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Rec: due South: About a Dog by Speranza
Fandom: due South
Pairings/Characters: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski , Diefenbaker
Rating: Explicit
Length: 20,414 words
Creator Links: Speranza at AO3
Theme: Magic, Animal transformation
Summary: Dief made a face, his nose crinkling in almost comic distaste. "Terrible. Human. Body," Dief insisted, signing the words decisively. "No coat, and two legs put you off-balance, never mind how you're forced to expose your—"
Fraser felt his eyebrows shoot into his hairline.
"—to everyone, which is really not smart, if you ask me," Dief concluded.
Reccer’s Notes: Dief is turned into a human by a witch on a case. He has to learn to use opposable thumbs, but arguably Fraser learns something more important…
Speranza’s works are classics in this fandom, and her grasp of the characters’ voices, innovative plots and excellent storytelling will show you why. This has lovely trope inversion - as unlike most animal transformation fics it’s an animal character to a human not the other way around - and is more than twenty years old. A real classic, indeed, but absolutely worth a re-read…
Fanwork links: About a Dog
Pairings/Characters: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski , Diefenbaker
Rating: Explicit
Length: 20,414 words
Creator Links: Speranza at AO3
Theme: Magic, Animal transformation
Summary: Dief made a face, his nose crinkling in almost comic distaste. "Terrible. Human. Body," Dief insisted, signing the words decisively. "No coat, and two legs put you off-balance, never mind how you're forced to expose your—"
Fraser felt his eyebrows shoot into his hairline.
"—to everyone, which is really not smart, if you ask me," Dief concluded.
Reccer’s Notes: Dief is turned into a human by a witch on a case. He has to learn to use opposable thumbs, but arguably Fraser learns something more important…
Speranza’s works are classics in this fandom, and her grasp of the characters’ voices, innovative plots and excellent storytelling will show you why. This has lovely trope inversion - as unlike most animal transformation fics it’s an animal character to a human not the other way around - and is more than twenty years old. A real classic, indeed, but absolutely worth a re-read…
Fanwork links: About a Dog