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

[(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.