Fandom Questions Meme (41-44)

[thisbluespirit]

41. List and link to 5 fanfics you are currently reading:

Ha, I only read things too short to be "currently reading". However, here are my five most recent bookmarks (excepting those bookmarked for the purposes of possibly using for the hc_bingo challenge), (which has the advantage over my history of being things I thought worth keeping and also not random things I had to look at for wrangling purposes):

1. The Rogue and Her Lover by RobberBaroness (Mina Harker/Jonathan Harker au from a previous unconventionalcourtship)
2. Four Times the Doctor and Clara Shared a Bed and One Time They Didn't by nostalgia (um, sorry, nostalgia!)
3. Blackwood's Books by HopefulNebula (origfic about a magical bookshop for worldbuildingex).
4. All's Well With Unwell Ends by Ankaret (fic for Upstart Crow!)
5. my absurdly practical robin by rain_sleet_snow (the lovely Drusilla (The Quiet Gentleman) fic that rain_sleet_snow wrote for me for fandom_stocking 2017).


41. List and link to 5 fanfiction authors who are amazing:

I think, since the last question really wanted longfic, here are 5 amazing long stories by 5 amazing authors instead. In no particular order:

* Wrap the Cloak of Night Around His Shoulders - calliopes_pen (Epic canon-divergent AU of the 1968 TV Dracula.)
* Straight Up and Bitter (et al) - still_lycoris (Including the whole series. Best coffee shop AU ever?)
* The Spartans - jjpor. (Brilliant full-length Two, Jamie, Polly & Ben missing 'straight historical' serial.)
* Syntax of Things - clocketpatch (Talking of Seven and Ace (and Hex), have this amazing fic.)
* Daisy Bell - nemo_the_everbeing (One of the very best S&S stories out there.)


42. Is there anyone in your fandom who really inspires you?

Lots of people, via discussions and prompts and so on! Probably particularly, over the years, persiflage_1, john_amend_all, liadt, jjpor and justice_turtle in terms of those discussions and prompts (and in John's case, creation of random generators as well), plus paranoidangel because on top of many prompts, we have forcibly inspired each other due to being repeatedly matched in exchanges! And, of course, clocketpatch for the Cake Fic Meme. But too many to mention, really. (It's kind of the point, isn't it?)

In people who are no longer around: belantana, always, always, and SeriesFive as was.

43. What ship do you feel needs more attention?

I think the TARDIS probably gets enough from the Doctor, really, but Liberator could use more, and no doubt the Charlotte Rhodes wants some patching up, since Captain Onedin keeps putting her through all the worst storms.

... that wasn't what you meant, meme?

LOL, you do not want my list of non-existent probably mostly old-telly ships I think fandom should be writing for me. (It doesn't, funnily enough.) I am maybe still sulking a bit that all the Five/Tegan shippers disappeared overnight about five years back, though. They need to come back and write things!


44. What is your all-time favorite fanfic?

Don't be silly, meme. (I suppose I could try and see which one I had looked at the most over the years, but, honestly, what kind of question is that?)

Comments

[persiflage_1]

*blushes* Thank you - although the idea that I am inspirational seems a bit absurd to me!

[thisbluespirit]

But just think of all those great prompts you've left me over the years, let alone all the conversations where one thing leads to another and next thing you know, there's fic...

Plus betaing!

[persiflage_1]

Okay, okay...

[nostalgia]

(um, sorry, nostalgia!)

OMG HDU!!!!!

[paranoidangel]

I think the Liberator is a great ship and should always get more attention and that was totally what the question was asking about :)

I read your hetswap letter when I was changing trains in Crewe, on the way to Chester, and I was already not signing up because I had a fic to finish, but I definitely wasn't then, because I knew we'd end up being matched to each other.

[thisbluespirit]

I am sorry, it is a terrible betrayal, I know.

*hides from you*

(You still have my sword.)

[thisbluespirit]

I read your hetswap letter when I was changing trains in Crewe, on the way to Chester, and I was already not signing up because I had a fic to finish, but I definitely wasn't then, because I knew we'd end up being matched to each other.

Yes, there would have been no avoiding each other this time! I had to fiddle with my offers in case I wasn't matchable at all at one point.

[nostalgia]

*waves sword*

[john_amend_all]

I'm honoured to be an inspiration, even if it's in the sense that the Duke of York was to the Duke of Wellington ("Why, I learned what not to do, and that is always something.")

I have to say that Tegan and Five seem to suit the UC generator quite well. I just asked it for them, and the first prompt it came up with was:

469) SOCIETY'S MOST SCANDALOUS RAKE by Isabelle Goddard
Tegan Jovanka appears quite the most innocent of girls: young, beautiful and pure. Her sparkling merriment charms all who meet her. But all is not what it seems, and a summer spent in Brighton promises every delectable temptation.
Mr the Fifth Doctor is reputed to be society's most scandalous rake: tall and wickedly handsome, with a dangerous allure that can disgrace even the most decent of ladies...
An overwhelming force draws Five and Tegan together - but there are those in society who would stop at nothing to keep them apart...

[swordznsorcery]

Five/Tegan seems a very natural pairing somehow. I always tended to think of them as a pair, though not properly in the romantic sense. Peter Davison prefers Five/Nyssa, as an intellectual pairing rather than a romantic one (I think - he's never specified, but she's such a child early on!) I can see his point, but Five/Tegan works on so many levels. They spark so nicely! Peter Davison and Janet Fielding do too, which helps.

And I think poor Scorpio could use a bit of love. Liberator is so great, and Slave rather pales in comparison to Zen, but I think Scorpio could have been great. Needed better lighting - something darker, so it had more of a knocked-together-on-the-fly vibe.

[thisbluespirit]

Who ever said it was in that sense? ;-p

Tegan/Five do come out well in the UC and yet I still never write them. I should work on that, really.

[thisbluespirit]

but Five/Tegan works on so many levels. They spark so nicely! Peter Davison and Janet Fielding do too, which helps.

*nods* You're not going to find me arguing with this. It used to be a relatively popular Classic Who ship and then suddenly NOTHING. And Five/Nyssa is on the rise. I blame Big Finish!

And I think poor Scorpio could use a bit of love. Liberator is so great, and Slave rather pales in comparison to Zen, but I think Scorpio could have been great. Needed better lighting - something darker, so it had more of a knocked-together-on-the-fly vibe.

I hear there's a pile of scrap lying on Gauda Prime, going for a song if you wanted to take it in and give it a bit of TLC? (Poor Scorpio and Slave! You're right. But Liberator & Zen are better - if nothing else, Liberator has the best wardrobe room outside the TARDIS.)

[swordznsorcery]

Well, in fairness Five and Nyssa are very good together in BF! Helped by Sarah Sutton being older now; and of course by Janet Fielding refusing to take part for so long. It's a shame to see that old relationship put on the back burner. Fandom does so love the new shiny thing.

[liadt]

Aw, thanks <3! Although, I'm really more of a bad influence and evil enabler.

The random generators are great, but I worry one day one of them will take over the world!

I quite like the Hotspur in 'Hornblower'. There's probably something in a ship-fest that focuses on real ships.

[thisbluespirit]

I don't think there's enough Five fic to go round of all the kinds, that's the problem! I don't know where all the excellent Classic Who writers went, because we had loads of them a few years back, but not any more.

[thisbluespirit]

Although, I'm really more of a bad influence and evil enabler.

A very important role! ;-)

Haha, yes, I think an actual ships-fest could really sail!