Poll: Fandoms I Have Loved: Reader Input

[thefourthvine]

I'm just curious, really. I have a lot of half-finished FIHL posts sitting on my hard drive - all the ones listed below are somewhere between 1% and 80% complete - and I guess, now that I've finished with Smallville, I'm feeling a little...unfocused.

Pointers, anyone?

ETA: I have already done (in reverse order) Smallville, Stargate: Atlantis,

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[stillane]

I'm expressing interest, mainly because I don't think it's going to win this round, but there should be some record that it is highly desireable: I bid for Hercules, because... well, okay, mainly because I would love to see just what kind of synopsis you'd produce for that canon, a.k.a just how does one explain the Widow Twanky? Or Ares the God of Blue Suede Shoes, for that matter.

Also, because it was right up there with Smallville with the Gay. (Your whole family is murdered? Pout a lot and knock over a few rocks. Your homosocial life partner is killed (again)? Take out entire pantheons! That's the way to assert your hetersexual identity, right there. Go, you long-haired wonderstud in leather pants!)

And the show crossed my mind for no apparent reason today, which seems very kismet. So, yeah. Hercules someday, please. *g*

[marycrawford]

Yes! Yes! Everything she just said, with knobs on. Also, your FIHL for Smallville was absolutely fabulous (I love the conversations between you and your BB. Seriously) and it would just make me all kinds of happy to read your FIHL about Hercules.

(More tips for Herc: after your 'partner' is killed and you take out entire pantheons, hey, why not go grab yourself a body double from an alternate universe? Make sure he's out of the way when you get your own fella back, though. Maybe you could get him to turn into a mermaid...)

[thefourthvine]

You don't get a vote, darn it. I'm still bitter about how I acquired a new fandom pretty much through icons of a pig in a leather costume. I mean, seriously - that is not a story that's gonna make me Fan of the Month down at the Intensive Fan Addiction Clinic.

Although, yeah, Hercules is totally worth doing. You would not believe the chats BB and I have had over that show lately. (Example:

BB, eyeing the newly-arrived Seasons 2 and 3 DVD sets: "You know, if I didn't read your LJ, I wouldn't even have known these were coming. First rule of marriage: you're supposed to give your spouse warning before you do something really drastic."

Me, launching into the first of a full dozen prepared excuses: "It wasn't my fault! It was Mary Crawford! You know, the one with the pig icons! I was...under a spell, and also there was this demon, and some leather pants, and..."

BB: "YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO TURN YOUR LIFE INTO A HERCULES EPISODE."

[There is a thoughtful pause.]

BB, consideringly: "Although if you're going to anyway, I guess I'd

[marycrawford]

*DIES*

See, I think I deserve a vote for that. HEE. Or possibly I could go post in my LJ and incite people to come over here? Ya think? *plots*

I just sort of really want a running HtLJ commentary by you and your BB. I think that would make me entirely happy. (Okay, and yes, recs would be wonderful and I'd love it if you did some. It's just that the BB dialogues are cracking me up. He gets to be Iolaus! AW.)

I was...under a spell, and also there was this demon, and some leather pants, and..."

Hey, did you know Hercules actually turns into a demon in season six? With horns and everything!

*runs*

[wistfuljane]

Oohh...Harry Potter! Harry Potter! Because I would love your spin on the canon.

I would settle on Will/Bran Dark Is Rising though. You have to give some love to small fandoms. *coughs*

[thefourthvine]

I salute you for your excellent taste in small fandoms. And, seriously, I would've put DiR on the list (I do have a stub of a FIHL for it, started back when dinosaurs frolicked on the earth), but I didn't want to see no one vote for it but me. (And makesmewannadie; I made her read the books last year.) I love those books. They made my childhood a happy place, and I still re-read The Dark Is Rising every December.

And GO and Discworld - these are excellent suggestions. (Although I would feel weird about writing a FIHL that's significantly less funny than the actual canon.)

My Harry Potter FIHL, on the other hand, has been in progress forever. And it's, like, 12 pages of insane confusion already, and it's only half done. And that doesn't even include HPB.

Come to think of it, that would be a highly appropriate introduction to the fandom, really.

*moves HP back into the active folder*

[minervacat]

i would totally have voted for dark is rising (and i would have logged out and logged back in with the two journals i DON'T EVEN USE to vote for it, too) if it had been an option. i'm just sayin'.

[thefourthvine]

I love you more than words can express.

And I am ashamed; I should have had more faith in my fellow fans. Of course there'd be DiR love out there! You people have taste!

[ficbyzee]

I want you to do DCU because it would comfort me to know that someone else suffered through the same insanity I did... for the love of sunshine and puppies?

[thefourthvine]

Um. What does the DCU have to do with sunshine and puppies?

Insanity, though - that's totally connected to the DCU. That FIHL has been in progress forever, because I kept weeping and chewing my hands when I got to the part where I tried to explain the plot.

