Doomsday craves my vitals now*

[lunabee34]

1. Talking meme: resonant asked me to talk about tropes.

My absolute favorite trope of all time is pining. Love it. I love it when Draco is pining for Harry and thinks he's never going to be worthy of him and everyone cries a lot. All the angst and all the sadness for me. I do prefer it when they get together in the end, but it's not a deal breaker for me.

I love crossovers, especially the really clever ones that integrate the two worlds successfully with a minimum of suspension of disbelief.

I love time travel. I don't need it to be "scientifically plausible" or make a lot of sense. I'm already suspending my disbelief for time travel, so the mechanics of how it works are not super important to me. It's an excellent vehicle for angst and simultaneously for fixing whatever is wrong in canon.

Also really like pretending to date for whatever reasons and marriage of convenience/arranged marriage/forced marriage. Those scenarios tend to lead to the slow burn I really enjoy in fic.

2. So a couple of days ago, Fiona and I were in the yard and noticed a brown thrasher, the fluffiest and plumpest one I'd ever seen, rooting around in the leaves. It was so cute throwing the leaves up with its beak and eating the uncovered bugs. It let us get really close to it while talking and also not stepping quietly. I think maybe it can't fly. IDK But it has no problem with proximity to people. It was back in the yard again yesterday, so I think maybe we have a yard pet (until the owls or hawks or foxes eat it). Fiona has named the bird Wobbles.

3. I got a Christmas card from decynthus!


*courtesy of William Venable's poem "Saga of the Oak"

Comments

[corvidology]

PINING! \o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/\o/

Erm... I may like it a little myself. :D Someone's bookmark on a collection of my POI fic just read "John pines" which I thought was very fair.

Also, I absolutely love crossovers of the 'logical' type.

[lunabee34]

It is like a sickness. I will read a million words of objectively pretty bad fic if it hits that sweet, sweet pining note.

[corvidology]

It works so well for me as I'm inevitably attracted to characters who are clams.

I'm not a Starsky & Hutch fan but I am a fan of The Professionals (these US and UK shows gets compared a lot). As a mate of mine said "Starsky & Hutch would die for each other while declaring their undying love. Bodie & Doyle would die for each other while saying "and don't think I'm doing this for you." :D

[lunabee34]

I probably should hand in my slash goggles. I've never seen Starsky and Hutch or the Professionals or The Sentinel or the one about the Mounties. LOL

[corvidology]

I think you're forgetting The Man from UNCLE (TV) and Star Trek (TOS) as the grandfather of slash fandoms but you may have watched those. :D

I was never a Starsky & Hutch fan, much more comfortable with the Professionals, the English take on it but both shows have aged badly in some ways because of being from the late 70s/early 80s.

Still, for fun, here's the Professionals "recruitment" fanvid my mate Ancastar made:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHQ27AST870

If you've watched enough English telly you might recognize the curly haired one as Martin Shaw, early on in his career.

[lunabee34]

I never watched Man from UNCLE, but I was watching Star Trek TOS in the womb. LOL

Ooh, vid! *goes to watch*

[gloss]

Aw, Wobbles sounds wonderful! :D

[lunabee34]

Wobbles is adorable. No sighting yesterday. Hopefully Wobbles will be around again today.

[princessofgeeks]

Great to hear from you.

[lunabee34]

<3

*hugs*

[kat_lair]

ALL THE PINING! Slow burn, especially if it's the 'from BFFs to lovers' variety is absolutely my crack.

[lunabee34]

Meeeee toooo!

It's one of the reasons I am always so disappointed at the dearth of Harry/Ron in HP.

[isabellerecs]

The only thing better than "pining" is "mutual pining", lol. ;D I am also a fan of "marriage of convenience" and "forced marriage" (aliens/magic/whatever made them for reasons) but for some reason "arranged marriage" just doesn't hit for me most of the time. I'm not even really sure why.

OMG, Wobbles! That's so cute!

[lunabee34]

Oh yes. Mutual pining where each is just certain the other will never love them back = *chef's kiss*.

[amejisuto]

I LOVE time travel do-overs. They delight me to the tips of my toes. LOL. It's a chance to fix whatever bugged you in cannon and make things better.

[lunabee34]

I completely agree.

I also love the related groundhog day trope.

[amejisuto]

For some reason, I haven't read many Groundhog Day fics. That's just odd because I think I'd love them.

By the way, many Hugs and good vibes sent!

[lunabee34]

Thank you, sweetie.

And you should totally go check that tag out at AO3. I bet you'd find stuff to love there.

[amejisuto]

I'll have to look. I tend to hang out on the bad!Dumbledore tag when I'm on AO3.

[timespirt]

Maybe if the bird can't fly you might provide it with a bird house or something close to the ground so it can hide from predators?

[lunabee34]

That's a good idea!

[timespirt]

I love birds.

[chelseagirl]

I love crossovers that get past the "wow, let's introduce these characters to each other -- oh wait, we need a plot?" stage.

[lunabee34]

*nods nods*

Me, too.