Request and links

[selenak]

Firstly, after having seen about 13 episodes of "West Wing" now, I feel ready to branch out. Does anyone have any fanfic recommendations? Also, I wonder which of the usual fandom patterns apply. Can't be the hero bashing one, since this is an ensemble show and doesn't have a central character as such. How about 'shipping wars? Slasher battles? Controversial storylines? Do tell.

Secondly, link time. Here is a fantastic and long Connor post-Home story. Starring, in leading roles, the Disturbed Attractive One himself, Lilah and the late Daniel Holtz. How? Go and find out.

For people who have already read Order of the Phoenix or don't mind being spoiled: A.J. Hall presents the legal consequences of a certain Unfortunate Event and had me giggle long after I stopped reading this.

For people who, like me, feel sad about the late Katharine Hepburn and are fond of the movieverse X-Men, c_elisa came up with a lovely homage.

Meanwhile, a slate of new HP quizzes, inspired by the most recent book, have appeared, so of course I had to :




Luna, Luna, Luna... no more needed.


Which Chick from Order of the Phoenix Are You? (Spoilers)
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Suits me fine. I like Luna, muchly, and people certainly find me weird at times. However, next came one of these quizzes you take because there's no way they can get it right. For example, I don't see any slashiness in Star Wars, so a couple of months ago I investigated which SW couple I am and came up with Han/Luke. Given the above and also that I'm in the extreme minority who finds the prequels actually more interesting than the OT, I was, shall we say, suprised. This time around, I tried this with HP and was told:



You are... Harry/Severus!

Ah, the delicious union of Potter/Snape. Puts a
smile on my face and a skip in my step. I bet
you lost it while reading Order of the Phoenix,
and strongly believe that post-Ootp slash is a
definite possibility. The bickering, glaring,
insults, and hostility are all foreplay to you,
and we're all damn proud of you because of it.
You love Snarry, and Snarry loves you.


What HP Slash Fanfiction Pairing Are You?
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Okayyyy. You know, if it weren't for the Big Gigantic Teacher/Student problem, and the underage problem, and the not-finding-each-other-physically-attractive problem, I could live with that. Anyway, it's better than Harry/Draco.

Rounding off the HP related soul searching was this:

Hermione Granger is your Hunk of Burnin' Love.


Who Is Your Gryffindor Hunk of Burnin' Love?
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She's scary. Brilliant, but scary. Might be interesting.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This is fascinating. I'm:

1. Tonks (eat your heart out)

2. Sirius/Remus (which I could actually buy, were it not for the fact that Sirius was *so* into James)

3. Dean Thomas (gonna have to fight Ginny for him)

Katie

But that constant hair change is so yesterday!

[selenak.livejournal.com]

And I'm so with you regarding Sirius and his crush on James.

Definitely - but that was at 15, wasn't it?

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

James may have been Sirius' teenage crush... but Sirius and Remus are just *made* for each other!

LOL. Still can't get over the fact that I'm now a Harry Potter slash reader and a *shipper*! Two fan groups I've always found really strange, and was pretty certain I'd never become a part of. Just goes to show - again - that you should never say 'never' when it comes to predicting your own behaviour...

Ah, but Sirius is still...

[selenak.livejournal.com]

...projecting James into Harry like noone's business (Snape is definitely not the only one doing it), and not pleased when it's pointed out they're not the same. So obviously he hasn't resolved his James issues.

Re: Ah, but Sirius is still...

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

>...projecting James into Harry like noone's business

So what? Are having a thing for James and having a thing for Remus mutually exclusive? ;-) Plus, he never really got a chance to get over James, actually probably never really got a chance *with* James *at all*, plus there's the whole guilt thing, so of course he has an issue.

Doesn't mean he needs to be solely interested in James.

Of course it's not mutually exclusive <g>

[selenak.livejournal.com]

I'm just pointing out that your Sirius is one emotionally messed-up guy and life with Remus, true love for Remus and Remus being a nice person not withstanding, might not have been idyllic during that year they had together.

Ahh, you should know me better;

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

do you seriously take me for the type to write fluff?

[Hmpf's first slash fic preview (Remus' POV, during OotP):

"If all I can have is this pain then I'll embrace it willingly; it is so much more than I have had all these years. I know I should hope for better days (...) but I've forgotten how to hope. Grasping the moment and holding it as fast as I can is about all I can do."]

