The Fandom Ten meme

[przed]

gacked from graculus


TEN pairings you've read:

1. Avon/Vila
2. Illya/Napoleon
3. Starsky/Hutch
4. Bodie/Doyle
5. Artemus Gordon/Jim West (TV version, NOT the movie)
6. Jim/Blair
7. Aragorn/Boromir
8. Avon/Blake
9. Aragorn/Faramir
10. Kelly Robinson/Alexander Scott

NINE fics you wish you'd written (in no particular order)

1. The Escape from New York Affair, by C.W. Walker (Gen, and yet I adore it.)
2. Harlequin Aires, by Ellis Ward (Great read and Lovett art. What's not to like.)
3. A Long Journey, by cinzia (The story that sucked me into LotR RPS.)
4. Wonderful Tonight, by Sebastian (High angst, Bodie & Doyle.)
5. Lord Hutchinson's Journey, by Victoria Racklyft (Fab S/H AU.)
6. To Live in Interesting Times, by Taliesin (Possibly my favourite UNCLE story ever.)
7. Into the Woods, by viva_gloria (Sharpe meets Aragorn.)
8. Changes, by Jean Kluge (A Sentinel story that by all rights I should have hated, but it hinges on such a great idea that I just can't resist it.)
9. The Captain and the King, by Plastic Chevy (Again Gen, but such heart-breakingly angsty Gen.)

EIGHT people you want to meet:

1. Pete Townshend
2. Harlan Ellison
3. Bernard Cornwell
4. Charles DeLint
5. Andy McNab (the real guy)
6. Neal Stephenson
7. Billy Wilder (if I'm allowed a seance)
8. Alexandre Dumas pere (okay, I'll need another seance)

SEVEN things that annoy you:

1. Stories full of typos, grammatical mistakes and generally bad writing.
2. People who proudly brag about not using betas/editors, then produce stories full of typos, grammatical mistakes and generally bad writing.
3. Stories where the characters go to great lengths to explain "I'm not really gay, I just love X." You're sleeping with another man, honey. You're gay. And fictional! Get over it.
4. Stories using all the old fannish cliches with no twist, irony or style
5. WIPs that never get finished. (No, I'm not still bitter about that Sentinel WIP I started reading six years ago that ended on a cliffhanger and was never finished, why do you ask?)
6. Writers that feminize one half of a male slash pair. They're men, people. Not twelve year old girls; not wee fairy-like creatures. Men. They should act like it.
7. MPreg. (Don't get it; won't read it.)

SIX of your fandoms:

1. The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
2. Lord of the Rings (FPS, RPS, whatever)
3. Pros
4. Starsky & Hutch
5. I Spy
6. Wild Wild West

FIVE pairings you've written/tried to write:

1. Illya/Napoleon
2. Starsky/Hutch
3. Bodie/Doyle
4. Jim/Artie
5. Sean/Viggo

FOUR things you love:

1. Delicious, well-crafted prose.
2. Stories where the characters are absolutely, perfectly drawn.
3. High angst.
4. Hot sex scenes that are also delicious, well-crafted prose.

THREE characters you'd like to shag:

1. Boromir
2. Aragorn
3. Ray Doyle

TWO songs you associate with fandom:

1. "Strong Enough" by Sheryl Crow
Because I've seen fabulous vids in both Pros and Sentinel to this song.
2. "I Would Die for You," Jann Ardenn
To be completely self-centred, because this is the song I used for my first vid.

ONE character you'd like to spend your life with:

1.) Boromir? Too tortured. Starsky? Too 70s. Ray Doyle? Just right.

Comments

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[kimberlyfdr.livejournal.com]

I completely agree with you about Changes. It's a great story and Jean did a wonderful job crafting it. I read it when it was online...maybe still is, I can't remember (Dang, now I wanna go buy the zine)

Lord Hutchinson's Journey, by Victoria Racklyft (Fab S/H AU.)

Which zine is this in? I can't remember it and any SH is good SH for me;) If I haven't read it yet it's because I never heard of it and this is one of those I haven't heard mentioned before.

Starsky? Too 70s.

Yes, but those jeans, those jeans. Two tumbles in the dryer and they fit that body just right, showing off all his greatest assets...front and back.

Re: Rundown

[przed.livejournal.com]

Lord Hutchinson's Journey is in The Fix #16. The zine's good, but I adore that story. It's set in England during the Civil War. Hutch is a nobleman; Starsky is a Jewish merchant. And somehow it all work marvelously well.

[cinzia.livejournal.com]

*blush* Woha. I'm speechless and hopelessly dorky so... *squishes you like crazy*


...and you've written Bodie/Doyle?! Wherewherewhere? I want to read it! *begs* :)

[przed.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's all your fault. Or, looked at it another way, you can take the credit. ;)

As for Pros, I've only ever written two Bodie/Doyle stories, though I'm rather proud of them. They're both on my website here:
http://przed.com/fic/pros/index.html