frog princess

It's visiting duties today at M's dad's house, so I'm all washed and spruced up for the day and feeling far too much like I want to stay in bed. But it'll be fun and there's bound to be more champagne and delicous food. I shall take my new bag; it's bright red shiny plastic with a silver clasp!! Very sixties.

Here's a quick rec for another YT story I enjoyed: The rest of your life, Eroica. Just lovely. Very nice ambiguous ending. I'm a sucker for that kind of thing.

I'm not holding our much hope for my obscure fandom to lose its yellowness at While We Tell of Yuletide Treasures

My obscure fandom is Thief: the Metal Age. It's a computer game. No one is going to want to write it. The pairing I chose was Garrett/Mysterious Hooded Keeper Dude

It's all so shadowy and the animated parts are creepy and Garret is snarky and cynical. He is so doing it with Mysterious Keeper Friend. There's some Thief fanfic on FF.net, but sadly, because it's a game, the writers give into the temptation to just describe a game, which is very boring. Also, no slash. I get the impression if I wrote Garrett/Keeper slash and posted it there that I'd be taunted by 15 year old boys for the rest of my life. Not that I'd care or that that would stop me, obviously.

Some other fandoms that left me faintly boggled and are still unclaimed are:

Footloose (Kevin Bacon, those jeans, that dance sequence in the big shed! My eyes!)
The Goon Show
Inspector Morse
The Sweeney
Lovejoy
(What, no Bergerac?)

I recently stumbled across a very good Inspector Morse fic; Oak and Mistletoe by Sue Jenkins. Her Lewis is so good, to the point where he can utter the line, 'I love you, sir' and it's utterly believable. Not only is it believable, Lewis says it while Morse is vomiting his guts out during a hangover. It's the most touching, well written scene. And not only that, but at a later point Morse says 'you're beautiful, Lewis,' and that's utterly believable too. It sounds like a parody, I know, but it really worked for me. One part of the story that I thought didn't work so well was the casual way Lewis's wife and kids were shunted out of the way. I keep thinking about this story. I'm not a big Morse fan, and have no real desire to slash Morse and Lewis. The story has a serious flaw with Lewis's family. What I admire about it is the way the writer captured perfectly the characters voices, to the point where I could see and hear them in my head saying those lines and I find that a rare experience in fanfic, especially so in fanfic based on a visual medium. So I guess that strong, compelling characterisation can pull me through a story, even if I don't care about the characters to begin with and there are things I really don't like about the plot.

Moving on from Morse, here are other obscure fandoms that need to be written for, that sadly I can't:

Saki's short stories
Fenndom
James Bond
Grosse Point Blank
Yes Minister

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And, puffing visibly, I wrote a whole 3710 Nano words today.