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[lilapaddy.livejournal.com]

Most in-character fic you've ever read?

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[soophelia.livejournal.com]

Off the top of my head, I think For Every Closed Door (http://starlingthefool.livejournal.com/tag/for+every+closed+door) is one of the most in-character fics I've ever read. House is very devious and sneaky in this one. It's a crossover with Dead Like Me, but you don't need to know anything about Dead Like Me to follow this fic. It's also one of the best crossovers I've ever read.

[sookail.livejournal.com]

Seconded.

[xfphile.livejournal.com]

I honestly have to say that 'Defensive Strategies' (http://www.squidge.org/housefanfiction/archive/3/defensivestrategies.html) by Milkshake Butterfly is the best in-character fic I've found. It's by turns funny and serious and I can hear House and Wilson from beginning to end.

[talulahk.livejournal.com]

“The Open Road” by Pun
http://housebigbang.panfandom.ca/fiction/open_road.htm

Never to Have Fallen – brilliant H/W, the most IC? Meh.
http://usomitai.livejournal.com/316597.html

most IC NC17- Punch Up by Asynca
http://asynca.livejournal.com/155449.html

The famous and epic “Bad Company”
http://black-cigarette.livejournal.com/9070.html

Brilliant Phinnia’s “The Taste of Tea”
http://phinnia.livejournal.com/1877142.html

nightdog_writes’ stunning in-the-moment piece “The Emperor of Nebraska”
http://community.livejournal.com/house_wilson/2081455.html

“you say I took the Name in vain” by Drea aka bluerosefairy
http://d-generate-girl.livejournal.com/21178.html

Licia/Euclase’s “Lavendar Foal”
http://euclase.livejournal.com/280991.html

THE BEST IC h/w with kids ever. You can really see House and Wilson in this one. It will make you love the crazylovely back story and want to read the rest of the whole g-ddammed beautiful universe of DeeLaundry’s:

The Unicorn Hunter
http://deelaundry.livejournal.com/96100.html

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the rec of The Unicorn Hunter! I should point out that the genderswap universe was originally created by thedeadparrot, not me.

[bell]

Thanks for the rec-- though I'm a bit curious as to why you'd recommend it on a post requesting IC if you thought it wasn't IC. :D

As for the OP, I think IC is really a matter in the eyes of the beholder. I know I have certain ideas of what I think is true of the characters, and I know people have entirely different ideas. Elsewhere in the comments you said what you thought *isn't* IC-- so my question is, what are traits you think *are* in IC? :) If we overlap, I can throw some recs at you.

[alemyrddin.livejournal.com]

everything by mer_duff, nightdog_barks or the collective black_cigarette.
They just know how to write them.

[debbiel66.livejournal.com]

Aftershocks is the best IC story I've read yet, even with the dire circumstances... (but I love dire circumstances) Overall, I think Dee Laundry and Nightdog do the best job of keeping House and Wilson IC no matter where they take them.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about this question since you posed it, and I really can't narrow it down to one, or even to a hundred. There are so many great writers in this fandom that we have a cornucopia of in-character fics.

[lilapaddy.livejournal.com]

Really? Well, I've had a hard time of it. I'm pretty harsh with my IC standards, though, I know, compared to a lot of fandom.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

What are the most common ways in which a fic falls down on characterization for you?

[lilapaddy.livejournal.com]

Any nicknames used, usually when first names are used, a lot of overt affection, gentle caresses, dialogue that sounds girlish/young/not-American, AU (AU can be really good, but for me it's very unsatisfying, because I love House/Wilson in their proper context in the "House" universe), any fic where they get domestic (have/adopt kids, marry, talk about getting married, secretly live together during the show's timeline), any time a third-party character is OOC (Cuddy/Cameron/Stacy/Chase being fangirls about H/W)...The list goes on and on...

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

Keep going, because I'm very interested.

Also, you don't think House and Wilson could live together and have it be in-character?

Which fics have you found to be in-character?

[lilapaddy.livejournal.com]

I love fics that are set during when they lived together in canon, and I would love it if, on the show, they would live together again. I've just seen too many fics where it's like "We're living together in domestic bliss but keeping it a secret" and that strikes me as very OOC. Usually, canon tells us where they're living at any given point, so when someone writes a fic where they're living together in season one and we all know Wilson was still married to Julie then, I stop reading.

A few other things off the top of my head-- when they kiss or have sex without any prior angst or thought about what it means, when it's too easy, when there is minimal set-up...

This fic
http://triedunture.livejournal.com/446096.html

is pretty great. I recently got a new computer and lost all my bookmarks, so I'll have a hard time telling you which I favorited, but I know Cryptictac's "Stereophonic Silence" and "Reverberation" were old favorites, as were many of Mer_Duff's fics and one of Bironic's that I can't remember the name of.

[soophelia.livejournal.com]

I recently got a new computer and lost all my bookmarks

Here are some rec lists that might help you replace some of your lost bookmarks (House/Wilson wise anyway)

Imagi_nation22's Rec List (http://imagi-nation22.livejournal.com/20403.html)
Topaz Eyes's House MD Fic Rec list (all ships, but she has a lot of House/Wilson recs)

Equally Damaged: The House/Wilson Rec Site (http://www.tomorrow-never-knows.net/damaged/textficrecs.html) - link goes to the fic recs.

Here's bironic's fics (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=bironic&keyword=_my+writing&filter=all) or you can go to her website (http://bironic.nostatement.com/). (http://topaz-eyes.livejournal.com/32402.html)

[rusted-halo.livejournal.com]

if your old computer uses Windows and still works, you can transfer your favorites using Internet Explorer.

click "File" --> "Import and Export" then choose "Export Favorites" and click "Next"
you can choose which favorites you want to export. if you just click the main "favorites" folder, it will export all of them.
after choosing your favorites, click "Next"
now select the where you'd like the file to save to and click "Next"

your favorites are now in an html doc you can move to your new computer using a thumb drive. to import, just go to "File" --> "Import and Export" and select "Import Favorites" then direct it to the html doc wherever you put it on the computer and when you're finished, your old favorites will be on your new computer's favorites list.

i have no idea how to do it if you're using a Mac

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you but no, I had to get a new computer because I got a virus and everything corrupted. Thanks anyways, though!

--lila