Slashy Nominations 27: Return of the Small Fandoms

[thefourthvine]

Small fandoms don't get enough love in this world. For one thing, there is no better kind of story with which to launch a career as a multifandom reader, or a non-canon reader (i.e., one who reads the FF without knowledge of the canon). And once you realize how many great stories there are in small fandoms, you'll want to be a non-canon reader;

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[dylant]

(repeating myself from my other post, oh no!) Just finished reading 'Not Exactly The Galaxy's Greatest Romance' (and the other two HGtoG fics on that same site) and wanted to tell you that, having just begun rereading Adams' "trilogy," it just hit the perfect spot with me.

I was wondering if you knew of any other Hitchhiker stories. It's such a small, funny little fandom that I've been hard-pressed to find more than prillalar's lovely More Things in Heaven and Earth, which, rather than follow old Douglas' hilarious, reeling style, kind of goes off on its own.

[daegaer]

Thank you very much, thefourthvine, I'm delighted you enjoyed 'Not Exactly the Galaxy's Greatest Romance'!

dylant, if you'd like to see them, my other Hitchhiker stories are on my LJ, listed here.

[dylant]

thank you so much, daegaer. i really loved "Not the Galaxy's Greatest Romance." speaking a day after having read it, the images still stick with me. Arthur stuck on that faceless, grey world and running after Ford... it was lovely *and* funny.

off to read your other stories.

[thefourthvine]

Hmmm. Besides Daegaer's excellent FF, the only one I have bookmarked is The Galactic Miscellany, which is almost gen. (And which was written as a Christmas present for, you guessed it, Daegaer. She's a one-woman fandom-creation machine!) But the thing is, I know I've read some other fairly decent HGtoG FF. (For some reason, I never do seem to learn the first lesson of reading fanfic: fail to bookmark at your peril.) I will see if I can reboot my brain and dredge out the memory of where I saw them.

[thefourthvine]

Allow me to join you in providing a much-needed hug and daily affirmation ("You may be low in quantity but you are high in quality" and "Someday you'll grow up to be as big as HP" are the ones I tend to use) to the obscure fandoms of this world; they are fighting an uphill battle and need all the care packages and wooly hats we can send them.

And I'm quite sure there will be more sets of small fandom nominations; this is actually my second one (I did the first near the beginning of this blog), and I had to winnow down to these four from a list of 18 excellent obscure fandom stories. That was not easy, so I will be making myself feel better by getting another four out there in the near future.

[laughingacademy]

...it has the benefit of making absolute sense.

Oh, totally. When one my high-school teachers screened the Zeffirelli version and we reached the scene where Romeo tries to talk down Mercutio after the latter’s deranged “Queen Mab” monologue, and the two of them stand there panting into each other’s faces, a girl behind me suddenly squealed, "For God’s sake just kiss him already!”

[thefourthvine]

Hee. You're making me regret that my ninth-grade English teacher took us to see the actual play instead of having us watch the movie. (Though I must say the director of the play we saw did not stint on the homoeroticism, either.)

"For God's sake just kiss him already" is fantastic; it could actually be the one true motto of slash everywhere.

[roseability_]

Hi, I just read this on a friend of a friend's list, and thought you might be interested to know that when I saw a production of Romeo and Juliet, Mercutio delivered the Queen Mab speech whilst crawling on top of Romeo. That pretty much removed all doubts in my mind about his gayness.

[thefourthvine]

I suppose I shouldn't really be surprised that so many directors twigged to Mercutio's, um, leanings. Lord knows it's obvious enough. Wish I'd seen that production of R & J, though.

And I wish Tom Stoppard or somebody would write a play about Mercutio. Why are the really interesting Shakespeare characters always the secondary ones?