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Two recs and a ramble

I'm sitting in

janicechess's house and I should be working. And I am if your definition of working is yelling at my computer as I read emails from my boss. Swear to god, that woman wouldn't remember to breathe without me there to pat her hand and remind her about the concepts of in and out.

I really do not want to go back to work. When I get back, I have payroll to process, projects to get caught up on, the month of September to close the books on and our annual audit to spearhead. I'm going to be working the entire weekend so the more I can finish now, the less I have to do later. Yet I cannot think of anything I'd rather do less than work. Ok, maybe there are a couple of things but srsly. I hate my job. I hate that my boss is so incompetent and attached to her two or so hour lunches that she schluffs all this shit off on me like it's no biggie. I'm on vacation and I'm stuck staring at spreadsheets and trying to do work where I don't have the full picture because I don't have access to my work computer.

Oh speaking of the work computer, I'm stuck with a new computer when I get back, too. That'll be brilliant as it probably won't have everything on it. I've had to justify every piece of random software on my computer to someone who has no concept of what I do and is fairly new to the organization. He's a nice enough guy but I don't think I should have to explain to him just what it is that COBRA administration software really does and why I need it and why I can't just type up the letters every month. Sorry but true.

I just think my boss sets me up for failure time and time again. I mean - srsly. There are a few hugely important things that I do on a monthly, biweekly and annual time setting and all three things are converging on Monday so what does my boss do? Change out my computer two business days beforehand. What sort of moronic bullshit is that? Who does this shit?

Anyway on to non-work related shit - I think there's a karmic rule about fandom and fic searches - only the worst stories ever get searched for (and having seen a couple of my "bad" fic get searched for, I fully embrace and participate in this philosophy). I normally click the link anyway cause I cannot stop myself due to my overactive trainwreck syndrome. I've been pleasantly surprised a few times and this time was one of them as I encountered some stunning Remus/Sirius. The fic search sounded ridiculous and I was totes ready to laugh and spork but, instead, I ended up with biting back tears at the way that the canon between these two was handled.

Being an Historical Record of Events Surrounding the Unfortunate game of Truth-or-Dare Game of February the Twenty-Second And Consequences thereof is the first. It's got a few SPAG errors, a couple moments that made me think "chick with dick" but, honestly? Don't let that fool you into not reading it. It's got quite a good sense of poignancy and beauty there, the way that they fumble around one another and slowly build into an interesting take on the fanon trope of how and why Sirius leaves Grimmauld Place.

I see a Darkness is the second part and just about broke my heart. It doesn't start where Being an Historical... stops. Instead, it's got a disparate timeline that weaves everything together in a broken misshapen lump of a relationship that works even when it doesn't. The author does a great job of getting everything out there, whether positive or negative. You can feel the way that Remus reacts to everything and it is an amazing piece of work.

geekerypookery is the author and I'm currently trolling her journal looking for more R/S because I love her dynamics of these two so much.

Moving on to the ramble, I love fic searches. I really do. I think that they introduce a lot of people to some fandom classics that people assume are so classical that others already read them or whatever. Or they introduce people to new and exciting authors whether those authors are good or bad in my opinion. The best part is that it's my opinion whether the authors are good or bad and you can have your opinion and love the story equally as much as I want to spork it. Regardless of opinion on skill, they wrote something memorable enough that it stuck with someone so much that they want to experience it again.

In my opinion, they're like a different version of fandom squee. We post graphics and recs and links and lots and lots of other things. Fic searches are a way of someone saying "I read this story and I'd love to read it again and again so please help me find it!" It's a way of having someone answer back with "I read this story too and enjoyed it so much that I remember exactly where it is". It's a way of people connecting in mutual squee over a story. Whether they love or hate the story, they remember it and they connect over it.

