Shut Up, and Let Me See Your Jazz Hands

At this point, I would PAY someone to organize these files for me. Imagine the sheer amount of stuff accumulated over the roughly five years I have been saving and hoarding basically every fic I have ever read/wanted to read/saw and thought "hey, maybe I'll be in that fandom someday, and when I am, won't I be pissed if I don't have anything to read?" (my SOP is apparently to assume fandom as a whole may someday trundle off to the Undying Lands or some shit and leave me behind with only my archives to fall back on? IDK, early in my fannish development there was about a month where every site/author I loved most disappeared from the face of the internet; I have TRAUMA, okay), plus all the blog posts and rec lists and episode reviews and primers and fannish etcetera. Those 4000-mumblety fics I've recced? DROP IN THE BUCKET.

Then remember that this hoarding has been spread over three computers (not counting new-computer), one external drive, and four memory sticks (when back in the year+ of No Internet Access, I had to use a public computer, save everything down that I could, and dump it, sight unseen, onto my desktop at home; repeat near-daily), all haphazardly combined on this one (buggy and increasingly eccentric) machine (which has no functioning search option...yeah).

It all = I could have the best story since the Sacrifices Arc saved somewhere on this thing and never know it. And I'm afraid to delete anything because I know for a fact that several dozen of these stories are no longer available online.

!!!!!!!

Okay, and on another note, it's a little weird for me that Beautiful Garbage has become my favorite of the band's albums, when I owned it for more than a year before I even listened to it all the way through.

Also, HEY, does anybody have any Sentinel recs? Especially Sentinels-are-known AUs, they are like delicious candy that has been rolled in crack. Possibly candy made from tears (most sadistic saltwater taffy ever?), considering how often they are also "horrifying dystopia and/or slave AUs". NEED MORE BLESSED PROTECTOR, PLEASE. Like, I'll read episode-related fic? But I have seen all of an ep and a half (...I had to see the spirit-merge for myself - and shockingly, it was somehow even more homoerotic than you guys had described; basically, I recommend watching just those five minutes, becuase, WOW). But I really love the nuts-and-bolts examination of Sentinels and Guides (hi, LOGISTICS).

For one, THANKSGIVING, my favoritest of all holidays (bacon-wrapped sausages! gravy! blackberry wine cake! PINEAPPLE PIE!). Plus, you know, family and togetherness, blah blah blah, board games and card games and sore losers and offensively gloating winners and possibly setting decorations on fire (again).

For two, like 80% of the big bangs with current rounds post October - mid-December, making November a time of GREAT JOY this year, when usually there's fuck-all to read because everyone's churning out their NaNoWriMo project. As follows*:

October 5: Oz bb
October 8: RPF bb
October 12: High School Musical bb
October 22: Poly bb
October 28: Star Trek bb
November 1: Firefly bb AND NCIS bb
November 4: Leverage bb
November 12: Stargate Atlantis bb
November 23: Kink bb
November 26: Smallville crossovers bb
Mystery date in November: Small fandom bb (original, not the new one)
December 1: Sci-fi bb
December 12: Crossovers bb

*These are just the ones I'm interested in; there are like three more posting that I don't plan to read.

PS, I'm re-reading the Cap/Iron Man bb and I can't remember if I've read half of these. Conjugate was the one where everybody swapped powers, An Ever-Fixed Mark was the AWESOME genderswap, Exactly Under the Star was the space AU, Sometimes You Can’t Make It was the uneven but not bad kink fic, Sea Stars was the amnesia one, This Time Tomorrow was the time-travel (FAVORITE CLICHE, HOW NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN), but I am totally blanking the other four.

A Matter of Extremes: Steve and Tony have issues, and things between them get a little... rough; also, Ultron intervenes, as it's wont to do, and only complicates things further.
In a Different Light: After an unexpected attack, Tony has trouble dealing with his injuries and Steve has trouble dealing with Tony.
To Extremes: Tony gets sick. Tony stays sick. Steve takes care of him
What Tomorrow May Bring: Months after his return back to life, Captain America and Iron Man are kind of estranged, but problems with SHIELD and Tony's life in general get them to work together and fall in love. <333

IT IS BASICALLY AN ENTIRE BIG BANG OF HURT/COMFORT, Y'ALL. THAT'S KIND OF GREAT. (It's not in the rules or anything! It Just happened!)

