I think XF qualifies as the Microsoft of fandoms. Except in speed terms; by the time I was getting into active writing (season 5), the majority of the slashers were already on their way out the door and into that awful Sentinel show.
(Why??)
Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!
Anya ,'Showtime'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Nutty - Jan 18, 2008 4:42:06 am PST #5061 of 10436
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
shrift - Jan 18, 2008 4:49:25 am PST #5062 of 10436
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Because Sentinel was really, really ridiculously gay?
Dana - Jan 18, 2008 4:50:10 am PST #5063 of 10436
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Because people have hair and muscles fetishes?
Nutty - Jan 18, 2008 4:59:22 am PST #5064 of 10436
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Because, apparently, any two warm bodies would do, and those were the only two warm bodies. (Except one woman I knew who was doing Jack/Daniel, back when SG1 was still on Showtime, and I was like, "Wait, you can slash anybody ? Even if they aren't eyefucking alla time in the text?" It was a landmark discovery for me.)
Yay for eleventy zillion more cable channels. Improving the chances of slashed texts that don't suck by a million percent!
Dana - Jan 18, 2008 5:08:01 am PST #5065 of 10436
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Because, apparently, any two warm bodies would do, and those were the only two warm bodies.
Well, no. It's a buddy show, it's got your classic pairing of action man/brainy man, and the two characters were ridiculously close, and got more so as the show went on. Once your spirit animals merge, where else is there to go?
Nutty - Jan 18, 2008 5:25:13 am PST #5066 of 10436
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
The script room, clearly!
P.M. Marc - Jan 18, 2008 5:26:19 am PST #5067 of 10436
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Well, no. It's a buddy show, it's got your classic pairing of action man/brainy man, and the two characters were ridiculously close, and got more so as the show went on. Once your spirit animals merge, where else is there to go?
It's also addictive like crack-covered potato chips. And the subtext was barely sub, as they say.
esse - Jan 18, 2008 6:36:48 am PST #5068 of 10436
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Oh, discovering The Sentinel was a golden period of fandom for me. There was so much fic, on a more than acceptable level of creativity and intelligence!
Theodosia - Jan 18, 2008 10:37:55 am PST #5069 of 10436
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I still haven't been able to get over the bad production values of the origina (Sentinel)l, no matter how good the writers are.
Fay - Jan 18, 2008 2:39:10 pm PST #5070 of 10436
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Um, this isn't fanfic, but I still thought you lovely folks might enjoy this work of LotR fannish craftsmanship: Not just a gingerbread house. No indeed.