How has the week been so far?

[louiselux]

Since the great lurgy of 2004 I've been doing various things, not many of them exciting, but some of them did involve not going to work, and also gay porn, which was nice.

I seem to be reading LotR RPS, or LOTRiPS as it's known, (except I'm not sure where the lower case 'i' goes, mostly because I don't know what it's there for), at the moment, mostly Dom/Billy or Dom/Elijah. It's very porny. There's a definite house style to the stories I've read so far: well written, quite a lot of present tense, lots of rather well done character-study type stuff, good sex scenes that seem to avoid using many cliches. But (the lightbulb goes on) that's probably because all the fics I've read so far are all one person's recs, which are here, if any one's interested. I don't think this is a fandom I could seriously get into, but it's fun to visit. It's a bracing contrast to Good Omens fandom, which is decidedly un-porny, not that I'm complaining though, seeing as how the un-porn is as good as anything else, ever.

What else? I sat in my algae bath tonight and mused on how much it smelled like a stagnant pond. The algae-baths were a present by my brother. You pour some sludge into your bath water, and then the algae is supposed to do good things to your skin. Make me more frog-like? Make me more green and smelly that I already am?

*ribbit*

Comments

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

Say 'lotrps' as a word and it invariably comes out as 'lotrips'. That's the deep, significant meaning of the 'i'. Not wanting to have to say all the initials at once.

And all I can say about this fandom? stay with the recs as a source. delve too deep and you come across shadow and flame and tinhats.

[afrai.livejournal.com]

Wow, really? Is that all there is? I always figured it was a joke. Like. lo-trips. Trippin'.

Okay, so it's kind of a lame joke. huh.

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Ah, tinhats. Thanks for the good advice. I've had a fleeting aquaintance with their sort and I don't want to get any closer if I can help it. I think I'll just stick to recs. And thanks for solving The Mystery of LOTRiPS 'i'.

[canthlian.livejournal.com]

*Eyes suspiciously*

You're doing this deliberately. This is part of the conspiracy. Those are the same recs that dragged me into the fandom from which there is no escape.

Also, a deep in-depth discussion of The I in LotRIPS. (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fellow_shippers/1127281.html)

And, you are not the only frog on my friends list. (http://www.livejournal.com/users/tarlia) More evidence of conspiracy.

[norah.livejournal.com]

It's a pretty well-written fandom on the whole. More recs here (http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=makesmewannadie&keyword=LOTRiPS+recs&filter=all): Words/Silence/Flesh is totally amazing if you want well-written sex. It's also kind of nice to read non-hobbit fics sometimes.