aria: ([due south] things he's doin' to me)
valinor spider party ([personal profile] aria) wrote2009-05-10 08:10 pm

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 [community profile] 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 be inflicted 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, [personal profile] 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.
china_shop: Close-up of Zhao Yunlan grinning (Fraser do as the nice Mountie)

[personal profile] china_shop 2009-05-11 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
Due South! Due South, Due South, Due South! WIPS!!!! /entirely predictable, heh

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!
wintercreek: Blue-tinted creek in winter with snowy banks. ([dS] there's red ships and green ships)

[personal profile] wintercreek 2009-05-11 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
Jumping comment threads to say WRITE THE CROSSOVER. "Mr Instinct," indeed. *sporfle*
wintercreek: Blue-tinted creek in winter with snowy banks. ([ST 09] destiny)

[personal profile] wintercreek 2009-05-11 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
I VOTE FOR BOTH. Because I desperately want to you write due South and Star Trek fic. *is no help at all*
everysecondtuesday: glasses and milk tea in the morning (Default)

[personal profile] everysecondtuesday 2009-05-11 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
I SECOND BOTH. Like. Alternate days, or whatever is necessary. *_*

(Also, [personal profile] wintercreek, can I ask where you found new shiny Star Trek icons?)
wintercreek: Blue-tinted creek in winter with snowy banks. ([ST 09] *in Spock's chair*)

[personal profile] wintercreek 2009-05-11 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Mine are from here; I think [livejournal.com profile] trekicons is where I found the post linked from.
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[personal profile] mockingbird 2009-05-11 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
STAR TREK. STAR TREK, STAR TREK.

It is fabulously cheesy!
labellementeuse: a girl sits at a desk in front of a window, chewing a pencil (my marxist feminist dialectic)

[personal profile] labellementeuse 2009-05-11 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
due South. I have only seen a little Start Trek and, well, it's classic and stuff, but... well, OK. I think some of the later series are pretty good, but if someone made me watch TOS unironically and without alcohol involved? Um, no.
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[personal profile] epershand 2009-05-11 11:13 am (UTC)(link)
Ok, as a long-term Star Trek fan, due South is probably better television. But on the other hand YAY STAR TREK. Old skool TOS slash fandom is a little bit scary, what with the fact that most people writing it did not really understand how gay sex worked and made up the details as they went along, but there are some gems out there, and I'm looking forward to the renaissance that is actually about to happen.

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 [personal profile] oliviacirce's brief interest in Star Trek to get her to watch some DS9 and read lots of Garak/Bashir ::grin::)

(This is darkest_light from LJ, btw.)