Countdown to small gifts 3/6: Classic fics and art

[smallgiftsmods.livejournal.com]

What are some classic R/S fics or classic R/S art for you? Fanworks that influenced you when you first discovered the pairing? Fanworks that helped form your image of the characters? Or fanworks that you return to frequently?

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[museinabsentia.livejournal.com]

I don't actually have the time to properly respond to this question right now, will come back later for that, but I have to put my two cents in about SBP. I wasn't a huge fan art all. I'll give it credit for concept and style but it hit on too many tropes I disagree with for me to ever fully appreciate it. I just never managed to see what do many people saw in it, so if you're in the minority I guess I'm climbing on in after you.

[museinabsentia.livejournal.com]

P.S. I loved Tea and Oranges.

[nerakrose]

yes, the tropes! i didn't read SBP until after i'd already read a bunch of (at the time) recent fic and a great deal of older fest fic and whatnot. so when i read SBP it was like this aha moment. "so THAT'S where that trope comes from!! ugh" XD
it did have its moments though, i'll give it that, but on the whole i was very unimpressed and undoubtedly also biased against it because i already didn't like the tropes in it.

[museinabsentia.livejournal.com]

That was EXACTLY how I felt about it.