Kindle Help/Fic Recs
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kariyeTeen Wolf continues to eat my life. I dunno.
Up until a month ago, my head was starting to tentatively spin Steve/Tony stories. And then Teen Wolf happened to me, and I can feel myself edging into the raw egg white of ficcing it. You know, that dreamy viscous place before you hit the heart of it and it explodes into a fic that you just have to write.
Actually, for the last week, I've been back wanting to write origfic. I always think this but have never managed to cross into that world. I'm not really into world-building. I like more exploring facets and details of what's already there.
By a String of Blue Lights by
lapin, Derek/Stiles, ~6,8000 words.
Writer's summary:
In which they keep falling into bed with each other, and Stiles keeps saying it's just adrenaline, just a lack of Adderall, just a lack of good judgment. Faeries and their drugs, mermaids and their creepiness, and covens and their sacrificing, and they just keep falling into bed with each other. They just do.
And Derek says, "No more games."
My bookmark for this says, "Stiles is mean here. Which rings true, somehow."
Along similar lines, but even more, by the same writer,
I Don't Want to be Saved, Derek/Stiles, ~3,000 words.
Writer's summary:
And everyone, everyone has their own ideas about this relationship, they all say the same things, they all do. "He's not good for you," "It's Derek," "This is the fourth night in a row," "What kind of asshole dates a high schooler?" "I'm not okay with this."
But Stiles pulls the red hood up, wanders from the path, and he's picking flowers, and he's breathing, "My, what big teeth you have," and Derek bares his fangs, and yeah. Fuck them.
For which my bookmark says, "Everyone is perfectly torn up here."
These two fic are perfect. Among the most perfect I've read in this entire fandom - they struck a chord in me because they're powerful and unafraid - they're not afraid of themselves and to be bold and edgy and cruel in a fandom that's by and large fairly comic and lighthearted and loving. And I love all that delightful fic, but it means that when you find something like these, they stick and they hurt and I love a little bit more.
But the best of them all was this:
Love So Hard, It Could Rip My Heart Out, also bylapin, Derek/Stiles, ~7,500 words.
Writer's summary: Stiles is seventeen, and his best friend is drifting away, and his dad isn't speaking to him, so he's going to make some bad decisions. He's seventeen and he needs bad decisions to look back on when he's thirty, and nothing is a worse decision than Derek Hale. He'll let the Big Bad Wolf in, let him press Stiles down into the couch and he'll wrap his arms around him and he'll know it's a bad choice, but it's his, and Derek is here when no one else is.
I know, I just recced three works by the same writer! The thing is that I didn't even realize they were all by the same person (I know, observant) until I got to the third, and then I naturally fell head over heels for this person, whoever she or he is. And of the three, this one is the meanest, the most perfect. My bookmark on this one says, "Uncomfortable and nasty and utterly, utterly gorgeous with reality."
Please understand, none of these fic have gratuitous violence or sex or cruelty or anything in them just tossed in for the sake of throwing it in. It's the calculation of the words and actions that's so cutting. But you'll feel good at the end.
Finally, a softer and quietly lovely fic: Legacy, bymorganoconner, Derek/Stiles, ~29,000 words.
From the writer's summary: Stiles has always known his mom had a pretty serious medical condition. It was something she lived with for a long time before it finally got the better of her. So it isn't a hard leap to make that it might have prevented her from carrying a child to term on her own. Stiles just didn't expect to learn that her solution had involved Derek's mother.
This fic had a quiet sense of things slotting together to it, of completion and growing up for both Derek and Stiles. It felt a bit like raindrops clinging to June blades of grass.
Someone want to help me with my Kindle Fire? It almost makes me want to cry because I don't really enjoy playing around with tech to get it to do what I want. All I want is to organize things. I've had it since last summer but I don't use it much and when I did, I was reading almost entirely in Avengers so it was fine to just put the fic on it, all unsorted. Because I knew it was all the same fandom. But now I'm reading once more in too many fandoms and I need to be able to categorize them.
So I downloaded calibre and tagged everything by what matters to me (which is simply fandom, general length, pairing, plus a few random things like crossover, AU, or ABO). And all I want is to have them show up in my Fire sorted the same way. But the Fire doesn't seem to support collections. I tried using the Kindle Collections plugin for calibre because all I want to do is sort by my tags on the Kindle, but when I try to automatically create collections by tag, it tells me it can't find any fic on the Kindle, which I know is there because I can see it. ARGH!
So, my darling, marvellous flist - how do I fix this? What am I missing or what should I be using (and how)?
In a few weeks I'm going to the Domincan Republic for my friend's wedding and it's coming with me, loaded with fic, and I want it organized! Many thanks in advance!
Up until a month ago, my head was starting to tentatively spin Steve/Tony stories. And then Teen Wolf happened to me, and I can feel myself edging into the raw egg white of ficcing it. You know, that dreamy viscous place before you hit the heart of it and it explodes into a fic that you just have to write.
Actually, for the last week, I've been back wanting to write origfic. I always think this but have never managed to cross into that world. I'm not really into world-building. I like more exploring facets and details of what's already there.
By a String of Blue Lights by
Writer's summary:
In which they keep falling into bed with each other, and Stiles keeps saying it's just adrenaline, just a lack of Adderall, just a lack of good judgment. Faeries and their drugs, mermaids and their creepiness, and covens and their sacrificing, and they just keep falling into bed with each other. They just do.
