11. The most missed of your old fandoms? - Everyone please come back to Eagle fandom? Please? When I first found myself LOVING THE HELL out of this fandom and went looking (as you do) for the kinkmeme, I left a similar comment there! LOL
recently i got a huge nostalgic surge for the eagle and i've been putting off reading the book for so long that i might finally do that on my flight back tomorrow morning :D
re: fandom you haven't tried - i've been shamelessly trying to get people into dragon age 2--THE CHARACTERS ARE ALL AWESOME AND IT'S TINY ENOUGH OF A GAME TO FEEL FLESHED OUT plus it's a fairly short play & i finished in around 30 hours or so. it's about this refugee who becomes a mercenary who then becomes a ~champion~ of the city of kirkwall and i think there's a lot of freedom within the overarcing plotline to create the kind of protagonist you want plus you can romance almost any of the characters as either gender. i think ~hardcore gamers~ were disappointed with it in relation to the first dragon age game but taken by itself it's a lot of fun and i think well worth the investment :))))))))
If you've got a narrative kink for loyalty, you may want to check out The Lost Prince fandom. The two main protagonists aren't quite like Marcus and Esca, but there are similarities, and the canon is both ridiculous and iddy.
I have already read the Aeneid, which is why I felt guilty never having read the Iliad and the Odyssey. I read a bunch of it in Latin (whatever the selections for the Advanced Placement exam are, because that's what the student books cover) plus I think a bit extra because I know I read a whole lot of the Nisus and Euryalus stuff and I can't remember how much was in the book. And then I read the whole thing in English, don't remember what translation. But, yes, I also have Aeneid ~feels~. (I think it is all my girlfriend's fault.)
My standout Iliad ~feels~ moments were the bit with baby Astyanax and the helmet, and Achilles and Patroclus and OH GOD HE CAN'T TOUCH HIM ALL THE FEELS.
Sutcliff fandom appears to be gathered in Eot9 and a bit in Frontier Wolf; I only made it through the Dolphin Ring stuff myself, so it's time for Operation Read All the Sutcliff to start again, I think. :)
The future!Rome stuff was cool, but I think my Aeneid feels are anchored in Nisus and Euryalus. Their death is so noble! Also: all the emo moments where Aeneas was sad, because I think I am so used to narratives of modern masculinity where men aren't really allowed to be sad that for me it was all kinds of awkward empathetic OH GOD AENEAS IS CRYING WHAT DO I DO I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THIS.
You should definitely give Achilles a psychic wolf, if you're playing. And Patroclus. And I guess everyone else. :)
Also looking forward to Days of Future Past (*crossing fingers Marvel Gets It Right*) and being able to watch Orange is the New Black for myself whenever it finally becomes a DVD over here... And Vikings ditto (I don't know what exactly put everyone off it, but I know half the flist loved it and then suddenly no one did any more, so I'm braced for a Bad Thing somewhere in the last third of the show)
*high five right back* I am a quarter of the way through "The Mawdryn Undead," wondering if Turlough is really going to kill Five with a rock. I am assuming not.
I am hoping Days of Future Past will be glorious like X-Men 2, and... not like X-Men 3.
Oh, geez, Vikings. It was so good until it suddenly really really wasn't. Orange Is the New Black was good all the way through, though.
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re: fandom you haven't tried - i've been shamelessly trying to get people into dragon age 2--THE CHARACTERS ARE ALL AWESOME AND IT'S TINY ENOUGH OF A GAME TO FEEL FLESHED OUT plus it's a fairly short play & i finished in around 30 hours or so. it's about this refugee who becomes a mercenary who then becomes a ~champion~ of the city of kirkwall and i think there's a lot of freedom within the overarcing plotline to create the kind of protagonist you want plus you can romance almost any of the characters as either gender. i think ~hardcore gamers~ were disappointed with it in relation to the first dragon age game but taken by itself it's a lot of fun and i think well worth the investment :))))))))
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My standout Iliad ~feels~ moments were the bit with baby Astyanax and the helmet, and Achilles and Patroclus and OH GOD HE CAN'T TOUCH HIM ALL THE FEELS.
Sutcliff fandom appears to be gathered in Eot9 and a bit in Frontier Wolf; I only made it through the Dolphin Ring stuff myself, so it's time for Operation Read All the Sutcliff to start again, I think. :)
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You should definitely give Achilles a psychic wolf, if you're playing. And Patroclus. And I guess everyone else. :)
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Also looking forward to Days of Future Past (*crossing fingers Marvel Gets It Right*) and being able to watch Orange is the New Black for myself whenever it finally becomes a DVD over here... And Vikings ditto (I don't know what exactly put everyone off it, but I know half the flist loved it and then suddenly no one did any more, so I'm braced for a Bad Thing somewhere in the last third of the show)
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I am hoping Days of Future Past will be glorious like X-Men 2, and... not like X-Men 3.
Oh, geez, Vikings. It was so good until it suddenly really really wasn't. Orange Is the New Black was good all the way through, though.
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