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Lieutenant

Lieutenant

A new chapter of Walking on Water is up!  And the author's got the rest of it all outlined and plotted out up until the conclusion, so I'm excited about that.  And along the same Captain/Duckling theme, the next chapter of Beyond the Horizon is up too. Wahey!

 

Also, for anyone else who is new, or signing up on Tumblr, I'm prairiepirate.  It's CS all day every day on my page, with some baseball, OneRepublic, and horses thrown in - ha!  Hope to see ya over there :-)

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Rumsy4
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So, another update. I decide to re-list Regina as a character, and added warnings in block letters that this story was not Regina-friendly. Her fans really are militant! lol But I'm not going to give

sharky
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I posted this on my tumblr but figured I would mention it here too. I deleted Man Advantage. I took the story, made some MAJOR MAJOR edits and rewrites, and I submitted it as an original manuscript fo

Arandil
Arandil

If you like Hook (which you know I do), this is an awesome story. Well written, in character, and completely believable. https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10069971/1/An-Awfully-Big-Adventure Starts in S2

OnceUponAJen

OnceUponAJen

I've looked at it, but I'm not one for explicit sex scenes in fiction. When it comes right down to it, it's all just body parts at that point. I tend to love this pairing in many universes AU or no, though! With fanfic I have to feel that the characters are still THEM, and that you couldn't just insert random male/female characters into the story and it would still be the same story. The characters do seem a bit random male/female at this point to me, at least.

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sharky

sharky

I'm digging it! But I totally see where you're coming from. AU is hard as both a writer and reader because you have to balance between keeping them in character while having them in a very uncharacteristic setting. I'm also really liking the Trouble with Faking It because I think it does a good job with that balance.

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OnceUponAJen

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I'm digging it! But I totally see where you're coming from. AU is hard as both a writer and reader because you have to balance between keeping them in character while having them in a very uncharacteristic setting. I'm also really liking the Trouble with Faking It because I think it does a good job with that balance.

The author of Trouble has done some very good stories! My other favorite is "A Change in the Wind."

Also, is it just me but whenever I see that Killian has both hands or I see Liam in a fic, there's always the sense of waiting for the other shoe to drop in the story :) It's like the Angel of Death is hovering.

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Rumsy4

Rumsy4

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I am enjoying Poem Without Words, but it's more PWP than romance. Also, I must be the only person who finds "Faking it" rather tedious. :-p I'm not feeling either of those fics as proper Killian/Emma AUs.

 

Counting Down the Days by Montana-Rosalie is my new favorite WIP. 

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daxx

daxx

Here's a few from my rec list Dianthus.

Troubled Actor and fake girlfriend, modern AU- brilliant!

The trouble with faking it

http://archiveofourown.org/works/3878953/chapters/8670700

Modern AU, horse ranch

Warm nights and firelight

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11025589/1/Warm-Nights-Firelight

Canon divergent

Separate Lives, starts slow but gets so good and angsty

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11010202/1/Separate-Lives

Modern AU, must read all ms genevieves stuff

Walking in a straight line

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10957085/1/Walking-in-a-Straight-Line

Lt duckling

Turning page

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11013561/1/Turning-Page

Canon divergent

Today's memory

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10856601/1/Today-s-Memory

Canon divergent 

The Promise

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10557633/1/The-Promise

Modern AU 

More than a memory

http://archiveofourown.org/works/3529019/chapters/7763258

Cursed Killian 

Until the fog lifts

http://archiveofourown.org/works/3448121/chapters/7561955

Modern AU 

How many chances, before I get it right

http://archiveofourown.org/works/3233114/chapters/7040900

Modern AU 

Where there's smoke there's fire

http://archiveofourown.org/works/3133193/chapters/6791141

Lt duckling

Deserted

http://archiveofourown.org/works/3400004/chapters/7442348

Modern AU 

Man advantage

http://archiveofourown.org/works/3428774/chapters/7513424

Modern AU 

Lost souls and rabbit holes

http://archiveofourown.org/works/3227342/chapters/7027034

Alternate reality

Friendly shores

http://archiveofourown.org/works/3345107/chapters/7317950

Canon divergent 

A portal through time

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9982989/1/A-Portal-Through-Time

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sharky

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That is an awesome list, daxx! Awesome! I would also recommend Poem Without Words. And I love AO3's filter and tag tools. You can get some good stuff you may have missed if you filter by kudos or if you want a specific theme like Neverland or smut or whatever.

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Faemonic

Faemonic

I am loving Splitting Heirs. It's got Killian as a Prince, and closer to Lieutenant Jones in personality. There's not much conflict, or frission. But the entire world is so well put together (David is Prince Consort, and Ingrid is a Dowager,) and the writing style has this sort of unemotive fairy tale fantasy flow without the flowers. It's great to read Liam Jones get some loving, too.

