Slashy Nominations 73: Unto the Pure, All Things Are Pure

[thefourthvine]

The subtitle of today's entry should either be "Everything That Is Wrong with FF Today" or "Everything That Is Right with FF Today." Depending on, you know, your perspective. Because today I am exploring that very pure thing: pure, pure smut

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[guede_mazaka]

Oh, you read Sharpe, too? Have you checked out viva_gloria's two pieces? They're what convinced me that OCs can be better than just tolerable. They're set after Sharpe's Prey, which is...fifth now?...but they don't really need too much context.

And nodding emphathetically to your review of cinzia. Awesome stuff.

[thefourthvine]

Oh, yes, I've read viva_gloria's Sharpe. In fact - no, wait.

I was going to say that she's the reason I'm reading Sharpe, which is true, because my relationship to her is pretty much the same one those geese had to Lorenz: imprinted. I waddle after her into every damn fictional fandom she enters.

But then I realize that viva_gloria is actually the reason I'm here at all - as in, on LJ, in any fandoms, all that. I was still in my looking-down-on-FF phase when I first encountered her work. I read that first story maybe 10 times in a row, looking for the bad part, the part that would enable me to scoff and depart and feel superior. But, surprise, I never found it. I went on to read everything she'd written in a fictional fandom, and when I found her classics slash, I was hookedThen it was off to her LJ. And off to read all of her friends (which is where I eventually found you). And thus to other journals and other fandoms, and, in the fullness of time, to this journal and all fandoms

[guede_mazaka]

*grinning* Feels good to be a convert, huh? Admittedly, she's not the one who got me into fanfic, but she is responsible for me ever taking an interest in Sharpe. Which resulted in a drain on the wallet, but hey, it's for a good cause.

A thank-you note would be a nice thing to do; she's a wonderful, wonderful person as well as a marvelous writer.

[viva_gloria]

Am blushing and -- well, not quite giggling, but seem to be acting about half my age. 'Tis magick. And I am very glad to have led you both astray!

Darling thefourthvine, did you really mean what you said about following me everywhere, like a duck? (Or possibly not like a duck.)

How do you feel about Neal Stephenson?

[thefourthvine]

I did indeed mean what I said. I follow you into every fandom you enter (except RPS, which has this strange selectively permeable barrier around it: it admits everyone else, but it excludes me), exactly like those geese followed Lorenz, and for pretty much the same reason

[viva_gloria]

have you read Quicksilver?

I am committing a Heinous Crossover in a fandom which currently seems to have two (2) members.

[thefourthvine]

have you read Quicksilver?

Yes.

I am committing a Heinous Crossover in a fandom which currently seems to have two (2) members.

Would this be the Quicksilver fandom? Because if so oh my god I want to read it. Crossover with what? (And, out of curiosity, who are the two members? I mean, you must be one, but the other is...?)

(Side whisper: forget not the Cryptonomicon, which is sort of a related-to-Quicksilver book and still my favorite of all Stephenson's books, if for no other reason the Pig Truck Incident. (Pigs! With their triangle-shaped ears functioning as heat-radiator arrays! Why am I the only one who loves this?) Lawrence Waterhouse is my favorite Stephenson character ever, and I long with all my heart to see Waterhouse/Alan Turing slash. I mean, yeah, it'd be a little AU, but that Waterhouse could've done it without ever noticing. He was like that.)

[viva_gloria]

am vaguely worried in case the sheer horror of it is too much for you.
Shall I be a frightful tease and tell you that I (and the lovely Tess) are slashing two characters with the same initials?

[thefourthvine]

Now I'm scared. Also likely to die of curiosity. Tell, tell, tell!

[viva_gloria]

The Devastation of Southwark 1683

There's more, too ...

[thefourthvine]

Just as I posted "Tell, tell, tell," I realized what other fandom you were likely to cross with Quicksilver. And my brain said, Shaftoe/Sparrow. (It's a poker hand: mad Jacks.)

I come here to post the guess, and there it is. And now, of course, I'll have to read it.

Eeee! Shaftoe/Sparrow!

You know, it actually makes a kind of sense.

[viva_gloria]

It makes perfect sense! Truly it does! Historically, ecumenically, gramatically.

Also, Pirate. (Have you read The Confusion, too? No spoilers in fics, don't worry, but have Theories.)

[viva_gloria]

normally I can spell 'grammatically', too. Off to bed!

[thepouncer]

Quicksilver fandom has at least three members. Just so you know.

My love for Stephenson is vast and uncharted.