Slashy Nominations 96: My Sleep Is Made Hot by a Recurrent Dream

[thefourthvine]

This is officially the Recs Set That Kicked My Ass. I don't even know why. I love these stories. I want everyone else in the world to love them, too. Usually that's all it takes for me to get into auto-type mode. But this is the fifth incarnation of this set; I've had some variation of it - same theme, slightly different stories - in waiting

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[derryderrydown]

It has a title now! It's called Our Dreams Pursue Our Dead.

[thefourthvine]

And the prize for "Title That Only Enhances the Scary Creepiness of an Already Amazingly Scary and Creepy Story" goes to: derryderrydown!

(I love the title, incidentally. And I totally want you to title everything I write from now on, because clearly you have serious title mojo - "Our Dreams Pursue Our Dead" and "Spanky Pants" are ample proof of that - whereas I have got title whammy, and I won't even offer you proof of that because it's just too depressing.)

[derryderrydown]

Dude, I have no title mojo. I just wander over to bartleby.com and kick it until it throws out a quote that I can turn into a title.

Well, except for Spanky Pants. That was just the crack talking.

[thefourthvine]

That's mojo! That's total mojo, and you don't even appreciate it!

I can do quotes. To a really pathetic degree; sometimes my ordinary speech is 98% quotes. And, I mean, look at the subjects of my sets; virtually all of those are quotes, most of them mutilated in a way that would make the originator of said quote violent, nauseated, or suicidal. But I can't do titles. The ability to transform a quote into a title is mojo! The ability to come up with "Spanky Pants," crack-addled or not - that's mojo!

You're so in charge of the titles for everything I write, ever.

(Um. Sorry if I got, you know, vehement. It's just - the titles thing has been a terrible handicap to me over the years. I can't tell you the hours I spent trying to come up with titles for various essays in college, and I always ended up with something like "Here's an Essay. On a Topic. Yeah." And then there was the one professor who apparently graded entirely on titles... Anyway. It's an issue. Although I suppose that's obvious now.)

*holds out apple*

[typhoid_mary]

You seriously think Derry's is the worst DCU fandom has to offer? I present Exhibits A, B, and C. Heck, I find that the mere mention of Dr. Benway causes me to twitch and shut down the nearest monitor in the hope that I won't be drawn in to the nightmare -- I can't even promise that these were the worst, as they are already collectively Too Awful for me to take any more.

Still, misery loves company -- you should try them!

Re: *holds out apple*

[typhoid_mary]

Hell, I just made myself read another one. Will this torture never end?
http://lubakmetyk.infinology.net/others/benway/passage.txt

Re: *holds out apple*

[thefourthvine]

You seriously think Derry's is the worst DCU fandom has to offer?

Oh good lord no. I happen to love the DCU mostly for the rich, plentiful crack it brings to every occasion, but I know there's seriously creepy, scary, disturbing, and downright scream-until-they-come-to-take-you-away stories out there. It's just that I'm a coward.

A coward who cannot resist recommended stories.

*tentatively clicks on various Exhibits while covering her eyes with the fingers of one hand*

(You realize I'm going to expect you to pay for the therapy. And explain this to my loved ones.)

Re: *holds out apple*

[typhoid_mary]

...oh dear. You have particularly fierce loved ones, too, don't you? I'd say it was lucky that I live in a country that outlaws guns, except that might serve to inspire them. In that case, "C" is by far the most traumatic series I have ever read, partly due to the author's wickedly skilled way with detail. Oh, and Dr. Benway's Marvel stuff isn't half bad at nightmare-making either.

[zeelee_penguin]

That Peter Pan story is totally responsible for the sleep I lost over my Peter Pan paper for english class. I read that story, then stared at my blank screen for hours, thinking, "I have to write about setting? All this creepy, fucked up shit that goes on with the characters and I have to write about setting?"

And I agree, Barrie was totally twisted. I am very, very much looking forward to seeing how Johnny Depp plays him.

