30 Days of Blogging - Day 2. In celebration of crack van.
I've found so many great fics over the years thanks to crack_van and it's become my go-to place when I'm curious about a fandom and looking for recs. Sometimes a rec makes a fic so compelling that I'll go read it, even if I have no idea about the fandom. Once or twice it's led to me actively searching out more fics by the same author, or in the same fandom
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There are some reccers who really do a good job explaining the context of the stories or vids and they get me all interested just for the historical context, sometimes! (flamingoslim's S&H recs are a great example - I know nothing whatsoever about S&H, but she gives so much background in them that I have a much clearer idea of it all after reading them.)
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Some reccers are better than others but I'm just so grateful that someone elects to take the keys to the van that I will not criticize, ever. Flamingo is brilliant; she follows up her rec with a slightly more indepth rundown on the S&H lj comm as well. And she's no slouch with the pen, either; she's been an active author in S&H for years and is best known for this epic, Total Eclipse of the Heart.
Thanks for stopping by!
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Yeah, agreed on the variability: and yeah, I see it definitely as a comm for celebrating good stuff rather than criticising other people's choice of good stuff. Although I am occasionally tempted to criticise other people picking it before I can :) - I am up for the crackvan in November (for Pros, natch) and hoping that the September and October people don't select a couple I am really hoping to rave about - I want to do them ( ... )
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Total Eclipse is epic. I have to admit I haven't yet read Murder, although I did score a second-hand copy of the zine recently. It's on my waiting-to-be-read pile atm. I didn't know it was the inspiration for TEOTH though; I might have to move it closer to the top of the pile in that case.
Funny you should mention The Sentinel in the same sentence - I had never even seen an episode of The Sentinel when I first found the fanfic, courtesy of a S&H story that suggested Starsky was Blair's father. That got me interested in reading more about Blair and Jim. At that time it wasn't available on DVD; it was about a year later that the first season was released and I was surprised to find that the fanfic was SO much better than the episodes.
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