I'm evidently an enabler, plus some meta

[foxxcub]

Um, this is quite possibly the best post ever, in which I kinda sorta write kid!fic and/or prove that I am incapable of writing in a fandom without somehow writing my OTPs as teenagers. AND THEN MY MADNESS SPREADS. \o/

I'm in an extremely odd mood right now, as I'm alternating between said madness and reading synecdochic's Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose. Which basically means I'm alternating between cooing with fangirl glee and bawling my eyes out. And honestly, I never thought I'd be wrecked by SGA fic, not like the way Oz fic wrecks me. Never. Gah.

But I guess every fandom has those stories that just feel so damn real that you have to take intermissions from reading in order to compose yourself from either weeping all over the place and frying your motherboard, or dying from pure, unadulterated love.

I'm curious about what fics break people, regardless of fandom. What is it about the fic that devastates you? Do all breaky fics have to have a character death, or a severe break-up (romantic or otherwise), or post-canon, melancholy tone? For me, the answer, for the most part, is yes, because as much as we love to lose ourselves in fic and the escapism it provides, sometimes the greatest joy comes from the ache of reality that the characters portray. I'm not saying breaky fics can't have hope or happy endings, but it's always that moment where your heart clutches in that good-yet-painful way that makes you realize you're being broken. And you love every moment. (At least I do. *g*)

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[anachronistics.livejournal.com]

"Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose" has got to be my favourite fic in perhaps any fandom. Every few months or so I find myself thinking about it again, and I always mean to rec it but I don't think I ever have. It's just so perfect in every way, that story, and utterly devestating. Fic hardly ever makes me cry but I remember that one did.

[foxxcub.livejournal.com]

I read the DVD commentary today, and it makes the fic ten times better, if that's even possible! I'm still at the stage where I can't talk about certain scenes without tearing up; it's truly the little details that kill me in the end, like Rodney leaving the box of tissues on the shelf behind the seat of the girl who always cries in his seminar class. I realize that canon!Rodney is nowhere near as flushed out or complex as synecdochic writes him here, but it nonetheless makes me love him as a character so very, very much.