208: A Long and Winding Road

[thefourthvine]

The One That Makes My Brain Turn in Circles, Trying to Figure out If You Can Fight Destiny or Not. For the Record, I'm Hoping That I Could and Spock and Kirk Can't. Fighting Gravity, by pantswarrior, aka

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[geeklite]

Oh man, The Student Prince. I'm pretty sure that boything thought I was more deranged than usual because for days after reading it I'd remember some little thing about the fic and smile widely.

[thefourthvine]

...That isn't a sign of derangement, is it? Because not only am I doing that - I mean, I'm still quoting stories I read in 2005. So. Um. If Fan Fiction Brain Impingement Syndrome is a sign of insanity...

[geeklite]

Well boything is not normal. I mean he did marry me.

[dzurlady]

BTW, you are missing Auburn's name linked in the header to your rec.

Previously I have been so up on my fanfic that I had read everything you recced, but at the moment I am lurking so much that I have not read any of these. Yay for new fic! *clicks happily on links*

[thefourthvine]

Whoops. Thank you for catching that; I have fixed it. (And happy birthday, if I didn't get a chance to say it to you on the day.)

These are all SUPER FANTASTIC stories to keep you company in your lurking time!

[lucia_tanaka]

a special certificate in TARDIS Interior Design

Totally unrelated (well, at least mostly unrelated), but when you said that, I felt the urge to link you to this heart-wrenchingly gorgeous map of the TARDIS. Then again, it's one of those pieces of fannish work that I wanna force everyone to look at.

[thefourthvine]

OH GOD I HAVE SEEN THAT. And it is SO FUCKING AMAZING. (And, actually, I had that in mind when I wrote the part about TARDIS Interior Design, as I feel sure the artist of that has actually got such a thing. I give you two thumbs up for thinking the same way as me! Unless that was actually mind-reading. TELEPATHS ARE NOT WELCOME IN MY HEAD.) I think the first time I saw that, I actually lost time; I spent a few minutes looking at it and I looked up and half an hour had gone by.

I love it immoderately.

[pandarus]

Dude! DUDE! Here I am gleefully reading your recs (having bounded off to read the Spock/Kirk 'Dirty Dancing' story just yesterday with great delight) AND YOU REC MY FIC!

*\o/*

::does happy startled dance::

Thank you!

(And, fear not, the traditions & all other St Andrews details were 100% factual. Hell, I didn't even address things like the frigid arctic insanity of the May Dip, which is how all the people who aren't Merlin fend off the doom of failing their degree which the ghost of Patrick Hamilton is supposed to bring about for all those foolish enough to walk over his initials in front of the quad, by plunging their pimply flesh into the freezing cold North Sea), or indeed the annual Kate Kennedy March.

Raisin Monday is evidently still going strong; I remember my own 3-legged pub crawl in Freshers' Week (during which my roommate got off with her partner [who became her Academic Dad as a result] in one of the bunkers on the Royal and Ancient Golf Course, and spent the rest of the term trying to get the resulting sand out of her

[thefourthvine]

Hi hi hi!

And, oh. Thank you for the bonus footnotes! Part of me is like, "Oh, St. Andrews, how are you so awesome?" And part of me is like, "But - but - I WANT TO READ THE DELETED SCENES WITH THE POLAR BEAR GHOST DIVE." Although it makes me happy to imagine that there is More to This Story, involving further traditions of concentrated - awesomeness. Let's call it awesomeness.

Now I am off to watch many YouTube videos of St. Andrews displaying its awesomeness. With hearts in my eyes, totally.

[silver_cuplet]

...As a JYA student who landed at St. Andrews a few years ago, the first page of this story made me miss St. Andrews. I was literally sitting there mumbling "Leuchars!" to myself as Gwen and Merlin discussed it. Then, I see the rec here, asking if it was all real, and I was nodding "Yes, yes it *is*. And if you live in Gatty, you run the risk of having a really bad drunken rendition of 'Hotel California' played in your common room at 2:30 am while the May Dippers wait for a passing rain shower to clear up."

[laughingacademy]

Omigod, "The Student Prince" is SO AWESOME. I particularly love how it turns out the Dragon might be perfectly adapted for life in cyberspace -- "I understand there are trolls? And I can flame them?"

If you're curious about oldskool Who, I recommend copperbadge's ongoing series "Three Things about Classic Who." He decided, God knows why, to watch the entire series (including official and fan recreations of lost episodes) in order. It's a very breezy overview, with occasional looks into what was happening behind the scenes, discussions of how the show treats gender (often surprisingly well) and race (...er), helpful links, and hilarious screencaps.

[thefourthvine]

OMG. I must check that out, and also show it to my sister. (My sister and her older son are the true Who fans in the family.)

...I think I would prefer to be elsewhere in the internets when the Great Dragon shows up. Um. He might be a little too well adapted, is what I'm saying; could turn out a dragon in the machine is what worse than a ghost.