Slashy Awards 144: Strephon's a Member of Parliament!

[thefourthvine]

I've been trying del.icio.us for a while, and I've come to the conclusion - well, it's nice to have all my bookmarks resident on the web. And it's nice to be able to put everything up there. But - well, okay. It makes me not want to do actual recommendations sets, and that's kind of why I have this journal, and it's the thing I love most. So that

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[musesfool]

Well, mostly I've been reading Firefly lately, so um, The Maharani's Mocking Bird, which is about River and Simon - and is River/Simon (which is brother/sister incest, if that's a problem) - and River's been experimented on by the govt and so she's kind of a mind reader and it makes her a little crazy and she has no sense of boundaries and needs Simon to make everything better, and well, there's a reason they call it crazy space incest. Really good story, though, with a plot and everything.

[thefourthvine]

Well, but, see - incest is the reason I said no Supernatural. I've got an incest squick that just refuses to go away. I'd love a rec of Firefly gen, though - is there any story you can think of offhand that might work as an introduction to the fandom or characters?

If it helps, I've read a few Firefly crossover stories (besides this one, I mean), and, going by those, I think I'd be most interested in (in order of probability): Simon, Mal, River. Also possibly Kaylee (although I've hardly seen mention of her in stories, the few lines she's had have been interesting) and Wash (everyone seems to like him, but I only have slightly more data about him than Kaylee).

[katie_m]

You've read Big Damn Zombies, Sir, right?

[musesfool]

Hmm... I'm not so much with the Simon, personally, but there's Par for the Course by voluese, about Simon learning to live with less than he's used to having.

Reliance by Roseveare is a gen novella that captures the feel of the show really well, I think, and might serve.

Another Horsedreamer's Blues by loneraven is a great Mal story. (Er, most of what I read and rec centers on Mal somehow, so...)

Embracing a Life of Crime by Macha is a fun pre-series story about Wash becoming part of the crew, and wooing Zoe...

Sweet Dreams and Flying Machines by _astralis is a missing scene from the movie that feels like it should have been in there, in which Mal and Kaylee survey the damage to the ship.

and if you're looking for utter hilarity, there's Can't Stop the Turtle by uarazy2, which is a Firefly/Discworld crossover that literally made me laugh out loud...

And of course, "Big Damn Zombies" is totally worth reading. *g*

[wistfuljane]

Hmm...I don't know if you know this, but del.icio.us has a private saving feature (go setting > private saving & enable the option so that whenever you bookmark a link, you can make it private) if you want to go that route. I'll get back on you about other bookmark softwares 'cause I need to look them up.

[wistfuljane]

Ah, yes, I've seen Furl recommended, but I haven't used it myself so I'll like you to this artcle for a comparision of social bookmarking softwares (scroll down to tools).

[thefourthvine]

Ooo, cool. Thank you!

*points, clicks*

[hannahrorlove]

4. The only ones I read are the_cortex and house_notice which aren't spectacular but work fairly well enough for me.

5. Old, but still good: A mix - not quite a crossover - of Firefly and 'The Ship Who Sang' books. [Link to part five.]

A supernatural, surreal piece in the 'House' fandom.

Another from 'House' - gen! It exists!

6. The Quitter by Harvey Pekar and Dean Haspiel, which is an autobiography. Before that, it'd be Bringing Down The House by Ben Mezrich, which is a very fast read and a lot of fun. Stiffby Mary Roach is probably right up your alley; it's all about cadavers.

7. Dead Poets Society. Witness. The Station Agent. American Beauty. The Blues Brothers. A Night At The Opera. The Squid And The Whale. Stiff Upper Lips. Roger Dodger. The Secret Of Roan Inish. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. The Wild Parrots Of Telegraph Hill. Porco Rosso.

[thefourthvine]

4. Wheee! Thank you.

5. Further "Wheee!" And further thanks, too.

6. Yet further whee. The latter two are familiar to me, but I'd not heard of The Quitter. *adds to wish list*

7. Best Beloved has seen about half of these, but the others look interesting, particularly Porco Rosso and The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill. *adds to Netflix queue*

[ficbyzee]

I have such insane, insane amounts of love for Outward Bound. Because... dude, Gunn. And Ronon. And--and really, yeah, that's all I got.

The best non-fiction book I've *been* reading lately is A Death in Brazil, by... uh. I am too lazy to actually go pick up the book and look at the author name. *koff* But it's really good! Trust me! Erm.

