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muccamukkDay Six: Rec at least 3 fanworks you thought you wouldn't like (because they weren't your fandom or they pushed against your boundaries or you thought you just wouldn't be interested) and that you ended up loving.
Title: Admiration
Author:cruisedirector and ashinae
Fandom: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Words: 7,600
Rating: Mature
Summary: Stephen tells Jack the truth; how could Jack be other than honest in return?
Notes: I was a wee young fan, and I'd just come out of The Lord of the Rings fandom. I'd certainly run into slash there, but it had mostly been Aragorn/Legolas staring Legolas: The Prince of Woobies, which, as a book fan, I found rather off putting. I actually marked my gen fic NOT SLASH. I know. I was wee. I'm sorry. So I saw this film and loved it, but I found that reading gen wasn't getting me very far. There's a couple old archives by book fans, and the Pit of Voles, and since I was just finding LJ at the time, that was kind of it. The choices were: start reading slash or run out of fic. So I read this, not really expecting to like it, and suddenly thought, oh, I get it.
Title: Bell Curve, or, Ladies Night at the Boom Boom Room
Author:rageprufrock
Fandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Words: 44,000
Rating: Explicit
Summary: In his rational mind, Rodney knew that following a girl who'd just dumped you into a strip club was really, really pathetic.
Notes: Okay, so a couple years later, I was down with slash, but I wasn't too sure about stripper AUs. However, I was having a shitty day at school, sat down in the lab, thought whatever, opened the tab and read the thing through in one go. I think I missed Psychology 204 that day. And I broke Lent because I'd theoretically given up fic. I regret nothing.
Title: Dutch Courage
Author:jazzypom
Fandom: Marvel Comics (The Ultimates)
Words: 6,000
Rating: Mature
Summary: Tony's secret is revealed, Steve is at a loose end and well... they make out?
Notes: I wasn't new in this fandom, but I still wasn't really that caught up with my comics. I had heard, repeatedly, from multiple sources, that Ultimate Marvel was a rotten no good very bad universe that ought to be avoided at all costs. However, I in the flush of new fandom and was pretty much reading all the fic (not that there was a hell of a lot back then). So I shrugged and read the thing. It blew me away. If this was the evil universe, I didn't want to know what the good one looked like. Cheers to Jazz for getting me into good comics.
Day 7: In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts.
I don't think I'm afraid to ask for much, but here's three things that I really want.
Luke/Danny or Misty/Colleen: Gloriously over the top h/c, preferably long, preferably plotty. I would like it to be full of clichés like I Thought You Were Dead, and On the Run From the Law, and oh, you know, just like canon but with more slash. I would like there to be hope in the face of despair. I would like there to be angst.I would like there to be hugging. I would like there to be proclamations of undying loyalty.
Steve/Tony: I want the fic where one is in love with the other but the other is straight/ace/not interested, and in the end they stay best friends forever, but they don't have a romantic relationship. I don't care which way around it goes. I would like pining, but I would not like the person in love to be a Nice Guy dick about it.
Rip and Booster, or Jaime and the Peacemaker: I would like mentor and student h/c where feelings are talked about. Alternately, I would like mentor and student h/c where feelings are not talked about but are implied heavily. I want the issues left hanging by the comics resolved, and I want the characters to be happy, or at least at peace.
Title: Admiration
Author:
cruisedirector and ashinaeFandom: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Words: 7,600
Rating: Mature
Summary: Stephen tells Jack the truth; how could Jack be other than honest in return?
Notes: I was a wee young fan, and I'd just come out of The Lord of the Rings fandom. I'd certainly run into slash there, but it had mostly been Aragorn/Legolas staring Legolas: The Prince of Woobies, which, as a book fan, I found rather off putting. I actually marked my gen fic NOT SLASH. I know. I was wee. I'm sorry. So I saw this film and loved it, but I found that reading gen wasn't getting me very far. There's a couple old archives by book fans, and the Pit of Voles, and since I was just finding LJ at the time, that was kind of it. The choices were: start reading slash or run out of fic. So I read this, not really expecting to like it, and suddenly thought, oh, I get it.
Title: Bell Curve, or, Ladies Night at the Boom Boom Room
Author:
rageprufrockFandom: Stargate: Atlantis
Words: 44,000
Rating: Explicit
Summary: In his rational mind, Rodney knew that following a girl who'd just dumped you into a strip club was really, really pathetic.
Notes: Okay, so a couple years later, I was down with slash, but I wasn't too sure about stripper AUs. However, I was having a shitty day at school, sat down in the lab, thought whatever, opened the tab and read the thing through in one go. I think I missed Psychology 204 that day. And I broke Lent because I'd theoretically given up fic. I regret nothing.
Title: Dutch Courage
Author:
jazzypomFandom: Marvel Comics (The Ultimates)
Words: 6,000
Rating: Mature
Summary: Tony's secret is revealed, Steve is at a loose end and well... they make out?
Notes: I wasn't new in this fandom, but I still wasn't really that caught up with my comics. I had heard, repeatedly, from multiple sources, that Ultimate Marvel was a rotten no good very bad universe that ought to be avoided at all costs. However, I in the flush of new fandom and was pretty much reading all the fic (not that there was a hell of a lot back then). So I shrugged and read the thing. It blew me away. If this was the evil universe, I didn't want to know what the good one looked like. Cheers to Jazz for getting me into good comics.
Day 7: In your own space, create a list of at least three fannish things you'd love to receive, something you've wanted but were afraid to ask for - a fannish wish-list of sorts.
I don't think I'm afraid to ask for much, but here's three things that I really want.
Luke/Danny or Misty/Colleen: Gloriously over the top h/c, preferably long, preferably plotty. I would like it to be full of clichés like I Thought You Were Dead, and On the Run From the Law, and oh, you know, just like canon but with more slash. I would like there to be hope in the face of despair. I would like there to be angst.I would like there to be hugging. I would like there to be proclamations of undying loyalty.
Steve/Tony: I want the fic where one is in love with the other but the other is straight/ace/not interested, and in the end they stay best friends forever, but they don't have a romantic relationship. I don't care which way around it goes. I would like pining, but I would not like the person in love to be a Nice Guy dick about it.
Rip and Booster, or Jaime and the Peacemaker: I would like mentor and student h/c where feelings are talked about. Alternately, I would like mentor and student h/c where feelings are not talked about but are implied heavily. I want the issues left hanging by the comics resolved, and I want the characters to be happy, or at least at peace.
