snickfic

So, rarewomen is open for signups! \o/ \o/

This means y'all can offer to write SPN RPF fic, which is a totally excellent idea. Why, you ask?

1. Because Supernatural RPF is FULL OF CRACK, yo. Guy's cursed to be a printer? Yes. Snail romance, with illustrations? Yes. Epic werecat mpreg? Yes. Fusions with the Dragonriders of Pern, The Big Bang Theory, and the Gmail Teahouse theme? Yes, yes, and yes.

Me and ghostyouknow27 had the following conversation.

GHOSTYOUKNOW: It's like they took the crack of every other fandom, including SPN proper, and refined it to pure distilled crazypants. It's utterly unapologetic about it, too. It's just like, "Yeah, I want to write a fic in which Jensen is a wheel and Jared is a hamster, and they go on an epic quest to find a salt lick."

ME: Is that an actual fic description you've seen? Because I kind of want to read it now.

Trufax. CRACK, y'all.

2. Because right now, the crack in this fandom is all about the dudes. I want crazy ladycentric adventures and Gen/Adrianne BFF hijinks and silly rom-commy Gen/Jared fluff and plotty Gen/Jared epics with superheroes/mad scientists/spaceships/epic plot devices of choice.

3. Because the ladies in question are very, very pretty.

4. Because necessary knowledge of canon is minimal. All you really need is a few eps of SPN to get a feel for what the people look like. There are a few fannish conventions for the guys - Jared's a laid-back goofball, Jensen's reserved, Misha's very peculiar - but even those are flexible and frequently ignored; there are no conventions for the ladies, because they just aren't written enough. Break ground! Start trends! Write fun layered kickass women!

5. Because you will make the Snick very happy. She promises MUCH SQUEE.

If you were thinking about nominating female characters in a rare fandom or rare female characters in a large fandom for rarewomen, today's your last chance. Nominations are here.

Sign-ups start on Wednesday, as explained in the fest guidelines.

A Scandal in Fandom: Steven Moffat, Irene Adler, and the Fannish Gaze, by jblum. I don't have a stake in the Irene Adler debate - I liked the episode and would be happy to leave it at that, this time around - but the author here has some points that I like. (Via selenak. )

In which Downton Abbey is not at all like Jane Austen, by talibusorabat. What it says on the tin. I found this while looking at Dear Yuletide letters, and kept forgetting to post it.

Frakked Up Beyond All Recognition, by thistlerose. Because who knows what kind of other experiments the Cylons are running.

Oh, hey! Now I can read ALL THE HELO/ATHENA FIC. And any other fic people might feel inclined to point me to. What should I read? Pointers to past recs posts you've made would be nifty, too.

( Grab your gun and bring in the cat )

On the series as a whole: I advise interested parties to watch through 2.12, because those first twenty-five episodes (plus miniseries) are thoroughly enjoyable television. I might throw in Razor for good measure.

That's it. Yep.

I think there might be a Big Huge BSG Poll coming up soon.

Onward to Caprica?

1. Watched all the remaining BSG except for the three-part finale. I have to say, there's not a single aspect of this show that I care about right now. (Except, epiphany: Mark Sheppard is actually pretty hot. How did I never notice this before?)

2. Reworked the entire fic index again, for the second and hopefully last time in recent memory.

These two feats were both accomplished concurrently.

I do not now remember 7.09 hardly at all, so we're skipping that one.

( insert witty quote here )

And next week we get this. (I'm trying to contain my excitement here, folks. Notice how very many exclamation points I didn't use.)

Is it deader than a doornail today, or is it just me?

Fannish things I mean to do:
* SPN recs post
* recs for fandoms outside my usual
* get together at least five fics for buffyversetop5 (running now!)
* start a document collecting my favorite fic quotes of the year, a la Stultiloquentia
* finish BSG (really for sure! I mean it this time!)
* finish Avatar: The Last Airbender
* finish up the next fic in the SPN RPF knotting series

There. That should keep me occupied for a while.

So, one of these reviews was written after thought and deliberation - in paragraphs, even - and then other one... clearly wasn't.

Before that, though, a general thought: there are so many good female characters on this show, and they run the full spectrum. They outshine the male characters on every level, IMO. I can name at least six female characters off the top of my head that I care about and enjoy more than any of the male characters.

This was borne out by Yuletide: of the non-canonical ships, all but one of them that I noticed was femslash. Not that I watch these things all that carefully, but I never see that happening. And the female-centric gen was bountiful as well.

( second half of S2 )

( Christmas special )

'Tis the season for Yuletide recs! I missed last year because of busyness, but I've been finding some truly delicious stuff this year.

( Discworld, Downton Abbey, Queen's Thief, The Matrix )

I fiddled with some most of the categories to avoid repeats and reflect the fact that I mostly watch shows that are already finished.

Which TV shows did you start watching in 2011 and watch all the way through?

