Slashy Nominations 27: Return of the Small Fandoms

[thefourthvine]

Small fandoms don't get enough love in this world. For one thing, there is no better kind of story with which to launch a career as a multifandom reader, or a non-canon reader (i.e., one who reads the FF without knowledge of the canon). And once you realize how many great stories there are in small fandoms, you'll want to be a non-canon reader;

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[dylant]

(repeating myself from my other post, oh no!) Just finished reading 'Not Exactly The Galaxy's Greatest Romance' (and the other two HGtoG fics on that same site) and wanted to tell you that, having just begun rereading Adams' "trilogy," it just hit the perfect spot with me.

I was wondering if you knew of any other Hitchhiker stories. It's such a small, funny little fandom that I've been hard-pressed to find more than prillalar's lovely More Things in Heaven and Earth, which, rather than follow old Douglas' hilarious, reeling style, kind of goes off on its own.

[daegaer]

Thank you very much, thefourthvine, I'm delighted you enjoyed 'Not Exactly the Galaxy's Greatest Romance'!

dylant, if you'd like to see them, my other Hitchhiker stories are on my LJ, listed here.

[dylant]

thank you so much, daegaer. i really loved "Not the Galaxy's Greatest Romance." speaking a day after having read it, the images still stick with me. Arthur stuck on that faceless, grey world and running after Ford... it was lovely *and* funny.

off to read your other stories.

[thefourthvine]

Hmmm. Besides Daegaer's excellent FF, the only one I have bookmarked is The Galactic Miscellany, which is almost gen. (And which was written as a Christmas present for, you guessed it, Daegaer. She's a one-woman fandom-creation machine!) But the thing is, I know I've read some other fairly decent HGtoG FF. (For some reason, I never do seem to learn the first lesson of reading fanfic: fail to bookmark at your peril.) I will see if I can reboot my brain and dredge out the memory of where I saw them.

[thefourthvine]

Dylant, I still haven't dug up those links for Hitchhiker's fic. So here's a sort of half-assed attempt to help nourish your small fandom love.

In case you haven't seen it, there's an archive of HGttG (don't know why I wrote HGtoG before, really) fan fiction called The Hitchhiker's Library. Warnings: like most archives, the quality of the stories varies tremendously in there. Also, this is not a huge archive, but then, hey, it's a small fandom, right? And, finally, I don't know whether you wanted just slash or whether all FF is fine with you; if the former, be aware that lots of the stories on THL are gen. And if that archive doesn't satisfy and you're feeling really, really brave, there's about 150 stories in the Hitchhiker's section of fanfiction.net.

If you do brave the Horror of Fan Fiction Archives and manage to find anything good, I'd love to know about it.

[dylant]

will definitely tell you if the Horror holds any good Hitchhiker fic. if i can make myself cull through it. ::cringes::

thanks for the other archive too.

[dylant]

will definitely tell you if the Horror holds any good Hitchhiker fic. if i can make myself cull through it. ::cringes::

thanks for the other archive too.