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crack_van this month, and I thought I'd crosspost them here, too, though most of these I think I've already recced in my journal. It's been awhile, though.
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Hi all. I'm driving the crack_van for the Fast and the Furious series this month. I was waiting to rec anything until I finished an updated fandom overview (this overview is really useful, but there's been a fourth movie since it was written), but it is taking longer than I expected. Instead, I will start reccing stories, and I'll put up the fandom overview when I get a chance.
In short, I love the Fast and the Furious series because it deals with created families, loyalty, love, friendship, and an evolving sense of self all wrapped up in shiny, fast cars and super hot characters. Good times. Mostly, I love the different ways families are created, the way they hurt each other and help each other, the way they're filled with love and hate.
A huge part of the fandom is mostly interested in boy slash, but my interests lean toward girl slash, gen, and het, so my recommendations will echo that interest. (I'm also a big fan of crossovers, so look for those on the appropriate day.)
For my first rec, a story that so very well encompasses family it fills me with emotion every time I read it.
Fandom: FAST AND THE FURIOUS SERIES
Pairing: Gen, Letty and Mia
Length: approximately 3,000 words
Author on LJ:turnonmyheels
Author Website: Fic Masterlist
Why this must be read:
"Gravity" encompasses so much of what I love about The Fast and the Furious in general and Letty and Mia in particular. It's a lovely story about families, born and created, and the way your family can hurt you even while trying to take care of you, and how loss can rock a family to the core without actually destroying it.
It's Letty trying to find a place for herself, looking outside her birth family for the love and companionship she needs, not because she's abused or neglected but because there simply isn't enough time in the day to work and keep food on the table and a roof over her head and still be everything she needs.
It's Letty and Mia and everyone else, the Torettos and all the friends Dominic gathers, the way they create a family together, all of them, the way they pitch in when they're needed, and take over when life gets to be too much, the way they help out even when no one really knows what to do.
It's family, messy and loving and complicated, overwhelming sometimes but also exactly what is needed.
Letty and Mia are the point of view characters, in two different sections, but "Gravity" isn't just about them, it creates the women of their world and adds depth to their families. These people are flawed and strong, trying hard to do what's right and sometimes failing, but still they pull each other together to keep their world alive.
And throughout everything are the cars, from actual toy cars to cars treated as toys, hot and dangerous and seductive, the frame of their lives.
"Gravity" by Turnonmyheels
crack_van this month, and I thought I'd crosspost them here, too, though most of these I think I've already recced in my journal. It's been awhile, though.---
Hi all. I'm driving the crack_van for the Fast and the Furious series this month. I was waiting to rec anything until I finished an updated fandom overview (this overview is really useful, but there's been a fourth movie since it was written), but it is taking longer than I expected. Instead, I will start reccing stories, and I'll put up the fandom overview when I get a chance.
In short, I love the Fast and the Furious series because it deals with created families, loyalty, love, friendship, and an evolving sense of self all wrapped up in shiny, fast cars and super hot characters. Good times. Mostly, I love the different ways families are created, the way they hurt each other and help each other, the way they're filled with love and hate.
A huge part of the fandom is mostly interested in boy slash, but my interests lean toward girl slash, gen, and het, so my recommendations will echo that interest. (I'm also a big fan of crossovers, so look for those on the appropriate day.)
For my first rec, a story that so very well encompasses family it fills me with emotion every time I read it.
Fandom: FAST AND THE FURIOUS SERIES
Pairing: Gen, Letty and Mia
Length: approximately 3,000 words
Author on LJ:
turnonmyheelsAuthor Website: Fic Masterlist
Why this must be read:
"Gravity" encompasses so much of what I love about The Fast and the Furious in general and Letty and Mia in particular. It's a lovely story about families, born and created, and the way your family can hurt you even while trying to take care of you, and how loss can rock a family to the core without actually destroying it.
It's Letty trying to find a place for herself, looking outside her birth family for the love and companionship she needs, not because she's abused or neglected but because there simply isn't enough time in the day to work and keep food on the table and a roof over her head and still be everything she needs.
It's Letty and Mia and everyone else, the Torettos and all the friends Dominic gathers, the way they create a family together, all of them, the way they pitch in when they're needed, and take over when life gets to be too much, the way they help out even when no one really knows what to do.
It's family, messy and loving and complicated, overwhelming sometimes but also exactly what is needed.
Letty and Mia are the point of view characters, in two different sections, but "Gravity" isn't just about them, it creates the women of their world and adds depth to their families. These people are flawed and strong, trying hard to do what's right and sometimes failing, but still they pull each other together to keep their world alive.
And throughout everything are the cars, from actual toy cars to cars treated as toys, hot and dangerous and seductive, the frame of their lives.
