Fannish meme type thing
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Fannish Meme-ness!
TEN pairings you've read:
1. Angel/Wesley (Angel)
2. Clark/Lex (Smallville)
3. Jack/Daniel (Stargate: SG-1)
4. Apollo/Starbuck (Battlestar Galactica)
5. Ares/Joxer (Xena-Hercules)
6. Bobby/Jean Paul (X-Men)
7. Bond/Trevelyan (GoldenEye)
8. Lex/Bruce (Smallville-Batman-Superman-Justice League universe smooshness)
9. Mulder/Krycek (X-Files)
10. Methos/Kronos (Highlander)
NINE fics you wish you'd written (in no particular order):
1. A Handful of Dust by Jenn (Clark/Lex)
2. Strategy by The Brat Queen (Angel/Wesley, Connor/Wesley)
3. Tangential by Jane St Clair (Spike/Wesley)
4. Caffiene and Saccharine by Minerva Solo (Bobby/Jean Paul)
5. Blood, Love & Rhetoric by Sleeps With Coyotes (Mulder/Krycek)
6. Ghosts by torch (Mulder/Krycek)
7. A Girl Made From Sky by Doyle (Dawn/Cheeseman)
8. Take This Longing by WesleysGirl and Magpie (Angel/Wesley)
9. Twinkle Lights by Sidhe (Lex/Bruce)
EIGHT people you want to meet:
1. Chris Claremont
2. Sir Ian McKellan
3. Russell T Davis
4. Art Baltazar
5. Bruce Campbell
6. Sanami Matoh
7. Sarah McLachlan
8. All of the people on my flist that I haven't already met, because you're all fun and funky and sparkly people.
SEVEN things that annoy you:
1. Misspelling a character's name. I can let it slide if it's Wesley because canon has spelled it both ways, although they've now settled on Wyndam-Pryce. But Krychek gets me out of a fic faster than blinking. Same with Aries.
2. Domestic Discipline. I think it's out of character for pretty much every guy I've seen it written for. I'm sorry, but my Alex doesn't need Daddy Walter to spank him into a catharsis where he lets go of all his guilt over killing everybody and breaks down in tears. Er, no. In fact, I have little doubt that if anyone did try to raise a hand to Krycek when it wasn't part of some kinky sex game (and I'm not counting Mulder because *everything* he and Alex do is part of some kinky sex game), that Alex would shoot the bastard. Repeatedly.
3. Fics that have Methos riding with the Horsemen only because Kronos beat/raped/blackmailed/threatened/brainwashed him. Methos isn't stupid. He was also with Kronos for over 1,000 years. The guy wanted to be there.
4. Feminisation of one of the guys to such an extent you may as well whack him in a dress and call him Susan. You wanna write het, go write het, it's not a bad thing. Turning Lex/Methos/Krycek/Xander/Daniel into a swooning damsel who needs to be rescued by the big strapping knight in shining armour is. (Especially when each of them is more than capable of rescuing themselves.)
5. Character bashing because an author doesn't like the character. Buffy is not evil incarnate. Making her the bitch queen from hell who tortures puppies as a way to get the guys together is not a plot, it's bad writing.
6. Posting two paragraphs of a story to a list and calling it a chapter. You're doing it to make your story look longer. Stop it, it's very annoying.
7. Writing "If I don't get any feedback, then I'm not going to continue" at the end of a story/chapter. Because, you know, an author acting like a whiny seven-year old who is about to throw her toys out of the sandbox if no one pays her attention is the one thing that is guaranteed to get me to send feedback. Honestly.
SIX of your fandoms:
1. Angel
2. Smallville
3. Buffy
4. X-Men
5. Stargate SG-1
6. Combat Sheep
FIVE pairings you've written/tried to write:
1. Angel/Wesley (Angel)
2. Tyler/El Blanco (Tremors)
3. James/Alec (Bond: GoldenEye)
4. Xander/Spike (Buffy)
5. Jack/Daniel (Stargate)
FOUR things you love:
1. Bad guys. The entire good guy/bad guy dichotomy. I adore the entire "I hate you, you're my enemy, but you make me harder than sin and I want to fuck you anyway" concept.
