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What I Read on Monday (5/26 - Memorial Day) TS, HL, B/A, SV

May 30, 2003 12:25

If you've been reading along at home and trying to figure out the difference between a "very recommended" and a "highly recommended" and, you know, rankings and stuff ... there mostly aren't any. The modifying word to "recommended" is just an indicator as to how enthusiastic I was feeling at the moment I wrote the review -- and also me trying to ( Read more... )

smallville, buffy_and_angel-verse, highlander, the_sentinel, *administrivia

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zortified May 30 2003, 11:06:30 UTC

Just popping my head in to say I really, really enjoy your recs, both the things you rec and your style of doing it. :-)

djinanna May 30 2003, 13:55:00 UTC

Oh. *blush* Thank you. That's very nice to hear. And good of you to stop by and let me know. Very encouraging, too.

drc1 May 30 2003, 13:37:07 UTC

What zortified said! I only read BtVS fics and only very few pairings (mostly S/X), but still. So, thank you.
As for eliade's Subtleties: it can be found in its entirety in the slash section of her web site. The direct link is here.

djinanna May 30 2003, 14:00:20 UTC

Again, thanks so very much for stopping by to let me know you've been enjoying yourself here. Very encouraging.

As you may have noticed, I tend to read in this random pattern. Sometimes I'll get a yen for a particular pairing or author and then that's all I read for a day or three. Eventually I go back to (for no reason I particularly know) 852 Prospect and check out what's new in Sentinel slash. Then the randomness starts again. And S/X is my favorite Buffy-verse pairing, though I like/read a bunch of others, obviously. Eventually I'll get into a S/X and/or Buffy *mood* again.

Though ... I need to decide what to do when I start *rereading* stuff that's already been listed here. Probably just write them up again, I think. It'll be easier.

And thanks for the Subtleties link. I'm presently trying out new browsers so my bookmarks folder isn't always easily accessible to me. Which is why I haven't been over at Anna's site lately to ogle the pretty hippy boy and see what she's been up to outside of LiveJournal....

drc1 May 30 2003, 15:42:47 UTC

BtVS is the only fandom where I read fanfic at all. I started almost 2 years ago with S/B but now it's almost exclusively S/X. I would read more S/A or X/A but it's difficult to find good fics for these pairings, and possibly fics that are more than 'just' PWPs.
BTW, I liked what you said about Repossession. I have some problems with the way Lazuli deals with Xander's past and other characters that are not S/X or the OCs, but I absolutely agree with what you said about the quality of the writing.
Thanks again for posting these recs.:-)

djinanna May 31 2003, 18:30:27 UTC

Many years ago (I'm talking back in the 80's), I was involved in editing and publishing zines, as well as reading them. Slightly different fannish genre/venue than what I'm reading and listing here on the Revue. (Pern, Elfquest, helping a friend with her Starsky & Hutch gen zines ... original Star Wars) Then there's this 20-year gap ( ... )

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djinanna May 31 2003, 17:53:47 UTC

Thanks, sweetie. You know, I scare myself sometimes when I let fly like that.

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djinanna May 31 2003, 18:38:25 UTC

*smiles*

doingsoso June 1 2008, 23:03:14 UTC

"It's very popular these days to mention Repossession in a snide and superior fashion. "This" S/X story or "that" one is "better than Repossession, thank God!" is an attitude I've run across a bit too often. Well, poo on them! **blows raspberry** I *heart* Repossession, every melodramatic, excessive, self-indulgent chapter of it. It's big-time h/c, yeah, and the melodrama and the excess and all -- it's wallow!fic of the best kind and ... yeah, okay, Spike is a bit noble and Xander is wildly successful and the OCs are kinda MarySue-ish (regardless of gender), but the thing is, LazuliKat *sells* it, she makes it work and it's fucking brilliant and also just plain *fun*. Sometimes three-hankies-and-a-box-of-chocolates fun, but still fun. Yeah, I can buy it's not to everybody's taste, but it's totally unnecessary to put down one writer's work in order to compliment another writer's work. Pisses me off. Let them what's bitching weave a 60+ part AU with this degree of internal consistency and attention to detail and then, just maybe, then ( ... )