I'm pretty impressed at their turnout, considering Twilight is probably a much bigger fandom, but their bang only has three completed entries. Also, I was totally spoiled by coming into this fandom via elspethdixon and immediately diving into her amazing and hurty and wonderful Resurrection-verse (co-written with seanchai). Whenever I'm in the mood for Avengers fic, I basically just end up re-reading their Resurrection-verse, their Classic-verse, their Roughest Day duo, their mindfuck story King of Infinite Space, and then maybe someone else's stuff (usually A Meeting of Minds and This Time Tomorrow, actually).

ETA: In a Different Light is the one with the (temp) blindness; A Matter of Extremes is the old!Bucky/Steve dating Jan/denial fic (Ultimates? def not 616, anyway); What Tomorrow May Bring is the disintegrator ray/brain reboot one; To Extremes = DO NOT READ. NO, JUST TRUST ME.

1) Okay, HP fandom is kicking everybody's ass at this game. As it should, considering.
2) "No current round" means not only is there no fic currently pending, there has never been fic posted to that comm.

(Edited October 29, 2010. Up to 198 bbs, what. What what what.)

EDITED APRIL 19, 2014: HI, GUYS, HEY. THIS POST IS REMAINING UP FOR POSTERITY ONLY. ACTUAL UP-TO-DATE LIST IS HERE.


Alice in Wonderland:

acaucusrace - No current round.**
aiw_big_bang - Posting begins December 5.

Avatar: The Last Airbender:

avatarbigbang - Posting ended.

Babylon 5:

babylonbigbang - No current round.

Battlestar Galactica:

bsg_bigbang - Posting ended.
pilotsbigbang - Posting ended.

Black Butler:

devils_waltz - Posting December 2.

Bleach:

bleach_bigbang - Posting begins December 15.
bleachbigbang - Posting ended.

Bones:

bones_bigbang - Posting ended.

BtVS/AtS:

buffy_bigbang - No current round.

Castle:

castlebigbang - No current round.

Charmed:

charmedbigbang - No current round.

Criminal Minds:

bau_bigbang - Posting ended.

Crossovers:

crossbigbang - Posting ended.
crossover_bb - No current round.
crossover_bbang - Posting ended.
sncross_bigbang - Posting ended.
svcross_bigbang - Posting begins November 26 Currently deleted (as of 11/3); any info would be appreciated.

CSI:

csi_bigbang - Posting ended.

D.Gray-Man:

dgm_bigbang - Posting December 5.

DC Comics:

batman_bigbang - No current round.

Doctor Who/Torchwood:

tardis_bigbang - Posting ended.
tw_bigbang - Posting ended.
vortexbigbang - No current round.**
whovian_bigbang - No current round.

DOGS: Bullets and Carnage:

dogsbigbang - No current round.

Dragonball Z:

dbzbigbang - Currently deleted (as of 9/28).

Fairy Tales:

thenowhereplace - No current round.

Final Fantasy:

megaflare_ff - Posting November 14.

Firefly:

firefly_bigbang - Posting ended.

Fringe:

fringebigbang - No current round.**

Fullmetal Alchemist:

fma_big_bang - Posting ended.
fmabigbang - Posting ended.

Glee:

gleebigbang - Posting begins January 17.
gleefsbigbang - Posting begins November 28.
kurtbigbang - Posting begins February 12.

Gossip Girl:

xoxobigbang - Posting ended.

Harry Potter:

acciobigbang - No current round.
bangbellatrix - No current round.
big_bang_hd - Posting ended. THE ORIGINAL.
bigbangblackout - Posting ended.
bulgarianbang - Posting begins January 15.
darklordbigbang - Posting December 31.
dmhgbigbang - No current round.
dracobigbang - Posting ended.
ginnybigbang - Posting ended.
harrypotterbang - Posting begins January 14.
harryronbigbang - Posting March 1.
hermionebigbang - Posting ended.
hp_au_bigbang - No current round.
luciusbigbang - Posting begins November 5.
lupinbigbang - Posting ended.
marauderbigbang - Posting ended.
nevillebigbang - Posting ended.
nextgenbigbang - Posting ended.
pansy_bigbang - No current round.
percybigbang - No current round.**
rhr_bigbang - Posting October 31.
ronbigbang - Posting March 1 - April 2.
severusbigbang - Posting ended.
Snupin: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut! - Posting ended.
sugarandginger - Posting ended.
weasleybang - No current round.

