YA rec

[out_there]

happyminion? I'm pointing this out to you, and hoping you'll pass it on to the other YA fans reading your LJ. Two Gentlemen of Rawley *rocks*.

It's long, and involving, and yeah, you want to have a few hours spare so you can totally indulge, but I loved it. I don't want to spoil plot, but there's Shakespeare and the YA group, and slash that made me happy. What I really love is that it's an ensemble piece that does a good job of capturing Will, Sean, Scout, Bella, Jake, Hamilton, Ryder and Finn. (And Henry, it does a good job of capturing that odd young-old soul, but he's from Dawson's Creek, not YA). It's not easy to really capture that overall feel, and this fic does so.

Of course, the plot is a little contrived, and it's not exactly *realistic*, but neither is the show, and I still sat back and enjoyed it for the fun romp it was. But, I have to admit, that I didn't quite expect the end when it came. Plus, there's a snide little crack at Dawson's Creek, and it features one of my bulletproof kinks, that odd innocence and confusion of teens making-out. *g*

Some of my favourite lines?

Will turned to Ryder. "You're pathetic, Ryder," he said with disgust. "Do you really get your kicks out of torturing freshman?"

Still cool, Ryder blew out another cloud. "No. That was just the bonus prize today. You know I prefer bigger fish." He glanced from Will to Henry. "Found yourself a new boytoy, Krudski? What will the senator's son say? Or is he off trying to win the Dean's daughter away from Batgirl?"

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"Which is so bogus," Hamilton threw in. "Proteus is just trying to convince himself he has, like, higher reasons for doing the wrong thing. Further down he claims that loving yourself is more important than friendship, which is just total sh-- uh, crap. He knows what he should do but he's going to do what he wants to do. I mean," the Dean's son sat forward, "if you're going to do the bad thing anyway, at least be honest with yourself about it." He jerked his head across the room. "Like Ryder."

"Ta to you too, love," Ryder blew him a facetious kiss. "I think he should just shag both of them and be done with it. A charming little threesome, don't you think? Or maybe he should just get off the denial express and admit it's really Valentine's well-stuffed codpiece he's hot for. He's just using Silvia as a substitute." Then his eyes canted toward Will. "Though in this instance--"

(Ummm... yes, I just realised both quotes featured Ryder. What can I say? He's the guy you love to hate. *g*)

ETA: And I love this icon soooo much!

ETA2: Spent like half an hour trying to fix the LJ codes which went shockingly wrong. You know what had happened? I wrote "lj-user" instead of "lj user". Man, LJ's just being petty. *g*

Comments

[oxoniensis.livejournal.com]

Yay, I've been after some decent YA fic. I found one long series but it was pretty awful, and among the other stories I found only one was readable!

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[out-there.livejournal.com]

There's three other goods one I rec'ed to Wendi in the last couple of days... somewhere in a comment to one of her posts about YA.

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[oxoniensis.livejournal.com]

I'll track them down. Any chance there was some Will/Scout or Will/Sean slash in the mix? If not, and if you find any good stuff, let me know! *smooches*

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[out-there.livejournal.com]

The one mentioned in my post above is Henry/Will and Sean/Will. One of the one's recced (Exceeding expectations) is a Scout/Will fic set just after the series end.