It might be part of my wook-centrism where I am, obviously, the end all and be all of the world and fandom and the number 42 but I just cannot get why people get so annoyed with fic searches and why they can't see that even fic searches are a moment of squee and communal connection between fandomers. I get that we get annoyed with the real life bits of it. I get annoyed too as I really do not need to know that someone just broke up with their boyfriend or that they are having a fight with their girlfriend. But honestly? How hard is the fucking scroll bar to use? How hard is it to skip past them just like you skip past other entries that might contain similar information on a personal journal?

And all of this ramble is with the assumption that the community allows fic searches. If it doesn't? That's an entirely different ramble about people who don't read the motherfucking rules and then add in something annoying like "mods, delete if not allowed". I'll leave that ramble for another day.

I guess what my ramble is really about, though, is to say that posting fic searches provide a service just like linking to Tom Felton's new album, posting graphics, posting icons, posting stories, posting art or any of a thousand and one other things that we all do and are accepting of.

/thoughts on searches.

In other less rambly stuffs and postings - I'm working through my

hp_yule_balls assignment. It's a tough slog (no offence to the mods or the recipient as it isn't their faults). Mainly it's a tough slog because I'm so wishywashy about whether or not my idea is a good one and if it's a good fit. So I'm being one of those tedious participants who need constant handholding and reassurance.

I'm also working on a story that currently has the summary of "the story where Remus is a street musician and Sirius is a stockbroker and Peter likes Tom Jones while James has his head up his arse and it works just don't ask me how or why or where this came from".

There are also my three non-HP claims at

slashfest. I've about 5k into a Wolverine/Gambit post-X3 story and about 1k in to a PWP with Christian/Ollie at Verbotene Liebe. I have nothing into my Nightrunner claim but a good idea.

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To make your day better.... http://snegurochka-lee.insanejournal.com/55299.html#cutid1

Verboten Liebe FTW :D

I definitely saw that! I'm trying not to read it until I get mine done simply cause I don't want to rip anything off unintentionally :D.

But yes - Verbotene Liebe is definitely made of win! I'm glad people are finally buying into it!

about 1k in to a PWP with Christian/Ollie at Verbotene Liebe

ILUSFMOMG!!!
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

Heee! Leg humping and snogging so far.

Hi. I want to be at my house too! :(

Actually I think I might leave in 20 minutes which means I will be back by maybe 5:45 ish. But maybe I should get dinner on the way home so maybe 6.

Ooooh, dinner would be good. Whatcha thinking?

And I want you at your house too, darnit! Also, I've had a request for chatting with the pair of us. Also - plans for the evening? Also, I've written about 3k today!!! I've gotten very little work done, though. I am sort of failing this work thing. When's MrChess due back?

I was thinking maybe something you like this time! Just for a change. Perhaps we will do the

yodels special and make pizzas. I forget do you like pesto on pizzas?

MrChess should be home with me. He said he can leave in 5 minutes so I will stop at the store and them pick him up.

No plans for the evening yet! Usually after work I just veg. We could go for a walk? The lake is a mile away.

Hee! I liked last night's just fine! It was fun and interesting and different.

I love pesto on pizzas. I think that sounds like an awesome plan.

We can just veg if you'd like! I can keep writing and you and mrchess can try to suck me into Bleach :D. Also - how dorky are we that we're chatting about it here?

Yayz for a Christian/Ollie PWP! Tom Felton's new album? When did this happen? O.o

Heee! I haven't written PWP in a very long time. So we'll see how it goes or if I somehow demand some plot in there.

LMFAO - just today, methinks, on the Tom Felton's new album.

about 1k in to a PWP with Christian/Ollie at Verbotene Liebe

*FLAILS*

Also, I like fic searches. I have done several of them myself (mostly in QaF, but I think I did do one at

accio_rs_fics a while back). And I agree that you can find some good fics there.

The only time I get irritated with them is when people ask for things that I think are ridiculously OOC or even offensive. But you're right, that's what the scrolly thing on your mouse is for!

Hee!!!

