Public transportation fic recs

[sophia_sol]

When I posted Scenarios I mentioned maybe doing a set of PUBLIC TRANSIT fic recs. Here it is! Because it is a glorious trope, and all of the following are glorious examples of the trope at its best. (okay, so some of them don't fit the standard trope pattern EXACTLY, but they still involve public transit so WHATEVER I'm including them anyways BECAUSE I CAN)

(I'm not including airplanes in forms of public transit for the purpose of this recs-set because it's not something I thought to tag as being this, but upon reflection it kind of is. Please forgive this lapse on my part.)



Strangers on a Six Train, by eye_queue
SGA; Rodney/John; ~15k words
In which Rodney's a prof and John teaches yoga, and they meet on the subway when Rodney has a bit of a panic attack

By the End of April, by lavvyan
SGA; Rodney/John; ~10k words
In which Rodney's a prof and John is a firefighter and they meet in a subway accident

Things Change, My Dear, by longsufferingly
Supernatural RPF; Jared/Jensen; ~7k words for first fic, ~15k words for series
In which Jared is a single father, and meets Jensen at a bus stop

Lost Luggage and Lost Souls, by Nemo the Everbeing
Doctor Who; Seven & Ace; ~20k words
In which the Doctor and Ace find themselves in a hostage situation at a bus terminal

Say I'm The Only Bee In Your Bonnet, by laliandra
Inception; Arthur/Eames; ~2k words
In which Arthur and Eames take the same subway every day and share the newspaper and crosswords

All Manner of Wolves, by weatherfront
Inception; Arthur/Eames; ~4k words
In which Arthur and Eames meet by fucking on the subway in a dream

untitled, by quinara
BtVS; Dawn & Andrew; ~1k words
In which Andrew is asexual, and he and Dawn go on a train trip together and it totally isn't awkward, not even forced-bed-sharing

Strangers on a Train, by stele3
bandom/AI RPF; Gerard Way & Adam Lambert; <1k words
In which Gerard is doing his college experiment in drag, and sees a fabulous dude in a pink dress on the subway

On The Midtown Direct, by mistresscurvy
bandom; Frank/Gerard; 23k words
In which Gerard has a system for staking out seats on the train to keep from having to share, and Frank derails his system. (okay I'm playing favourites now. This one is totally my favourite of the fics in this recs-set)

crazy mad for him, by etben
bandom; Frank/Gerard; 7k words
In which Gerard has a crush on a dude he always sees on commute but is too awkward to say anything, and kind of becomes penpals with this awesome dude he meets on the missed-connections section of craigslist

Please Return To:, by cholera
bandom; Frank/Gerard; 3k words
In which Frank gets caught in a rain storm at the bus stop and a red-headed stranger lends him a poncho.

Comments

[calvinahobbes]

Yay moar recs \o/

I... think I might not know those two SGA AUs. What!

Bonus points: Kidfic! Crossdressing! Whee :D

[sophia_sol]

\o/

I have so many SGA AUs buried in my private bookmarks because they haven't been organized yet, you have no idea. I'm pretty sure I actually read every half-decent SGA AU that existed back when SGA was my primary fandom! (I really want to get them all properly organized and tagged so that I can include more of them in recs, buuuut I have more SGA bookmarked than I have bandom, and that's saying kind of a lot. Intimidating! The only reason I could include these two is because the rudimentary notes they happened to have included words like "train" and "subway" so when I did a search for those words across my bookmarks they showed up)

I always go for the bonus points! As many tropes as possible, amirite? :D

[justice_turtle]

Hee, you linked Lost Luggage! Is not Nemo_the_Everbeing THE BEST? (I seem to recall crediting them on a Sapphire & Steel drabble once because I couldn't have gotten Steel's voice right without, or some such.)

...I have no time to read any of these right now. Nor to answer any of the half-dozen comments of yours I have open in various tabs. I am, in fact, completely fried in my brainpan and trying to read LOTR from a researchy POV. And tiiiiiired. o_O

(More about LOTR research after finals. I have a bad habit of not finishing things I babble happily about. But it's for a 15-20 page research paper for English class and I have come up with THE BEST TOPIC OKAY. *zzzzzzzz*)

[sophia_sol]

Nemo_the_Everbeing is indeed awesome! Although I've only ever read two fics by them actually, and the other is Dresden Files.

Tiiiired isn't good! *hugs* I hope you get lots of sleep soon. And good luck with the LoTR research! What is your excellent topic? (when you get time, of course!)

[justice_turtle]

It's the geologic history of Middle-Earth! :D It wants narrowed down more than that (my teacher, who helped me come up with the topic, went O_O at the idea of narrowing it any further, but honestly it is a book-length topic once I get started) - I might wind up doing just Rohan and surrounding areas, because there's plenty of material for a 15-20 page paper in just Isengard, Rohan, and the Emyn Muil including the Rauros / Argonath area. Tolkien was startlingly thorough at the hard-science background of his story for a language scholar.

But for now I'm doing a read-through on the whole book, making notes. I've finished four chapters, and I've got five typed pages of book-quotes with notes like "check if silicic magma does the 'pools of fire' thing when not erupting or if this indicates more mafic magma". :-)

[sophia_sol]

Oh my god that is the nerdiest thing ever I love it SO MUCH. ♥___♥