I don't get the appeal of RPS
Ah, yes - I remember those heady days of occupying the moral highground. And then Calico broke me.
Who among us can ignore the allure of really funny math puns?
Willow ,'Empty Places'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Fay - Sep 29, 2002 3:54:52 pm PDT #285 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
P.M. Marc - Sep 29, 2002 3:58:29 pm PDT #286 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Heh. I've read some puppyslash, but I (thankfully) haven't the time or the desire to really get into it. (And the closest I'll get to writing it? See above.)
Fay, honey, insent.
shrift - Sep 29, 2002 4:05:13 pm PDT #287 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
those heady days of occupying the moral highground.
I don't care about moral highground, dear Fay. I'm just grumpy because they're writing what I don't want to read, is all. I imagine I feel like all those people whose authors have abandoned their favorite fandom for Smallville, and the like.
Fay - Sep 29, 2002 4:13:34 pm PDT #288 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Sorry - that totally wasn't meant to sound like a jibe at you/anyone else; it's just that I do think the non-RPF folks have the moral highground. Which makes it difficult for me to reconcile my continued feeling that it's an unneccesary and essentially discourteous form of erotica with the unpalatable truth that I really enjoyed Calico's LotR RPF, and a couple of others too.
I am ruefully amused at my own hypocricy & pine for the days when I was all stout-hearted and believed my own press. Sigh. (But I didn't mean to start the pro/con debate all over again, for it is tired like a tired thing.)
In other news - saw the slashiest episode of Voyager I've happened across so far this evening. Harry/Tom - their love really is a beautiful thing, and the HoYay really was wall to wall. Bless. Enterprise could definitely sell me on Trip/Malcolm with no effort at all. And as I'm re-reading The Princess Bride for the first time in about twelve years I find myself craving Humperdink/Count Rugen. Or possibly Fezzik/Inigo.
signed, Hopelessly Hooked on Slash
Elena - Sep 29, 2002 5:00:19 pm PDT #289 of 10000
Thanks for all the fish.
Which Voyager Fay? Was it the prision episode? The Chute ?
Fay - Sep 29, 2002 5:38:56 pm PDT #290 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Yep. I'm still at a loss to think of an interpretation other than "I'm making him my bitch" for the nasty prisoner's attempt to cart Harry away when he first arrived.
esse - Sep 29, 2002 5:40:45 pm PDT #291 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
(Hi Fay! t waves hand madly )
Hmmmm. I should probably write some fanfiction. Kinda gone dry lately.
But apropros of that, anybody have recs lately? Most any fandom, though I got to watch some Stargate the day before yesterday, and now I'm jonesing for it.
Elena - Sep 29, 2002 6:12:17 pm PDT #292 of 10000
Thanks for all the fish.
Oh, Fay, that is the slashiest episode. Did you notice the way that Tom and Harry fell asleep holding hands? Awww. Sure, Tom was delirious at the time....
Burrell - Sep 29, 2002 7:07:11 pm PDT #293 of 10000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Okay, so now I understand the temptation to write. It is intoxicating.
P.M. Marc - Sep 29, 2002 7:13:05 pm PDT #294 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I need an intervention.
I broke 12,000 words on Part 2 of the DE (which has a name, but which I still think of as either the DE or FutureFicEvilBunnies, which was the file name for the longest time).
I'm almost done writing the Lilah I started in May.
Even Route 66 is going rather well.
So why am I reading AU Badfic instead of writing? Of the Spuffy and Child WIP kind? Please, slap me.