WAFF stuff is boring... ;-) And of course Sirius is messed up - in so many ways! That's why I'm interested in him. Which gives me a reason to repeat what I've said many times before: with my unfortunate taste in (fictional) men, it's probably a blessing in disguise I haven't found a man to my liking in RL yet! ;-)

Yay Angst!

[selenak.livejournal.com]

And promising snippet, that. Yes, I should have trusted you on the non-fluff, it's just that what little Sirius/Remus I've read sounds as Roy Orbison is constantly singing "Only Youuuuu" in the background.

Hmm. You should read the fic I recced in my LJ a few days ago.

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

Here's the link again:

http://www.waxjism.net/pickle/stories/thing.html

Quite possibly the best thing I've read on that particular pairing so far. Lots of 'I wish *I* had written that!' sentences. *g*

Glad you like the snippet. I'm about to leave for the excursion, and I hope I'll be able to write in the evenings and possibly on the trip, too.

[c-elisa.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link. Re West Wing fic, my current favorite is You and Me of the 10,000 Wars (http://www.sparkgirls.com/stories/youandme.html) by Luna and Ellen M. It would help to have seen at least one episode with Ainsley for that one.

Torch's Lies, Damn Lies, and Agriculture (http://www.strangeplaces.net/torch/damnlies.html) is a very funny X-Files crossover.

There's probably a lot more I could recommend if I weren't so terrible at remembering authors and titles.

Thanks!

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Haven't met Ainsley yet (I think) - I only have the first season at hand.

Ah, good old Krycek, fatal to Federal Employees everywhere...

Re: Thanks!

[c-elisa.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know what to recommend! Punk's work, especially Exit Tax (http://home.teleport.com/~punkm/exit.txt). Although my favorite stories by her are "Interstitial" (Smallville) and "Junk Novels" (Sports Night, cowritten with Sabine).

Ainsley shows up sometime early in season 2, IIRC.

Loved the story -

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Despite occasional forays elsewhere, I'm a canon girl at heart and judging by the 22 episodes I've seen so far, this was perfectly in character. Thank you!

[themoonbar.livejournal.com]

Firstly, after having seen about 13 episodes of "West Wing" now, I feel ready to branch out. Does anyone have any fanfic recommendations? Also, I wonder which of the usual fandom patterns apply. Can't be the hero bashing one, since this is an ensemble show and doesn't have a central character as such. How about 'shipping wars? Slasher battles? Controversial storylines? Do tell.

West Wing is a peculiar fandom. It's split almost exactly into two groups: the Josh/Donna shippers and the CJ/Toby-Josh/Sam shippers. My personal preferences run towards the second group, although that's partly because that seems to have the better (read: multifandom) writers. Not that that there's not good J/D out there, but it's limited, in my opinion. There's also very little gen, which is a damn shame.

I'm sort of in a rush right now, so I'm afraid I can't give you tailored recs (I also don't really know your taste) but Sab and Punk run a kick-ass rec site at www.grapefruithead.com/ourboys. It's definitely worth checking out.

Thanks for the site link!

[selenak.livejournal.com]

I've seen the entire first season now. Strangely, though C.J. definitely has become a favourite character (yay for smart women over thirty not presented in mother roles!), I have no inclination to read stories which 'ship her with anyone. (Gen, though, would be great.)

My slash-dar must be off. I didn't see the Josh/Sam; the male/male relationship which looks more like love than friendship to me was the Leo/Jed Bartlet one...

Re: Thanks for the site link!

[themoonbar.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yeah, Leo/Jed has a few devotees (If you're looking for fanfic, I would probably try priya and Dafna) I didn't see the slash either until the season two opener-- that one has a lot of interesting backstory for literally every single major couple. And it's a gorgeous episode.

Hmm. My memory is not at its greatest right now, so I'm having a difficult time thinking of stories. Luna writes mostly CJ/Toby, but she writes a pitch-perfect CJ and I imagine that she has several gen stories at www.sparkgirl.com

Consider me ever more disgruntled that...

[selenak.livejournal.com]

...season 2 is out of my reach right now. Hm. Will have to try to find downloads and the like. Moreover: Did I mention I want to switch White House administrations ever more urgently?