2. Vampires drinking from people in a non-killing kind of way. Because Angel is injured and Wesley knows that he's not going to last unless he gets blood. Only they're cut off from the rest of the group and the only blood around is flowing through him. And he doesn't even think about it as he reaches out for the jagged piece of glass lying next to them. Wipes it on his trousers in a parody of cleanliness before he holds it against his arm and cuts, wincing as the not quite sharp enough to not hurt edge bites into his flesh. There's a moment before the blood starts to well, red appearing in a slash across his skin. He holds his arm to Angel's mouth before the blood can start to run down his arm and waste itself on the ground. He thinks Angel's not going to drink at first, lips remaining stubbornly shut, before he feels the touch of a tongue, gentle at first and then increasingly harsh. And he closes his eyes as cool fingers wrap around his arm, holding him in place as Angel takes what Wesley gives.
3. Ambiguous endings. As much as I adore happy endings, most of the guys I like are much more suited to the ambiguous endings.
4. A path to love that doesn't run smoothly. I don't want Angel and Wesley picking out curtains and deciding to go with the blue paint in the bedroom instead of the purple. I want stories where people find out, where the whole gamut of emotions is experienced. I want Duncan unable to understand why Methos *can't* leave Kronos, because Kronos is a part of him. And how could Duncan ever understand what it meant to have someone there for more than 1,000 years. To live and breathe as one for a millennium. To know that when Kronos is there, he's *there*, inside Methos, Quickening singing to him, beckoning him. I want Clark deciding he wants Lex, but only after Lex is back with Bruce. Because Clark knows that Lex is his and he can't bear to see it when Bruce stands too close and whispers too quietly. And he certainly can't stand seeing the smile that used to be reserved for him alone focussed on this interloper. And I want Lex to understand Clark only wants him because Bruce has him. Understand that part of him will always love Clark in some way, but that Bruce is the one he needs. And sex. Sex is also good.
THREE characters you'd like to shag:
(Only three? *pout*)
1. Lex Luthor
2. Alex Krycek
3. Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
(I'll like at this point to give honourable mentions to: Alec Trevelyan, Kronos, Faith, *Captain* Jack Sparrow, Lindsey MacDonald, Lilah Morgan, a healthy percentage of the X-Men, and others too numerous to mention.)
TWO songs you associate with fandom:
1. Tainted Love (the Soft Cell version I will forever associate with Mulder/Krycek, and the Marilyn Manson one with Lex/Lionel)
2. Life Got In The Way - Sister Hazel. (It's such an Angel/Wesley song that it may as well have been written for them.)
ONE character you'd like to spend your life with:
1. Lex Luthor (he's gorgeous, rich and I don't mind evil)
Fannish Meme-ness!
TEN pairings you've read:
1. Angel/Wesley (Angel)
2. Clark/Lex (Smallville)
3. Jack/Daniel (Stargate: SG-1)
4. Apollo/Starbuck (Battlestar Galactica)
5. Ares/Joxer (Xena-Hercules)
6. Bobby/Jean Paul (X-Men)
7. Bond/Trevelyan (GoldenEye)
8. Lex/Bruce (Smallville-Batman-Superman-Justice League universe smooshness)
9. Mulder/Krycek (X-Files)
10. Methos/Kronos (Highlander)
NINE fics you wish you'd written (in no particular order):
1. A Handful of Dust by Jenn (Clark/Lex)
2. Strategy by The Brat Queen (Angel/Wesley, Connor/Wesley)
3. Tangential by Jane St Clair (Spike/Wesley)
4. Caffiene and Saccharine by Minerva Solo (Bobby/Jean Paul)
5. Blood, Love & Rhetoric by Sleeps With Coyotes (Mulder/Krycek)
6. Ghosts by torch (Mulder/Krycek)
7. A Girl Made From Sky by Doyle (Dawn/Cheeseman)
8. Take This Longing by WesleysGirl and Magpie (Angel/Wesley)
9. Twinkle Lights by Sidhe (Lex/Bruce)
EIGHT people you want to meet:
1. Chris Claremont
2. Sir Ian McKellan
3. Russell T Davis
4. Art Baltazar
5. Bruce Campbell
6. Sanami Matoh
7. Sarah McLachlan
8. All of the people on my flist that I haven't already met, because you're all fun and funky and sparkly people.
SEVEN things that annoy you:
1. Misspelling a character's name. I can let it slide if it's Wesley because canon has spelled it both ways, although they've now settled on Wyndam-Pryce. But Krychek gets me out of a fic faster than blinking. Same with Aries.
2. Domestic Discipline. I think it's out of character for pretty much every guy I've seen it written for. I'm sorry, but my Alex doesn't need Daddy Walter to spank him into a catharsis where he lets go of all his guilt over killing everybody and breaks down in tears. Er, no. In fact, I have little doubt that if anyone did try to raise a hand to Krycek when it wasn't part of some kinky sex game (and I'm not counting Mulder because *everything* he and Alex do is part of some kinky sex game), that Alex would shoot the bastard. Repeatedly.