I love fic searches, even if, for the most part, it's all dreck.

Exactly! on the scrolly thing! And I get annoyed if they're like "so there's this really hot vampire muggle au with draco as the son of prime minister tony blair and Harry's the illigimate son of Bush and...". Which, supposedly, is a fic out there somewhere but I have yet to find it.

buuuuut my finger gets tired of all that scrolling! ;__;

and lol MFY to those recs. i re-read historical record at least once every... what two months? something like that. i love it. the author has a WIP titled juvenilia that i wish got updated more often becuase it's the shit.

i'm sorry work sucks :[ your boss sounds like an idiot.

LMFAO. I know, it's so hard to scroll. I love the people that are, especially, all "my flist is too big for me to have to scroll!" personally. The self-importance alone :/.

Dude. god. How the hell did I miss these? They're BRILLIANT. And I'm starting to read juvenilia but I'm reading it slowly so as to maybe drag it out so that she updates again and again :D.

My boss is a very big idiot. Unfortunately, she's a very big idiot with a CPA degree whereas I have no degree so I have to be nice. Or something :/. Mainly I just roll my eyes and glare at my computer screen. For example - it took me 8 emails and her 9 emails to get her to reset a couple of passwords. Yeah, she's that big of a moron.

When I got into H/D, fic searches were how I found 75% of my reading. Some of them were truly terrible, but most of them were actually enjoyable if not amazing and I was grateful for having that resource.

I love how they tag things by request and if you're looking for a truth or dare fic you can fin one pretty easily. :D

Your boss is made of fail--I wish there were a was for you to complain but I suspect that's impossible. :(

Have a fabulous week.

Exactly! Sure - for me, most of the m are terrible but the jewels are the best part ever!

The R/S ficsearch comm does the tagging by request and that is definitely awesome. But I don't mind the ficsearches in a comm that allows them. Sometimes I find something rather unexpected and enjoyable and that makes it all worth it.

Dude - my boss is horrid but there is no way of complaining. I told her a couple of weeks ago that I loathed my workplace and especially her. It got to that point. She's improved some but the second I go on vacation, she's back to wibbling and whining.

(edited to add: Dear LJ - when I hit enter, I do not mean to post my comment, I mean to go to another line. No love, me)

And also to add - I hope your week is awesome too!!!

Edited 2008-09-30 12:38 (UTC)

Some more awesome R/S recs:

A Few Mornings in January by

omgsubtext

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Lies by

mysid

Being an Historical Record... by moonpants

Boiling Point by

anniesj

For Whom the Pants Toll by sullen siren

Levity by glitterati

Oscar Wilde Would Not Approve by librae

Our Bodies Could Fall Off the End of the World by

pixiefiction

Our Private Universe by

busaikko

Promised Eternity by Setissma and Promised Eternity (A Ring of Endless Light Remix) by victoria p.

Seven Things That Didn't Happen On Valentine's Day At Hogwarts, Or Maybe They Did by glitterati

Shuffle: Of A Kind by moonpants

Three Ways Sirius Black Never Came Out To His Friends And One Way That He Did by

mindabbles

OOhh, some of those I haven't read! Most of them I've gotten but a couple of them are shiny and new! <3

only the worst stories ever get searched for

*fondly remembers her many rentboy fic searches*

Sometimes I make up crazy story ideas and search for them. SO FAR they all actually exist except the Rodney-McKay-as-a-teenaged-prostitute thing... though I DID get one where John Sheppard timetravels to give a teenaged-prostitute-Rodney some money so he didn't have to suck dick. OR SOMETHING. idk. At any rate, it BASICALLY existed, just not in the exact story incarnation I'd wanted it to. So anyway, that's why I love fic search communities that allow you to search for things that may or may not be real stories. And now I want Dean Winchester rentboy stories, because I've read a Sam Winchester rentboy story and one where Sam THOUGHT Dean was whoring himself out and got all righteous about it only then Dean, like, wasn't. Which was funny. All of these examples have involved fandoms you're not in, woe.

