Slashy Nominations 56: Self-Love Is Not So Vile a Sin as Self-Neglecting

[thefourthvine]

I think we could all stand to remember the wisdom in the title more often. That said, it's obviously time to take another pass at masturbation stories. Or, no, wait, another whack. No. Another go?

I give up. This is hereby declared a double entendre-free zone for the duration of this nominations set. You will all just have to kick your own

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[copracat]

(I swear, that's not a pairing, it's more like a brand of slash or something.

You are most definitely correct.

[thefourthvine]

Good to hear, because I have become seriously enamored of the word. I hope to be using "jimblair" a lot in the future, ideally in as many parts of speech as possible. "And then he gave you a shoulder rub? Sounds like you are working up to some serious jimblair." "Yeah, he said it was a really jimblair kiss." "That book is so jimblairy; I swear I thought they were headed for a commitment ceremony at one point."

And I realize this is entirely unrelated, but I have to ask: are you really a coconut cat?

[copracat]

are you really a coconut cat?

No. I am a grumpy person who couldn't have vera@yahoo.com and put down the stupidest thing I could think of. LJ wouldn't let me have Vera either. The person who has that is called Gidget and she never updates.

I hate her.

I'm reconciled to copracat now, but I am not in any way coconut or a cat.

[thefourthvine]

I know. The person who has the name I wanted for this LJ has never updated. Not once. And she doesn't even have an flist, so there is no reason for her to have a LJ.

And I won't even tell you what my yahoo mail name is, except to note that it is sadly pathetic, and for the same reasons as yours. And the person who has the name I wanted there is, well, me. (See, way back when My Yahoo was in beta I used the name I wanted to register for it. When I went back later, I'd forgotten the password and lost the email account that I used to register that name, so I couldn't reclaim it. Truly, I contain the seeds of my own destruction. Does this mean I am evil? Probably.)

I will think of you, in that case, as "the non-coconut non-cat curiously called copracat." Alliteration is my friend!

[the_star_fish]

sihayab is where she's at on LJ. Her due South stories are archived at DSA.

[thefourthvine]

Ooo, many thanks. I'm, like, the queen of LJ lostness; I didn't start looking for author LJs until very late in the game (as in, well after I started this one, even - I'm slow, is what I am), and as a result I'm always realizing *just* as I go to link to a story that I have no clue where this particular writer lives.

Huh. She's writing HP now as well. Is anyone not? Trying to keep an HP db must require monk-like focus and dedication.

[the_star_fish]

Dude, all my dS friends are writing HP now -- the ones that aren't writing MUNCLE or popslash, at least. It's scary.

[thefourthvine]

God, I know. It's like the HP hive mind or something out there. Every time I look, more writers are absorbed.

Which, you know, whatever they want to write, if it's good, I'll gladly read it, and a lot of it is really good. It's just that HP can be so. Freaking. Disturbing. When I start an HP fic, I have to be totally ready for every single character (in a kid's book series! that I started reading before I ever even thought about fan fiction!) to be dead or worse by the end. I'm not always prepared for that, you know? So I cherish those people who are still anachronistically and iconoclastically writing happy endings to stories in other fandoms.

[slemslempike]

Oh, the Justice League one was very funny. And I enjoyed Night Watch far more than I thought I was, although it turned out somewhat darker that I was expecting from the beginning.

I do like masturbation stories. Mmmmm.

[thefourthvine]

OK, very good to hear that I'm not the only one who laughed at "Wally West." Because I had this moment of thinking, dear god, what if this is just proof that my sense of humor is even more irreparably broken than Batman's? I will have inadvertently outed myself in my LJ! And then I realized that with all the other things I admit to here, most people probably wouldn't even blink at that one, and I clicked "update journal" anyway.

I totally agree - masturbation just adds a certain something to a story. I am a charter member of the More Wanking Society. Or, you know, I would be, if there was such a thing.

[thefourthvine]

I am entirely convinced that the best way to read TS FF is with as little knowledge of the canon as possible. (Let us all now take a moment to be grateful for TS FF *authors*, who do actually have to see the show. Brave souls! May their rewards be many.) The only TS I've seen is the blooper reel. That, now, that is worth a look.

And I am so happy to hear that I have lured you to a new fandom. My secret (well, it would be secret, if I didn't keep telling people) motive when I started this LJ was to convert people to the way of life we know as multi-fandom canon-free reading, and it is just so deeply affirming of my chosen (evil) path to hear that I have succeeded. Please do continue your journey to the dark side of FF. May I tempt you to a lovely helping of due South? Or perhaps Master & Commander? Or, hey, the DCU is always nice in the summer.

[slemslempike]

I have heard of this blooper reel. How might one find it?

[thefourthvine]

Check your email, slem, for I have written you Under Separate Cover, as they say in the, um, document business. (That sentence sure didn't go well, but onward and upward.)

[thefourthvine]

Ooo, interesting. What was the sporky aspect for you? For me, the first part was just a teeny bit, um, embarrassing, but overall, not so sporky for me. So I'm curious (though of course you don't have to say).

And you're so right about what "Night Watch" should've been nominated for. And it would of course win the award, because no one could work that line into another story.