*shudders at the memory*

*embraces you in profound sympathy*

[brown_betty]

I think when you realize that the writers themselves regard the past as a sort of strong suggestion, rather than, you know, immutable events, that you finally say, "screw it!" and write the story of that time Tim Drake worked as a stewardess for a summer, (in a short skirt pursuit pursuit of justice,) and his smoldering affair with billionaire Bruce Wayne, member of the Mile High club.

[thefourthvine]

So your argument is that:

1. It is indeed true that the DCU and insanity are closely linked, and
2. This is not necessarily a bad thing.

And if the insanity truly leads to Stewardess!Tim, I would be forced to agree with you. Nothing that causes people to write Stewardess!Tim could be bad.

the writers themselves regard the past as a sort of strong suggestion, rather than, you know, immutable events

I'm trying to figure out whether I should laugh or cry at this statement. Because: oh my god so true.

[suchthefangirl]

You have the two shows that I would have thought of first: Sports Night and Hercules!! So much love do I have for these shows, so much so, that I own the complete runs of both, so you know I would love to see your take on them. And I know you love Sports Night 'cause that's how I found you.

The only two others that I would suggest, but thought of after I filled out the poll are both old (like I am), but are filled with slashy goodness: Man From UNCLE, which I haven't seen in decades but I remember it fondly and the fic is really good, and Starsky and Hutch, which I am currently rewatching and am shocked at what they got away with back then. Those boys are in love with each other just as surely as Herc and Iolaus are.

[thefourthvine]

Oh, Sports Night. One of my all-time fandom loves. It's one of those FIHL that I've hesitated about writing forever, just because - how could I do it justice?

I must admit that I've never seen either Man From UNCLE or Starsky and Hutch. But I've seen vids (and the blooper reel!) for the latter, and - oh. My. God. They were so seriously doing it, and the actors so obviously knew it. (Thus, I have added them to the list of Fandoms Where Even the Actors Knew Their Characters Were Gay, Gay, Gay, As Judged by the Blooper Reel: The Sentinel, due South, Starsky and Hutch.)

I watched the S&H movie (okay, half of it - I have an attention span problem when it comes to visual entertainment) with Best Beloved. And there were all these scenes of total and absolute gayness, and I was going, "Um, yeah, way to crank the gay up to 11, guys." And BB said thoughtfully, "No, no. The show was pretty much like this, too."

Possibly I will get S&H discs from Netflix. BB is sure to want to watch them, right?

Right?

[suchthefangirl]

Netflix is how I'm watching them. Go for it, you won't be disappointed. Hell, they get almost naked in the pilot and the looks they give each other- oy, don't get me started. They share food, chairs, women... and they will risk their lives anytime their partner is threatened.

As for the movie, I ran screaming from the trailer soo...

Tell BB that if she wants company, I'll watch them with her (seriously, beats sitting all alone in my room) (ok, well not really seriously because you don't know me, but, honestly I would, and I think we actually do live not too far from each other). I'd gladly watch Herc again as well.

(and DiR so rocks) (and Good Omens)

[thefourthvine]

Netflix is a force for evil. I'm growing ever more certain of this. It makes it so easy to say, "Well, maybe I'll just try one or two. I mean, why not? What could be the harm?" And, tragically, you don't realize until much too late that the potential for harm is immense. At least, I don't figure it out until I'm even more behind on my sleep, and Best Beloved is openly mocking me over dinner.

*sighs sadly*

And we truly don't live all that far from each other; you live in Thousand Oaks, right? And I live near Torrance. We are both citizens of the conglomeration of dinky suburbs that, united, became a teeming metropolis! With freeways that resemble mall parking lots at Christmastime!

*swells with civic pride*

[lunardreamed]

I would love to see your take on Highlander. That's the fandom that introduced me to so much: fanfiction, slash, anything x-rated. You don't see that one around so much. The archives are doing alright, but it seems to have been completely missed by the blog craze. Of course, I could be associating with the wrong people. Still, I would love to see your take.

I would also like to see X-Men, just because it was the one on the list that didn't belong. And I am such a geek; I still read them.

But I probably wouldn't mind any of the others.

[thefourthvine]

Oh, no, Highlander has an active LJ presence! Seriously. Just mosey on over to killabeez's place and start clicking on her friends list. (She's in a lot of other fandoms, too, but that's where I found all my HL sources.)

But, see, my FIHL would be so intensely Methos-focused that I think I'd be, um. Pilloried by all true HL fans. (It's not my fault, really it isn't. He's just...very compelling.)

[chalcopyrite]

my FIHL would be so intensely Methos-focused

::blinks:: There were other characters to focus on? What?

[janet_carter]

True HL fandom isn't Methos-focused? That would make me sad. Not that I've been in of HL fandom; it's more the show that my family used to watch and mock when I was in high school, because we would turn on the tv on Saturday night, and there someone would be, having his/her head taken. And Methos was the hottest thing ever. And then I caught a random rerun a couple of years ago and was like, wow, this is gay. And googled myself to a Methos/Krycek crossover.

Anyway, I had a point...oh, yes, it was pretty much "yay Methos"!