Travels and a Farscape tip

[selenak]

Today, yours truly spent most of the day driving with her parents to the other end of Germany. Well, one of them. We've got several family birthdays during the next days, so we always take the week off and go into hiding.*g* In this case, we picked the island Rügen - famous for the other set of white cliffs, as painted by Caspar David Friedrich. Being near the sea again, brreathing the salty air is gorgeous. However, it also plays havoc with my fannish life. I can only access my emails and the net via using my cell phone as the modem. Which is pretty expensive, so I won't do it too often in the next seven days.

However: today's mail brought joyful news. My Farscape-converted recent guestage, Bimo, has posted her first vignette. It's a John pov, set early in season 1. Read it here; you know, it's been over a year, almost two, I believe, since hmpf converted me, and I still haven't produced any fanfic. (But then it's taken me almost a decade after falling in love to write Babylon 5...sometimes I'm slow.) Hers is brief, intense, and fits the timeframe beautifully.

In other news, I think my American friends from the east coast made it through Isabel. Which is a relief.

Comments

[estepheia.livejournal.com]

Oh, we've been to Rügen. We'd planned on staying for several days, but everybody was so fucking rude on that island and on the mainland too, that we aborted our holiday and descended on a friend in Berlin instead. In fact, I will never again go on holiday in Neufünfland.

Especially the proceedings around the Kaiserstuhl pissed us off. You couldn't drive all the way but had to park your car on a paid parking lot, then you got on a bus that drove you a bit further, then when you get off you find out that you have to pay yet again, to get past a little fence so you can actually walk to the edge of the cliff. All this just to look at the sea from a sodding cliff?
And then they had the balls to ask for money for use of the toilets (which, incidentally didn't look trustworthy). I was pregnant at the time, so the whole experience really annoyed me no end.

But try eating Stremellachs, that's nice.
We did see the Störtebecker show. That was fun. Kinda.
Still, I like my holidays more urban thank you very much. Will never set foot on that island again.

Sorry to hear about your bad experience...

[selenak.livejournal.com]

...so far, everyone has been quite pleasant and nice. As for urban holidays, since my professional life is mostly urban, I can do with a little change now and then...

Viel Spass!

[mylexie.livejournal.com]

Sie sind Deutsch? Woh leben Sie? Und gibt's Farscape in Deutschland (auf Englisch oder auf Deutsch?)?

Re: Viel Spass!

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Danke, in München normalerweise, und von Farscape wurden zwar die ersten zwei Staffeln auf Deutsch gesendet, aber danach nichts mehr, weswegen ich sehr froh bin, daß mir hmpf die Serie auf CD-Rom in Englisch zugänglich machte.

Re: Viel Spass!

[mylexie.livejournal.com]

(Mein Deutsch ist nicht sehr gut - I benutze es nicht genug, aber ich soll probieren auf Deutsch zu reagieren)

Das macht's ja vielmals besser - auf Englisch. :) Ich hab eine mal "Naturlich Blond" auf Deutsch angeschaut, das hat viel spass gemacht, sehr komisch.

Wenn du in die Niederlande bist, sag's mir, dan konnen wir vielleicht uns ein mal treffen?

Re: Viel Spass!

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Falls ich in die Niederlande komme, gerne.

[bimo.livejournal.com]

Hi, I just dropped in to let you know that the vignette's URL changed into http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1527225 due to some problems with FF.net's uploading/editing system.

Enjoy your trip to Rügen!

[(Anonymous)]

Hi I have lurked a few times on your Lj. And that have made me interested on Farscape, so naturally I have begun downloading the episodes, I am currently at season 1 episode 12 (broadband is nice, whiteout limit on the traffic would have been nicer). And I have become moderately hooked, even if I think it’s a little campy, and uses a lot of old tv scfi clichés, proud warrior race, a race with psychic abilities and one little Ferengi (sp?). What I do like, is that the show seems to try to crate a truly alien landscapes and mindscapes, not always that it always succeed in that, but it’s also on hardest thing to try to describe something that is fundamental alien, in such a way that make sense to the reader/viewer.
Anyway do you have any recommendation when it comes to Farscape fanfic? Is there a writer like Yathzee (sp?), the former btvs/ats writer.
With regards
Lakrids

Where to begin?

[selenak.livejournal.com]

There is a lot of excellent Farscape fanfic, though much of it needs the viewing of the later seasons to be understood. The Yahtzee of Farscape fanfic would be Mayaan, I think. But again, you need to have seen more.
(BTW, first season Farscape is much like first season BTVS - the groundworks are there, but it's incredibly bright and cheerful compared with the rest, and if you look at John and Buffy at the start of their respective journeys and compare them to what life shapes them into, it's stunning. Wait for the equivalent of "Innocence" to come near the end of season 1.)
For Farscape fanfic set in very early season 1, I can repeat my recommendation for bimos vignette. melymbrosia wrote a great glimpse at Aeryn during the first weeks.