Heroes:

heroes_bigboom - Posting ended.

High School Musical:

hsmbigbang - Posting ended.

House:

house_bigbang - Posting ended.

How to Train Your Dragon:

httyd_bigbang - Posting October 20 - November 20 delayed.

Inception:

inception_bang - Posting begins January 24.

Legend of the Seeker:

lots_big_bang - No current round.
lotsbigbang - Posting ended.

Leverage:

thebigbangjob - Posting begins November 4.

Life on Mars:

lom_bigbang - No current round.

Marvel Comics:

capiron_bigbang - Posting ended.
c_im_bigbang - Currently posting.

Merlin:

armor_bigbang - No current round.**
boxofmagic - Posting ended.
paperlegends - Posting ended.
whizzbangpop - Posting ended.

Multifandom:

apocabigbang - Posting ended.
au_bigbang - Posting ended.
bigbadaboum - The whole thing is in French, I don't even know.
bigbangbuffet - Posting begins February 14.
bigbang_fr - No current round.**
bigbangnitro - Posting begins November 8.
broadway_bb - Currently deleted (as of 9/28).
comicsbigbang - Posting ended.
compaubigbang - Posting begins December 1.
ds_c6d_bigbang - Posting ended.
fantasybigbang - Posting begins November 5.
genderbendbb - Posting ended.
hardmode - Posting ended.
hewliganbigbang - Posting May 7.
horrorbigbang - Posting begins November 5.
jossverse_bb - Posting ended.
kink_bigbang - Posting begins November 1.
kinked - Posting ended.
ladiesbigbang - Posting ended.
polski_bigbang - Posting...IDK? Guys, It's in Polish, I am 1000x less likely to suss it out than French.
polybigbang/polybigbang - Posting begins November 3.
oc_bigbang - Posting begins after November 1.
rarebang - No current round.
rarelit_bigthing - No current round.
rerun_bigbang - No current round.
scifibigbang/scifibigbang - Posting ended.
syfybigbang - Posting begins January 10.
slashbigbang - No current round.
smallfandom - Posting ended.
smallfandom_bb - Posting ended.
spacebigbang - No current round.
thelittlebang - Posting ended.
the_yo_yo - Posting ended.
vampirebigbang - Posting ended.
warbigbang - Posting November 1 - 18.
werewolfbigbang - Posting begins October 31.
witchesbigbang - No current round.
writingbigbang - No current round.
zombiebang - Posting begins November 14.

Naruto:

bigbangttebayo - Posting begins November 21.
narutobigbang - No current round.

NCIS:

ncis_bigbang - Posting begins November 15.
tonytim_bigbang - No current round.

Newsies:

bigbang1899 - No current round.

NUMB3RS:

numb3rs_bigbang - Posting ended.

Original Fiction:

originalbigbang - Posting ended.
novel_bigbang - Currently posting.

Oz:

oz_big_bang - Posting ended.

Percy Jackson:

pjo_bigbang - Posting ended.

Pirates of the Caribbean:

potc_bigbang - No current round.

Pokemon:

poke_bigbang - Currently deleted (as of 9/26).

Pretty Little Liars:

pllbigbang - Posting begins January 18.

Primeval:

primevalbigbang - Posting ended.

Prince of Tennis:

drive_a - Posting ended.

Queer As Folk (US):

qafbigbang - Posting ended.

Robin Hood:

bigbanghood - Posting ended.

