Those slash-coloured glasses, eh? Man, but they're powerful. It's only recently, in happening across reruns of Magnum P.I. that I realise that Magnum/Higgins is practically canon. I mean, really - absofuckinglutely camp as a Judy Garland factory, with the whole TomOfFinland!Detective living with his uptight and thoroughly queenalicious mate. It's all rather touching, actually. And I nearly bit through my tongue to keep from cackling when I caught five minutes of Home Front last night, with Lawrence and Dairmuid (is it Dairmuid? Pretty Irish gardener chap) being irresistably slashable. I was chastising myself for commiting automatic RPS slash upon their relationship, when Lawrence turned to his companion and said "Oooh, talk Latin some more. I do love it when you talk Latin" in what was very clearly an intentional piece of camera-friendly (but, I presume, not real) flirtation. Conscious slash-enabling, type of thing. And actually, that does happen quite a lot. I'm not sure whether it's a Zeitgeist thing or if it's been ever thus?

(pssst, FayJay, I did read "Web". And even though I'm strictly a no-Tolkein woman, the story was gorgeous. Next up, once I can find the damned things since dymphna remains unattainable: all 27K words of Faith by Nights.)

I'm doing an incubus story for the Anthology.

If you liked Web, it's worth checking out Kate B's Beauty, which is a sort of companion-piece. Same site.

I'm doing an incubus story for the Anthology.

Oh, excellent.

Oh, excellent.

Heh. More like, self-serving; the third book in the Ringan Laine series (of which "Weaver" is the first) is called "Matty groves" and the ghost is an incubus. This is really getting me into the headspace for writing about a supernatural sexual predator.

And the story ("Wish You Were Here", a kind of practical pun title, since one of my favourite songs last year was the song of that title by a band called, yes indeed, Incubus) is set in Paris. And setting things in Paris always makes me happy.

I just used the word "fic" in a piece of feedback.

It took me several minutes. I mean, it's what's said. But God, I dislike that word. I don't want to give in to it!

It's only recently, in happening across reruns of Magnum P.I. that I realise that Magnum/Higgins is practically canon. I mean, really - absofuckinglutely camp as a Judy Garland factory, with the whole TomOfFinland!Detective living with his uptight and thoroughly queenalicious mate.

!!!!!!

Right. This is so true, yet so new to me, Tom Selleck sexuality rumours notwithstanding.

I get no slashy vibe off of Magnum/Higgins. Now, I could see a spinning of Rick/TC, or Higgins/old army bud, but Magnum didn't spark anything for me.

Hawkeye and Trapper would be slashed to kingdom come?

I don't suppose I can interest you in reading some? Hawkeye/BJ? Hawkeye/Radar?

t /pimping

But BJ's a married man! And Radar's a kid! Argh!

I'm not really so much into MASH that I'd read the fic, I don't think. I'm watching a lot of MASH reruns right now as they pop up on my Tivo -- it's a pleasant way to kill 18 minutes at the end of the day (what with the fast-forwarding through the commercials and the massive edits the channel makes). It's fun, although I still have almost no tolerance for Frank Burns, and I like BJ much more than Trapper, and Potter better than Blake. Guess I'm a late-season MASH fan, where things got a little grimmer and less ha-ha funny.

You can't slash a character who still sleeps with a teddy bear, that's just evil!

remembers she's talking to the one who slashed the teletubbies

Huh, well, shouldn't, maybe then.