Lifetime Fic Bingo: 1995
It's 1995. TLC is on the radio. (Among the songs I've featured in these posts, their "Waterfalls" is the first one that I remember being aware of at the time of its release.) Here in the USA, the year's top film is Toy Story. New terms coined include: anti-globalization, cap-and-trade, eurozone, genderqueer, jack in, lawyer up, meatspace, mom
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When I first became ill, I couldn't read much fic because I couldn't concentrate for the length of time necessary. So I used to filter AO3, having belatedly discovered AO3 after discovering FF.net, for fic of around 1000 words or less and then worked my way up. Thankfully, my mental health is in a much better place now (you can tell that by the way people are happy to let radio silence pass for weeks on end without panicking!), but now I have no time.
But I would like to get my teeth into some meatier fic when my life calms down, so I will come back to your recs and thoughts for inspiration - especially as they include MFU fic as well.
I am curious about how this 'lifetime fic' idea came about - and do you plunder the crack_van for inspiration? Or must it be stories you have already read? I must admit I still dip into the crack_van for older fic recs.
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I recommend the MFU fic The Seventeen Days in October Affair very highly. It isn't usually easy for me to pick a favorite fic from any stage of my reading games, but this one was definitely my favorite among those I read in the first ten rounds of Lifetime Fic Bingo. It's a gen fic set during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
The Lifetime Fic Bingo game was inspired mostly by Timemidae's reply to my What Now? post. She described pretty much what I ended up doing. byslantedlight's effort to read one Pros fic from each year since the show's premier was also an influence. I picked the year of my birth as a starting point, though, because I planned to read from multiple fandoms and didn't want to use a date related to any single one ( ... )
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That's interesting, particularly Timemidae's point about meta trends emerging over time. I think, without the dampening effect of the big publishing houses, fan-fic is more responsive to evolving social and fannish mores.
I've read older fic, but all in a jumble with more current fic, so while I see the changes, I don't really get a sense of the evolutionary process in action.
I might pick a date and try reading a progression - like you, I read in multi-fandoms so a fannish date might not be the way to go for me either. It's all a bit academic at the mo as I have no time, but possibly in the New Year it might be a goer.
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I hope you will have time next year to do a sequential reading project, if you decide you want to. I’m finding it rewarding.
When I finish mine (which, at this rate, may not be until the end of next year, rather than my target of June), I’m thinking about starting to count backwards from 1985 and seeing how far I can get. I might shoot for just one fic per year for that game.
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Ahh...
I can't remember if you were around for my adventures in vidding, but I ripped the Contender boxset (which i have a soft spot for because it looks like the lads did on TV way back when) and took my own clips from that. Sadly, I was using a freebie software licence that was only good for the machine it was on - which is now so elderly it can't connect to the internet anymore and has other issues, which mean I only use it for playing DVDs these days.
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