I should've known you'd be able to find it. Hee!
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.
OMG, that was hilarious! Thank you, love! Spot on, both of them!
...I think I may need to go on a bit of a Black Books fic binge here.
The universe is strangely synchronous. Having been vaguely aware of Black Books for ages, I have recently discovered that I can mainline on my laptop via C4 On Demand, free, and am pretty much in your footsteps on the fic binge (just saw a comment of yours on a story by nerdcakes). I did find the Bernard/House story, too...
Ha! Curmudgeonly pisshead bookshop owners for the win!
Black Books has possibly the funniest pilot ever.
"Skinheads! Perfect!"
Word.
I think it's particularly appropriate that in my attempts to put off going in to work to do all the stuff I really should have done at the BEGINNING of the week off, rather than leaving it to the Sunday, I wrote Black Books fanfic. I mean, I didn't make myself a lovely jacket out of receipts, or pair my socks, or invite the Jehovah's Witnesses in for a chat - or indeed resort to housework (for in this Bernard and I are as one), but I did read an entire novel, and then write some Black Books fanfic, before finally going into work at 3pm. (Having sprung lithely out of bed at 6.45am, full of good intentions to go to the gym, make a healthy breakfast and get straight to work...)
I did not know this (from the imdb trivia page)
Bernard is inspired by a real bookshop owner in Dublin whom Dylan Moran described as "he looks like he's swallowed a cup of sour milk and peed himself at the same time. He has this green bilious expression, years of displeasure have shaped his face".
Considering the other characters who have been inspired by real people (The Goon Show's Bluebottle, based on a shop owner; the eponymous 'hero' of Fawlty Towers, to name but two), I wouldn't be surprised if several the great writers of the next century were now hanging out on lj in bad_service.
Yuletide signups are open!
(And, er, Suela, if you come here, I apparently meant that I could use your help in the Buffista Fic thread. I'm looking for a link.)
Dana, I couldn't find where you needed my help? What were you looking for?
(and now I'm going to bed and won't be reading B.org again until probably tomorrow night, sorry!)