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daxx

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I am loving Splitting Heirs. It's got Killian as a Prince, and closer to Lieutenant Jones in personality. There's not much conflict, or frission. But the entire world is so well put together (David is Prince Consort, and Ingrid is a Dowager,) and the writing style has this sort of unemotive fairy tale fantasy flow without the flowers. It's great to read Liam Jones get some loving, too.

I am enjoying that one, but I haven't updated my rec list since I started it. I also need to add With this Ring, You're Going to Want to Remember This and Counting Down the Days.

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daxx

daxx

Ok, updated my Evernote, so here is the new stuff.

Modern AU/ fake marriage 

With This Ring

http://archiveofourown.org/works/4056379/chapters/9128056

Canon Divergent at Going Home

You're Going to Want to Remember This

http://archiveofourown.org/works/4127518/chapters/9304711

Prince Killian/ Emma

Splitting Heirs

http://archiveofourown.org/works/3973504/chapters/8915683

Modern AU

Never Tear us Apart

http://archiveofourown.org/works/3882520/chapters/8679754

Modern AU 

Helpless

http://archiveofourown.org/works/3938728/chapters/8826262

Modern AU/ timetravel

Counting Down the Days

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11290062/1/Counting-Down-the-Days

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sharky

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I posted this on my tumblr but figured I would mention it here too. I deleted Man Advantage. I took the story, made some MAJOR MAJOR edits and rewrites, and I submitted it as an original manuscript for publication. I'm a little scared about what I just did, but I want to see where this could go. But it's the only story I've deleted so the others are still up and I'm already planning another canon divergent fic before the season starts.

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Rumsy4

Rumsy4

I feel like I've read all the great to reasonably good CS fics, and am starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel with mediocre ones now. It seems that updates are not so frequent these days either. Whine whine whine...

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Rumsy4

Rumsy4

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Yay! I'm really enjoying The Wish You Make. Also Beyond the Horizon updated. I guess I whined prematurely... :-p

 

Yes--I read Counting Down the Days., It's one one of the most beautiful and heart-wrenching fics I have ever read! I also loved loved loved the author's previous story Open Your Eyes.

 

I also found a new CS fic called Dark Horse. Modern AU. It's very enjoyable, and the author has written separate outtakes from the PoV of other characters in the story as well. 

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Selina K

Selina K

I am loving Splitting Heirs. It's got Killian as a Prince, and closer to Lieutenant Jones in personality. There's not much conflict, or frission. But the entire world is so well put together (David is Prince Consort, and Ingrid is a Dowager,) and the writing style has this sort of unemotive fairy tale fantasy flow without the flowers. It's great to read Liam Jones get some loving, too.

 

i wound up reading this and liked everything about it except Emma.  I felt she was too teen angsty and not enough level headed cool or something.  it was a shame because I wound up just skimming the last few chapters after I really enjoyed the set up and world building in the first part.

 

I've discovered I read ff the same way I read published books.  I find a voice I like and then glom the entire backlist.  I've been reading through all of this authors work: A Change in the Wind (Complete) http://archiveofouro...g/works/3449285.  I'm not 100% convinced on the character voices but I think she comes close and I like the stories, so it works for me.  I may have to limit myself to just reading completes, because the serialized nature of WIP is kind of killing me, as I wait for the latest update on Faking It.

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Dianthus

Dianthus

I've told myself in the past to stop reading WIPs. Too many promising stories just end up abandoned. Also, it can be difficult for me to juggle too many stories at once. OTOH, I have no discipline (Hook would be very disappointed in me, I'm sure) so now I'm reading multiple WIPs and checking regularly for updates.

I also have stories that I make up to entertain myself on the road. In my head canon, I've outed Liam (in a positive way) and constructed a possible/plausible backstory for Killian that makes use of what little we've gotten about him on the show, but is mostly just speculation. There's also the one where Emma tells Killian about their oops baby (I used to work with a woman who got pregnant even with an IUD), and one with the two of them sitting down to watch BttF. He especially likes the bit with the Enchantment Under the Sea dance, so Emma gets him Dirty Dancing and Footloose. I think he'd enjoy Airplane, too. He wouldn't get all the refs, obvs, but the word play in the cockpit (i.e., What's our vector, Victor ) would amuse him, as well as the sight gags.

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Souris

Souris

I haven't read any fanfic in ages (haven't really had time), so I haven't been in this thread. Wow, sharky, that's great! GOOD LUCK!! I wish I would've read Man Advantage before you deleted it, though. 

 

I came across this story Dimples and All on Tumblr today and had a few minutes to kill, so I read it. Cora turns Hook into a 3-year-old in S2. It's really sweet and gave me all the feels. 