As for fanfiction, as anyone who's glanced at my journal can probably tell, I've returned to obsessing to a dangerous degree over comics. Which is a fandom I think you also follow, so I don't know if I'll be able to offer anything new, but stories I have enjoyed *immensely* lately have been Both Alike in Dignity by petronelle (yes, the pairing probably makes sane people flinch, just look *past* that) and Off Page Six by glossing (again, don't let the pairing put you off, this fic is brilliant and just HOT); on the gen side of things, I'm sure you've already read c_elisa's fucking amazing Hank fic that has been recced all over LJ-land, so I am too lazy to find the link I won't bother to repeat other fans' more

[thefourthvine]

I loved Both Alike in Dignity. What's icky about the pairing? Kon! Barbara! There's no bad there. (And there's *really* no bad in a sweet happy Kon story, what with, uh, recent events. Now I just need a hit of Classic Tim and my happiness will be complete.)

And I also loved Off Page Six and Squandered My Resistance (OMG EEEE about sums up my reaction there). And of course I've read c_elisa's Kingdom of Heaven, and it SO GOOD. It was a tossup between two sets tonight, and I went with crossovers, but if I'd done the other Kingdom of Heaven would've been on it.

*happy sigh*

And speaking of all things comics-y, do you happen to know if there's a DCU (or Marvel, for that matter) newsletter? I remember, um, was it Minisoo? Maybe? Except probably it was really someone else? talking about starting one, but I never heard if it got going. Because there are so many great stories in those fandoms. A newsletter would be excellent(Of course I knew about your pervy little World's Finest collection. Wonderful idea. Super-anything plus Bat-anything does

[ficbyzee]

Kon! Barbara! There's no bad there

See, that's what *I* think, but people kept giving me horrified looks when I said that. (Yes, I know it's the internet. I can just tell they're giving me horrified looks.)

There is no comics newsletter that I know of, which is too bad. There's dcfic_index and marvelfic_index, of course, but--well, DC as a fandom is kinf of... irregular? I mean, from *my* point of view in the fandom, it seems like we get a few days of tons of great fic being posted, and then dry spells. So having a newsletter published every day--well, it might be incredibly depressing, or at least weird. Heh.

[ficbyzee]

Also:

And I haven't even considered writing a paper about how Batman is the only character that doesn't usually have an analog, possibly because he's too fucked up for there to be more than one of him in the multiverse.

Angel, man! If only because they are both such assholes, and because their lady friends seem to find refrigerators at about equal rates.

[murklins]

1. I love delicious a lot, but it took me a while to get there. I still mark everything "do not share" if I have to be brutally honest and call it like it is. Still, I would be sad to lose your social bookmarks. I sort of look at them once in a while, because sometimes you seem to go *back in time* and pull out old links, which is very cool. But yeah, do not share is my friend and it could be yours too. But I find delicious has not enough space for notes, so if you find something with more notes, I'd love to know.

4. Probably I should say the sshp_prophet because it's the one I edit, but really it's the vm_navigator because Veronica Mars fic is my guilty addiction. I can't stop reading it, but it hurts so bad. So I need the newsletter to see when fic I might be able to stand gets posted.

5. Recs. Hard to rec things to you -- not sure which ones I found out about from here in the first place.

Benevolent Sibling by fahye, BSG. Galactica's residents star in the Cylon hit reality series Benevolent Sibling. Excerpt: “You can’t activate him now,” Sharon added,

[thefourthvine]

sometimes you seem to go *back in time* and pull out old links

Yup, I do. If I go back to something I have bookmarked in my old folder for any reason - and because of the way I rec and read, I do that fairly often - I try to put it into del.icio.us, too. If I went once, I'll probably go again, that's my reasoning.

Somehow this leads to Scrabble porn.

*amused*

Scrabble porn! That is totally appealing. (And now, of course, I'm thinking - if I like it, that will make two stories about Scrabble in two different fandoms. Will there one day be enough for a recs set?)

[murklins]

Hmm. The only other Scrabble fic I remember is Scrabble by MartianHousecat (schmevil). The Slytherins take Scrabble very seriously. Hilarious gen, no porn at all, except for hints of Draco/Pansy. A few comma problems, esily overlooked (by me, at least, because as you can see I'm no stranger to comma abuse).