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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[unusualdemoness]

The Scourge of Trion! I got halfway through it months ago and then got distracted by something else and lost the link. Thank you for redirecting me to it. :D

[thefourthvine]

OMG go read it! It is purely amazing from beginning to end!

[cranberryink]

Yay, fic recs! And I have totally not read (nor have I seen rec'd) that Merlin one, so I am in the 1.1% who needed to see that. Thanks! :)

[lynnmonster]

Oh, you are in for a treat!

[thefourthvine]

Your friends list has been remiss! You should definitely take them all to task. *nods firmly*

[lynnmonster]

Hey, I had NO IDEA that one of the Star Trek novels (of which I have read exactly none) had to be de-slashified until perfectbinding pointed me to this post. WOW.

[thefourthvine]

I knew! But, yeah, only because someone on my friends list got hold of the un-deslashified version and read it. AMAZING.

[kbk]

I hadn't realised I remembered it, but I reached the date 1413 and physically recoiled, because I went to St Andrews, and had a shitty time - by which I mean to say, it is in many ways as other places, with the added bonus of being a fairly small town and thus tremendously claustrophobic to a city-girl sans car. (Also, LGBT community = small and somewhat incestuous.) (Nearest elevator = Dundee!) But it is beautiful and I do miss the sea.

Maybe I'll read that fic despite my fear, since you recced it. But not today.

ETA: Totally with you on the advice thing. Totally.

[alien_alice]

I think I'm liking St Andrews quite a bit better than you did, but still, this was pretty much my exact reaction :(

Or probably it was more like, 'I don't know if I can read fic about wacky hijinks and Grand Old St Andrews Traditions when my own experience of Grand Old St Andrews Traditions involves either 1) not getting it, and feeling lonely or 2) not getting it, feeling lonely, and being covered in shaving foam oh God why.'

But! I am going to read it, because if I don't I'll keep wondering. Also the author's outpouring of glee a few comments up is making me grin in spite of myself.

[kbk]

Oh god, the shaving foam. Also, I was dressed as a yah, and a boy yah asked why I wasn't in costume. And my academic mother tried to kill me with vodka (she didn't really drink at the time, and so gave me a mug full). But, yes.

[pandarus]

Oh, God, the yahs. Bless them. In a horrified/amused David- Attenborough-watching-another-species kind of way.

[cadencecascade]

I adore your recs even when the story that they lead me to isn't perhaps exactly to my liking. You speak in the language of my brain. I appreciate it.

[thefourthvine]

Yay! Although I am sort of worried to discover there is another person who speaks my language. What if we attain critical mass? We could end up a rambling black hole!