22 Jun 2005

B5 Rec

22 Jun 2005 07:22 pm
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This was one of the first B5 fics I read. It is pitch-perfect and great fun for all the family and if you haven't read it yet you are missing a serious treat. Print it out, sit down with it with ice cream and strawberries, and enjoy the summer my sweets.

Scavanger Hunt By Julia Hugo-Vidal

"Y'know what the problem is?" asked Yulin rhetorically, picking up an earlier conversational thread. "We are all working too hard, too long, for too little money and..." Here he seemed to lose the thought for a moment,"...and too little beer."

"To small beer," intoned Marcus solemnly, raising his glass. They all followed suit.


Mid S3, Babylon 5 is hosting a Scavanger Hunt to brighten the place up after breaking away from Earth. Featuring humour, sweetness, spot-on characterisations and the best OC ever. (Seriously. I had a crush on her by the end.)

ETA: I also forgot to add that there is Lennier&Vir, that G'Kar is fantastic, and that Londo is bemused. And that Delenn wears the Minbari equivalent of play-clothes. Go! Go read it now!
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Half-eaten by mosquitos, I resort to the ancient remedy of vinegar.

Update:

OW OW OW OW OW OW OW!!!!!

Why do they always eat me???
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We all rave about our favourites. We do. All I have to do is call up my flist and there is a page full of rave reviews of Sirius and Severus and Arvin and Jack and the Doctor and the other Jack and Londo and G'Kar and... well. I have noticed that 1) they tend to be predominantly male (a tired conversation that I shall not have again), 2) it's the same pairings, same characters, over and over again. This is why i tend to fall out of love with fandoms for months at a time (a fickle thing, yes I am). This is also why, I suspect, the HP fandom is obsessing with style over substance: that is, stylised, word-orientated short fics over longer, plot-driven fics. I'm guilty of the same thing. There isn't that much left for me to say about those particular characters, and so I resort to putting words together in no particular order, trying to see which visceral feelings I can squeeze out of them. Much like pulling teeth, I think. Judging from what amount of writer's block and lack of creativity complaints coming from my flist, I guess that many people are feeling the same.

There just isn't that much to say anymore. Certainly I don't have that much left in me to say about Severus Snape (at least until July 16!) or Remy LeBeau (which is why the terrible "Cold" series will likely never be finished, 'tho I have the majority written in draft form). Many people are feeling the same. Look around you: how many writers are throwing their hands up and quitting the Buffy fandom? How many writers abandoned B5 for Stargate, for that matter? In the HP fandom, rare pairings are some of the fasten-growing 'ships out there. This, my friends, is a good thing.

I call upon you now to embrace your dissatisfaction with yet another Snape-had-a-bad-childhood story, or the upteenth Sydney-and-Sark-shag-in-a-strangely-stylised-manner-that-leads-to-Revelations fic. Focus, instead, on those lesser loves that you forget to rave about: the characters that keep you spell-bound but that somehow never make it on to "Fave Characters Eva!11!" lists.

I'm going to offer up one love today:

Alias: Marshall
Marshall is the guy I would love to write for but never could. His innate optimism and his determination to see the best in everything means that he is often ridiculed, both on screen and in fic, which makes me exceptionally angry. But Marshall doesn't mind. In S4, he does spectacular things (which I cannot explain because it would be spoiler-y) that only prove my love of all Normal Characters. Asking a hero to do heroic things is a bit by-the-by for me: that's their job, after all. But juggling a wife, a baby and saving the world while the rest of your team are frantically dickwads to you takes a special kind of sainted patience. (Incidentally, this is also why I loved S1!Sydney so much)

Other fandoms (and loves) to follow. Right now I would give my eye-teeth for some lovely Marshall fic. Or, indeed, a Marshall icon.

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