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So, if you enjoy a little schadenfreude,
this twitter thread is hilarious. There is another, filmed by the guy next standing to the guy who did the first one, with commentary and gleeful song, here, but I like the comments on the first thread. The star of the show is whining about being called a terrorist and not being allowed to get on a plane. It does rather look as though he was at the Capitol last Wednesday.
I like the utter indifference of those sitting around in the airport.
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Back to my usual.
Challenge #6
In your own space, rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I'm picking recs from smaller canons (with one exception), and which have such awesomely authentic voices that I loved them at once.
Rivers of Ankh-Morpork by melannen
Peter Grant gets into Ankh-Morpork and is delighted. Seriously, it's like Pterry was having a bit of fun on his day off. Absolutely delightful story.
That Greek Thing by Luthien.
I've been listening to a bunch of Georgette Heyer novels over the last few weeks—not, as it happens, Friday's Child, but plenty enough to recognise that the tone of this story is spot-on. The comic sidekick friends in Heyer stories are the ones who annoyed me back when I was a teenager and reading for the romance, but nowadays fill me with love and a desire to see them happy and taken just a little bit seriously. This story does just that.
Still in a Heyerish vein, but an entirely frivolous one, The Birds and the Bees by Lbilover is like a delicious fairy cake, or possibly a Chantilly Basket. Lord Legerwood is not certain whether his heir is, hmm, au fait with certain marital necessities.
Moving away, far, far away, from Georgette Heyer's world, Sprezzatura by Queue takes 'Much Ado About Nothing' and extrapolates a perfect Beatrice. Wow. This one. It's in iambic pentameter: voice-wise, I wouldn't call it Shakespearian, but it is as clever, as stuffed with meaning and innuendo and truth. It's Beatrice the modern woman, Beatrice confronted with the news that Benedick will soon be present, Beatrice deciding what she wants. It's really, really good.
Once upon a time, American Idol was a fandom of very respectable size. Physics Makes Us All Its Bitches by cjmarlowe. Well, it's probably not fair to talk about the authentic 'voice' for RPF, so I'll just say that this author knows how to write. This is Adam Lambert, Kris Allen and Brad Bell, and bodyswap. I'm very partial to a good bodyswap story. This is a good bodyswap story.
this twitter thread is hilarious. There is another, filmed by the guy next standing to the guy who did the first one, with commentary and gleeful song, here, but I like the comments on the first thread. The star of the show is whining about being called a terrorist and not being allowed to get on a plane. It does rather look as though he was at the Capitol last Wednesday.
I like the utter indifference of those sitting around in the airport.
*
Back to my usual.
Challenge #6
In your own space, rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I'm picking recs from smaller canons (with one exception), and which have such awesomely authentic voices that I loved them at once.
Rivers of Ankh-Morpork by melannen
Peter Grant gets into Ankh-Morpork and is delighted. Seriously, it's like Pterry was having a bit of fun on his day off. Absolutely delightful story.
That Greek Thing by Luthien.
I've been listening to a bunch of Georgette Heyer novels over the last few weeks—not, as it happens, Friday's Child, but plenty enough to recognise that the tone of this story is spot-on. The comic sidekick friends in Heyer stories are the ones who annoyed me back when I was a teenager and reading for the romance, but nowadays fill me with love and a desire to see them happy and taken just a little bit seriously. This story does just that.
Still in a Heyerish vein, but an entirely frivolous one, The Birds and the Bees by Lbilover is like a delicious fairy cake, or possibly a Chantilly Basket. Lord Legerwood is not certain whether his heir is, hmm, au fait with certain marital necessities.
Moving away, far, far away, from Georgette Heyer's world, Sprezzatura by Queue takes 'Much Ado About Nothing' and extrapolates a perfect Beatrice. Wow. This one. It's in iambic pentameter: voice-wise, I wouldn't call it Shakespearian, but it is as clever, as stuffed with meaning and innuendo and truth. It's Beatrice the modern woman, Beatrice confronted with the news that Benedick will soon be present, Beatrice deciding what she wants. It's really, really good.
Once upon a time, American Idol was a fandom of very respectable size. Physics Makes Us All Its Bitches by cjmarlowe. Well, it's probably not fair to talk about the authentic 'voice' for RPF, so I'll just say that this author knows how to write. This is Adam Lambert, Kris Allen and Brad Bell, and bodyswap. I'm very partial to a good bodyswap story. This is a good bodyswap story.