YAAAAAY!!!!

Oh, man, that would be FABulous!

Cesca is a force of nature. I can imagine her personality rubs people the wrong way, but she's always been really nice to me.

It freaked me out to see someone list her story as the new "best story ever" in SGA fandom, displacing the previous victor, "Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose." First of all, I didn't read "Freedom", so it obviously can't be the best story ever, right? Since everything is all about my preferences.

Second, the idea of dubbing anything "best story ever" sort of disturbs me, because it's *so* subjective. I know it happens all the time with novels and movies, but I think it's something about fanfic being such a personal activity that makes it weird.

Second, the idea of dubbing anything "best story ever" sort of disturbs me

Sounds like somebody watches too much VH-1, to me. Also, way to play fast and loose with language, people! Language is kind of important to written stories, so, that's generally to be taken as a bad thing! Ironic, even! Eventually, you are going to run out of superlatives, and won't you feel like the shmuck then!!

(Umm, hi. I referred to it as the best SGA story ever, in full awareness that it's an overtly over-the-top gushing "you must go read this now" kind of insta-rec statement. And don't feel remotely like a shmuck, for just the above reason.)

I wasn't talking about you, fwiw. Your saying that didn't register with me, so I think it must have been clear that you meant it as a rec, and not an absolute barometer of quality.

Maybe I should just go read Punk's new story.

Thanks. I feel kinda stupidly lame and all-about-me now

Ooh, new Punk story!

I feel totally lame too, so we're a matched set. *g*

I only mentioned it to underline the fact that I genuinely liked the story, and that this response may have shown a lack of literary discrimination on my part, but it definitely wasn't tinged by fangirling.

I think I know how you feel. I don't like every story that really popular fic authors write, and I get defensive when people assume that I'm -- er, to put it bluntly -- sort of brainlessly following the crowd.

As Dana said, Cesca is a force of nature and I imagine that not everyone finds her as entertaining as I do.

As noted above, Sweet Charity is live. Bid on a hapless writer or artist or vidder or knitter and make them follow your orders!

I'm up there, but what's pretty exciting, I think, is the number of good vidders who can be had for a relative steal, considering the prices that get paid in the Vividcon auction.

I think that for me, the best story in SGA fandom is a tie between Martha Wilson's Retrograde series, which is awesome plotty crossover comfort-fic, and M.'s Your Cowboy Days are Over, which is critical thinky post-colonial deconstruction of the Atlantis mission. With porn.