I want to rec this fic because it's a pretty niche fandom and pairing (it's a canonical married couple involving the main character, but they're older and I don't think the eight-episode show was widely watched--though a second season has just been ordered!), and it was a gift for me. I'd love for some more readers to see it.
It's a beautiful fic, sad but hopeful, big and intimate. Every little action in the present, emotional note within and between the characters, and memory of the past is so real in it. It's set at their family ranch in Wyoming, mostly just the two of them and the house and the land. And if you don't mind spoilers, I believe you can read it canon-blind!
(For context, the show is about this quiet, intense man Royal, his family, their ranch, their neighbors, the town, change, and a mystery involving a big round impossible hole in time that's on their land.)
Read it as a portrait of a longstanding relationship at a moment of crisis, and of each of the characters and the limits and possibilities of connection and vulnerability, exposure and understanding between them, with just enough detail of how they got there to understand it over the course of the fic, and so much depth in such a small space that moves them through it and towards a potential for a future.
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Title: Long Past Dawn
M/F, Royal Abbott/Cecilia Abbott, Teen and Up, No Archive Warnings Apply, 2233 words
https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Fic_In_A_Box_2022/works/42554760
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I want to rec this fic because it's a pretty niche fandom and pairing (it's a canonical married couple involving the main character, but they're older and I don't think the eight-episode show was widely watched--though a second season has just been ordered!), and it was a gift for me. I'd love for some more readers to see it.
It's a beautiful fic, sad but hopeful, big and intimate. Every little action in the present, emotional note within and between the characters, and memory of the past is so real in it. It's set at their family ranch in Wyoming, mostly just the two of them and the house and the land. And if you don't mind spoilers, I believe you can read it canon-blind!
(For context, the show is about this quiet, intense man Royal, his family, their ranch, their neighbors, the town, change, and a mystery involving a big round impossible hole in time that's on their land.)
Read it as a portrait of a longstanding relationship at a moment of crisis, and of each of the characters and the limits and possibilities of connection and vulnerability, exposure and understanding between them, with just enough detail of how they got there to understand it over the course of the fic, and so much depth in such a small space that moves them through it and towards a potential for a future.