153: On the Day of the Dead, When the Year Too Dies

[thefourthvine]

Best Beloved suggested that, what with the whole Halloween and Day of the Dead thing that's happening around this time of year (not to mention my dogs' holiday of choice, which is known as Barking at the Place Where a Black Cat Probably Was Three Days Ago), it would be a perfect occasion for death stories. I agreed

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[mir8lle]

You know...I think I almost enjoy reading your recs more than the stories you are reccing. Is that a bad thing? Heightmeyer ftw!

[thefourthvine]

Thank you!

And you know she's working on it. Psychiatrists need assessment tools, and it's just like everything else they brought from earth: these things need to be recalibrated before they can be used in Pegasus. (In fact, I can see her handing all these "recalibrated assessments" over to the person who comes to cover her for her while she's on earth leave. I bet her smile is absolutely evil.)

[mir8lle]

I'm now afraid to try and imagine her version of the Rorschach test.

[thefourthvine]

Well, I'm pretty sure she'd just use the standard ones. (If she used them at all, which I HOPE SHE WOULDN'T.) But I bet, in her book, cards II and IV are the "Wraith" cards. (And you know she's taking copious notes for her inevitable replacement - because everyone either dies or goes crazy in this galaxy - and in the Rorschach notes, she says, "I'm not too enthused about doing this on the people here (remember how I said not to spur their imaginations too much?), but if you do - don't go around diagnosing everyone with father issues. Yes, they probably have them, but Wraith issues are more pressing, and that's why they all see plate IV as a monster.")

The youngest shall open the oldest hills

[janet_carter]

Anyway - I cry when I throw away frying pans. My sense of the sad is not necessarily anyone else's.

I apologize to the frying pans, and tell them what a good job they did for years, because I'm worried that their feelings will be hurt.

Anyway, your recs are, as always, beyond delightful to read, as is that Scrubs story. Thank you!

Through the door of the birds, where the breeze breaks

[thefourthvine]

I apologize to the frying pans, and tell them what a good job they did for years, because I'm worried that their feelings will be hurt.

Oh my god, I thought it was just me. I cry because they did a good job, for years and years, and this is no way to repay their loyalty. (Unless, of course, they were bad frying pans or whatever, in which case I am stern and resolute: they've had their second and third chances, and now it is over between us.)

(When I was four or five, I read an article in the newspaper that had me crying for days. This family, down on their luck, were living out of their car, when their car broke down on the freeway (where no one can live, of course). My parents kept reassuring me that the people were fine and being helped and the whole point of the story was that a good Samaritan gave them another car. But they didn't understand, and I was unable to explain, that it was the car I was upset for, abandoned like that.)

Re: The youngest shall open the oldest hills

[fanofall]

I apologize to the frying pans, and tell them what a good job they did for years, because I'm worried that their feelings will be hurt.

I thought that was just me.

[lucia_tanaka]

Um... wow. You turned my little fic into a super-rec. Thank you so much. It's probably my favorite work, the first bit of writing when I was shooting for some deeper than a few laughs. That someone- anyone- noticed it is the kind of thing that makes my muse wake up and go, "nap's over, let's roll".

Which is good, since NaNoWriMo is only a few days away. *dances*

So, yes, thank you so much for the glowing rec. Even though you didn't know Larry's last name. (Shame on you. He is the best thing on that show. *shakes finger at you*)

I got my first real rec! *dances* You're the best thing ever!

[thefourthvine]

It's probably my favorite work, the first bit of writing when I was shooting for some deeper than a few laughs.

You certainly got there for me. *sniffle*

Which is good, since NaNoWriMo is only a few days away.

*sad*

I did NaNo in 2002, but I've never had the time since then; at this point, I figure writing my Yuletide story is about as much of a November writing challenge as I can do.

Even though you didn't know Larry's last name. (Shame on you. He is the best thing on that show. *shakes finger at you*)

Hey, I get partial credit! I knew it started with F! I just couldn't remember where to go from there - Fleegman? Flanders? Feynman? (I run into this problem a lot, actually; you can pick up a lot by reading just the FF for a given canon, but oddly enough you can't always get the full names of the characters. Thank god for IMDb.)

[lucia_tanaka]

Well, I... hope to "get there" again a few times. *smile*

I got an idea for NaNo. I had to do it. The muse is calling and it's not a plot I can do in fic.

Hee, you picked Feynmann. If Larry were real, he'd be incredibly flattered by that. *twirls*

[bagheera_san]

That SGA rec isn't actually a rec. It's fic. Good fic. :D

[thefourthvine]

*grins*

Thank you! (In truth, it's got me modifying all kinds of psychological assessments for life in the Pegasus Galaxy. Like, Rorschach cards II and IV are clearly the Wraith cards. And she's probably ripped the paranoia scale out of the MMPI. (I'd dump psychasthenia, too.))

[shayheyred]

Oh thank you, thank you, for the HnG rec. It's a story I've never read, fairly new as I am to the fandom, and though I love Hikaru and Touya, my heart belongs to Sai and the ghostly elements of the series. So it is with relish that I bookmark this story and shall set about reading it this evening.

[thefourthvine]

I love Sai, too, but there's not a lot of FF about him (especially given that I don't want Sai pairings, just Sai gen).

And if you're new to the fandom, let me know if you want my list of basically every HnG story I'd read a second time - these aren't all stories I'd rec by any means, but there isn't a lot of FF for HnG, so I figure every little bit helps.

*loves Hikaru no Go to pieces*

[shayheyred]

Well, I've read hoyden's, but I'd love to know the ones you recommend. THe anime itself left me laughing and then weeping and then feeling exhilarated. It made me want to play Go.

Damn. I need an icon.