OMG, content! (movies & recs)

[b_hallward]

Last night I sat through most of the agonizing new Keira Knightley Pride & Prejudice -- by the time I got to Mr. Bingley's 'But I can read...' line I knew this was not going to work for me. People said it was Brontëfied. It's worse than that: it's like a Brontë pastiche aimed at twelve-year-olds. It wasn't that the acting was particularly bad --

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[solo]

I read TS sometimes, when I need to read something outside a fandom I really care about. (If that makes sense.) So thanks - I'll be following some of these up.

[b_hallward]

Yay! -- it wasn't a waste ^^

Nah, that makes perfect sense -- I try to always have a couple of large, older fandoms like TS to fall back on, so I can find decent new fic easily when I've reached that unfortunate stage where you've already read most of the good, readily available fic in the fandoms you're really invested in. Running out of fics in smaller fandoms is so frustrating.

[ranalore]

I love TS. It was my first official slash fandom, and has all kinds of nifty elements and good, chewy possibilities: military, anthropology, police, the Pacific NW, extrapolative science, hot guys living together, deep spiritual connections.... I dig it. *G*

[b_hallward]

How do you find time for all your fandoms?

You know, I'm beginning to realize I have this massive, massive kink for detective-type partners falling in love with each other. Really everything from X-files to Yami to TS to 70s cop shows. How did I miss this?

nifty elements and good, chewy possibilities

I know, though I sometimes wish there'd be more of the whole military/anthropology/police/Jim's powers side of things, and less with the endless angst and/or fluff. Hell, I even get tired of porn sometimes, which is just so wrong.

[ranalore]

Well, I don't get into them all at once. *G* It's been ages since I read any TS, and ages since I watched it, but I still remember it with much fondness. And plan to buy the DVDs. *G*

You know, you might kind of dig my latest fandom, then. GetBackers has the partnership of Ban and Ginji at its center, and they're not detectives, but they are retrieval agents, which is related. Also, lots of waxing poetic about art.

You might check out stuff by kassrachel and cesperanza, to name just two who liked playing with the anthropology and senses. Laura JV is another name that comes to mind, and she did an interesting series that riffed off of Blair's throwaway line about flying choppers in "Siege." This is her site.

[wordsofastory]

Hey, I read Buffy and tS, so the recs aren't useless at all. Thanks!

[b_hallward]

Oh that's right -- though I didn't think you read TS anymore. But, yay!, I know others who have somehow found themselves reading TS -- I've spent the last two weeks very bemused, wondering how the hell I got here.

[wordsofastory]

I don't go searching for it myself anymore, but I'm always willing to check out intresting recs.

Heh. That seems to be how a lot of people find themselves in TS. I started out by reading the fanfiction, and only tracked down the canon later.