Great DC recs, too. Much love for including both fluff and disturbing creepiness. (and both stories had Robins! Yay, Robins.)

[thefourthvine]

I'm sorry, but assigning a paper on the setting of Peter Pan is definitive proof of a deranged mind, and your professor will likely be gibbering by nightfall. Because - who the fuck cares about setting? I mean, just the dream thing alone gave me nightmares - literally - when I first read the book as a wee un, and then there's the fascinating gender issues and the weird, weird, weird weirdness all over the place. Just the concept of Neverland alone is worth 18-20 papers, all focusing on the batshit craziness of one J. M. Barrie and his fictional creations.

And please let me know if you see Neverland. I want to see it, but I'm scared, because, well, Barrie.

Yay, Robins.I would go so far as to say hip hip hooray for Robins. Back when I was an exclusively Marvel girl (look, I had a boyfriend who led me astray, OK?), I thought Robins were the stupidest heroes ever (and it isn't like there isn't compelling evidence for that, what with the Robin panties and the Robin poulaines and the whole hideous color scheme of which we will

[derryderrydown]

Excluding Jason Todd, though, because I still can't feel the love for him.

Shhhh! Don't say that where monkeycrackmary might hear you...

[thefourthvine]

I realize I'm taking my life into my own hands with that comment, but I'm trying to take comfort in the fact that monkeycrackmary is unlikely to hear me in here.

Because it's a fact. I just can't get the Toddlove. I've tried - god knows I've tried. I continue to try. But to me he remains the absolute opposite of Tim, and, well, I love Tim. You see where this is going.

[thefourthvine]

I have an excellent basic lasagna recipe, as well as many interesting variations, and I will happily share them with you. I'd share the actual lasagna, too (I figure there's at least 75% chance I'll be making that tonight), but you're really too far away for that to be practical.

Or are you a member of the anti-lasagna party? Because if you are, I have to inform you that I will brook no deviation from the One True Lasagna Path. Only through the consumption of excellent lasagna can you find true happiness. Put your faith in the lasagna. It will not let you down.

Lasagna is love, and love is lasagna.

[thefourthvine]

You have my total sympathy. You also have a clear need for lasagna, ideally consumed while still wearing your jammies and curled up in a comfy chair; did you find a place that will deliver?

[fearlessfan]

Thank you so much for the kind story comments and linkage! It completely made my day.

[thefourthvine]

I'm so glad to hear it! I love your writing; you have such a deft hand with characterization, and you often write from an unusual (and gripping) perspective.

(P.S. May I update my previous recommendations of your work so that they have your new LJ name? Right now the links still go to the old one.)

[fearlessfan]

Thank you so much, again! Lately I seem to be writing from the unusual perspective of One Who Has A Teenie Crush On Matt Damon (if my next fic is Legend of Bagger Vance-based, I'll know I'm in trouble).

Updating for my new LJ name is more than fine with me, though I feel kind of bad to make you go to the trouble. I appreciate it!

[thefourthvine]

The Legend of Baggar Vance? What the hell is that?

But, see, this is why the internet is a good thing, because with just a few clicks we can have a summary right in front of us and it will all make...no sense at all, actually.

This is a golf movie? Featuring a mystical caddy?

I must say I am shocked that I hadn't previously heard of this movie, because it must've been an incredible smash box office hit and critically acclaimed and so on.

(And I so, so want you to write a story for this fandom now. I mean, hell, you might even be able to make this all make some kind of sense.)

*pauses to gaze at Matt Damon's IMDb entry with a view to possible future fic from fearlessfan*

Huh. He's certainly been keeping busy. You should have no shortage of inspiration, for however long your unusual perspective (The Crush That Dare Not Speak Its Name) lasts.

*notes the title The Talented Mr. Ripley with lots of enthusiasm*

*notes the title Saving Private Ryan with lots of worry*

*notes the title The Legend of Baggar Vance with a new-found