wendelah1: (Star Trek Discovery - Michael Burnham)
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Fandom: Star Trek Discovery
Characters/Pairings: Michael Burnham/Gabriel Lorca
Rating: Explicit
Length: 42,304 (plus a 64,720 word sequel that doesn't fit the theme)
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] LadyFangs | https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1999083/LadyFangs
Theme: huddling for warmth, older characters, au: fork in the road, science fiction

Summary: Michael Burnham and Captain Gabriel Lorca are abducted from the U.S.S. Discovery. They're imprisoned by an alien race whose motives remain unknown...until they are.

Burnham and Lorca only rely on each other, and captivity brings them closer together and makes them confess to feelings long repressed. With days becoming weeks, and weeks to months, they come to accept their new reality, together and with each other. But when rescue arrives, they struggle to re-adapt, and come to realize that what happened between them on that planet can't, and won't, be forgotten.

Reccer's Notes: I rarely read, let alone rec hurt/comfort fic, with or without the protagonists being abducted by aliens. Nevertheless I took a chance on LadyFang's fic and I am so glad that I did. The physical torture isn't graphically described and the build-up to their relationship is surprisingly believable, especially since I didn't start out shipping the characters. I think I kind of might now, at least when she's writing them. She's a strong writer with a direct, uncomplicated style. And as she says in the intro to a new fic she's working on (Joe Miller/Octavia Muss - The Expanse OMIGOD be still my beating heart), she is "a glutton for tragic, doomed couples, unrequited love, and all the pain and heartache that comes with it." She's a doomed ship shipper!

Is this the first Star Trek: Discovery rec at [community profile] fancake?

Fanwork Links: Human Nature

Date: 2019-04-22 08:36 pm (UTC)
jerakeen: (Default)
From: [personal profile] jerakeen
Is this the first Star Trek: Discovery rec at fancake?


Yup! :D

Date: 2019-04-23 09:35 am (UTC)
jainas: (Default)
From: [personal profile] jainas
Yesterday I was catually wondering were I could find recs for good Disco fics... So thank-you for that ! :D

Date: 2019-04-23 06:18 pm (UTC)
raktajinos: (janeway)
From: [personal profile] raktajinos
.....well alrighty. I sort of hate myself for shipping these two, but off to the fic I go! Thanks for the recc!

Date: 2019-04-23 06:42 pm (UTC)
raktajinos: (janeway)
From: [personal profile] raktajinos
I label myself as a Multi-Shipping Whore. The more you ship, the more you have to read.

I get that missing out bit. I have like no Harry Potter ships (save one, Lucius/Snape that has like 20 fics in it) and I've never felt like I belong to the fandom...when you only want to read stories about old single women, there's less to read hahaha.

I do love doomed and fucked up ships. Like Kira/Dukat from DS9 - god what a fucked ship that is. BRING ME THE FIC.

I'm excited to read this one. I love Michael and Lorca is sexy AF, so I'm here for it. I'm secretly into Tilly/Lorca but I've not explored the fic yet....oooo, well there goes my night :P

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