The Corsicans
| Fanfiction | |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Corsicans |
| Author(s): | jat sapphire |
| Date(s): | 2000s? |
| Length: | 21,183 words |
| Genre(s): | slash |
| Fandom(s): | Starsky & Hutch |
| Relationship(s): | |
| External Links: | online here and here |
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The Corsicans is a slash Starsky/Hutch story by jat sapphire.
Comments by the Author
Point of view is one of those things I came into SH fandom with some ideas about already, as a veteran of Trek fic discussions on ASCEML in which the only rule was pretty much "does it work?" As it happened, limited third-person POV (in which the narrator is not identical with any character but reports one person's perceptions and thoughts but not others', in case anyone was wondering) is both what I usually write and what zine editors from the old days had encouraged, which made it A-OK amongst SH fen.
I do like a wandering limited-third, though. I guess I'd call that a modified omniscience, really -- I want to be able to shift from Starsky's POV to Hutch's every once in a while, especially in a longer story. The first longer story I posted was "The Corsicans," on YahooGroups' The Pits (later Pitsfic and, I think, Pits again now). It has that modified-omniscient POV, and some of the comments I got on the parts as they were posted were along the lines of "I don't mind the shifts in POV as much as I usually do, but other people may not like it."
(These "other people" are the malicious ghosts of SH fandom. "Other people" who never themselves write me don't like an awful lot of what I write about, apparently: the guys written as bisexual, having previous same-sex experience, in a non-exclusive relationship, in a threesome, in an AU, not together at the end. "Other people may not like it" apparently worked for a good long time to regularize SH slash writing. Maybe it's a list version of something zine editors used to say, though no zine editor has EVER said so to me.
Maybe this doesn't happen on LJ. I think this would be a good thing.) [1]
Reactions and Reviews
Why this must be read: Continuing with the pre-canon set-up is The Corsicans. In the Academy, Colby, Starsky, and Hutch were known as the Three Corsican Brothers. Yeah, we know there's only two, that's the point. There can be only two and the one that's left out is Colby. Except, in this instance, there's a reason that Colby leaves the Academy, aside from the commonplace reasoning that Hutch and Starsky became closer and began leaving him out. The end connect the Colby they used to know to the man he became. [2]
I enjoyed this story enormously. It got to be one of the best I've read in quite a while. The prose, the plot, the characterisation... Really excellent! [3]
This. Is. GLORIOUS. Truly in-character and lively and just the right blend of plot and feelings. I love the way S&H end up coming out to each other, and the way their comfort and knowledge of each other is still under construction. This is now canon, in my book. [4]