Slashy Nominations 132: And Ivan Makes...Um. A Number Greater Than Two, Anyway.

[thefourthvine]

Well. This has been a revelation.

Last week, after much consultation with y'all, I decided what iPod to get for Best Beloved. (The video iPod, if you're curious. Best Beloved likes lots of storage space.) I went to the online Apple store, put a bunch of stuff in a shopping cart, and checked out. As I am a human being with functioning brain cells

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[marag]

Ah yes, Small Primes and Square Roots was adorable! I loved that story :)

[thefourthvine]

It's a wonderful story.

[sweetvalleyslut]

Yay, you're going to watch Scrubs! I think most people would be more inclined to write fic for that show if there were someone to *read* it.

[thefourthvine]

The last time I recommended Scrubs fic, loads of people were violently enthused. Most of them had no idea such a thing existed in any form anywhere. I think the audience is there.

So...does this mean that you will be writing Scrubsfic?

[sweetvalleyslut]

Me? I'm always scared of trying to get the voices right, but I've considered it.

[thefourthvine]

I think you could do it, and do it well. You write distinctive voices very well, especially in the Dialog Fandoms. And you're comfortable (or, okay, I don't know that you're comfortable, but you use it a lot and you're good at it, so...) in the writing style and format you'd probably want to use. The only question marks in my mind are the excursions into fantasy and the crazy, both of which are so very distinctively weird in Scrubs fic that I don't think it's possible to know if you could do it based on writing in other fandoms.

But wouldn't it be fun to find out?

If it would help with the voice issue - I'd be willing to beta, and I'm usually good at getting voices right and better at hearing (well, reading) when they're off. (Obviously, if you want me to do a close voice beta, it would have to wait until I'd seen enough of the canon to *acquire* the voices. But that gives you time to write! And this gives me reason to come to grips with actually watching the show!)

*looks hopeful*

[thefourthvine]

So have you ordered your new computer yet?

I didn't say I was actually buying a computer. I can't. For one thing, I just got a new laptop. And isn't it wrong to have PCs and Apples in the same house? Don't they fight to the death or something if they're in the same area? I swear I read about that somewhere.

I might buy an iPod though.

I will very likely buy an iPod.

*admires Ivan the iPod*

[thisisbone]

Because I am inherently lazy... can you tell me what iPod you bought? Like, is there an item number or something? And what add-ons and stuff did you get that you felt were worthwhile and/or necessary?

We're getting ready to go down this road, and since you had such a good experience, I may just piggy back! :)

We have an Apple store very nearby, so I imagine I can go there instead of ordering online, but I find the array (especially of the add-ons) dizzying, and would like to be able to go in with some specifics already in mind!

[thefourthvine]

I went here and bought the video iPod; 30 gigs or 60 gigs, up to you. I went with 30 gigs because I was worried about size, but, um, the thing is teeny. It is much smaller than Best Beloved's handheld, like less than half the size. So if I did it again, I'd go with the 60 gigs. At that size, you can use the iPod as a backup for a lot of your media files, even if you have a giant honking vid collection or downloaded eps.

I picked the black face (by clicking on the black button at the link above); it seemed inherently sleeker, somehow. I warn you, though, all the accessories are white, so if that's going to irk you, go with white. I think the contrast is kind of cool.

I chose to use the free engraving service to put the iPod's name on the back. (I think you're actually supposed to put your own name and maybe a phone number in case it's ever lost, but Best Beloved did not want that.)

Then I bought:

• The Universal dock. If you're going to hook your iPod up to your TV or speakers or whatever, you'll need this.
  
  
• iPod socks. This is the

[thisisbone]

I believe that's everything. So, are you persuaded?

I'll be in my bunk. ;)

YES! YES! YES! I'm persuaded.

I never thought of myself as much of a technogeek, but I want this. And a laptop with wireless internet. And a PDA I could download fic and vids to so I could read them on the fly.

I want it all, baby.

Thank you SO much for the comprehensive report! I very much appreciate it!

[terrio]

Um... there are ways to download text files to iPods. It's not as pretty as something like iSilo (which runs on the Palm OS and correctly displays HTML coding, including italics and pictures and fun stuff like that), but it should still be readable. Here's a piece of software to handle the conversion on Windows machines; this one's for Macs. Both of them are freeware.

(Not that I'm trying to tempt you or anything.... :-)

[delurker]

iPod yay!

And I love Small Primes and Square Roots so much. It's like the fiction equivalent of a warm bath - deeply satisfying and relaxing and leaving you happy afterwards. So perfect!

[thefourthvine]

I suddenly feel the need for an iPod icon, even.

It's like the fiction equivalent of a warm bath - deeply satisfying and relaxing and leaving you happy afterwards.

Is it just me, or is SGA especially good at dishing these up? I mean, we have our angst and our deathfic and our OMG THE PAIN fic, but we also seem to have a disproportionate number of warm bath stories. (Which, btw, is the perfect term, and I am therefore totally stealing it. Fannish magpie at work!) Of course, we also have a disproportionate number of penguin stories and genderswitch stories, so maybe it's just that the SGA fandom motto is, "If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing, and even that might not be enough."

[delurker]

It is a wonderful fandom full of stories that make me deeply happy. I reckon it's a fandom full of people who get story ideas, and go, 'Hey, why the hell not', and do so in response to other people's fics as well as to everything else. A memeish fandom, in a way.

Which, btw, is the perfect term, and I am therefore totally stealing it. Fannish magpie at work!
Feel free! I've actually been trying to put that into words ever since I first read that story, which was shortly after it was posted - I was all, 'I must rec this! But how to sum it up properly?' And only just now have I found the warm bath metaphor. After that much thinking, it better get some use. *g*