Small-towny fandom woes.

[vulgarweed]

Those of you who've fandom-known me for a long time might know that mctabby was the one who badgered (and lioned and eagled and snaked) me to get an LJ in the first place, and that I've been an admirer of her Summary Executions for as long as she's been doing them, which is several years now.

So I was feeling a little MEAN GIRLZ this evening and went to see if Good Omens fandom could ever have such a wonderful thing.



Alas, the answer's probably no. For one thing, there are only 28 pages of fics at the Pit, and half of them are by people I know. While there are quite a few summaries that I wouldn't click on a bet, there's just very little that even comes close to the inspired WTFery of "HPLotR Xover. Flames not accepted. COMPLETE! Harry is Gandalf, Hermione is Sauron. Gandalf loves Sauron, but does Sauron love him back? Obviously not slash. Those who have been begging me to finish it, your dreams have come true! RR pwease!" or subtle trainwrecks like "Brianne, Dawn, Lily and the Mauraders have become a tight nit group." or unintentional metacommentary brought on by punctuation accidents like "Hermione and Ginny love almost nothing to do with HBP" or "Harry thinks about Christmas Mpreg." There IS a little bit of tone-deaf wangst poetry, like the sort that is the source of my icon, but...meh. I'd have to lower standards to amass enough for a proper SE: GO Edition post.

I did find this minimalist gem, though:

Crowely/Aziralphe

Yup, that's the whole summary. And it did indeed tell me everything I needed to know about the fic.

Aziralphe! It kind of has a ring to it. I like it a lot better than 'Aziraphael.' I'll keep it in mind for that AU where they're American sitcom characters.



You like me better when I shut up and write porn, don't you?

ETA: isiscolo has a proposal worthy of the Tempter himself!

Comments

[furius.livejournal.com]

I wrote Sauron/Eol many years ago...it was..long and odd..

Now Sauron fics frighten me..

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

How did I miss it? :D

I remember an unfinished Sauron/Aragorn from about five years ago. I was going through one of those 'surely no one would slash Sauron but please point me towards the fic' phases.

[furius.livejournal.com]

Possibly because most of it is on ff.net Here, actually; there's about a chapter after that on my lj somewhere...but I never finished the fic..

sometimes I'm very tempted...

I remember reading some disturbing Sauron fics on Library of Moria. I'm always a bit proud that I wrote the first Sauron/Gothmog, which's also in that fic.

Ah..memories..

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

I did. IIRC, Remus ate a Dursley. In another McT enabled challenge (or maybe the same one?) there was something involving Umbridge and Hagrid and veterinary gloves.

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

Ffnet was my haunt of choice at one time, but I'd moved on to HP by the spring of '03. Those were the days.

[furius.livejournal.com]

I still can't believe it took HP reading spanned seven years of my life...

[empy.livejournal.com]

Zira and Crawl
*vomits copiously, then fetches blowtorch* Those monstrosities rank right up there with "Brom" and "Raggy".

[bea-sirius.livejournal.com]

Now I am thinking about Aziraphale wearing his latex rubber gloves.......and nothing but the suspender socks and an elegant waistcoat...and poor Crowley tied to a bed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*wipes kyeboard full of fangirl drool*

love Bea xxx

[dreya-uberwald.livejournal.com]

Harry is Gandalf, Hermione is Sauron. Gandalf loves Sauron, but does Sauron love him back?

Hmmm, for all I know this could be a heart-wrenching and cautionary tale of one young wizard's descent into hardcore hallucingen abuse (after all I can't think of anything else that would cause Harry to look at Hermione and see a big giant flaming eye - though I'm sure that the symbolism would cause 9 out of 10 psychoanalysts to raise an eyebrow).

[quantum-witch.livejournal.com]

I don't even know what Summary Executions are about. From what I could read through, it was utterly confusing. Is this supposed to be quoted summaries from fics, as the writer actually wrote them? If so... wow, bad stuff.

I've seen some really old GO fics somewhere, written long before I got involved, but I'm afraid to go looking for them again. I think they might have been on a Yahoo Group or something.

[quantum-witch.livejournal.com]

'Zira (with that apostrophe so it looks classier, I guess... but there's not one afterward for the rest of the missing name, so what's going on?) has always made my teeth grate. Crawl.... er... That's just sad.

Why on earth does EVERYONE need a damned nickname?? I don't have one, never wanted one, would probably smack the shit out of someone who tried to give me one. My mother nicknamed me into an early grave with cutesy / insulting versions of my own name. I think if I'd have to endure 'Zira, I'd have changed my name and moved faaar away.

[divinetailor.livejournal.com]

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

you narrowly missed buying me a new keyboard. :)

[divinetailor.livejournal.com]

oh good lord. i read that! i remember the Umbridge/Hagrid piece. wow...i believe the only possible description for my reaction there is *grins, horrified*

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Yes. She goes through the HP section at the Pit and just copy-and-pastes summaries as she finds 'em - no editing, no comment. Pseuds redacted to protect the guilty.

Then everyone who comments snarks 'em to death, icons are made and drabbles are written and even the occasional challenge fest based on them happens, and a good time is had by all.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Well met! I like your mind. ;)

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

I'm reminded of Bush's habit of giving people around him insulting "cutesy" nicknames.

I've had a bunch of 'em and mostly I don't mind 'em because I thought they were funny, and they were given me by people who had no malicious intent...well, OK, I'm pushing 40 and my dad still likes to call me "Moonface" and "Peanut" in front of boyfriends. But I don't even mind that because I inherited his sense of humor and I have carte blanche to make fun of his goatee. As long as he calls my boyfriends by their own names and not the name of the previous guy, I can live with it. XD

Zira. It sounds like an air freshener, or a type of pseduo-beer marketed to sorority girls.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

It's an eye...it's a vagina...it's a VAGINA THAT WATCHES YOU!!!! *sings* it sees you when you're sleeping / it knows when you're awake / it knows when you've been bad or good.... Oh poor, poor Harry. His Pensieve needs a 'Biohazard' sticker.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Aziralphe! One of the lesser-known angels, he's responsible for lawn-mowing and spilling pie on his shirt.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Bwah! And cardigans. Don't forget cardigans...

oh wait, he can't be the angel of cardigans. Aziraphale already is.

[empy.livejournal.com]

But he could be a deputy angel, responsible for pie-stained cardigans. Aziraphale only spills sushi on his.

[dreya-uberwald.livejournal.com]

*Cackles* I do hope that Hermione remains blissfully aware of the fact that Harry's subconscious apparently perceives her as a great, fiery, omniscient vagina. That kind of thing could give a woman a complex.

His Pensieve needs a 'Biohazard' sticker.

Well, without one it really is just a lawsuit waiting to happen.

[quantum-witch.livejournal.com]

think I may have started the socks thing... But it fits him so very well :D AND MY GOD I LOVE THAT ICON.

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

He loves the lime green 'cause wasabi doesn't show.

[musegaarid.livejournal.com]

Because I haven't laughed so hard in years, here, have this. XD

[bea-sirius.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the lovely comment on my icon!! its the first one I have ever made!

you have started something truly beautiful with the socks!!

and your artwork is so gorgeous it makes me melt!

((((((((huggzz)))))))
luv Bea xxx