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ariadnes_string I admit it: I've been straying into the new STXI fanfic. I haven't wandered very far, but I did really like this story. It's been deservedly recc'd all over the place, but if you haven't seen it, give it a try, if you're reading reboot fic and don't mind Kirk/McCoy:
sealed by a fragile touch byclassics_geek (a pretty soft R)
It's a time-dilation fic: McCoy gets caught on one side of an experiment gone wrong, and spends seven months alone on a desert planet, while only seven days pass for Kirk on the Enterprise. What happens when they are reunited? What damage has their different experience of time done to their relationship?
It's very skillfully and poignantly rendered, and you can see from the description why it made me think of SPN, which has played a couple of variations on the idea of time differential or time dilation, in it's non-scifi way: in "Mystery Spot," and in S4's revelation that Dean has lived 40 years in Hell while Sam only experienced four months on earth.
But, okay, I'll just say it, I've never read a particularly satisfying story about what the difference in lived time has meant to the Bros. Winchester. Maybe because both separations seemed to be about death, not time (again: not scifi, so there's none of that "but he's trapped on the other side of the temporal rift, Jim!" hooha to fall back on). Maybe because there hasn't been much mutual cognizance of the difference (did Sam ever tell Dean about those extra six months?).
Now, I'm one of those people who like the first half of MS much better than the second half, so there might be a great fic out there I haven't read. And I've seen several fics and metas lately that mention the now 44-year age difference between Sam and Dean, but I'm waiting for story that takes the bull by the horns, so to speak.
Got any SPN time differential recs for me?
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classics_geek (a pretty soft R)It's a time-dilation fic: McCoy gets caught on one side of an experiment gone wrong, and spends seven months alone on a desert planet, while only seven days pass for Kirk on the Enterprise. What happens when they are reunited? What damage has their different experience of time done to their relationship?
It's very skillfully and poignantly rendered, and you can see from the description why it made me think of SPN, which has played a couple of variations on the idea of time differential or time dilation, in it's non-scifi way: in "Mystery Spot," and in S4's revelation that Dean has lived 40 years in Hell while Sam only experienced four months on earth.
But, okay, I'll just say it, I've never read a particularly satisfying story about what the difference in lived time has meant to the Bros. Winchester. Maybe because both separations seemed to be about death, not time (again: not scifi, so there's none of that "but he's trapped on the other side of the temporal rift, Jim!" hooha to fall back on). Maybe because there hasn't been much mutual cognizance of the difference (did Sam ever tell Dean about those extra six months?).
Now, I'm one of those people who like the first half of MS much better than the second half, so there might be a great fic out there I haven't read. And I've seen several fics and metas lately that mention the now 44-year age difference between Sam and Dean, but I'm waiting for story that takes the bull by the horns, so to speak.
Got any SPN time differential recs for me?
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Date: 2009-06-23 11:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-06-24 02:23 am (UTC)Nothing so far--I'll let you know if something turns up--