Supernatural, Downton Abbey, Sherlock. I think that's it.

Which TV shows did you start watching in 2011 and didn't finish, but still mean to?

Avatar: The Last Airbender, Battlestar Galactica, Farscape, Twin Peaks, The Vampire Diaries.

Which TV shows did you try in 2011 and gave up on?

Ringer? I dunno, that one's still up in the air. I might get back to it. Also Sliders (I watched the mpreg episode), ST: Enterprise (ditto). Dr. Who. (I may still try DW again, but guys, is hard. I can't seem to find my way into this show. It and me are unmixy things, apparently.) The X-Files.

What other shows did you watch this year?

The West Wing (still planning to finish), So You Think You Can Dance (yay!), ST:TOS (I just dabbled, but want to get back to it).

Which TV shows do you intend on checking out in 2012?

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Babylon 5, Dexter, ST:TOS. Possibly Misfits, The Walking Dead, Mad Men? Really, though, these are all "sometime in the future" shows; they don't necessarily have to happen next year.

Which TV shows do you think you'll never let go of no matter how crappy they get? Why?

Supernatural. Given everything I have already gone through with this show, it's pretty clear I'm in it until the bitter end, now.

'Tis that time of year again: the time when I ramble on at length about fic and other fannish activities. It seems unlikely that I'll post any more fic before the end of the year, so I'm just going to go ahead and do this before holiday busyness sets in.

I had what was, for me, a really spectacular year in fic. Variety was the word this year: three fandoms, tons of POV characters, several different ships, a full range of genres.

( MUCH DETAIL about Snick's year in fic )

( other fannish stuff )

In pursuit of academic excellence, I watched the ST:TOS episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" today. (Tribbles make excellent exponential function problems.)

And, uh. I was kind of charmed. It was so silly! It's been years and years since I've watched TOS, long before I developed any taste. All the ST I've seen in the last few years, mostly early TNG with clips of DS9 or Enterprise here and there, has been so dreadfully, laughably earnest. Whereas this knew precisely how silly it was and ran with it. I didn't even hate Kirk! Plus I have a weakness for 60s TV, with the over-bright sets and the stiff non-acting.

So I might be watching some more?

(In slightly related news, can anyone point me to a Firefly icon that incorporates Zoe's line, "We live in a spaceship, Dear"? I want a Joss-related explicitly SF-themed icon.

ETA: Check out the totally nifty icon next_to_normal made me! Isn't it spiffy?)

snowpuppies is organizing a Feedback-a-Thon.

Basically: you sign up with a list of three BtVS/Ats works you'd like feedback on. (This could include artwork or vids as well as fic.) You get a list of three authors with three works each, and you write "meaningful feedback" for at least one work per author. Meanwhile, three different people each give you feedback on at least one of your three works.

If I understand the rules correctly, when you sign up you can choose whether or not to receive concrit as part of your feedback. (That seems like at least half the point of this to me, so I would definitely want to.)

OTOH, if you're really more excited about giving the feedback than getting it, you can participate unofficially. snowpuppies says there will be a masterlist of fics by Jan. 15.

Anyway. Yeah. This is very nifty, and I'm excited.

'Tis my winter_of_faith day! I have committed the second (fairly short) chapter of the Buffy&Faith fic I started for the last session. Fortunately, I think I'm unblocked now, and I even have plot. I might even sign up for another day so I can post more of it before the end of the session. (Which, PSA: sign-ups still open until Wed 7!)

Anyway, new chapter of A Little Less Alone here; previous chapter here.

For those who find things difficult to read over at the comm, I also plan to post the whole whole thing to my own journal once I've finished it.

Inspired by smells_corrupt, I went and played around with the LJ Markov Random Text Generator, which grabs text from your (or anyone's) LJ entries and makes exciting new combinations. It apparently only grabs from the first few entries, as my results mostly seemed to draw from either TVD reviews or the RPF fics I posted recently(which latter explains a few of the weirder results).

Somehow, what Danneel’s feeling blurts straight out her hand. Danneel shakes it.
This is either logical and efficient or else VERY GROSS.

After loathing Tyler Lockwood for the next five days, I will punch you in the closet.
I have a plan, yo.

my SPN fic wants to be true
Awwww.

Clearly pawn shop guy is a conclusion she’s come to in the icon
I have no idea what this means, so it must be deep.

Clearly pawn shop guy is a little nauseous and still in heat.
And again: poor guy.

Gen gets to her half-eaten macaroni, because that’s better than Buffyverse vampires, full stop.
Macaroni > vampires. Yep.

Dean, because I think he functions as a very here-and-now kind of lavender bodywash on top of that.
This is regarding the all-girly-bath-product AU.

His name is Aldis, and he’s pretty as long as he’s downwind; one sniff of him kills Danneel’s libido and all those people that aren't her boyfriend.
That, my friends, is serious BO.

So, fraternal tension resolved? Dean was probably asleep.
Heh.