RPF:

americanbang - No current round.
bandombigbang - Posting ended.
bandgirlsbang - Posting ended.
bittybang - Posting ended.
bobbryarbigbang - No current round.
boomerangbang - Posting ended.
dbsk_bigbang - Posting begins October 1 delayed.
deutschmusikbb - Posting ended.
dvbb - No current round**.
femmebigbang - No current round.**
glambertsbb - Posting ended.
heroes_bigboom - Posting ended.
idol_bigbang - No current round.
historybigbang - Posting ended.
jb_bigbang - Posting ended.
je_largeboom - No current round.
jrock_bigbang - Currently deleted (as of 9/28).
kradambigbang - Posting ended.
kradamreversebb - Posting begins January 14.
lambliffbigbang - Posting begins January 31.
merlinbb_rpf - Posting ended.
newsbigbang - Posting ended.
old_school_bang - No current round.
onedaybb - Posting begins Januray 30.
onkeybigbang10 - Posting ended.
rpf_big_bang - Currently posting.
shineebigbang - Posting ended.
sj_bigbang - Posting ended.
spn_j2_bigbang - Posting ended.
troisbang - Currently posting.

Sailor Moon:

smbigbang - No current round.**

Sherlock Holmes:

holmes_big_bang - Posting ended.
sherlockbigbang - Posting begins January 23.

Skins:

skins_bigbang - Posting begins November 15.

Smallville:

smallvillebbang - Posting ended.
svbigbang - Posting ended.
svcross_bigbang - Posting begins November 26 Currently deleted (as of 11/3).

A Song of Ice and Fire:

asoiaf_bigbang - No current round.

Star Trek:

startrekbigbang - Currently posting.
stxi_bigbang - No current round.
trekreversebang - Posting ended.

Stargate:

atlantisbigbang - Posting ended.
sgabigbang - Posting ended.
sgareversebang - Posting ended.
stargate_summer - Posting ended.

Supernatural:

deancasbigbang - Currently posting.
gabriel_bigbang - Posting begins March 7.
spnfemmeslashbb - Posting begins February 14.
spn_j2_bigbang - Posting ended.
spn_reversebang - Currently posting.
spnslashbigbang - Posting begins December 5.
sncross_bigbang - Posting ended.

Terminator:

tversebigbang - Currently deleted (as of 9/27).

The A-Team:

ateambigbang - Posting begins December 1.

The Big Bang Theory:

bigbangbigbang - Posting ended.

The Magnificent Seven:

mag7bigbang - Posting begins November 7.

The Professionals:

ci5_boxoftricks - Posting ended.

The Sentinel:

sentinelbigbang - Posting begins November 1.

The Vampire Diaries:

tvd_bigbang - Currently posting.

The X-Files:

xf_bigbang - Currently posting.

Twilight:

bellaxjacob_bb - Posting ended.
lionlamb_bb - Currently deleted (as of 2/5).
sparklebang - No current round.
twilightbigbang - Posting January 5.

Watchmen:

watchmenbigbang - No current round.

White Collar:

whitecollar_bb - Posting ended.

Xena:

xenabigbang - No current round.**


**Apparent mod disappearance before the posting date.


Two multifandom challenges I've seen referred to as "big bangs", but they have no multimedia aspect, so I don't count them as such:

nafi_bigbang
Epic Proportions

IDK what to do with this:

t_31_bang/t_31_bang/t_31_bang

And now there are mini-bangs? Fannish drift is weird, you guys.

losers_minibang
khrminibang
yg_multibang
holicminibang
aph_minibang
animorphsburst

Hey, if anyone's interested in watching me as I sketch out, panic over, and (hopefully) complete a large project, you can watch sl_fiveoh. I figure it'll be easier if I keep all the in-progress stuff in one place, instead of having to sort through this journal/the detritus of the last half-dozen projects.

Maybe if I start now, I can actually manage to complete an advent calendar this year.

So I am in a weird, introverted place right now, fic-wise. Very new=bad, old=good. Which is a little weird to be doing on a new computer, because usually when I get like this, I just stay offline and dive into the approx. five years worth of saved files. It's very soothing, on several levels. But the new computer doesn't have my files, as moving them is going to mean a whole reorganization thing that is very, very overdue and very, very intimidating. So I'm using the Doom Index to find what I want and 1) holy crap, that's a lot of broken links and 2) there are so many things I was sure I recced that I just haven't. Currently blowing my mind? I have apparently never recced that FatF fic with the attempted drawing and quartering (oh, fandom; so many things I never expected to type).

And I'm just looking at things and boggling at some fandoms, because I love those guys, what do you mean I've only recced them three times? And holy crap, I was actively reading in that fandom for five minutes, how are there 30 stories in Mixed Multiples alone? And like, I would never have called Due South one of My Fandoms, it's more a fandom-I-am-adjacent-to, but I've recced it kind of a lot for so little investment.