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OnceUponAJen

OnceUponAJen

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I found this one yesterday. The plot is good and there's lots of action.

Against the Current (Modern AU, Undercover Agent Emma, CEO/playboy Killian)

http://archiveofourown.org/works/3868771/chapters/8645422

I thought this one was sweet, so I'm putting it here:

When the Lie Becomes the Truth (Modern AU Fake Engagement)

http://archiveofourown.org/works/4472708

This one just made me laugh (in a good way):

The Nicest Thing (Modern AU, two TV writers working on a fairytale show)

http://archiveofourown.org/works/4475762

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daxx

daxx

It's funny, I used to sift through the fics on ao3 and ff but anymore I get enough recs from here, tumblr and new fics from the writers I follow in my inbox to keep me busy. I guess I should go take a look for someone new that maybe didn't get the recs.

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Rumsy4

Rumsy4

So many good fics from CS AU week! Posting a few links here:

 

Multichapter fics:

 

BK's new fic (yay!!!) Modern Fake Dating AU. https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11412038/1/Something-like-you-love-me 

 

Young Emma AU. http://archiveofourown.org/works/4427960/chapters/10061180

 

Single chapter fics:

 

Modern Lietutenant Ducking http://archiveofourown.org/works/4457072

 

Narnia AU http://archiveofourown.org/works/4447604

 

Modern AU http://i-know-how-you-kiss.tumblr.com/post/125139186243/an-i-will-not-be-following-the-guidelines-of-cs

 

Regency Vampires AU http://this-too-too-sullied-flesh.tumblr.com/post/125344349878/cs-au-week-day-4-another-time-cs-au-week-day-5

 

S4 season finale Canon Divergence. http://killians-dimples.tumblr.com/post/125179194882/cs-au-week-day-2-canon-divergence-instead-of-emma

 

Baby LD http://killians-dimples.tumblr.com/post/125081985673/cs-au-week-day-1-alternate-version-this

 

Darkness AU (really unique) http://this-too-too-sullied-flesh.tumblr.com/post/124810297231/i-believe-in-a-thing-called-love-by-the

 

EF Canon Divergence ficlet http://killians-dimples.tumblr.com/post/125282404598/cs-au-week-day-3-another-realm-emma-and-killian

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sharky

sharky

Thanks for that post, Rumsy! I'm dealing with a case of writer's block right now -- I thought for sure I had the perfect idea for a story but I just can't make it work. So I've been avoiding reading fanfic as well. I really need to get back to it.

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Dianthus

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Souris, on 01 Aug 2015 - 9:59 PM, said:

I haven't read any fanfic in ages (haven't really had time), so I haven't been in this thread. Wow, sharky, that's great! GOOD LUCK!! I wish I would've read Man Advantage before you deleted it, though. 

 

I came across this story Dimples and All on Tumblr today and had a few minutes to kill, so I read it. Cora turns Hook into a 3-year-old in S2. It's really sweet and gave me all the feels. 

Adorable Baby!Killian is adorable, but the execution of this story bugged me. For one thing, it hardly seems fair to suggest that Snow didn't know from deprivation. She had to leave her home and fend for herself while living on the run with a price on her head. She wasn't a little kid, but she didn't have it easy during that time in her life.

Considering what Cora did to Smee and random fisherman guy, she seems more inclined to animal transformation when someone gets in her way.

Why is it no one seems to take Hook at his word, re: always a gentleman? Low born/impoverished is just more sympathetic than noble, I guess.

I know that's a lot of negativity towards a cute, short, feel-good sort of story, but it very much runs counter to my personal head canon. For one thing, I would've made Killian a few years older (six is still totes cute). 

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Panopticon

Panopticon

I was primed to enjoy Dimples and All because I vastly prefer missing scenes and canon divergence over pure AUs where the characters are working in a widget factory or living on a starship or whatever. 

 

But I also thought the characterization was generally great. The author managed to write Regina in a basically positive way without annoying me, which I wasn't sure was entirely possible. I thought Emma's inner monologue was excellent as she sorted through her feelings about not having known Henry at that age, her baggage from her own rough childhood, and her wish to save little Killian versus her not-so-secret desire to get to know grown up Hook better. 

 

I found myself hoping the Charmings let him stay for dinner even though he wasn't three years old anymore. 

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Dianthus

Dianthus

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I liked the story well enough, despite my criticism (I'm a Virgo, it's what I do). I love the idea, and I've been spinning my own head canon version of Baby!Killian for a while now. I think the author could've had a bit more fun with it too. Captain Adorable the pint-sized pirate? Part of me wants to do my own take on this now (giving full credit to the other author, of course). I dunno. Is that even kosher?

 

As for dinner, I got the feeling his "Oh, bloody hell" was partly embarrassment and he left on that account. Still, it woulda been nice.

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