Slashy Nominations 137: Romance Is, Inexplicably, Not in the Air

[thefourthvine]

As you all know, this is a date of Serious Romantical Significance. So I thought I'd rec some gen.

Yeah, I don't exactly get the connection, either. But far be it from me to argue with inspiration. (I mean, seriously, far be it from me. Inspiration fights mean.)

Best FF That Involves a Major Character Turning Into a Cricket as a Side Note.

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[saffronhouse]

As you all know, this is a date of Serious Romantical Significance. So I thought I'd rec some gen.

I really love the way you think. ( Just sayin', before running off to read. )

[thefourthvine]

Oh my god your icon. It - it is genius. Evil genius, yes, but with the emphasis on genius. Your evil hand has its very own pictorial representation now!

I really love the way you think.

You love bloody-minded, instinctive contrariness?

*embraces*

I knew someone out there would appreciate it!

[saffronhouse]

My not-so-secret wish is to have it tattooed on the bicep of my zombie arm...the only thing that holds me back is the fear that the visual warning might cost me the evil hand the element of surprise.

[thefourthvine]

Oooo! Do it! Your evil hand is more than wily enough to cover it up when it needs to, you know, sneak up on someone. Plus, it'd act like a kind of visual Venus flytrap. People would come up and inspect it closely, saying, "Huh. Is that...an evil sockpuppet?"

And you would say, "Precisely, my precious," just as the evil hand struck. The advantage would definitely belong to the evil hand.

Plus, you know, if you do it now, you can it done tastefully. If you wait until the evil hand whaps you over the head and takes control some night, you're likely to wind up with a giant "MU-HA-HA" inscribed on your arm. Evil hands are not subtle.

[shayheyred]

Oh, yes, isn't Shrift's story fabulous? I love how Mugen occupies the center of the story without actually being there. Sheer brilliance.

[thefourthvine]

I love how Mugen occupies the center of the story without actually being there.

Precisely! I was actually trying to save this story for a gen threesomes post, because it's a topic on which I have Thoughts of Thinkiness, but I couldn't wait. I'm not at all sorry, either. Jin-(Mugen)-Fuu is clearly a thing of great and lasting wonderment.

Plus, I figured I should start my Watch Samurai Champloo or You're Dead to Me campaign now. Although I still need to think of a catchier title for said campaign. Maybe Watch Samurai Champloo or No More Porn for You?

Hmmm. Needs work.

[shayheyred]

Yay! Our little fandom needs more threats. I'm sure Mugen would approve.

[bibliokat]

I vote for Watch Samurai Champloo or No More Porn for You! I crave good Mugen/Jin, though I like Fuu fics too.

[alpheratz]

Yeah, I wasn't ever going to say anything about it, but since you asked - I have much love for the Enter key, so your recs *and* the Enter key together would be heaven or something.

[thefourthvine]

Yeah, see, the lack of white space was driving even me bonkers. I mean, more bonkers than changing the format I established back when my summaries were three lines long would make me. (See, I'm not Enter key phobic. I'm change phobic. It just kind of ended up looking the same.)

Perhaps next I will be able to persuade myself to ident - possibly even hanging indent? - the recs, and then the world will be mine!

The portion of it that can be won over with HTML tags, anyway.

[thefourthvine]

Compliments are totally yay. Possibly the very definition of yay, even. (Unless they come from the skeevy guy who works at the pet food store, but if you, by some weird chance, are him, then I totally forgive him and will welcome his remarks with a sunny smile in the future.)

Also, I totally support the two-SGA story rule. No complaints from this corner.

SGA has given us so many things - lesbian talking ponies, John as a bug, Lysistrata - it seems only right, somehow.

Of course, people who loathe SGA are probably right now pointing a shaking finger at the previous sentence and crying, "God, I knew it! I knew this fandom was crazybadevilwrong!" It's probably given them a lasting trauma, and it's not like they don't have enough trouble, poor souls.

[miss_porcupine]

In the past few days there has been two feet of snow dumped upon my city, the complete and utter mutiny of choice internal organs, and one two-hour meeting dedicated to material that could have been covered in a two-hundred word email. Recognition like this? Makes at least the meeting go away. Thank you and I'm so glad you liked the stories (especially because 'Alice' got its name mostly by accident and entirely through frustration). Would that I were more like Dorothy Parker instead of the noble critter she describes. (We'll leave discussion of my virtue to another set of recs.)

I've read other stories from ltlj but not this one, so I have it opened in a tab waiting. There's always an inspired bit of whimsy in her stuff -- you know, the kind that SG-1 and SGA aim for and instead wind up with holographic Merlins and Julian Sands cameos and bizarre space treatments of Shakespeare by the community theater doing 1776 on their off days.

[thefourthvine]

In the past few days there has been two feet of snow dumped upon my city

Um. Yeah, I'd seen the pictures. They're very...pretty?

*hides*

the complete and utter mutiny of choice internal organs

Have you tried guilt trips? When my internal organs rebel, I usually give them long lectures about all the things I do for them, and this how they repay me. Stuff like that. Sometimes I mention their past crimes. It doesn't have much of an effect, but it makes me feel righteously justified in hating them for being mean to me.

and one two-hour meeting dedicated to material that could have been covered in a two-hundred word email.

*embraces sadly*

I'm so sorry. We've all been there, and it just doesn't get any easier, does it?

I'm glad a rec could make up for the meeting, though. (See, I'm not as nice as you. I'd need, at minimum, footage of the person who scheduled the meeting trudging through the snow in inadequate footgear.)

I've read other stories from ltlj but not this one, so I have it opened in a tab waiting.Ooo, yay! I figured I was

[miss_porcupine]

Have you tried guilt trips? When my internal organs rebel, I usually give them long lectures about all the things I do for them, and this how they repay me. Stuff like that. Sometimes I mention their past crimes. It doesn't have much of an effect, but it makes me feel righteously justified in hating them for being mean to me.

... Sadly, I am a fully grown Jewish woman, which means I have a guilt duct (like a bile duct; in fact, they're parallel elements) and, like any other venomous creature, I have to be immune to my own poison to survive.