FemmeRemix!

[nenya_kanadka]

I got a thing! :D

Anonymous Creator has remixed one of my favourite of my own fics, Where The Stars Are Strange (the one about Catherine Sakai getting thrown back through time to the first Shadow War). And it is AMAZING.

See, the thing about Where The Stars Are Strange is that I had this lovely plotbunny in my head that would properly have taken a novel to explore, but I ended up with ~2.5k of spartan prose instead because I didn't have time to write the thing rightly before the deadline, and also felt that if I didn't get something, anything, down, I'd get so tangled up in the details that I'd never post it at all. So I ended up glossing over a lot of important things to get the general gist of the story down.

And here comes my remix author, taking one of my biggest plot holes (the language drift between Valen's time and Catherine's) and turning it into a beautiful story about culture shock and transition and love and loss. Plus fantastic use of telepathy and a really satisfying take on one of the necessary OCs for the story. It's one of those times where I read something and wish I'd written it myself, but I'm happy someone else did so I can just sit back and read it. :D Anonymous Creator, whoever you are, thank you so much.

Title: Finding the Words (the stranger in a strange land remix) by Beatrice_Otter
Remix of: Where The Stars Are Strange by nenya_kanadka
Fandom: Babylon 5
Pairing/Characters: Catherine Sakai, Catherine Sakai/Jeff Sinclair
Rating: Teen
Word Count: 4200
Summary: To fight with the Minbari, you have to speak their language.

Eeee. :D

Comments

[muccamukk]

That was such a great story. I really liked the line about how the Religious cast used one of their dialects in preference because it's the one Valen used (which of course was the one he used because...)

Plus the whole reunion scene is the best.

[nenya_kanadka]

Yes! I loved the part where the most common language at the time was totally different, and it adjusted both over time and because everyone wanted to copy Valen. Which of course was a time loop like everything else to do with Jeff's life. :P Also that Catherine's quick-and-easy telepathic acquisition of language at the beginning was actually just a setup for more difficult language learning later on.

EVEN MORE HUGGING!