I have a rather inconvenient urge to ramble here about...

[hmpf]

writing, painfully good fan fiction, my priorities and other related issues, but the frelling bronze age daggers won't let me.

So, instead, here's simply a link to the latest example of painfully good fan fiction that I've found:

'Thing', by Cimorene and Wax Jism. Warning: slash (R/S, cause I admit unashamedly to having become a puppyshipper): http://www.waxjism.net/pickle/stories/thing.html

(Edited to add: Just took a look at the website this story is hosted at and must confess to my total non-understanding of many slashers' fascination with boy bands and other Pretty Young Men. Not to mention the need to *slash* them. Yuck. Oh well, the story I just recced is still great.)

Comments

Re: Perviness...

[starryvelvetsky.livejournal.com]

> Gotta check out your fic, someday. After all, I've chatted with Eri a few times! It should be nice to see him again. Hehe.

Eri is still around and in multiple forms. I have 4 different versions of the boy playing in different universes. Sadly, I don't have any more proper archived fic with him in it. He's kind of a roleplay character now.

> Uhm... so writing them would squick you, but reading them doesn't? That's strange... methinks. And what exactly is the difference between Orlando and the other two?

I read it occasionally when I run across it and can't find any proper LotR slash that I'm interested in. It's read with a bit of squick factor and a lot of laughter. It required a big suspension of disbelief, IMO. And the reason Orlando is more plausible is that he's had slashy real-life moments with openly gay and bi friends. (And also he's not married or involved at the moment as far as I know) *shrugs* Less suspension of disbelief with him than with Sean Bean, a long-time married man with children.

> And really, unless the vapid Hollywood lifestyle is one of your special turn-ons, what *could* you possibly write about such people?

Exactly. It's rather boring. And one can only read so many "met and fell in love on the set" stories before it gets old. But... when in the mood for fic and that's all you seem to run into...