Slashy Awards 141: I'm Never in One Place; I Roam from Town to Town

[thefourthvine]

(True story about the title of this set: I had to look up the actual lyrics. I grew up singing the version of this song that goes, "I'm never in one place/I'm distributed over all space/I'm the electron." I...yeah. I was raised among the physicists, and I learned their tragically geeky native folkways only too well. As shown by the fact that I

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[frostfire_17]

Heh. I don't know about the 70's, and okay, no Giles, but for Ethan and Constantine...

http://www.ravenswing.com/~mirrorgirl/border.html

Yeah.

[thefourthvine]

Oh, god, I'd completely forgotten about that one, which is amusing, since I recommended it back when the universe (or, okay, this LJ) was new.

But! There has to be a story of Ethan, Giles, and John in London in the '70s. With a band. And magic. Because oh my *god* the similarities. And the intersection of time is more or less perfect - John would've been in London in, um - starting in about 1969, I think. His major hobbies for the next ten to fifteen years were bad punk bands, drugs, and black magic. (Actually, his major hobbies to date have been drugs and black magic. He got over the band, though.)

And in an AU somewhere, John Constantine is a watcher and Rupert Giles is the Hellblazer. I can totally, totally see it.

*whimpers*

Now I'm experiencing two of those hideous story ideas that you know you'll never write, and in fact shouldn't write, but that will not leave you alone. Because they would work! They would so work!

*mutters incoherently*

*raves*

[frostfire_17]

Man, I *would* write those, but I *can't*. Because a) I haven't seen the Buffy canon in years, b) I've read like one issue of Hellblazer ever, c) I've never been to London, and d) I wasn't born until like six years after the 70's ended, so I know nothing about them, either.

Dammit.

SOMEBODY should write those.

*raves with you*

[carta]

he'd tell all of character A's story, even if it lasted for 100 pages and most of a century

Which is precisely why it took me years to appreciate or even remotely enjoy The Two Towers. Gah.

[thefourthvine]

Oh, I hear that. Yes. I gave up on LotR halfway through TTT, the first time I tried the series; that incredible narrative break - "And now, gentle reader, let me tell you what Sam and Frodo were doing all this time, and by 'all this time' I mean since the book started" - just killed my 12-year-old attention span dead.

I now choose to view that book as two novellas. For some reason, that helps a lot.

[dzurlady]

Well, Tolkien did intend it to be published as six seperate books, IIRC - the publishers just decided three actual books of two books each would be better.
I actually thought it was kinda cool - I mean, I get the frustration, but if he'd leap-frogged from scene to scene I think the build and the impact would have been less.

[rokeon]

No matter what the coin said, you were going through the wormhole

I agree completely.

[thefourthvine]

Yes! Yes, that's it precisely.

*admires your brilliance*

[rokeon]

*beams*

[wychwood]

Awesome recs, as ever *g*.

On the other hand, J.R.R. himself could've written precisely this story, and he didn't even write het romance; as far as I can tell, he deeply, deeply wished that sentient beings reproduced via courtly exchanges of epic poetry.

So true! *g*

I loved Harsh Continent, too. The authenticity - um, probably comes at least in part from the fact that 30toseoul spent something like three years in Antarctica. That was one of the things I really liked about it, though - it wasn't "Antarctica the beautiful continent", lots of vistas of ice and snow; it was Antarctica the military / scientific base, with all the messiness and the good and bad elements you get from that.

[thefourthvine]

Awesome recs, as ever *g*.

Thank you!

The authenticity - um, probably comes at least in part from the fact that 30toseoul spent something like three years in Antarctica.

*blushes*

Um, yeah. That just might explain it. (I feel like a dork; I mean, since it's right on her user info page, I probably should've, you know, already known that. But mostly I feel the satisfaction of a mystery solved. So thank you; I would probably have missed that altogether if you hadn't pointed it out.)

it was Antarctica the military / scientific base, with all the messiness and the good and bad elements you get from that.

Yes, exactly. It was Antarctica the dress rehearsal for Atlantis, in fact.

Well, no wonder John is happy in Atlantis; he liked Antarctica, and really they're not that different. (Except, to the best of my knowledge, there are no space vampires in Antarctica.)

[wychwood]

Hey, no reason why you would have checked! :)

And yes, Antarctica the isolated base and all, you're right; I hadn't thought of that before. Which, um, is a sign of my dumbness right there :)

[leadensky]

If I had had a list - like, say, a list of the things I expected to find when I woke up this morning - which I did not, but let's pretend I did -

had I had that list, a handful of feedback comments and this entry would not have been on that list at all.

Thank you for pointing out Harsh Continent.

- hossgal

[thefourthvine]

If I had had a list - like, say, a list of the things I expected to find when I woke up this morning - which I did not, but let's pretend I did -

I find myself wondering what would have been on that list (Earth still orbiting the sun? Bed refuses to make itself? Yogurt?), but, okay. Pretending.

*pretends*

had I had that list, a handful of feedback comments and this entry would not have been on that list at all.

Yup! Because it's fandom: a never-ending source of surprises. (Uh, the good kind of surprise, right? I mean, no one who came from here said bad things or anything, right?)

Thank you for pointing out Harsh Continent.

You are entirely welcome. It's a wonderful story.

[leadensky]

It was the *best* sort of surprise - everyone was very kind and delightful. Again, thank you.

- hg