The Vascillations of Fictional Desire

[tealin]

Does anyone have some recommendations for some good Snicket fanfic? I'm looking especially for something heavy on the VFD, with lots of intrigue and not so much kissing (though if the kissing is really important to the story I may be able to stomach it), and little things like plot structure, pacing, and keeping relatively close to canon in characters if not necessarily story points – so AU is cool, as long as it's true to the tone and characters.* In other words, anything goes plot-wise, but if they mess up Lemony or Jacques in any way, they're right out.

I would investigate on my own but I know the vast jungles of fanfic there are out there in cyberspace and I have neither the time nor the figurative stomach to hack through the bad stuff, so starting with something that comes highly recommended, I thought, would at least set me on my way ...

*Especially if it was written pre-Grim Grotto or by someone who wasn't too crazy about the last few books in the series. I am particular, aren't I?

11:39 pm
Having stumbled haltingly into the verges of the jungle, I realized that what I was looking for is basically VFD As Told By Joss Whedon. So, amending my parameters to include the possible: I would like something written by someone with a mental age over 18 that has a solid dramatic core and is not centred around a pairing. Does such a thing exist?

Comments

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Nah ... it'll be a long time before I'm ready to delve back into the Potterverse. The last few drawn-out years of the series ground all interest out of me, sapping anything intriguing out of my favourite characters or backstories (specifically Marauders-era) that might have held my attention. Whyyyy.

The thing about Lemony Snicket is that even though he seems to have frittered away the last three books, he didn't undermine everything that was hinted at before, nor was most of it explained, so there's this whole world of past (and present) intrigue and drama that has yet to be explored.

Surely someone talented has turned their pen in that direction ...

Someone?

Anyone?

[ledygrey.livejournal.com]

The one specifically I was thinking of revolved around Teddy Lupin starting at hogwarts

.. and that was a really fast reply, but I suppose the fact that I'm replying at 2:30 in the morning is equally indicative of .. something..

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

That we are both looking for something to do? :)

Yeah, stories of The Offspring interest me even less ... It doesn't help that the last chapter had me picturing them all as Chibi versions of their parents. [shudder]

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I should add that I was an avid follower of copperbadge's Legion of Ghosts and sydpad's Trains before they both sort of wandered off. But ... meh. I take a lot of convincing.

[ledygrey.livejournal.com]

I'm trying and failing to imagine a chibi-potterverse. eew. Here it is if you're interested http://humongousbighead.homestead.com/shiftsverse.html, but maybe it seemed a lot more interesting when I first read it because my other choice of reading at the time was cash/flow analysis or history of slavery in the west. double eew.

*shrug*. The stuff I refuse to read is LOTR fanfic, because the first one I tried reading was Legolas/Gimli, and the images in my head made me want to gouge my eyes out with a cocktail fork