Slashy Nominations 65: Make Me Immortal with a Kiss

[thefourthvine]

(Note on the title: I flirted briefly with "kiss me and be quiet" as a title for this post, but it just seemed so right to use Marlowe. In fact, I may use Marlowe as often as possible in the near future; he's perfect for the Slashies, and he'll make such a lovely change from Shakespeare and The BibleToday, we'll look at kissing. And not just

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[minervacat]

Best FF That Demonstrates That Chicago Is Where One Goes to Have Dramatic Insights into One's Life. Does This Explain O'Hare? Can Anything Explain O'Hare?
That made me snort Coke out my nose, and as a Chicagoan, I'd like to vote "no, nothing can explain O'Hare, just please, please don't make me fly out of Midway".

And thanks for the SN rec; every time I think I've read everything in the fandom, something entirely new turns up. *thumbs up*

[thefourthvine]

I had a dramatic insight into my life in O'Hare once. It was: "I am never flying through this freaking city again if there is any alternative, even if said alternative is flying from Los Angeles to NYC via Easter Island." Actually, I had two insights, but the other one involved fast food, and I won't put it here in case you're eating.

I hear you can have other dramatic insights in Chicago if you actually leave the airport, though. Would you, as someone who has actually spent time in non-air-travel-related parts of Chicago, agree with this?

(And I'm really happy to hear that some of my SN recs are new to at least some fans. I figured there was a good chance that everyone in SN had read every single fic out there, so I've been recommending with the SN newbie in mind. Although I notice that, for example, many of my favorite fics have not yet been recommended on crack_van.)

[minervacat]

Would you, as someone who has actually spent time in non-air-travel-related parts of Chicago, agree with this?
Oh, absolutely. There's the "Cubs fans are drunk maniacs" insight, and the "There are how many Indian restaurants within a mile of Western and Devon?" insight (answer: more than a dozen), and the "Traffic sucks on the Kennedy no matter what time of day it is, and that includes 4 am on a Tuesday, too" insight, just to name a few. But it really is a great town - I moved here expecting it to be a temporary stop-over in my life journey, and I went and fell in love with the city when I wasn't paying attention. It's really got a great amount of charm, outside of the airports. And the traffic.

Re: SN. I think that a big part of why a lot of fic is older but still relatively unknown is because the archive at Trickster, which was the primary comprehensive archive for the fandom, was down for a good number of months last year. A lot of stuff is only there and therefore was unaccessible for months, and a lot of stuff written in

[thefourthvine]

You know what's scary? Your insights actually made me want to visit Chicago, particularly the area around Western and Devon. (But then, I live in Los Angeles, home of the "Lakers fans are maniacs even when not drunk" and "God, the 405 is the work of the devil, because there's no other way it could be gridlocked 24/7" insights, so I'm already emotionally prepared for those aspects of Chicago. But we don't have nearly enough good Indian restaurants. And I'm a woman whose head is easily turned by naan and gobi aloo.)

The tragic part of the Trickster crash, for those of us new to SN, is that some stories seem to have disappeared completely. I see them mentioned on various SN pages, usually with a link to Trickster, but I can't find them anywhere. And then there is wailing and gnashing of teeth, let me tell you.

[minervacat]

There are many good things to be said for Chicago - the live music scene is amazing, for one - but one of the biggest, for me, is the absolute amazing variety of ethnic food you can get here. There's a stretch of restaurants south of my apartment, where there's a sushi place next to a Caribbean place next to a Mexican place next to an Ethiopian place. It doesn't get better than that. (And now I'm craving Indian food. With none to be had within at least two miles of my office. Damn.)

The tragic part of the Trickster crash, for those of us new to SN, is that some stories seem to have disappeared completely.
Oh, I know. I entered the fandom right after the site went down, and waited paitently for it to come back up so I could read all that stuff and then ... gone. And I bet they were really good stories, too. The transient nature of the internet is damn frustrating sometimes.

[thefourthvine]

There's a stretch of restaurants south of my apartment, where there's a sushi place next to a Caribbean place next to a Mexican place next to an Ethiopian place.

I? Hate you. That is all.

Well, no, it actually isn't. Because if I didn't hate you for lording your ethnic cuisine superiority over the less fortunate, I would love you for using an Old Kingdom trilogy reference as your name. And I would like you for being new to SN, too, and for commiserating with me on the whole story-deprivation thing. I bet this all averages out to reveal my true feelings about you, but damned if I can work it out.

[minervacat]

You know what I'd like to see? Old Kingdom fic. It's such a rich world, and I, for one, would be totally fascinated to read about, say, Lirael's adventures that the Disreputable Dog refers to in the epilogue, or anything at all about the Abhorsens before Sabriel's father. Yeah.

[thefourthvine]

Oh, god, I know. I've been looking for that forever.

I've even considered writing it. Fortunately, the fever passed, but I would love to see Old Kingdom fic - gen, slash, het, whatever. There's so much story there, and Nix doesn't appear to want to write it.

[minervacat]

AHA! Garth Nix fic at fanfiction.net. I make no claims about the quality, but there are 188 stories there, so at least one of them has to not suck, right?

[fanofall]

Have you tried the Internet Archive?

"What is that?" You say? Why, I'll tell you! They go through and archive internet webpages, so you plug your handy-dandy broken link into the Internet Archive (AKA the Wayback Machine, heh) and if it was archived, it brings the page up for you! EVEN IF THE LINK'S NOW BROKEN!

I bring youThe Internet Archive: Wayback Machine!

[thefourthvine]

I actually did try that for some of the stories. Problem is, the Wayback didn't archive the story pages as far as I can tell - just the front pages.

Grrr.

[fanofall]

Okay, I thought that would work. Hmm. Perhaps I will have to think on this some more.

[thefourthvine]

Well, it was an excellent idea. It just didn't work this time. Although, now I think about it, does Wayback archive Geocities pages? Because with the way Yahoo! is disabling every site that goes inactive for, like two minutes, I get a lot of bad links that way.

Now I wish I'd saved my bad links so I'd have some way to check. But that would be so, so anal retentive. Too much so even for me.

I hope.

[fanofall]

What would the title of that "favorites" folder be? "Porn I have to put through the Wayback Machine"? ;-)

[thefourthvine]

Now I may have to make the folder just to use that title. Because, let's face it, we should all put porn through the Wayback Machine. It would suddenly acquire a badly synthesized soundtrack, lots of heavy gold jewelry, big lapels and flared pants, and Star Wars Original Trilogy hair.

Wait. Now I remember why I don't put porn through the Wayback Machine.

(Um...what's going on in that icon? I'm at loss.)

[fanofall]

It's from the movie Troy, and specifically from the brilliant cleolinda's Troy in Fifteen Minutes, which can be found at her Movies in Fifteen Minutes LiveJournal Community.

Basically, the Trojans lob flaming balls of... well, I really do think it's twine...at the Greeks, and if you snark AT ALL, you're thinking, "BEWARE THE FLAMING BALLS OF TWINE!"