Lifetime Fic Bingo: 2000

[tinturtle]

Click to view

It's the year 2000, and pedants are making sure everyone knows that the new millennium will not start until next year. *NSYNC is on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is How the Grinch Stole Christmas. New terms coined include: abandonware, climate change denial, downvote, faux-hawk, geochaching, google, grain bowl, speed dating,

Comments

[dancingpony]

When you mentioned The Sacrifice Affair earlier, I didn’t realize how very, very long it is. I also didn’t realize it was available online (I thought you must have purchased a zine), but I’m not much tempted to try it. From the description, the slash portion wouldn’t appeal to me. I love a good slash MFU story, and I know the definition of “good” varies a lot among MFU fans, but to me it means an equal partnership between two strong characters who go into the relationship with their eyes wide open … not contrived situations, misunderstandings and/or a dominant/submissive relationship.
Luckily there’s enough fanfic out there to suit all tastes.

[tinturtle]

It is good that there is such a diversity of fics. Something for everyone.

[ride_4ever]

How Lovecraftian is that Lovecraft crossover with The Sentinel?

[tinturtle]

Well, I've not actually read any Lovecraft, so it's hard for me to say. There are no eldrich horrors, but there are cultists, rituals from the deep past, a frightening reality beyond the familiar one, and some references to Miskatonic University. In the end, I think it's more optimistic than the term "Lovecraftian" usually implies, however.

The author says "[Spoiler (click to open)]'Unsleeping' itself, as fans of the genre will have recognized long before now, is an overblown pastiche of Lovecraft's short story, 'The Thing on the Doorstep,' among others," and also "[Spoiler (click to open)]In Lovecraftian horror the hapless protagonist is almost inevitably the victim of such overwhelming forces he ends the tale as a blasted corpse or a madman. And I'm so not interested in doing that to my fannish loves! so, I cheat..."

[ride_4ever]

Thank you kindly for giving as comprehensive an answer as you could!