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Mar. 15th, 2003 03:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockI've been thinking a lot about Farscape recently, as its nearing its final episode. I've also been thinking about Farscape fic-- something I've never had great desire to read. I've read a few ficlets or vignettes that other people might have rec'd, but for the most part I've never felt the need. It's like-- the show satisfies me completely, so that I don't have to go looking for other stories elsewhere.
But I was thinking, and I realized that I'd like to read some FS fanfic that features outside points of view about Crichton and Moya's crew. How do the aliens, the ones they met or the ones they haven't, think about the main characters? Over the show we've seen that the reputation of John and his friends has spread very far, and that havoc & chaos are things commonly attached to his name.
Other fandoms have fics like this-- where a walk-on character or imaginary casting extra observes the characters from the sidelines, and the reader gets a peak into how the rest of that world views the insanity of the main characters. Buffyfic does this with Sunnydale residents. Ranma 1/2 fic does this with Nerima residents, etc etc.
So... here's my question. Do any of the fic readers on LJ know of any good Farscape fics that do this? That are written from a sort of outsider's perspective, or that deal with how the rest of the galaxy views the crew, or John, or humanity?
But I was thinking, and I realized that I'd like to read some FS fanfic that features outside points of view about Crichton and Moya's crew. How do the aliens, the ones they met or the ones they haven't, think about the main characters? Over the show we've seen that the reputation of John and his friends has spread very far, and that havoc & chaos are things commonly attached to his name.
Other fandoms have fics like this-- where a walk-on character or imaginary casting extra observes the characters from the sidelines, and the reader gets a peak into how the rest of that world views the insanity of the main characters. Buffyfic does this with Sunnydale residents. Ranma 1/2 fic does this with Nerima residents, etc etc.
So... here's my question. Do any of the fic readers on LJ know of any good Farscape fics that do this? That are written from a sort of outsider's perspective, or that deal with how the rest of the galaxy views the crew, or John, or humanity?
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Date: 2003-03-18 07:08 pm (UTC)From a Collateral Damage challenge after the S3 finale:
Monsters in the Closet by Deneba
http://www.shriftweb.org/leviathan/archive/3/monstersin.html
Doesn't actually deal with a view of Moya's crew, but it shows you the consequences. Yeow.
The Cutting Truth by analise
http://myscape.50megs.com/cuttingtruth.txt
is a fabulous outside POV, though set before the crew really gained their reputation.
The Money-Changer's Tale by cofax
http://mouldiwarps.shriftweb.org/stories/Moneychanger.txt
sounds like what you're looking for, even though it's a lot more surprising than that.
Bad Reputation by huzzlewhat
http://www.shriftweb.org/leviathan/archive/1/badreputation.html
is more of a...comic take on things.
(huzzlewhat also takes on another outside pov in Disruption - http://www.shriftweb.org/leviathan/archive/1/disruption.html )
In the Country Of by kernezelda is...aiiiee
http://www.shriftweb.org/leviathan/archive/4/inthe.html
How Sleep the Dead by KodiakkeMax
http://www.shriftweb.org/leviathan/archive/2/howsleep.html
...frelling brilliant.
Give a Monkey a Brain... by David Hearne
http://www.shriftweb.org/leviathan/archive/4/givea.html
Post-Terra Firma. Bwahahaha.
All the Comforts by Eve11
http://www.shriftweb.org/leviathan/archive/1/allthe.html
Ouch. More fic about how others are affected by the crew.
Torch by Andraste
http://www.shriftweb.org/leviathan/archive/1/torch.html
remember Peacekeeper Barbie? Ever wonder what happened to her when the Gammak Base went BOOM?
On the Naming of Names by cofax
http://www.shriftweb.org/leviathan/archive/2/onthe.html
alternately, how does the crew affect each other?
And, um, I wrote an outside POV.
Nothing Lasts Forever: http://skywithoutstars.net/candles/fanfic/nothinglasts.txt
Anyway. That's only going through about half the Leviathan archive.
Really. There's some hugely excellent Farscape fic out there.
Also: Hee. Yes, I made this icon. *g*