#mmarycontrary

[anghraine]

I’m curious if you’d ever read and review ST tie in novels besides the TMP one. In particular, I’d like to hear if you enjoy “How Much for Just the Planet?”

Oh, probably! I have a bunch of the James Blish novelizations of TOS (that I've heard both good and awful things about) and will probably get to those ones at the least.

There are a lot I probably won't read just because I'm not much of an expanded universe fan in the first place, but I do sometimes when something interests me even if the quality is shaky, for basically the same reason that I'll read a book of shaky literary criticism for a single compelling chapter with some insight I wouldn't have thought of by myself.

For instance, I got a kick out of Splinter the Mind's Eye for Star Wars, bad as it is. Is it or any novel something I regard as "canon" for the original trilogy? No, I'm a firm "if it were significant to the films, it would be in the films" kind of fan. Is the novel's insistence that Luke got so bored out of his skull on Tatooine that he just downloaded Space Rosetta Stone and started learning random languages to break up the tedium 100% accepted into my headcanon because I find the idea delightful? Yes.

So, with regards to Star Trek, I'll probably get around to trying ones that come more highly recommended (I did enjoy the dramatic reading of the TMP novelization, in some ways all the more because of the thirteen-year-old boy's first writing workshop level of prose—we pronounced all the italics and emphasis quotes!). Or if one has some detail I want to think about—and that one does sound really, really fun, with cameos from some of my favorite authors. And speaking of whom, I do want to get around to Spock's World someday as the kind of gold standard of Star Trek novels according to basically every super-intense Trekkie I know including my best friend.

[quotablefanfiction]

“Shinichi, I have a proposition for you,” Ran announces with the smoothness of a seasoned escort. She bats her eyelashes at him. “Well, we have a proposition for you.” The look on Shinichi’s face suggests that he just opened his front door expecting a pizza deliveryman and got a platoon of armed crocodiles crowding his doormat instead.

Ran and Sera “proposition” Shinichi (chp. 1)

Net Force by LunaDarkside (AO3) Case Closed (Meitantei Conan) – Mature – Kudou Shinichi/Kuroba Kaito, Hakuba Saguru/Nakamori Aoko, Mouri Ran/Sera Masumi, Hattori Heiji/Touyama Kazuha #Post main story resolution #Matchmaking #Meddling Friends #Idiots in Love #Eventual Smut #Blowjobs

Ran decides it’s high time for Shinichi and Kaito to get together. Awkward matchmaking ensues.

*Recommended by @mmarycontrary

[specialagentartemis]

@mmarycontrary said:

The 90s are classic sci fi? God I'm old.

Hah well, I'm not sure I'd call it classic exactly, but my game goes up to the 90s for reasons.

One is that I love 90s cyberpunk (or rather, post-cyberpunk, if you prefer, because when the women and the gays got their hands on it that meant the genre was over).

Another is that I think there is a significant stylistic, structural, artistic difference between the zeitgeist-y 90s sci-fi and the zeitgeist-y modern sci-fi. There really was a new sff "wave" turning point around 2005-2010, when YA got codified and Adult Books and YA Books became firmly separated but we then got the YA-ification of adult sff; when AO3 was launched and developed its own writing style that then transferred to published fiction; when Romance became considered a sister genre to sff and you saw an infusion of romance novel styles into sff; when Tor became the big name in queer sff and really set the tone for what got Hugo attention forever after; the emphasis on romance formulae and "cozy" fiction, especially right now. In the 90s there was more interest in plausibly scientific explanations for everything, and you didn't see nearly the same level of blending sci-fi and fantasy elements in the same world that's really popular right now. (There was urban fantasy, but that was its Own Thing). And I feel like 90s sci-fi and modern 2010s-20s sci-fi just patterns very differently. Which is part of this game!

Yet another is that if 60s sci-fi was classic in the 90s, 90s sci-fi which is 30 years old gets to be classic now. :)

The real reason of course is that this ask game was an excuse to get people to ask me to effuse about Synners (1991) and The Fortunate Fall (1996) because I love them.

[tanoraqui]

Where are Yoon Ha Lee's AUs? Do they have an AO3?

They do! They just straight-up fucking write holiday gifts sometimes.

Also for the record Naomi "Astolat" Novik published a whole short story collection of what is essentially Temeraire fanfiction - there's standard "bonus character backstory" and "missing scenes" things that are arguably not "fanfiction" if written by the author, but there's also a timeline divergence au involving piracy, and a Pride and Prejudice crossover. It’s called Golden Age and Other Stories.

[suzukiblu]

Just saw you honored as the source of a writer's headcanon that Iroh firebent his tea to peel Jet off of Zuko - they got it from your livejournal. (AO3 works 6211903) Thought you might like to hear about it if you haven't.

Oh, cool, thanks for telling me! I have the vaguest, VAGUEST memories of maaaaybe writing a ficbit including that concept, but then again I may be misremembering that, hah, it’s been so long. I’ll have to check the fic out later. 

[pumpkinpaix]

JSYK, I want every drop of pain and joy you feel reading TCGF, like an emotional vampire drooling outside your window.

LMFAO,,, I’m trying to vague it so I don’t spoil things for people who haven’t read it yet, but. yes i’m sure i’ll continue to flail about in public and make a great fool of myself. I feel like it’s on brand for the book tbh. ah to have xie lian’s thick skin........... but I suppose there was A Lot of suffering to get there, so perhaps I will content myself with my very sensitive exterior ahaha

pls enjoy my emotional offerings

[yukipri]

Hi! Just wanted to tell you that I'm around and I like seeing you on my dash having fun, even if we're not in the same fandom right now. I hope you had a good summer and will have a better winter. =)

Hey there! Thanks so much for sticking around, and yeah, it’s nice having fun in a fandom again :D I barely feel like I had a summer at all, but this entire year’s been weird. Hope you’ve been hanging in there yourself ^ ^

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[mylordshesacactus]

Give her a heating pad with laptop decoration so she can be doing the same thing you're doing, but 1 ft over. It's pretty cute, too.

XD Yeah, that’s on the shortlist of things to get set up for her when I’m, like....making visits to stores for anything except necessities.