Comments | experiment627: Why am I thinking about this at five in the morning?

experiment627

Why am I thinking about this at five in the morning?

Mar 12, 2004 05:46

I started thinking about the interests list as a Turing test and that gave me an excuse to think about more incredibly random things I'm interested in and I counted and, apparently I had a greater number of unshared interests than I thought.

( 17th-century poets, 2pwg slash, aramir, being brian kinney, crais/aeryn, evil telepaths, giles love, jude law's mouth, new justice league episodes, palace intrigue, sark/tom quinn, sharpe crossovers, slashing soap operas, tailsmut, & undead prostitutes )

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rez_lo March 12 2004, 07:59:25 UTC

You had me hooked with "Turing test," but I'll also cop to Giles love in a big way. Hello!

experiment627 March 14 2004, 15:52:37 UTC

Hi! I dig your icon, and to be fair I think a lot of people do have the Giles love, they just don't phrase it precisely that way *g*.

nestra March 15 2004, 10:14:40 UTC

Hey, something's my fault. Cool.

roseveare March 16 2004, 13:57:31 UTC

I love evil telepaths too. You are not alone! *evil grin*

vaznetti March 17 2004, 12:49:34 UTC

I think I may need to add evil telepaths to my interest list. Because... yes. Evil telepaths. One can never have too many of these.

elke_tanzer March 24 2004, 21:27:52 UTC

Slashing soap operas--more people need to do this, because dude, have you watched General Hospital...?

I keep randomly poking the internet hoping for exotic vintage Devane/Scorpio/Holly/Frisco/Felicia/Donnelly stories, but alas, I haven't found any...

*waves*

geekturnedvamp April 6 2004, 20:49:09 UTC

Oh God, how much do there need to be Anna Devane/everything crossovers? It's the perfect setup, former spy who used to have amnesia wanders the world, meeting and sleeping with...well, I need to contemplate *g*.

But I think the reason we're not seeing vintage-era fic for soaps online is that 1) it tends to be harder to write soap fic set in the past--partly because as fandoms go, they're more ephemeral, because of how much and how fast canon is constantly changing, and b) back during that era, the people who were watching (and presumably writing fan fiction) didn't have access to the Internet, so if you go on the premise that they had no way of distributing it at the time and that people are less likely to write any soap opera fan fiction in the absence of relatively recent exposure, that would explain why there doesn't seem to be any to be found. Or at least, that's my theory.