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...
My heart expands / 'tis grown a bulge in't / inspired by / your beauty effulgent.
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Oct 26, 2008 8:03:59 am PDT #5507 of 10436
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
Fay - Oct 26, 2008 2:25:11 pm PDT #5508 of 10436
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Ha! Curmudgeonly pisshead bookshop owners for the win!
Dana - Oct 26, 2008 2:26:14 pm PDT #5509 of 10436
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Black Books has possibly the funniest pilot ever.
"Skinheads! Perfect!"
Fay - Oct 26, 2008 2:31:32 pm PDT #5510 of 10436
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
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...)
Laga - Oct 26, 2008 2:37:43 pm PDT #5511 of 10436
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
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".
Am-Chau Yarkona - Oct 27, 2008 12:36:05 am PDT #5512 of 10436
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
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.
Dana - Nov 02, 2008 3:16:04 pm PST #5513 of 10436
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
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.)
Consuela - Nov 03, 2008 8:37:03 pm PST #5514 of 10436
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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!)
Dana - Nov 04, 2008 6:42:56 am PST #5515 of 10436
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Looking for a story where (whitefonting) Sam Tyler turns out to be a Time Lord in disguise, with the whole watch thing. I know I got there on your rec, and you commented on it, but I don't have the link any more, and Kate P. is looking for it.
Dana - Nov 05, 2008 10:55:11 am PST #5516 of 10436
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Oh, my god, Suela. I'm insane. The conversation was in Boxed Set. I'm sorry for not actually *checking* which thread I was in.