CSI

[leavethesky]

I'm still struggling with the BTVS mother-of-all recs post. I'm beginning to think I should do it in installments and give myself a break. Basically, I've decided I need to look over everything I'm reccing (it's been a LONG time!) and that leads to lots of rereading and enormous time-suck. What?! I have to be thorough!

In the meantime, recs for a show I don't even watch:

thelastgoodname's Stray Conversations PG, Sara/Catherine is a charming and very interesting take on their romance. Told entirely through conversations between Catherine and a very likeable and well-drawn Grissom, thelastgoodname tells us their story indirectly with remarkable results. No sex though. Sorry. :)

I've recc'd this story before, but things tend to get buried so here it is. If you haven't read Monique Bartok's Crash & Yearn, you're missing out. Sara/Catherine, NC-17. Alternating first person. I read this because I loved Monique's SVU, A/O fic, Sere Nere, and it made me finally take the CSI fandom seriously. An explosion involving Sara and Lindsey makes Catherine re-assess her feelings for her younger colleague. There are a few grammatical and phrasing oddities in here that I took to be the stumblings of a non-native English speaker, so you have been warned. They don't get in the way of a really wonderful story though.

Comments

[thelastgoodname.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the plug.

[Sorry about the sex. I'll get around to it, someday. I think Sara and Catherine probably do some creative role-playing or something; maybe Catherine pretends to be Grissom and Sara pretends to be Warrick or maybe Greg, and then...]

[leavethesky.livejournal.com]

well, your story-telling through overheard conversations doesn't exactly lend itself to teh sex. :) also, I didn't miss it at all. I'm a sucker for a good romance.

[thelastgoodname.livejournal.com]

your story-telling through overheard conversations doesn't exactly lend itself to teh sex. It would have made it a very different story, anyway.

[leavethesky.livejournal.com]

okay, now you have me wondering how in the world that would work.

[thelastgoodname.livejournal.com]

What, you don't think in some fairly creeptastic alternative universe, Catherine would give Grissom all the gory details? ("And then I licked along the inside of her labia minora, you know, it drives the girls wild." "No, actually, I don't. I'm crap at cunnilingus." "Oh, well, here, let me draw you a diagram. See, the best place to start is....")

[leavethesky.livejournal.com]

EWWWWWWWWWW! now I'll never wash the image of a titillated Grissom gettin' the play-by-play from Catherine out of my brain.

I totally asked for it, didn't I?

[thelastgoodname.livejournal.com]

Well: yes, yes you did.

[ralst.livejournal.com]

Good choices. Obviously I've read 'Crash & Burn' before, but 'Stray Conversations' was a welcome discovery.

Out of curiosity, do you know if there are any CSI:NY fic out there?

[leavethesky.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, do you know if there are any CSI:NY fic out there?

:) I haven't seen any although I'm hardly an authority. there should be though dammit! the one ep I saw looked pretty girlslashy to me. the two female investigators were paired for the murder of a teenager at a nightclub and there were many heated moments with the two of them staring at each other over slides, evidence, etc.

okay, now I want the CSI:NY fic!

[ralst.livejournal.com]

Sounds promising - I should get to actually watch the first series over the weekend - so I guess a little femslash-y search is in order,