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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[maygra]

Ooh, Sentinel. that's kind of like my comfort fandom. Not one I indulge in often but so good when I do. Thanks!

[thefourthvine]

Jim and Blair really do bring the comfort, and I'm not even sure why. And for me, sometimes the gen actually works better for that than the slash, which is just - you know. Weird. For me.

I pretty much ran through TS's back stock of fic, and either not a lot of new stuff is coming out or I'm just not wherever it's announced and recommended. But I still re-read the old stories. Especially during bad weeks.

Yeah, it's a comfort fandom. (But in a distinctly different way than dS or SGA, which are my happy fandoms. Hmmm. I notice my happy fandoms are ones that don't appeal to you much.)

And, um. Total subject change. You know Highlander, right? Would you be up for answering some questions about it?

[maygra]

Sure. Highalnder was my ::hearts::: first fandom. Ask away!

[thefourthvine]

I imagined him in the Robin IV suit. With the red headband. And now I want REVENGE. Which is why I've shared that image back with you.

Thank you. No, really. And now I feel I must disclose, in the spirit of total honesty and sharing, that I was picturing Blair in the Robin I suit. With the neon green Robin panties and the bare legs.

Um. Hope that didn't cause actual permanent damage to your eye or anything. Possibly I should've put a warning on this reading, "Read with only one eye, so you'll have a spare in case it strikes you blind."

And in Scrubs fic, there's also:

My Spiders from Mars, by cgb, aka mandysbitch.

To Get to the Other Side, by julianlee; this one is a rare pairing within a rare fandom, so it's like the last unicorn or something.

And, yeah, Sab is one of the ultimate Dialog Fandoms authors. Hmmm. Obviously, we need to start a campaign to get SN writers to take a brief detour into Scrubs. Perhaps bribery is in order.

[aukestrel]

About an hour ago, as I was wistfully reflecting on how much I suddenly want an iPod of my own, I thought: Wow. If only these people made computers..

HEE! I'm so glad! Now just go get yourself a PowerBook and you'll be ALL SET.

[thefourthvine]

Well, except a) I already have a fairly new laptop and b) I don't think they'll sell you a PowerBook if they know you're going to keep it with a Dell. Isn't it cruelty or something? Plus, I hear they fight to the death if you take your eyes off them for even a second.

But, wow. It'd almost be worth losing all my software and not being able to play most games and having to keep a 24-hour fight watch on my computers to get this kind of service. It's just really weird to have this experience after decades of using PCs.

I'm still getting an iPod for myself, though.

[aukestrel]

I hear you can get a dispensation for the cohabitation if you agree that it will be supervised and for less than a month.

The Apple is wilier and faster, but the PC is bigger and heavier, so yeah it can be dangerous. The iPod should do okay though!

[marycrawford]

Hey! Friended you because someone (who? I suck) said you wrote terrific recs, and they are so right.

Love Jim talking to Dick. Also? Yes. Dasha is fantastic. (I'm of a different mindset to the one you mention, though I've met it a lot *g* - I've always read Sentinel gen as well as slash. And in my current fandom, Hercules, the gen is often better than the slash, and there's tons more of it, too.)

[thefourthvine]

Okay, first things first: I love your icon. It's gorgeous. Also - I'm glad you're here, and glad you like the recs. Thank you!

I've always read Sentinel gen as well as slash

See, I'm totally a late starter with TS gen; I mean, I always read the occasional bit of it, but mostly I read slash because it was easiest to find, and frankly it made sense; Jim and Blair are, well, so doing it. But then I found gen and it was like finding a whole new fandom with a huge back catalog of stories, only it inexplicably featured characters I already knew and loved. And now I read much more gen than slash in that fandom.

Plus, I mean, Dasha is, all by herself, a perfect argument for reading TS gen.

And in my current fandom, Hercules, the gen is often better than the slash, and there's tons more of it, too.

*fixes you with a beady stare*

You interest me strangely. See, Best Beloved just started watching Hercules. (Look, the first season was less than fifteen bucks new on DVD - and that included seven disks and the commerative collectible "coin

[marycrawford]

You make me smile. Thank you for the kind words about my icon, but most of all for the excuse to wax enthusiastic over HtLJ fanfic! You will be assimilated sorry inundated. *g*

Hercules is an odd, isolated little fandom in many ways. Not many writers crossed over to other fandoms, as you say, and very few of the BNFs in other fandoms have written for it. (James Walkswithwind wrote a brief story, and so did Torch. Can't think of others ATM.)

Nonetheless, there are some huge archives out there. There is also a ton of slash I haven't read because it doesn't fit my needs - I'm all about Hercules and Iolaus, slash or gen or het, but not so much the Ares/Joxer, say. I could find you sites to point to if you want, though. :-)

Recommendations:
- first and foremost, everything on The Less Than Legendary Journeys. This site snared me into the fandom. (Some of my own stories are there now, too, but I'm not trying to sneakily recommend myself. Really. *g*) There is slash, het and fantastic gen there, funny, angsty, and all very well written.

[luluminion]

The online Apple Store is amazing. I bought a PowerBook on Tuesday. I started obsessively tracking my package yesterday, and it started in Suzhou, China (where it was undoubtedly born) and I know there's some International Date Line crossing in there, but it appears from the tracking info that it was in China and Anchorage, Alaska yesterday, followed by being delivered to Indianapolis this morning, and then finally ended up on a truck here in North Carolina, and was delivered to my house this afternoon.

*boggles*

[thefourthvine]

I know! It's the weirdest thing ever. They don't, like, sell you the computer and promise it in two weeks, and then it gets there a month and a half later (hi, Dell!). They seem to want you to have their products.

Actually, I'm not entirely sure Apple is a computer company at all. It would stand to reason. Computer companies just don't act like this.

And I still haven't needed the Knowledge Base, even though I bookmarked it the day I bought the iPod.

*is happy, but mystified*