Anyway. I will be in my little corner, reading Unfinished Business and First Prime and the promise of monsters and What Might Have Been and HP & the Nightmare of Futures Past and other long, shiny stories that I know won't hurt me by randomly inscribing Elvish on Rodney's engagement ring, or including surprise bad time travel, aka, immutable timelines are bullshit, or surprise killing Brendon Urie, omg.

Although I may be back to regale you with my Perfect Royal Pains Fic that I spent an hour fantasizing about at work (femdom, very physical and dirty and with orgasm denial and humiliation and maybe something happens in a public place, like he gets her off and has to go back to the party with the smell of her on his fingers and he just has to hope no one notices and also that he doesn't come in his pants because oh my god, did that really just happen and. Um. Yes. As you can see, it calls to me).

I decided to go ahead and re-tag list50 (but not list50). So I created all the tags I would need and holy god, there's 243 of them. I now have 19 different tags for RPF: bandom, pop, American Idol, CW, Stargate, Star Trek, Gossip Girl, Doctor Who/Torchwood, Make Me a Supermodel, SYTYCD, Top Chef, Jonas brothers, pundits, political, sports, literary, historical, other actor, and other music.

A co-mod would be awesome right now.

(In other news, I love this song.)

Because, okay, small fandoms, I love them, but they make me so sad, guys. So much awesome! But so few people who seem to realize it. (Fastlaaaaane, but I have said that before. Two Guys and a Girl! Ryan Reynolds and Nathan Fillion, guys, come on!) If you come late, though, there might be enough fic to make you momentarily forget the sheer waste of it all; it's an awesome trick, until it ends. But!

I rented Generation Kill and I am, predictably, totally in love. Like, in love enough that I am debating over whether I can make a full list or if I should just throw together a prompt list and make up the difference with backlog. Or, hey, rent Band of Brothers and do a whole military docudrama theme. Whatever, I cannot plan rationally right now, there is zombie fic to be had. So I shall leave you with this:

Trombley: I didn't get to shoot no one, Sergeant.
Person: Awh, Trombley. Did your recruiting officer tell you you'd get to shoot people?
Trombley: Fuck yeah he did.
Person: See, Trombley asked about shooting people. I asked about pussy. Guy told me I get to go to Thailand and get all kinds of strange. What'd you ask about, Brad? Brad probably saw that TV commercial, the one with the knight who fucks up the dragon that turns into the Marine. 'Ooh-ooh, dress blues with a sword!' Haha! Fuckin' dress blues commercial, man. That got so many fucking guys. NOW look at us: Trombley hasn't killed anybody, I am a half a world away from good Thai pussy, and Colbert is out here rollin' around fuck-butt Iraq, hunting for dragons in a MOPP suit that smells like four days of piss and ball-sweat. You shoulda rolled into battle with a sword, Brad. That would have fuckin' rocked.

Home Team: The 2009 Matches

Nominations for favorite female character of any fictional fandom are open until the 27th.

Noms I have seconded so far:

Buffy Summers
Zoe Washburne
Kate Beckett
Dani Reese
Veronica Mars
Parker
Sookie Stackhouse
Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman
Tara Maclay
Rachel Morgan
Aeryn Sun
CJ Cregg
Luna Lovegood
Dinah Lance
Xena
Anne Shirley
Wendy Watson
Barbara Gordon
Alannah, aka, the Woman Who Rides Like a Man
Faith Lehane
Irina Derevko
Liz Lemon
Vala Mal Doran
Dr. Remy 'Thirteen' Hadley
Serena Van Der Woodsen
Illyria
Brooke Davis
Abbey Bartlet
Juliet O'Hara
Abby Sciutto
Susan Storm-Richards
Kaylee Frye
Kimberly Hart
Jubilation Lee
Penelope Garcia
Jill Valentine
Niki/Jessica Sanders
Hermione Granger
Elizabeth Bennett
Cassandra Cain
Teyla Emmagan

Note to self: nominate Jadzia Dax, Daine, Talia, Jules (Flashpoint), Penny (Big Bang), She-Ra, Inara, Miranda Priestly, Claire Petrelli, Darla, Tosh, Willow, Summer.

