The Turtle Jourtle

Lately, in pursuing my Old and New Project, I've run into a couple of authors from whom I have only collected one fic, but who have published many fics that I think I might like to read. (The most recent was akane42me, whose birthday today inspired me to check out her AO3 page.) Obviously, this is a good problem to have. I don't wish for less enticing fanfic. On the other hand, the way I currently have the game set up, all the fics by these authors that I want to read have to go in one post with the single already collected one. As I've been doing things, that means reading them all together, which doesn't seem ideal to me. I suppose I could spread them out and do the write-ups as I go, saving them until I'm ready to post. I don't feel especially warm toward that plan, though. Anyone have any other bright ideas?

It's been a while since I made a rec post to cheer myself up, but I think it would help tonight. This time I'll be looking through my Beloved Collection for some good fics to read to feel better when I'm down. I'll be focusing on the fun ones. Sometimes what I want during bad times is intense whump and hurt/comfort, but at the moment, I'd rather something more gentle. Actually reading these fics isn't on the menu tonight, as my concentration is poor, but I hope to get to some of them later in the week.

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One of the activities on the first day of Bistocon was a panel during which the leader prompted everyone to draw a portrait of Doyle and/or Bodie from a photo reference. She gave both some pointers and a lot of encouragement. It was a great idea for a panel, and I enjoyed it a lot.

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Fandoms in this post: The Professionals, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (breifly)

Another small post and another in which I will not be writing up some of the fics I read.

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Fandoms in this post: The Professionals, The Illiad, The Mysterious Mr. Quin, the Jeeves stories, Yes Minister

In this post, I won't be writing up all the fics I read, because four are based on a work that I've decided not to discuss outside dedicated contexts. There will be more posts in the future where this restriction applies, since I have a fair number of fics based on that work in my collection.

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Fandoms in this post: The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Professionals

Howdy, everyone. Here's another Old and New Project post.

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Fandoms in this post: The Professionals, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Sentinel, Horatio Hornblower

It's been a long time since my last project post, but you see that I have not been idle. Also, I kept notes, thank goodness.

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Fandoms in this post: The Professionals, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Sherlock Holmes

Howdy, fellow fans. I have a lot of write-ups to share today. I've also added quite a few of the new fics to my Beloved Collection. I've decided to introduce some notation for that, which you will see below. Sometimes I collect a fic after some reflection, though, rather than immediately, and my posts may not capture that.

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Well, I seem to have inspired one of my friends to watch Pros. He started at the end of last week and has been making rapid progress, so that now he is most of the way through series 2. Today we were talking about Pros fic and he said he might be interested in some recs. (Wanting to read my Big Bang fic was one of his reasons for checking out the series in the first place. He is a good friend.) Anyway, following that conversation, I went through my collection and made him a little bouquet of fics.

Here they are:

Quis Custodiet by Sarah K (100 words), a drabble episode tag
A Hill of Beans by fiorenza_a (4,239 words), a backstory fic

Angels Unaware by bardicvoice (29,702 words), a case fic
Easy Prey by jaicen5 (43,233 words), a sort-of case fic

These Layers of Charnel Air by Slantedlight (byslantedlight) (16,835 words), a character driven slash fic
Babylon is Fallen by PR_Zed (przed) (29,990 words), an AU crossover

The first four are gen or het, the last two slash. My friend is not anti-slash and acknowledges the show's potential in that area, but I don't know if that type of fic interests him. Still, I was trying to cover the range of Pros fic.

If you were creating such a bouquet of fics for a friend new to the fandom, what would you include?

I found three longish Starsky & Hutch fics, one from 1979, one from 1978, and one for a 1977 bonus round. They look like good fics, but I'm just not in the mood to read that much in a fandom I have only some knowledge of. So I’m going to pass on them for now. As a result, I've now finished both of the former years and, with them, my game. Woo! (I may come back to those S&H fics in the future, though, if the whim strikes.)



It's 1979. Pink Floyd is on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is Superman. New terms coined include: biophilia, buffalo plaid, chill out, email, entheogen, first world problem, hip-hop, ollie, outsource, and space elevator.

For 1979, I read two pieces: one Starsky & Hutch fic and one Man from U.N.C.L.E. x The Prisoner crossover.

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It's 1978. The Village People are on the radio. Here in the USA, the year's top film is Grease. New terms coined include: attention deficit disorder, bodice ripper, curly endive, de-stress, emotional intelligence, pad thai, permaculture, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, Stockholm syndrome, and whataboutism.

This far back, most works available are based on either Star Trek or Starsky & Hutch. Since neither of those, on its own, appeals at the moment, I ended up reading only one fic for 1978: a Sherlock Holmes x Star Trek crossover.

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