Reccing from the SOUL, I tell you.

[ceebee_eebee]

Holy fucking shit. I was just going back through a bunch of calufrax recs that I'd missed and I came across a story that has blown my mind. Blown my friggin' MIND. The original rec can be found here but I feel the need to rec it again because I love it more than I have loved any story in a long, long time. And considering how much fic I read and how incredibly awesome so much of it is, that is REALLLLLLY saying something. I'm not even sure what it is about this story that has killed my brain, but holy crap.

It's about Ian and Barbara after they make it home and it's nothing like what canon and fanon say their post-TARDIS life was like. It's a million times better and a million times worse in ways that are so utterly, UTTERLY in line with who I believe they were and who they had become that I was actually in tears reading it. It was like discovering a truth I hadn't even known I was looking for.

Am I being super dramatic? Yeah, I know I am. And who knows if anyone else will even enjoy the story. All I know is that I feel crazily moved from having read it and it has made me fall more in love with Ian and Barbara than I'd ever thought possible.

So, go read The Nooks of Soho by VMG. Even if you're just curious about what could make me go all swoony like this. ;-)

Comments

[livii.livejournal.com]

Oh, I did read the end, but I had to quick-skim to get there. And I do love that part of the ending - that they are together - but there's so much unloveliness before that that it really, really turned me off. Alas. :(

[elyssadc.livejournal.com]

Oh well. It happens. But at least we can agree that Benton getting the girl is the height of awesomeness. ;-)

[livii.livejournal.com]

It certainly is!

And I was thinking, too - I mean, most fics I don't like are cos they're boring, or badly-written, or what not. To have a strong reaction to a fic like I did with this one really says something good about the author. :)