LMFAO! INORITE?! And omg - that LOTR ficsearch you did. (at least, I hope it was you cause if I'm remembering the wrong person, I'm going to feel like an asshole)

Those stories. omg. the crack in them. al;kfja;sdljf

The SPN rentboy one with sam THINKING that dean was h0ring sounds brilliant. link plz?

hahaha, yes, if you're remembering the LotR RPS where Elijah and Orlando were superheroes, and it was all soundtracked out to this really angsty music, and Viggo was a sensitive artist and Cate was a cold museum director, and possibly Elijah got shirtless and sweaty and dusty in Orlando's archives. Of books (or art). Because he was some kind of book person (or art person). And then they wore masks and had sex on a car! (I mean, superhero masks... because they were out heroing. Not to be confused with whoring, which is a different thing I like in fic.)

And oh, gee, I can't remember the one where Sam thought Dean was whoring himself out. I think it was a minor plot point, possibly in a story where Sam or Dean turned into a girl (because I read a lot of that, so odds favor it). Which uh. DO YOU WATCH SPN BECAUSE YOU SHOULD BECAUSE THE FIC IS PRETTY CRACKTASTIC AND BOYS ARE PRETTY. And hmm. I'm not sure how to search for a fic I'm defining by its LACK of kink. It was even possibly gen! Hmm. But anyway, it's nothing compared to the SPN stories like the wincest one where Dean turns into a rubber ducky and doesn't turn back into himself until Sam comes on his rubber duck face (AHHAHAHA WTF THIS WAS A BIG BANG FIC TOO, I THINK) or the one where the Impala has babies and then there are BABY CARS zooming around. SPN fandom seems to be as cracktastic as SGA or comic book fandoms. CRAZY STUFF.

Edited 2008-09-30 21:53 (UTC)

wait I looked harder and found it

Private Language by

ethrosdemon. some form of wincest. warnings for Sam having random dreams, not being actual rentboy fic, and ending abruptly.

homg. I totes need to read that.

I'm really not into the fandom but I'll read crack anyway.

There's this one story, it's got Chronicles of Narnia, Bandom and HP all together and omg. The smooshed fandom craziness crack.

Haha, the SPN wiki crack page has a bunch of crazy crack... it's where I've been pulling stories until I acclimate to the fandom. There's a whole category entitled "Yak-fucking" that I have not dared examine yet.

WHAT, BANDOM/NARNIA/HP?!? LINK PLZ.

omg. it took me forever for it to appear on my flist but...

I didn't forget (http://community.livejournal.com/hp_slash/766154.html?mode=reply).

haha awesome, thanks!

Hi to you and JC!!! :)

hihihihi!!!!!! <3

i remember looking at slashfest at my friends house while i was drunk, and copy pasting as i went "i want to write that, and that, and that" and by the end of the four entries i had a list of something like 35 so i ended up not claiming anything.

(secretly ships wolverine/pyro) i know nothing about the comics, so all my gambit information has to wait until may when i FINALLY GET MY PREQUEL MOVIE. does that mean i won't read your fic? no. it only means i'll have no idea what's going on.

LOL. Aren't there a lot of awesome prompts.

The comics are amazing. Srsly. Dude. Gah. Gambit is srs love. Pyro is good in the movies but omg. If they do half the justice that Gambit deserves, he will be win incarnate. I <3 Gambit so much.

And it's set post movies so, really, you don't need to know too much about Gambit from the comics :D.

i've read a lot of fic in which gambit is bobby/john/jubilee etc age, so it'll be strange to read something where he's adult age. but i wish you a great time writing it, and lets hope the muses keep flowing.

see, i'd love to read them. but there's so many different series and spin offs and it's impossible to know where to start, because you can't start at the beginning of anything because #1 comics always cost a billion dollars on ebay. the whole world of comic books is offputting.

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