#calibratingentropy

For the @voltronrarepairflashbang 💜 Great fic! I really enjoyed being a beta and artist for this piece 💙 thanks @calibratingentropy! You're awesome 😄

The submissions for this bang can be part of a larger au, yes, but they must be completed in 1,000-1,500 words. This is to say that you can write a short companion piece to something you’ve already written, but you can’t write only part of it, call it a chapter, and have that be your submission. It also has to be understandable even without reading the rest of the story.

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

I have been reading fanfic voraciously through different fandoms for about twelve years now.  In the last several I've tended to avoid multi-chapter unfinished ones because I've seen too many that just stopped.  Lately though, I've been poking around the Pacific Rim area of AO3 (which is a blessing because of their subscription feature, let me tell you) and ran across an intriguing little gem called, "The Specimen."  I took the leap, and started reading, even though the end number of chapters was "?" even though it was only 3 chapters in when I started.

It's been so incredibly worth it.  It's emotional, intelligent, you can obviously tell the writes has some knowledge of biology or is at least faking it incredibly well, deals with characters in ways that show a deeper understanding of human interaction, and just really, really good.  It's been updated on a regular basis so quickly that it's spoiling us because now it's been almost 10 days since the last chapter came out and even though Chapter 7 was extremely long and fun and deep and sexy and then incredibly sad but extremely well written and good stuff takes time I just want moremoremore.