And Derek says, "No more games."
My bookmark for this says, "Stiles is mean here. Which rings true, somehow."
Along similar lines, but even more, by the same writer,
I Don't Want to be Saved, Derek/Stiles, ~3,000 words.
Writer's summary:
And everyone, everyone has their own ideas about this relationship, they all say the same things, they all do. "He's not good for you," "It's Derek," "This is the fourth night in a row," "What kind of asshole dates a high schooler?" "I'm not okay with this."
But Stiles pulls the red hood up, wanders from the path, and he's picking flowers, and he's breathing, "My, what big teeth you have," and Derek bares his fangs, and yeah. Fuck them.
For which my bookmark says, "Everyone is perfectly torn up here."
These two fic are perfect. Among the most perfect I've read in this entire fandom - they struck a chord in me because they're powerful and unafraid - they're not afraid of themselves and to be bold and edgy and cruel in a fandom that's by and large fairly comic and lighthearted and loving. And I love all that delightful fic, but it means that when you find something like these, they stick and they hurt and I love a little bit more.
But the best of them all was this:
Love So Hard, It Could Rip My Heart Out, also by
Writer's summary: Stiles is seventeen, and his best friend is drifting away, and his dad isn't speaking to him, so he's going to make some bad decisions. He's seventeen and he needs bad decisions to look back on when he's thirty, and nothing is a worse decision than Derek Hale. He'll let the Big Bad Wolf in, let him press Stiles down into the couch and he'll wrap his arms around him and he'll know it's a bad choice, but it's his, and Derek is here when no one else is.
I know, I just recced three works by the same writer! The thing is that I didn't even realize they were all by the same person (I know, observant) until I got to the third, and then I naturally fell head over heels for this person, whoever she or he is. And of the three, this one is the meanest, the most perfect. My bookmark on this one says, "Uncomfortable and nasty and utterly, utterly gorgeous with reality."
Please understand, none of these fic have gratuitous violence or sex or cruelty or anything in them just tossed in for the sake of throwing it in. It's the calculation of the words and actions that's so cutting. But you'll feel good at the end.
Finally, a softer and quietly lovely fic: Legacy, by
From the writer's summary: Stiles has always known his mom had a pretty serious medical condition. It was something she lived with for a long time before it finally got the better of her. So it isn't a hard leap to make that it might have prevented her from carrying a child to term on her own. Stiles just didn't expect to learn that her solution had involved Derek's mother.
This fic had a quiet sense of things slotting together to it, of completion and growing up for both Derek and Stiles. It felt a bit like raindrops clinging to June blades of grass.
Someone want to help me with my Kindle Fire? It almost makes me want to cry because I don't really enjoy playing around with tech to get it to do what I want. All I want is to organize things. I've had it since last summer but I don't use it much and when I did, I was reading almost entirely in Avengers so it was fine to just put the fic on it, all unsorted. Because I knew it was all the same fandom. But now I'm reading once more in too many fandoms and I need to be able to categorize them.
So I downloaded calibre and tagged everything by what matters to me (which is simply fandom, general length, pairing, plus a few random things like crossover, AU, or ABO). And all I want is to have them show up in my Fire sorted the same way. But the Fire doesn't seem to support collections. I tried using the Kindle Collections plugin for calibre because all I want to do is sort by my tags on the Kindle, but when I try to automatically create collections by tag, it tells me it can't find any fic on the Kindle, which I know is there because I can see it. ARGH!
So, my darling, marvellous flist - how do I fix this? What am I missing or what should I be using (and how)?
In a few weeks I'm going to the Domincan Republic for my friend's wedding and it's coming with me, loaded with fic, and I want it organized! Many thanks in advance!
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Date: 2013-03-10 06:10 am (UTC)I think it may not hurt to spread your net wide and repeat you calibre/organization question at the Mobile Read forums. I only have a Sony device and the Kindle Fire is something I don't know much about.
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Date: 2013-03-10 07:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-03-10 07:25 pm (UTC)Though to be fair my Sony is an e-ink device not a tablet.
Hope you are able to find the answers you seek at Mobile Read or someone else on LJ/DW can help.
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Date: 2013-03-10 08:53 pm (UTC)I played around with the reading list plugin, and I can get it to work fine in calibre but when I use it to sync to the Fire, the list just disappears and it dumps all the fic into the docs folder. Just as if I'd simply transferred the fic there without the plugin or without calibre at all.
I'm sure there's a fix to this - it just might take more time and devotion than I have patience for. I think the real solution is a Kindle Paperwhite. *g* Ever since I got the Fire, I've been wibbling about the whole hard to read outside thing. But it apparently supports collections. I don't use ereaders enough to justify the expense, though. Esp since I might need to replace my seven year old Ipod nano finally.
I do all my reading off AO3 these days - for the first time since I got an LJ 10 years ago, I don't even check it every day - but I read right off my laptop when I'm at home, and I only read fic at home unless I'm travelling.
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Date: 2013-03-11 06:59 am (UTC)I also read 99.9% of fic off of A03 as well, though I use the Calibre plugin Fanfiction Downloader to download and if you have epubmerge plugin you can download series into a single file using Fanfiction downloader. (not sure if you're subscribed to fanfic_ebooks at LJ) I made a recent post about this new change to the plugin Fanfiction Downloader.