Normally this would be an SIC post, but that would involve googling French and I don't want to.

( Bandom, Harry Potter, bandom, television, fandom, bandom, books, Queer As Folk, Harry Potter, bandom, Harry Potter... )

Okay! For those of you who weren't here last time, every little while I do a big post of all my random notes and observations. There's fic notes, fannish ponderings, RL stuff, grammar bitching, I think it, it's here. And normally I sort it by subject, but this go 'round, it's all chronological and mostly unedited. It'll date from last February to yesterday. Oh, and if there's a fic I mention that interests you, I'll do my best to hunt up a link upon request.

( Nitpicking Isn't a Hobby, It's a Lifestyle )

Went back and unlocked (forward-dated) all the rec lists I've finished so far:

Stories from yuletidetreasure.org
Crossovers
Threesomes fics
Stories featuring Xander
Gen stories

(You'd think five rec sets of 50 would equal 250 stories, but you would be wrong. There are seven stories in there twice somewhere, so it's only 243. But still. I feel I should get a prize of some sort.)

Have another twelve (in varying stages of completion) still locked.

These stories...It's hard to explain the way I feel about them.

I've been reading fanfiction for three years. And that's actually not that long; I've read stories that've been in progress longer than that. But when I fall in love with something, I fall hard. Last year, I went to school from 7:45 to 2:55, came home, and usually spent about nine hours on the computer, reading. Weekends, I spent up to 18 hours at a time on the computer. I have read mindboggling amounts of fanfiction. Excellent, execrable, I've read the range. And god, when it's good...half of the beauty of fanfiction is the feeling behind it.

Sometimes you read professional fiction, and just know that this is the author's job. That they wrote this book for a paycheck.

People don't write fanfiction for anything but love. And it amazes me. I am utterly in awe of everyone who does it, because I can't.

The stories I'm recc'ing, I love them. I love them for different reasons, and with varying intensity, but I love them.

Void is gorgeous and fucked up and full of this kind of joyful destruction (self-, and otherwise) that's completely captivating. Context was my first step down the slippery slope into popslash. Retrograde is everything the canon could be. Reconstruction? The best post-Gift story I have ever read. The Key's Watcher makes me read and believe Giles/Jean-Claude. Slave Bear of Care-a-Lot is so absolutely bizarre that it immediately became the best thing ever to me. Esperanza has sparked me to write poetry, it's so gorgeous.

Alpha Centauri, Daemonology, Clex-in-Discworld, Joli Coeur, Chocolatey Goodness, Instructional. Live-In Skin, Trick or Treat, Objects in Motion, Dirigo, Kitty Kitty, Seal Team 13. Physical Presence, A Pretty War, Theory, Coming Up for Air, Superimpose, Dark Horse.

I've spent three years finding these stories, and others like them. I want to share. I want others to love them the way I do, love them so much that you'll return to them again and again.

So go. Read. Enjoy.

I have too much trivia in my head. Not the vaguely interesting trivia, such as the dirty, dirty origins of the phrase hunky-dory (two words: Japanese whores).

No, this is trivia for worlds that don't exist.

Few entries ago, I mentioned Bad Crossover Idea #172, Atlantis gets a kestra'chern. I haven't read that series in forever. But I still remember how to spell Mercedes Lackey's over-apostrophized, made-up language. Okay, made-up language family, because there's Kaled'a'in, Shin'a'in, and Tayledras. I even remember the weirdly related words for gay! In Valdemaran, it's shaych, and in Tayledras, it's shay'a'chern, and I always thought there was some kind of link there.

I don't need to know that.

Nor do I need to remember the various X5 designations of the Dark Angel characters, yet I do.

God, that was a cool show. I am a sucker for post-apocalyptic 'verses.

Oh! Fangirl Japanese. And fangirl Mandarin. And fangirl French, and oh, mustn't forget fangirl Latin. And then there are the various created slangs, and the actual British slang, and the military parlance, and the medical terminology, and the acronyms. And then there's actual fangirl-ese, because you know what? "Woobie" and "hoyay" are not, in point of actual fact, English.

But, if you want to read and understand fic in my various fandoms, you have to learn all of these.

I'm pretty sure this is why I can't remember higher-level math. Brains have a finite capacity, right?