Dusty Fans

Summer must be receding, because I turned off my ceiling fan for what must be the first time in months. 



You can tell which way the fan spins by the dust on it!  :P  Perhaps time for some cleaning.

Speaking of dusty fandoms, sorry, couldn't resist, here are some recs!

The only good Bokurano fanfic I've found so far:

Those Left Behind
A collection of short fics focusing on characters who are left behind and how they deal with the death of each pilot. 

Based on the manga for the most part, woo!  \o/  Really well-written.

Also, thanks to Crisis Core, I've jumped feet-first back into the FFVII fandom.  It surprisingly hasn't changed much, but I found some new gems:

Reduced to Specimens
Based on what happened after the Nibelheim incident. Sephiroth is dead but there are two survivors. Hojo has found himself some new subjects. Centres mainly around Zack and Cloud.

If you ever wanted some more detail about those four years in the lab, this is the place to go.  Minor deviations from canon aside, it's spectacularly detailed, well-written, and vivid enough to make your skin crawl.  Given the subject matter, rather tortorous and angsty - steer clear if you have a weak stomach for that sort of thing.  It has single-handedly filled my craving for more detail about those all-so important years in the storyline.

Also, it's gen!  \o/  The shock!  So few good gen fics kicking around (though I'm hardly one to be pointing fingers).

Green Dreams
Cloud has suffered and asked for forgiveness, but Aeris knows she alone cannot give him it. He must find that forgiveness and peace where it began, back at SOLDIER. SephirothxCloud

One of my guilty pleasures in fandom are these 'going back in time' sorts of stories.  There are quite a few of these in the FFVII fandom; this is one of the better ones (if you know of some other good ones please do recommend them to me).  I'd grown nauseous of Sephiroth/Cloud - it is very easy to overdose on it, due to the popularity of the pairing and the subsequent glut of badfic to accompany it - but this one made me like it again.

Yay for long weekends!