I'm generally not too impressed with this author, but I think this story is actually pretty good.

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That's exactly what I said in my rec of it, Dana.

MM - Not as mad as you might think. JennyO wrote a rather nice Buffyverse story that's BtVS/Beowulf slash, which puts an excellent spin on the story.

cringe Um. I hated that story.

I said to John,

BEAR-WOLF? It means bee-hunter, I'm really positive. Yes I realize you're very clever and making him a werewolf but I think you're off base here.

Fair enough, love. Can't fault your rationale, but I enjoyed it - I get a kick out of Jossversian readings of history and literature, and happily it's long enough since I read Beowulf that I wasn't brought up short by such infelicities.

....um, whilst I'm all with the random fandom love - anyone got any links to good Winters/Ivanova? 'Cause I watch B5 erratically and the few times I've seen those two ladies sharing screentime have been, without exaggeration, Clex-level slashy. I've never seen so much girl/girl HoYay in my life. In fact I wouldn't be at all surprised to hear that they wound up with a textual relationship.

Anybody? Bueller?

Er, it was a textual relationship. Inasmuch as I'm a more explicit lesbian with my goddamn keyboard; it was handled in a very namby-pamby way.

That said, I have no recs I can particularly share. My sense is, the fandom at the time was very shy of doing things that violated the Big JMS Plan, so there wasn't a lot of publicizing of fanfic. Maybe that's changed; I don't know.

RL, we could get into a talk about Beowulf, his culture-cousin Grettir, and the archetype of the berserker, but it's long and boring and I don't have my sources to hand. Rest assured Jen's got some fine training on the subject; her Old English is better than mine. (Not that I have an opinion about the story in question, but if anything, Jen's not ignorant of the base myth she's fucking around with. But I mean really. Have you seen what she does to Jossverse canon?)

I don't know. I don't like her writing, anyway, on the whole; or like it very little, at least. It's a thing.

Not to imply I like her writing. Just to imply that she knows whereof she fucks around. Her fanfic only looks like she doesn't actually watch the show.

t begrudging Okay then.

Go Team Lesbians In Space! Pity there wasn't any hot girl on girl action, but what can a person expect. Darn. There really ought to be some lovely fiction about them. Hmmph. (Now if you tell me that the Terrapin-looking chap whose name always escapes me was ever in a clinch with the Centauri Prime Minister chap, I'll be a very happy little slasher.)

I still feel that Delenn's whole mutation thing was/is deeply freaky, and her relationship with Sheridan spooks me. I keep telling myself it's only like having a sexchange, or something, but the whole femininity thing...I liked her better when she was bald and bumpy looking, with a heady dash of moral ambiguity. Although maybe that was just my reading.

Just to complete my fandomHo image - I'm falling in love with Blake's 7. Which, I suspect, was my first ever fandom - I dimly dimly dimly remember watching it avidly when it was first aired, and being very upset when it got cancelled. I have, however, pretty much forgotten all the details - so watching the reruns on cable is fun. And it's a cracking show, lack of budget and OTT theatricality notwithstanding. Avon. Servalan. I don't know which to oost after more.

Sigh. The slippery slope of fandomHo-ishness is...slippery.

Hey. Some people have seen this one before, but now it's up at Storybay as a PDF, as opposed to being cut-and-pasted onto my web site. So, enjoy!

"Buffy the Vampire Slayer: 'Til Death Do Us Part"

Te's got a rocking new River-POV up at [link]