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a very important dilemma
Kicking off the blog's inaugural fandom post with wingfic is kind of weird (particularly because except in special cases I don't really get the intrinsic appeal), but what the hell: I think it is very important that I rec Lift, because in my determined read-through of the entirety of
ds_flashfiction's archive, I've hit the Reality vs Whimsy DS Match and am very much in love. Lift is about Ray Kowalski waking up with wings, except in this one they're there instead of his actual arms and are actually a horrible impediment; it's also a Ray/Ray fic that turns into a Fraser/Ray/Ray one partway through, which is how I am discovering I really like my OT3.
Tangentially, I am in the midst of a DILEMMA. It is not a very terrible dilemma, because it is about ... how I will waste my time watching tv ... but it goes: I had this wonderful plan wherein I would get out of school and promptly spend my first week or so of relative freedom mainlining a rewatch of due South. I want to do this [a] because I love dS but I suspect I do not give Vecchio enough of that love, and also there is something horribly wrong with a world in which I can quote all of Mountie on the Bounty but none of Call of the Wild, and [b] because then I can take Really Epic Notes (probably to beinflicted shared here) and consequently finish any of the roughly ten due South WIPs I have lying around. On the other hand, the stupid Star Trek film has filled me with Star Trek love, and I have seen about a total of zero Star Trek ever -- so I am equally tempted to go track down all of TOS on YouTube. Me & silly sci-fi are good buddies, and possibly I am not a very good geek if I only know the vaguest things about Star Trek. Also,
wintercreek was kind of evil and linked me to a site which includes historical notes with some of the oldest known slash; it should be unsurprising that this phrase turns my knees weak with joy.
So what is better, Epic Due South Rewatching or Epic Star Trek First Watching?? IT IS A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION.
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Tangentially, I am in the midst of a DILEMMA. It is not a very terrible dilemma, because it is about ... how I will waste my time watching tv ... but it goes: I had this wonderful plan wherein I would get out of school and promptly spend my first week or so of relative freedom mainlining a rewatch of due South. I want to do this [a] because I love dS but I suspect I do not give Vecchio enough of that love, and also there is something horribly wrong with a world in which I can quote all of Mountie on the Bounty but none of Call of the Wild, and [b] because then I can take Really Epic Notes (probably to be
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So what is better, Epic Due South Rewatching or Epic Star Trek First Watching?? IT IS A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION.
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The Star Trek movie kind of made me want to watch TOS, too, except that silly sci-fi and I aren't particularly close (we nod in the street but don't actually hang out together), so I know I'd get bored pretty quickly.
Due South!
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On the other hand: James Kirk. Or Rays (which singularly are better than Kirk and together are better than many things). Or Spock. Or Benton Fraser. (Honestly, I'd just love to see Spock snippily call Kirk "Mr. Instinct" but this is probably another argument in favor of More Due South.)
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So I think your vote for both is up for due consideration. :D
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(Also,
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It is fabulously cheesy!
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But in terms of canon with the TOS characters, I'm actually a lot more attached to the movies than the show itself, because they are all like "we went on all those epic adventures, and now it's 20 years later and... we are still going on epic adventures but we know each other a lot better and have settled into our lives and it is lovely." Or possibly I like them better for the same reason Adama is my favorite character on Battlestar, etc.
(I am actually mostly just pleased right now that I have managed to leverage
(This is darkest_light from LJ, btw.)
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See, because I am really weird, this is not actually a warning but rather a fascination. Writing slash without knowing the mechanics! Writing slash before there were any tropes! That's pretty awesome to me, so even if it's technically bad it'll be the good sort of historical curiosity.
(Hi! And thanks; I think I knew it was you but it's lovely to have the reminder, since so many people are changing journal names over here.)