#nightslightss

Yeah, and they’re in some of my very favourite Vauseman fanfics by some of my very favourite authors, too :)

--Young Blood by alanabloom

--Take a Sad Song and Make It better by alanabloom

--Lumos by alanabloom

--New Romantics by nightslightss (chapter 2 one-shot & ch. 22 one-shot)

--Hardest of Hearts by satellitecall1

-- We Looked Like Giants by satellitecall1 --That Sounds More Like Santa Fe by AnAimlessGirl

--Liminal Space by saintsavory

--Vauseman-the Prequel by ZenMaster00

Ex was amazing. It was one of the first OITNB fics I remember being totally blown away by, because it was the first to examine Alex’s perspective through a more world-weary, self-aware lens. So good. And I’ve definitely read some of those New Romantics chapters like half a dozen times.

NightsLightss I gotta be honest with you—spheeris1 was a close second (you can read my recent praise for her writing here: http://vausemania.tumblr.com/post/150304293940/fanfic-author-recommendation-spheeris1), but I’m still /stunned/ by how NightsLightss was able to create a beautifully-written, complex, and completely-plausible Vauseman-as-Hades-&-Persephone AU story after a prompt. This is just one example of her talent, but since I’m a lazy so-and-so, here’s my tumblr review for her series of one-shots, “New Romantics” (which I posted in an ‘ask’ reply earlier this year). Oh, and chapter 25 is the Vauseman-as-Hades-and-Persephone AU story: This collection of beautifully-written and highly-imaginative Vauseman AU scenarios, written by a wildly-talented author, run the gamut from adolescent Vauseman to adult Vauseman, all in various settings…a real accomplishment, given the constraints of fanfic, with its insistence on adherence to canon characterization. In other words, NightsLightss somehow manages to show us a richly-described alternate universe Vauseman that is still entirely in-character. No small feat…and it’s beautifully done with elegant, delicate prose, and a talent for combining achingly romantic passages, memorably poignant moments, and some of the most delicious Vauseman sex scenes out there. As I wrote in one of my reviews:

The dialogue that could be canon, the witty, sweet banter, the sentimentality laced with reality, those intimate moments shared between lovers—-we see them all in your fics…and they fit in perfectly with how I view Alex and Piper together, no matter the time, the place or the circumstance. That is the beauty of your fanfics.

orange is the new black au: RIBS (a runaways au by nightslightss)

"Sometimes I think I should just run away..." she concludes softly, drawing a thoughtful breath, "if it weren't for my mom, I would."