Due South

[amalthia]

I finally had the chance to watch the Pilot...my opinion about this show is still up in the air, so I'm downloading episode 3 and 4. The good points...Fraser is kind of hot...Ray not so much but he has personality. I like the dog too.

bad points...it reminds me a lot of the early 90s...except when I was a kid the 90s didn't look that cheesy or maybe it did and I was too young to know any better.

So now that I know the basics of the show does anyone have any slash recs? I mean like the ultimate Due South story. Kind of equivelent to astolat's A Beautiful Lifetime Event and Transcendental. Or stories that make you want to throw off all your clothes and spend some quality time with a vibrator....um I'm kind of easy to please. OH!!! and are there actually any good darkfics in this genre?

Um I guess this request is a tall order...I already signed up to the Due South noticeboard on LJ and I think some of my favorite SGA writers wrote some Due South fiction (just need to figure out who) but it really wouldn't hurt to get a good direction to start in.

Comments

[amireal.livejournal.com]

Most of the best stories take place in seasons 3 and 4 for reasons that are a tad spoilery.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

Yup, I'd second that you really want to do RayK if you're looking for the fic.

Other than that, you'll find a lot of familiar names :-)

Ces has written some of my favorite DS fic here (http://trickster.org/speranza/stories.html). Most of them are interesting and a lot are amazing and many are quite different from one another. Chicago's Most Wanted, Eight Sessions, Kowalski is Bleeding are among my favorites.

Resonant was the first person I read in DS and her stuff (http://www.trickster.org/res/#ds) is good in any fandom as far as I'm concerned.

I like Kellie Matthews writing (http://kellie.mrks.org/fic/ds/duesouth.htm), though I think my favorite of hers is not DS at all but an actor Xover Talkes of the City/Hard Core Logo, Shadows Fade.

Hth has some good but at times fairly screwed up fic here (http://hth.gatefiction.com/duesouth.htm) (Sibylla ti theleis is one of my favorite ones)

Kat Allison's End of the Road (http://www.katallison.com/) is a post-series fic (there are tons of them), and it one of the best stories I will never ever reread it breaks your heart too many different ways :-)

other than that, I'm a huge AU fan, and if you're into that, give Dira Sudis's Hawks and Hands (http://dira.ficlaundering.com/ds/hockey/) a try.


But, for all of these it might be good to at least have seen a few Kowalsi eps to know hoe he looks like and how he interacts with Fraser...

[amalthia]

thank you so much for this list. I'm downloading a few more first season episodes and I think I'll jump ahead to season 3? the one with the cuter Ray and see how that goes. Or if I can find complete season downloads I'll watch in order.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

Did you not check out the community I sent you to??? Everything available. And you're welcome. It's always fun travelling down memory lane :-)

[amalthia]

I went the community but for the most part I prefer to download via torrents if I can because it doesn't use up anyone's server space....though I'll probably end up using a combination of torrents and the LJ community you pointed out.
demonoid.com has a lot of due south torrents there just aren't a lot of seeds or leechers at the moment.

[fairestcat]

cesperanza and resonant8 are my too ultimate dS authors. Although they both mostly write Fraser/RayK.

I'm not much help with Fraser/RayV recs. I adore Vecchio and totally see the subtext with him and Fraser but I have a hard time seeing it get past subtext.

[amalthia]

It's okay about the RayV/Fraser I'm not too interested in that pairing. I guess I'm kind of shallow but RayV just doesn't do it for me. (though maybe I should withhold judgement until i see more than 2 episodes.)

[http://users.livejournal.com/oceana_/]

Speranza is the absolute must-read in Due South slash. Other recs, including all the classics, can be found at ds_flashback.

[munchkinofdoom.livejournal.com]

It is really scary how we tend to find fandoms at the same time. I have been snorkelling through any F/RayK dark fic I could find, for about a total of two weeks. That's how recently I have got into this fandom.

I am currently in part two of Grey's Bygones series, which is a very very very very very long rape/recovery, with lots and lots and lots (etc) of recovery before Ray gets whalluped again. You can find it here (http://grey.ravenshadow.net/). Just scroll down to her due South section.

Grey writes long stuff, and has been keeping me occupied for many a long hour these last couple of weeks.

[amalthia]

I loved Grey's X-Files and Sentinel stories. I'm rather sure I'm going to love her Due South once I get a feel for the show. :)

[workerb.livejournal.com]

Most of the dS fics I've read are RayK/Fraser. Sorry if they're spoilery for S3 and beyond.

How Ray Got His Groove Back (http://hos.slashcity.com/hrghgbb.htm) by Aristide and Bone was the story that got me interested in dS. It's RayK/Fraser and scorchingly hot. There's also an epilogue (http://hos.slashcity.com/hrgep.htm).

I hadn't seen the show before reading the fic but after I read it, I got my hands on Call of the Wild (series finale) and season 3 DVD. Nothing like watching a show backwards -- starting from the end. *g*

I also like Josephine Darcy's The Mountie Who Fell to Earth (http://www.852prospect.org/archive/archive/1_2000_series/svs13the.html), a due South/The Sentinel crossover fic. It's a nice plotty fic with Jim/Blair and RayK/Fraser investigating a crime.

[palebluebell.livejournal.com]

I wish I'd seen this earlier: I'd love to have been the first to help you out with this - to say thank you for leading me to so many good fics.

I agree that Cesperanza's a *must*. And also Workerb has the right of it with Bone and Aristide/Mairead Triste's 'Due South' stories. They'll melt your socks off.

This is Bone's site Slash Fiction by Bone (http://www.mrks.org/~bone/). I envy you being in this position, with all those marvellous fics just waiting to be read - happy reading.