Xeriscape
| Fanfiction | |
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| Title: | Xeriscape |
| Author(s): | Kat Allison |
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| Genre(s): | slash |
| Fandom(s): | Hard Core Logo |
| Relationship(s): | |
| External Links: | online here |
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Xeriscape is a Hard Core Logo story by Kat Allison.
It was podficced in 2013 by Luzula.
Reactions and Reviews
Every person who understands the fundamentals of what constitutes excellent fan fiction, and superb writing, recs this story. I'm just jumping on the bandwagon, apparently. Fanfic is supposed to utilize the existing facts and magnify given circumstances to create a more complete and compelling picture of what is behind the scenes. Kat understands this absolutely. Every scene is drawn together perfectly in context. If you ever wanted to learn how to write, or find an example of what excellence in fan fiction really is, go watch Hard Core Logo and then read this story. [1]
Xeriscape, set after Hard Core Logo. (SEE THE MOVIE FIRST. I mean it. It's a fantastic movie, anyway, so it won't be a chore.)
This, no kidding, gets my vote for the finest fanfic ever written. I'm going to quote a whole big passage from it to explain why:
"No, xeriscaping is--it's like--when you live in a dry climate. Desert. People who end up in the desert--usually, they try to have a normal garden, a lawn, 'cause that's what they know. It looks normal to them. But what they don't understand, they don't get it that once you're in the desert you don't get to have that anymore. I mean, you can, but it's--the minute you stop dumping water on it, it dies. Because it doesn't belong there. But if you just go with what you have, if all that'll grow there is cactus and buffalo grass, then that's what you plant, you deal with it, that's the kind of garden you get to have. That's xeriscaping."
That's a lesson that could be learned by just about every fanfic writer on the face of the earth. This whole story is a xeriscape to Hard Core Logo's desert, and it is absolutely phenomenal. [2]
I haven’t re-read it in AGES, but Kat Allison wrote a John Oxenberger POV Hard Core Logo fic called Xeriscape that to this day I still feel in my soul.[3]
References
- ^ Slash Story Recommendations - due South, Highlander, Various Fandoms, Archived version
- ^ yearningvoid (December 2000)
- ^ "May 28, 2020 Tumblr post". Archived from the original on 2023-01-10.