3. Fics that have Methos riding with the Horsemen only because Kronos beat/raped/blackmailed/threatened/brainwashed him. Methos isn't stupid. He was also with Kronos for over 1,000 years. The guy wanted to be there.
4. Feminisation of one of the guys to such an extent you may as well whack him in a dress and call him Susan. You wanna write het, go write het, it's not a bad thing. Turning Lex/Methos/Krycek/Xander/Daniel into a swooning damsel who needs to be rescued by the big strapping knight in shining armour is. (Especially when each of them is more than capable of rescuing themselves.)
5. Character bashing because an author doesn't like the character. Buffy is not evil incarnate. Making her the bitch queen from hell who tortures puppies as a way to get the guys together is not a plot, it's bad writing.
6. Posting two paragraphs of a story to a list and calling it a chapter. You're doing it to make your story look longer. Stop it, it's very annoying.
7. Writing "If I don't get any feedback, then I'm not going to continue" at the end of a story/chapter. Because, you know, an author acting like a whiny seven-year old who is about to throw her toys out of the sandbox if no one pays her attention is the one thing that is guaranteed to get me to send feedback. Honestly.
SIX of your fandoms:
1. Angel
2. Smallville
3. Buffy
4. X-Men
5. Stargate SG-1
6. Combat Sheep
FIVE pairings you've written/tried to write:
1. Angel/Wesley (Angel)
2. Tyler/El Blanco (Tremors)
3. James/Alec (Bond: GoldenEye)
4. Xander/Spike (Buffy)
5. Jack/Daniel (Stargate)
FOUR things you love:
1. Bad guys. The entire good guy/bad guy dichotomy. I adore the entire "I hate you, you're my enemy, but you make me harder than sin and I want to fuck you anyway" concept.
2. Vampires drinking from people in a non-killing kind of way. Because Angel is injured and Wesley knows that he's not going to last unless he gets blood. Only they're cut off from the rest of the group and the only blood around is flowing through him. And he doesn't even think about it as he reaches out for the jagged piece of glass lying next to them. Wipes it on his trousers in a parody of cleanliness before he holds it against his arm and cuts, wincing as the not quite sharp enough to not hurt edge bites into his flesh. There's a moment before the blood starts to well, red appearing in a slash across his skin. He holds his arm to Angel's mouth before the blood can start to run down his arm and waste itself on the ground. He thinks Angel's not going to drink at first, lips remaining stubbornly shut, before he feels the touch of a tongue, gentle at first and then increasingly harsh. And he closes his eyes as cool fingers wrap around his arm, holding him in place as Angel takes what Wesley gives.
3. Ambiguous endings. As much as I adore happy endings, most of the guys I like are much more suited to the ambiguous endings.
4. A path to love that doesn't run smoothly. I don't want Angel and Wesley picking out curtains and deciding to go with the blue paint in the bedroom instead of the purple. I want stories where people find out, where the whole gamut of emotions is experienced. I want Duncan unable to understand why Methos *can't* leave Kronos, because Kronos is a part of him. And how could Duncan ever understand what it meant to have someone there for more than 1,000 years. To live and breathe as one for a millennium. To know that when Kronos is there, he's *there*, inside Methos, Quickening singing to him, beckoning him. I want Clark deciding he wants Lex, but only after Lex is back with Bruce. Because Clark knows that Lex is his and he can't bear to see it when Bruce stands too close and whispers too quietly. And he certainly can't stand seeing the smile that used to be reserved for him alone focussed on this interloper. And I want Lex to understand Clark only wants him because Bruce has him. Understand that part of him will always love Clark in some way, but that Bruce is the one he needs. And sex. Sex is also good.
THREE characters you'd like to shag:
(Only three? *pout*)
1. Lex Luthor
2. Alex Krycek
3. Wesley Wyndam-Pryce
(I'll like at this point to give honourable mentions to: Alec Trevelyan, Kronos, Faith, *Captain* Jack Sparrow, Lindsey MacDonald, Lilah Morgan, a healthy percentage of the X-Men, and others too numerous to mention.)
TWO songs you associate with fandom:
1. Tainted Love (the Soft Cell version I will forever associate with Mulder/Krycek, and the Marilyn Manson one with Lex/Lionel)
2. Life Got In The Way - Sister Hazel. (It's such an Angel/Wesley song that it may as well have been written for them.)
ONE character you'd like to spend your life with:
1. Lex Luthor (he's gorgeous, rich and I don't mind evil)
