The joy of new fandoms...

[graculus]

For some unknown reason, recently I've been driven to read fic in two new fandoms: Without a Trace and CSI. And here, dear readers, are my initial thoughts on the two...

Without a Trace - so, nobody's writing fic in this fandom that isn't just a couple of pages of mostly smut?

I can see the eye candy aspect between Danny and Martin (and am seriously not arguing with it!) but we seem to be missing the lengthy angst-ridden first time stories where they're dealing with their sexuality issues and the consequences of being gay and working for the FBI while in the middle of a case or two. Or perhaps I'm just not finding those...

CSI - who are these people in the fic and why aren't they on the show instead of the ciphers who are?

Who decided Nick was going to be the whiny bottom boy and heavens, how did anyone come to the conclusion that Gil Grissom was hung like a donkey? And don't get me started on the Nick/Warrick/Gil threesomes fics. The mind boggles.

Oh, and Sara? I could see the harpy characterisation in the slash fic coming *way* down the track when the unsubtle hero worship started popping up on the show.


The common denominator for both shows seems to be zero chemistry between the m/f couples that they're obviously pushing. Malone/whatsername in WAT, I think it's kind of scuzzy pushing a relationship that makes your main character into an adulterer and Grissom is just so not doing it with *anyone* who's still alive.

Comments

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Don't know if you've checked out crack_van yet but CSI recs are here (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=crack_van&keyword=CSI+Fanfic+Recs&filter=all) and WaT recs are here (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=crack_van&keyword=Without+A+Trace+Fanfic+Recs&filter=all).

There's also some CSI femslash over at saffic IIRC.

There are also sections for both fandoms over at Silverlake" (http://www.imjustsayin.net/silverlake/) but I don't recognise any of the author names so I can't tell you if any of them are likely to be any good.

Gina (procrastinating, can you tell?)

[graculus.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid femslash doesn't do much for me, but I'll check the others out - thanks! :)

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

I thought that was the case, but I was being completist ;-)

Gina

[temaris.livejournal.com]

Which just goes to show that badfic moves at something in excess of the speed of light. No matter how recent the fandom, the badfic is right there waiting for you.

Like dark matter, the goodfic has to be sought out with specialised instrumentation, and there are someobservers who believe it does not exist at all.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying it's badfic, it's just not-quite-what-I'm-looking-for-in-any-fandom fic. ;)