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This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
I'd love to hear you tell me you're reading the N'Sync Pern AU, because I know it's out there.
Apart from the N'Sync part and the fact that I have yet to catch up in the whole Pern-reading area, I wish it was this, too. Actually it's Star Wars; Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan at the moment, but I'm ploughing through because I've been promised that there are other pairings as well.
Anybody know any good archives or recs lists or whatever for Star Wars original trilogy (and possibly expanded universe - novels and comics) fic? I may have severed all ties with the prequels in my head, but I still love the original universe oh so much.
Just read Yahtzee's two Leia/Han vignettes. They made me cry. Lovely.
Oh, lordie. Queenofthorns and Meyerlemon are writing a totally crack-brained genderfucked pirate AU. For BSG.
t snickers I love fandom.
SGA is like the fandom that ate my brain and I haven't seen a single episode.
Damn it.
Aaaanyway, I have a question: what is the difference between R and NC17?
For me? The detail lavished on whatever the adult behavior in question is. Generally when applied to movies, this means sex; I'm not sure anything's ever gotten NC-17 for violence, though I can certainly imagine fic that I'd label that way. (I wouldn't write it, but I can imagine it.) So lyrical-but-specific description of sex might be R, whereas a raunchier description would be NC-17.
I'm not sure anything's ever gotten NC-17 for violence
Kill Bill Volume 1 was headed in that direction at one point. It's one of the major reasons the 100 Ninjas vs. Uma scene is in black and white - it was, originally, supposed to be in color, but it was deemed too bloody. Apparently, silver blood is more acceptable than red.
So lyrical-but-specific description of sex might be R, whereas a raunchier description would be NC-17.
Yes, this. I think, if the sex happens onscreen, it's R: if all the parts are named, it's NC-17. *g*
To me, NC-17 is step-by-step descriptions of sex with full descriptions of fluids and anatomy. R doesn't have to be lyrical (ie, poetic), but there's more of a focus on the personal interaction and less on the hydraulics. I've seen some violence I'd call NC-17: careful descriptions of torture or dismemberment and such.
Anybody know any good archives or recs lists or whatever for Star Wars original trilogy (and possibly expanded universe - novels and comics) fic?
I need a macro that says "Have you checked the crack_van recs?"
I did, but the main post it linked to focuses almost entirely on various slash pairings, the vast majority of which don't do anything for me in the original trilogy. Also, the main poster apparently dislikes Leia/Han (sacrilige!) and also considers the Expanded Universe out of bounds, killing the possibility of Karrde and Mara Jade fics, or Corran Horn, or any serious Wedge, et cetera.
I did find a couple of decent stories in there, but nothing that really grabbed me anywhere as much as Yahtzee's stuff.
I might have to haul a bunch of my expanded universe novels out to NYC the next time I go home. I sort of miss them. I can reminisce about when the stuff that wasn't the original trilogy was, on the whole, still quite excellent. Barring a couple of the novels I'd much rather forget.