177: Joy to the Worlds

[thefourthvine]

Thank you for the joy! Both the specific joy - the virtual gifts and compliments and wonderful things from today - and the general joy, because all of you are wonderful all year round.

This is my (other - first one here) attempt to spread joy, and I'm doing it by recommending things that make me happy. (AUs that make me happy, actually. Because

Comments

[melpemone]

Another serial comma fan! I love you! *smish*

...oh, and thanks for the recs. There's a couple there I haven't read, and that brings me unstoppable joy. :)

[thefourthvine]

We should form a society! I'd suggest serial_fans, but that's probably already taken.

*smishes you in return, for serial commaites have to stick together*

[laughingacademy]

This is one of the stories that has been recommended everywhere, and deservedly so.

And yet I had never heard of it. So, there you go.

[laughingacademy]

(My guess: he's a robot! And a cop! Am I close? Also, I bet he doesn't spend a lot of time filling out reports or giving speeding tickets.)

Strictly speaking he’s a cyborg - specifically, a policeman (played by Peter “Buckaroo Banzai” Weller) who, after dying in the line of duty, is turned into a prototype law enforcement unit by a weapons manufacturer. Plenty o’ carnage, very little paperwork.

And because I cannot pass up an opportunity to proselytize, have you see Hot Fuzz? There are a couple of scenes that will probably require a squeezable dog to sit through but it is funny as hell. And lots of stuff blows up real good.

[thefourthvine]

I have indeed seen Hot Fuzz! I even thought I would end up writing it for Yuletide this year - it fit perfectly with my Yuletide pattern so far - but, alas, it was not to be. (I wrote Top Gun instead, so I think it worked out well.)

Also, I'm relieved to hear that he's a cyborg, because I realized as I was typing this post up that if you had a robot cop, you should use him for paperwork and speeding tickets, and yet that would make a lousy movie. (Okay, it'd make a good comedy. But I was fairly sure Robo-Cop wasn't one.)

[laughingacademy]

Actually, RoboCop is frequently very funny, sometimes in a satirical way (Hostage taker: "[I want a luxury car] with reclining leather seats, that goes really fast, and gets really shitty gas mileage!" Cop: "How about a 6000 SUX?" [a car featured in fake ads earlier in the film]), sometimes in a slapstick (if splatter-heavy) way.

[dine]

*smishes your recs*

you always introduce me to fabulous stuff - I'd only read the Shepbot story previously and am totally in love with it. I'm now anticipating more wonderfulness as I dive into the others you listed - I can see nothing but happy happy joy joy here

[thefourthvine]

It is indeed a set of joy, and I'm glad it could bring you some!

*smishes you, just because*

[girly_curl_3]

FYI, your recs always bring joy.

Also, I seem to have somehow escaped reading Robot!Shep, which is Not Right and shall be remedied immediately. So, see?! Just in case, you should always give us your recs. There may be some poor deprived soul who's missing out.

[thefourthvine]

I seem to have somehow escaped reading Robot!Shep

This is very sad. *weeps for all fankind* But at least you've been linked to it now!

Just in case, you should always give us your recs. There may be some poor deprived soul who's missing out.

See, I always remind myself of comments like these when I'm pondering whether or not to rec.

I suppose the ultimate test would be to rec Written by the Victors or Freedom's Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose and see if I got any "I hadn't read this!" comments. I suspect I would not, but who can say?

[darthfox]

Okay, I've only read the first rec and haven't actually followed any of the links yet (and will have to take my contacts out before I do, because I was wrong to think I could hold off taking them out until I go to bed, urgh), but can I just say, OMFG I think I adore you for your serial-comma esteem. People just don't understand, do they? Aiea. (In short: I do judge, but I judge quite favorably.)

(I hardly ever get to use this icon.)

[fanofall]

The serial comma is the only kind of comma. All other commas are wrong and bad.

[thefourthvine]

There are indeed some sad people who have not seen the serial comma light. (And, tragically, they appear to have been naming movies in - whenever it was that Bell, Book and Candle came out, which I don't actually know. Hmmmm.) I try to remember that they are more to be pitied than censured.

I admire you greatly for having a comma-related icon. It makes me deeply happy, partly because it reminds me of one of my favorite memories of college. I was taking an English class that required a paper a week, and one day the professor just lost it as she was returning our papers. We got a whole rant on comma use, including a bit that is still quoted in this household today: "People, you don't just say, 'Oh, I've written seven words. I'd better stick in a comma!' There are RULES for a REASON." And so on. It was fabulous. Also, it really made it clear to me why I was getting good grades from her - obviously I was reaping the rewards of due comma diligence.

[darthfox]

That's totally the kind of professor I would be. (See also resonant8's fic in which Snape marks a student essay with the comment, "Even the fatuity of your premise does not excuse the shoddiness of your research.") I've said more than once that teenagers ought to have to write an acceptable sonnet (or, at the very least, define one) before they are permitted to write free verse; and, oh, oh, I once stopped class and went off on a brief (two-minute) tangent on Latin plurals in -era/-ora when a student tried to speak of more than one corpus and said "multiple cor...pi?"