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thefourthvine

Slashy Awards 145: Man Hands on Misery to Man

Jun 12, 2006 18:22

Family has been on my mind a lot lately. Guess what that means? Family fan fiction, yup.

The One That Proves Conclusively That the DCU Is Where There's a Daddy Issue Under Every Rock, and Where Family Therapists Can Never, Ever Get Life Insurance. Reconcilable Differences, by Shalott, aka astolat. Fused and bastardized Smallville and DCU, Clark Kent/Lex ( Read more... )

stargate: atlantis, supernatural, dead zone, [rec theme: family], dcu

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dsudis June 13 2006, 02:39:39 UTC

*twirls*

Thank you so much for the rec! I had a tremendously difficult time writing that story because I was dead certain no one would like it due to [disturbing content], so it means a lot.

thefourthvine June 13 2006, 03:56:47 UTC

It's an amazing story, and I'm glad you persevered. I mean, okay, [disturbing content] is indeed disturbing, but that's kind of the point: Johnny can't be normal, because the most normal thing in the world - shopping with his kid for school supplies, for Christ's sake - turns into, well, intensely disturbing content.

(I especially liked, by the way, the way you handled the visions; it's one of the more true-to-canon presentations I've seen in FF, and it's impressive.)

Overall: fabulous story. Wow.

janet_carter June 13 2006, 03:03:32 UTC

The smoke detectors in my apartment went off at 3:40 am Sunday morning - just to entertain themselves, no fire - and then I couldn't get back to sleep. By sunrise, I gave up on trying and turned on the computer, and had a genuine moment of wondering if I'd fallen asleep without noticing it. I mean, I don't usually get confused with dreaming and waking, but there was 40,000 words of shalott there, with Kon! and Tim! and Lex! and Clark! And it made everything better.

OK, self-centered digression over; yay for a lovely recs post and a couple of new stories to read! And:

You don't want to know about the night I read Misery after mandatory lights out in a psychiatric hospital...

Oh, dear.

thefourthvine June 13 2006, 04:03:55 UTC

The smoke detectors in my apartment went off at 3:40 am Sunday morning - just to entertain themselves, no fire - and then I couldn't get back to sleep. By sunrise, I gave up on trying and turned on the computer, and had a genuine moment of wondering if I'd fallen asleep without noticing it. I mean, I don't usually get confused with dreaming and waking, but there was 40,000 words of shalott there, with Kon! and Tim! and Lex! and Clark! And it made everything better.

Yes! Precisely! I was awake - couldn't sleep - when she posted it, and I saw that it was about TIM AND KON as well as Lex and Clark, and I nearly exploded with joy. Okay, I also got minimal sleep, what with the story and then the Whining Dog (He whined! All day! For no reason!), but it was so worth it.

Oh, dear.Yup ( ... )

marici June 13 2006, 04:38:34 UTC

Hmmm. Worst reading binge ever: I was up 24 hours getting ready for a test. Finishing, I rewarded myself with eight volumes of a new manga in Japanese. Eight hours later, I had to slow down because only the middle 25% of my vision was still clear enough to read with. Four more hours later, I was up to volume seven and about 10 liters of diet coke. An hour after that, Saintly Boyfriend came to haul me out to eat and make me go to bed. (I spent the whole time at the restaurant acting out the plot for him. I have the terrible feeling that "Attack of the Boobies of Doom!" was a feature of this act.)

So, what's your worst binge?

ficbyzee June 13 2006, 03:38:27 UTC

I'm never going to forgive DC entirely. I am just not that big a person.

SING IT, SISTER. I--have to stop talking about that now, otherwise I'm just going to spew vitriol and bitterness all over your journal. *bites lip*

thefourthvine June 13 2006, 05:26:06 UTC

Spew that vitriol and bitterness! Seriously, I'd welcome it. I've just been fulminating in hostile silence over here, but I see now that vitriol is the better way.

Seriously. My LJ is your stomping grounds, if you're stomping on DC for Certain Recent Poor Editorial Decisions.

*very, very bitter*

ficbyzee June 13 2006, 05:35:20 UTC

*laughs* Man, my journal has basically been a font of barely contained vitriol and vibrating rage towards DC for the past month or so (or two months? I forget. TIME HAS LOST ITS MEANING). Just... yeah. I don't know if you've actually *read* Identity Crisis #7--if you're smart and wish to avoid trauma, you haven't--but, god, it wasn't enough that they had to *kill* him, they had to do it in the STUPIDEST WAY POSSIBLE al;;lakjslj lkjf;ljs aaarrrrgh.

Basically, yeah, my rage has catapulted me into writing an AU that is over 15,000 words and counting, and I don't plan on coming out of that rabbit hole like, *ever.* Hmph.

rec thanks laceymcbain June 13 2006, 04:31:36 UTC

Thanks so much for the awesome rec! *G* And I totally agree with you about John - there are things about his character I can't quite pin down, but this was a way of seeing if I could, and by working in bits of canon I hoped I could pull off the believability factor (or at least not totally have people rolling their eyes and running.)

Thanks again.

Re: rec thanks thefourthvine June 13 2006, 05:34:47 UTC

And thank you for the awesome story!

And I totally agree with you about John - there are things about his character I can't quite pin down

*nods*

Yes, indeed. You and cranberryink and me can form a club called The Association of Fangirls for Getting to the Bottom of John.

Hmmm. Name needs work.

by working in bits of canon I hoped I could pull off the believability factor (or at least not totally have people rolling their eyes and running.)

Oh, it totally worked for me. But, in all honesty, I haven't got a lot of trouble buying virgin John. (He's just - not very sexual, is the thing. At all.) It's virgin Rodney that usually leaves me stunned. (Although often I read it anyway. I'm a blatant ficslut.)

tallulah71 June 13 2006, 04:41:51 UTC

I have a question that I've been meaning to ask since slashy awards 142, but I keep catching the updates after the comments have reached 359 pages or so. :)

I was wondering if you ever read/rec femslash? I really enjoy your posts and would love to see you turn your POWERS OF REC'ING(/deep announcer voice) to the girls, even if it's only a one time thing. I'm not above bribery.

thefourthvine June 13 2006, 05:38:59 UTC

Indeed. I most definitely do read femslash, and I have recommended it on occasion. (Unfortunately, I don't tag things for het/slash/femslash, so I can't point you to it. But it's happened.)

Or are you saying an all-femslash set? Hmmm. That could be...interesting. Of course, I'd have to start collecting them now, since up till now I haven't been categorizing that way, so it would take a while. But, hey, I'm game.

I'm not above bribery.

*suddenly alert*

Ooo! I am all for bribery.

tallulah71 June 13 2006, 14:36:42 UTC

An all-femslash set would be mcdreamy and I'm totally willing to wait. Although, that set could turn out to have an interested party of only one. Ehh, I'm okay with that.

Name your price. I'm pretty much willing to do anything, offer anything that doesn't involve me actually writing, because that would be bad. I bake. I can crochet a bit. Need a pruple and pink afghan that's big enough to cover half your body? All your body, if you're under 3 feet. I would offer to send you copies of many tv shows, but I know you don't really watch tv. I've got a "The Bionic Woman" lunchbox, but you can't have that, unless you rec a really good BW fic, but no Jaime/Jaime Fembot, because that would just be weird. I would send the lunchbox to your door, if you could find a Jaime Sommers/Diana Prince fic to rec. Of course, you may not hold the lunchbox in such high esteem, so again I'll offer anything. (refrains from singing a certain song from Oliver!)