_b wrote London Calling, where Sam turns up in London

5. Individual recommendations – Other

If you like cats, walkerbaby's Sleuthing for Sammy is a fantastic little story.

draycevixen's Autogenesis series is, well. Crack of the highest order. And I'm not sure how you feel about man/car, but I would recommend this as being brilliant, hysterically funny and really lovely and sweet. Er, yeah. Gene/Tina.
1) Stock Car Sam, Gene, Cortina.
1a) Caprice
2) Cara Mia Gene, Sam/Cortina.
3) Automate Sam/Gene/Cortina.
4) Auto-Erotic Sam, Gene, Cortina
5) Autocratrix
6) Molto Carino
7) To Beep, Perchance to Dream
To My Bronze Lady a rif on Shakespeare's sonnets.
One Guy Named Moe Tina/Mobile phone.

culf's The Tale of Princess Gladys is a lovely fairy-tale with dragons and knights and stroppy princesses (oh my!), also Sam/Gene.

dakfinv writes long, angsty fic and all of it is utterly brilliant. But she also writes nice stuff as well (sometimes). Check out the incredibly sweet Sam and the Sheep.

How We Smashed Johari's Window by halotolerant is a nice long, fairly angsty, 'but it all turns out all right in the end' fic. (it also has a sneaky bit of Pros in it…)

I know there's lots more out there, including a couple of, well, mystical CID fics. Any help would be appreciated!!!

* Please note, in this context, sweet means no rent-boys, evil!Chris, Stockholm Syndrome, serial killers or character death. There's plenty of time for indoctrination later…

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[m31andy.livejournal.com]

*bwah* And I don't doubt that there will be at all.

(Actually, I'm quite surprised there's not been any Life on Mars / Devil's Whore cross-overs as yet...)