the galactic miscellany

[flambeau]

I'm borrowing this sub-header thing from thamiris, because this post just got longer and more disjointed.

in which I do not believe what I am told

I don't know why I'm such a doubting Thomasina. Back when everyone started going on about Ocean's 11and how it was so slashy and there should be stories, and then there were stories, I nodded my head and said

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[akatonbo]

Much love for that sort of boy -- especially Klaus, but so many others too. Particularly in close third, which is what I prefer to write anyway.

Speaking of that kind of boy -- and of recs -- I find myself wanting to pimp a fandom to you. Because everyone should know the crackladen joy that is Prince of Tennis. I would totally send you a DVD or two full of it if your computer has a DVDROM. (DVD full of AVI files = something like 20 episodes.)

[flambeau]

Fandom pimping! *hides* Okay, no, not really hiding, but I've picked up SGA and House in what was, for me, quick succession, so I don't know if my resistance is still low or if my dance card is full now, and wasn't that a mixed metaphor for the ages.

Maybe I should find one episode and check it out. You know, let it sneak up on me. :) Exactly how crack-laden is it?

[akatonbo]

Well, first of all, it's about junior high school boys who play tennis as if their inter-school tournaments were actually fighting tournaments along the lines of Yuu Yuu Hakushou or Flame of Recca (or Rurouni Kenshin, but that didn't have the actual tournaments, just a similar structure). They all take themselves WAY too seriously, and their attack shots have names. Second of all, when they animated it, even though the original manga ran in Shounen Jump, they made the TV series totally pander to the fangirls, and I mean that in the best possible way.

They also made MUSICALS. And it has its own band AU. Clearly, whatever the animators were smoking is something that should see wider distribution.

*ponders* One episode, huh? I should see which one is the late-in-the-first-season recap episode.

[flambeau]

who play tennis as if their inter-school tournaments were actually fighting tournaments

Okay, that does sound like a certain amount of cracktastic fun right there. As does the comment about musicals. I'll keep an eye out for this. :)

[musesfool]

thefourthvine did a great Ocean's Eleven overview, with recs last summer. And I've got more recent recs on unfitforsociety, though I tend toward Rusty/Danny; there's also some Rusty/Linus out there that's decent.

[flambeau]

*nods* Yes, and I see I was unclear - it's more JP3 recs that I don't even know where to start looking for. Although O11 recs are most definitely always welcome. Like you, I definitely lean towards Rusty/Danny - I mean, that was the great big blaring obvious written in neon thing for me in that movie. :)

[cesperanza]

Your group are also performers, in both senses of the word: they've got public selves (selves put on for public display), and they perform in the sense of job performance.

[flambeau]

Oh, true. And I'm deeply attracted to competence - a good performance, as it were. Maybe that's the other half of it.

[akatonbo]

Ooh, yes. Give me some mix of putting on a good front, workaholism or perfectionism, repression, a deep sense of (sometimes overactive) responsibility...

Actually, two different things, really, as one of my favorite boys of all time was all about the workaholism and responsibility, but nobody would have called him repressed or stoic. (Well, maybe the ones who knew him best. His front was very sunnily cheerful -- and not wholly a front, just... often more calculated than natural.)

[eliade]

Despite this experience, I was the same way about Jurassic Park 3. I saw the enthusiasm, I thought sure fine whatever, glad you're having fun. Then I actually watched it yesterday, because yesterday was a very nice day that could only be improved by seeing big monsters with big teeth eating people (yes, I have simple pleasures), and in very short order my jaw fell and, etc, etc. Minus the poker, but you know what I mean.

Yay! *bounce* *squee* Wasn't it amazing? Talk more! *g*

[flambeau]

Oh, so much fun! Big animals with big teeth! And Alan and Billy were so unbelievably married, though I could, squinting, assume that they hadn't actually noticed it themselves. *G* Really, the hat made up for the lack of poker. And I swear that kid knew just what was going on (and was quite tactful when comforting the widower, I thought).

[eliade]

Alan and Billy were so unbelievably married, though I could, squinting, assume that they hadn't actually noticed it themselves. *G*

Heeee. They could be not-yet-together, still fumbling around obliviously (on Alan's side at least; Billy is in no way oblivious to what he feels) or, as Sandy pointed out after watching it, they could simply be together *already* and the writers were simply not allowed to state so explicitly. *g*

[flambeau]

Yeah, really, either one works - them being together already actually feels more plausible, I'm just temperamentally inclined to prefer first-time stories, and setting the first time before Funtime With Monsters just isn't the same. It just makes for a niftier narrative this way - I never knew I loved you till I saw you get eaten by pterodactyls!

[halimede]

Well, the new knitty is up... No, I jest, I'd much rather you write. I'm *very* curious which WIP this is, though. There I hope it's sparkly?

[flambeau]

Oh, the monkeys! Those are some very cute monkeys there.

Not so much with the sparkly this time, no. I think someone hit the "random" button for me in December or so...