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*

[marycrawford]

He gets to be Iolaus!

Or um. she. *is a dolt*

[thefourthvine]

You are not an idiot. English is, for not giving us a neutral pronoun. But, seriously, BB is very used to being he and she on LJ, because I forget to say "she" often enough.

*curses English's tiresomely gender specific ways*

[thefourthvine]

I just sort of really want a running HtLJ commentary by you and your BB.

*snerk* Um. No. That would be - that would be disturbing. Yes.

And I have no intention of revealing in a public place just how hysterical I thought it was that the Amazons had to hold their breasts as they ran down the hill.

Oh. Wait. Whoops.

Hey, did you know Hercules actually turns into a demon in season six? With horns and everything!Oh my god. Now we're running into - see, okay. There's this old movie called Legend, and it is - it is the funniest thing I have ever seen, for so very, very many reasons. (The sprite played by a tiny lightbulb on a very visible string! The unicorns with horns that wobble around on their heads when they gallop! The way that hell only has one person in it! Well, two if you count Satan.) I know a lot of people love it for reasons of actual plot, but I love it because - well, because Satan has horns on which the seam from the mold is clearly visible

[elynross]

I'm still bitter about how I acquired a new fandom pretty much through icons of a pig in a leather costume.

*giggles madly*

At least she did it to me through whole vids. Hee hee hee hee. Okay, it was actually through a few snapshots of Iolaus flirting, but. *kof*

Although porkules was v. v. enticing.

[thefourthvine]

Okay, it was actually through a few snapshots of Iolaus flirting, but.

You still totally trump me on the fan coolness scale. Icons! I was seduced into a fandom by pig icons! My shame is intense.

marycrawford should be required to wear some kind of warning wherever she goes. (Ideally something more concise than, "If you spend more than two minutes talking to me, you're going to have a profoundly humiliating story to tell all your fannish friends.")

But, I mean - Porkules! What could I do but succumb?

[brown_betty]

Demons and leather pants describes so many fandoms. It's the pig that makes H:tlJ stand out.

[thefourthvine]

Demons and leather pants describes so many fandoms.

I'm very disturbed by the accuracy of this statement. I just want you to know that.

But! You have made a scientific discovery of no little merit: apparently demons + leather pants is one of the terms in the Grand Unified Fandom equation. You should publish this.

[stillane]

Further Herc tips (I feel like we should start a column somewhere; Dear Abbey for the Demigod, maybe):

Should the double thing not work out and death continue to be a pain, you can set your universe on repeat. All your loved ones will reincarnate, and you can keep doing the adventure and suffering schtick throughout eternity. The downside is that your not-so-loved ones will also resurface, but then, you'd get fat and lazy without the cardiovascular hijinks of your daily Ares battle.

And it isn't the slightest bit gay to be linked for all time to your 'partner'. Nope. Not at all. Just like returning from godhood because you missed him isn't. At all.

[thefourthvine]

Hey, I never said I'd go with the majority vote. I just wanted to know what it would be. So Hercules is definitely still a contender, if for no other reason than to show those who have not beheld the majesty of the long-haired wonderstud in leather pants what they're missing. (And, seriously. That is the perfect description of Hercules.)

Although I don't know. I feel kind of...inadequate in the face of a fandom that so obviously did not take itself even remotely seriously. And was so obviously very, very gay. And, my god, the Widow Twanky. It's like - they Fandoms I Have Loved themselves, you know?

[stillane]

The wonderstud needs to be beheld. *serious nod* The behind of the wonderstud needs to be beheld.

I'm pretty sure there was some very heavy consumption of intoxicating substances behind more than one of those episodes. Really, giant formerly-bondage-geared-goddess chickens? A host of recuring characters which included a character named after deepfried chickpeas and Surfer Barbie the Diety? More than one episode involving your main character being translated into a farmyard animal?

Come to think of it, I wonder what the Herc writers are up to these days... I suspect they may have taken up writing SGA fanfic...

Good to know the crack is still in the running. *g*

[thefourthvine]

The behind of the wonderstud needs to be beheld.

And the behind of the wonderstud needs to be held. By Iolaus.

*nods in heartfelt agreement*

I wonder what the Herc writers are up to these days... I suspect they may have taken up writing SGA fanfic.

*shock and awe*

My god. That would explain so much. Hercules: where the canon is just like SGA fandom.

[marycrawford]

As it happens, I just found out that Kurtzman & Orci, the writing team that brought you Porkules (and some fun, slightly less insane episodes, too) have been hired to write the Star Trek prequel movie, with a younger Kirk and Spock at the Academy.

Mary, admiring the behind of the wonderstud