ext_4062 ([identity profile] lolitakun.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] epic_recs2009-04-18 09:57 am

Fate Makes A Man, by Blackchaps (NC-17)

Title:
 Fate Makes A Man
Fandom: Oz
Pairing:
 Beecher/Keller, Beecher/Schillinger non-con
Categories: AU, Angst, Hurt/Comfort
Length: 
Epic (~54,000 words)
Warnings:
violence, non-con, abuse, language, drug usage, prison politics, Nazis

Author on LJ:
[livejournal.com profile] blackchaps
Website:
 Blackchaps’ Pony Ride

Review:

Tobias Beecher, Vern Schillinger's latest prag and 'pussy bitch' extraordinaire, becomes better acquainted with the newest hack in Oz: Officer Christopher Keller.

[livejournal.com profile] blackchaps has a way of making long, engaging AUs, and Fate Makes A Man is no exception. There's enough prison politics and f*ed-up romance to go around, and the AU is incredibly believable. It would make sense that Chris Keller would make a great prison guard, if he hadn't been a serial killer, and the author pays a good amount of attention to his backstory, making a believable backstory for him, while still retaining his character. What I liked best about this though, aside from the romance, was that [livejournal.com profile] blackchaps pays attention to the other characters too. It's not just about Keller and Beecher falling in love, it's also about prison politics, on both sides of the bars. Keller worries about his job and his connections with the Nazis, and Beecher schemes to break away from Schillinger's clutches by any means necessary, and it's all kind of awesome. The only thing I wasn't quite sold on was the writing itself, it's a little too heavy on the exposition for my tastes, but that's just because I'm super-picky and a little bit of a snob about what I read besides.

Fate Makes A Man
(ETA: there's a malware warning when you go to the page- but the Google Safe Browsing diagnostic says that it's been safe for a while now, so I'd take the warning with a grain of salt.)

[identity profile] gelledee.livejournal.com 2009-04-18 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
went to this site and a malwear warning came up on my computer.
Internet joke or the real thing?
Thought I should warn/ask


[identity profile] jane-elliot.livejournal.com 2009-04-18 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay for epic stories (even if I run away screaming from non-con:) Just a heads up, though, the link the the author's website in both this and the next rec seem to have gone awry. The problem appears to be in the formatting -- e-mail me if you need some help getting it straightened out (for which I wouldn't blame you -- LJ's RTF *and* HTML editor have been having issues lately. *sigh*)

[identity profile] jane-elliot.livejournal.com 2009-04-18 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
The link to this post when copied from epic_recs is:

http://community.livejournal.com/epic_recs/www.justblackchaps.slashcity.org

Clicking on the link sends me to an LJ error page.

If it helps, usually a link like this means an http:// was dropped at some point.

[identity profile] jane-elliot.livejournal.com 2009-04-18 08:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!