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Lifetime Fic Bingo: 1994
It's 1994. Green Day is on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is Forrest Gump. New terms coined include: bootylicious, cyberterrorism, digital divide, dot-com, metrosexual, MP3, neurotypical, terms of service, upcycle, and webcam ( Read more... ) -
Lifetime Fic Bingo: 1993
It's 1993. Mariah Carey is on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is Jurassic Park. New terms coined include: alt-country, blue screen of death, commentariat, cosplay, dead-tree, e-commerce, gender-fluid, jukebox musical, robocall, and website ( Read more... ) -
Lifetime Fic Bingo: 1992
It's 1992. Whitney Houston is on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is Disney's Aladdin. New terms coined include: civil union, exoplanet, Frankenfood, hacktivism, kumbaya, MacGyver, personal digital assistant (PDA), photoshop, polyamory, transphobia, and woo-woo ( Read more... ) -
Yet More Recs
This morning I made an appointment for my dog to be put down, and this evening I had an encounter with a neighbor who made it clear that he thinks I am doing the wrong thing. Both of those have made tonight difficult, so I've decided to do another rec post. I always find them cheering.
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Lifetime Fic Bingo: 1991
It's 1991, the last year of the Cold War. Nirvana is on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is Terminator 2. New terms coined include: BDSM, carjacking, cybersex, ethnic cleansing, heteronormative, laggy, mixtape, NPC, pescetarian, and SMS. It's also the year I found out that years have numbers ( Read more... ) -
Lifetime Fic Bingo: 1990
It's 1990 (finally). Sinéad O'Connor is on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is Home Alone. New terms coined include: big-box, black hat, geek out, gift card, hoodie, intelligent design, malware, spam, twentysomething, and World Wide Web ( Read more... ) -
Lifetime Fic Bingo: 1989
It's 1989. Madonna is on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is Batman. New terms coined include: air quotes, cybersecurity, eco-friendly, helicopter parent, hypertext markup language, retcon, right-click, scrunchie, and showrunner ( Read more... ) -
Blurbs
I've collected a large selection of fics to read as part of my Lifetime Fic Bingo game. While I was researching and collecting, I kept a list of the fics, with short notes to remind myself what they were. Tonight I've been reading back over those and finding some of them amusing. Here's a selection:
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Peak Fanfic
I'm in the midst of reading my first fic from 1989. I'm enjoying it, but the point where I stopped this evening feels amusingly like a parody of fanfic: Our heroes have returned from the parallel universe. Hero A has recovered from the amnesia he developed about being kidnapped there and brainwashed into working as a prostitute. As a result, our ( Read more... )
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