Rec Post

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Rec Post

This post is for anyone to post recommendations from the 2022 collection! There are currently 771 works in the collection, so it's a lot to go through and also a lot that could be highlighted! You can choose to post things for whatever reason you want, and can post as many different recs as you want. There is no minimum number of recs that need to be in a post, so if you have one thing you want to highlight you can post that one! You also may post anonymously.

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On December 3rd we'll be making a reading list of any recs here that wish to be included. If you wish for your recommendations to be included in that reading list, please have "Include in final reading list" somewhere in your post.

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Fandom: Outer Range
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
(include in final reading list)

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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Thanks for the rec! I read this without knowing the canon, and enjoyed it a lot.