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Slashy Nominations 131: Combine Your Hearts in One

Nov 03, 2005 07:56

This was going to be a set of stories about the undead, because of Halloween. (Yes, it was started before Halloween. I'm the Pokey Little Poster!) And then it was going to be a vid recs set, because, well, vids. But somehow I got completely sidetracked into crossovers, and I'm not the least bit sorry. I don't think you'll regret it, either ( ( Read more... )

stargate: atlantis, his dark materials, house, firefly, homicide, sentinel, buffy the vampire slayer, [rec theme: crossovers], horatio hornblower, angel, battlestar galactica, dcu

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wychwood November 3 2005, 07:15:15 UTC

I love the way you write recs. It makes me want to go and read just to see how insane the story is, even when I don't know either of the fandoms. *g*

Also, now I need to go and re-read Galaxy of the Living Dead. Zombies! Yay!

wychwood November 3 2005, 07:16:31 UTC

PS: This line though no one should write Pride and Prejudice x Backstreet Boys just to prove it made me laugh so hard I nearly choked, and then had to hide behind my monitor, because the freaky graduate-student-people I hide out in here with were looking at me

thefourthvine November 5 2005, 01:37:31 UTC

Thank you! (For both comments.)

the freaky graduate-student-people I hide out in here with were looking at me

They were probably thinking, "I should've gone into whatever she's doing her dissertation on. She's having fun with hers and I'm stuck here writing thirty-word sentences about organ secretions."

So, see - laughter is good! It fills other people with insane amounts of envy. Um. Plus I understand it, you know, is aerobic and good for you and so on.

laylah November 3 2005, 07:29:10 UTC

...You just mentioned zombies and crossovers in the same paragraph, and I now feel compelled to point out a zombie crossover.

Cold Ones, by ciceqi, is a Vagrant Story/Highlander crossover whose pairing is cannibal/zombie and whose kink is squick/fluff. She tells you everything you need to know about both fandoms in the author's notes -- it takes about three sentences. So wrong it hurts, and somehow woobie at the same time.

...In case, you know, you decided to do some undead recs next Halloween, or anything.

thefourthvine November 5 2005, 01:43:04 UTC

*eyes story wistfully*

I don't even know what Vagrant Story is. But it's a rec. It'd probably save a lot of time and whining about how I don't need a new fandom if I just succumbed right now, wouldn't it?

*succumbs*

...In case, you know, you decided to do some undead recs next Halloween, or anything.

What I say is, why restrict the fun to just one day a year? Is there really a bad time for the undead?

(And, hey, minor coincidence - one of your stories was in that set. Although it's actually good I didn't rec it on Halloween, as the link would've died the next day and stayed dead for two months. I, um, had forgotten about that aspect of things.)

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thefourthvine November 5 2005, 01:47:51 UTC

Thanks! I read through all the advice here, wibbled for a while over video iPod v. Nano, and then went with video (because of more storage space - Best Beloved has needs when it comes to music, and also a very long commute).

And I suspect that we too will eventually be a two-iPod family. I never wanted one or thought I would use one, but once I realized I could buy speakers for it, replace all my components, and never have to burn CDs again, I developed a major interest. (Plus, you can get socks for your iPod. SOCKS!)

iPod lust. Yikes.

iPod Advice barkley November 3 2005, 07:32:42 UTC

My iPod is 1 year and 3 days old and hopelessly out of date and I am still in love with it. (I have the 20 GB fourth generation iPod that you can't get today ( ... )

Re: iPod Advice thefourthvine November 5 2005, 01:55:04 UTC

Your poignant picture of a woman caught far from home and needing the Flaming Lips cover of Helpless (Which, thank you, I now need, so I think your next mix should be Songs That Feature the Word Help. Or less. Either one, really.) totally swayed me; I went with the video iPod for the larger storage space.

And thanks especially for the tape adaptor advice. Since the biggest use of the iPod will be on Best Beloved's commute from hell, obviously the car was a central issue. And we live in Southern CA, so the airwaves are fairly saturated, which made me dubious about the FM adaptor even before everyone noted the problems with it, but I hadn't even noticed that there was a tape alternative. Yay!

(20 GB is only half of your music collection? Wow.)

kaiz November 3 2005, 07:55:40 UTC

I bought an iPod (20G, photo) back in July and I love it. I don't mind the fact that it doesn't have video, but if I also wouldn't mind if it did! :-) Unlike most people, I don't really use mine as a portable device, really, since I rarely take it out of the house. I work from home and use it in lieu of a stereo system. I download podcasts in the morning, so I don't bother to listen to radio anymore--I get my music/news/etc. via podcasts. Audio books are great, too, lots of free ones out there. I also replaced my home stereo system with a set of JBL Creature II speakers and I *love* them. The only time I really take the iPod out of the house is if I'm going on a trip and need to store music/data/photos/etc. Otherwise, I'd rather be alert and aware in a crowd, rather than tuning out, plus there's always the fact that you're schlepping around this pricey chunk of easily stealable equipment. Last thing I need is to have it get nabbed on the subway. Heh.

thefourthvine November 5 2005, 01:58:29 UTC

Ooo. See, this is totally tempting for me. I work from home, too, and I don't need music *that* much when I'm out, so I've been assuming I'm not the iPod type. But I love the idea of being able to replace my stereo with something portable that I can store mp3s on. No more burning CDs! No more turning the stereo up really loud so we can hear it in the kitchen!

Plus, all that portable storage; I'd never have to sort through nine million memory sticks again.

*wants*

kaiz November 5 2005, 08:41:18 UTC

But I love the idea of being able to replace my stereo with something portable that I can store mp3s on. No more burning CDs! Yes, exactly! That's what finally sold me. I never converted my vinyl collection to CD, so I don't have all that many CDs. But I loaded them all into iTunes (about 8 Gig--lots of space left over on my 20 Gig iPod!) and then downloaded them to the iPod, so now I have pretty much all my CDs in mp3 format. It's nice to be able to easily burn CD mixes when I really want to using the iTunes library feature. I have friends who've got a *shitload* of music, and they just buy a separate huge hard drive (i.e. 100Gig) and keep their music there (and update their iPods with new/different songs when necessary). Although I haven't done it yet, there are smaller & cheaper speakers you can buy to hook up to the iPod so that you can easily port music to different rooms of the house. It's cool, too, because with mp3 enabled speakers, when people come over, they can just plug in *their* iPods/laptops into the speakers and play ( ... )