update, muzak request, and rec
Oct. 1st, 2006 11:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luciazephyrHuge fricken fic reccomendation: Okay, I am so behind on pimping this bitch.
E Pluribus Unum is a Daily Show/Colbert Report RPF.
No, wait, stop, come back here!
Okay, seriously, I avoid RPS/RPF like a plague. It leaves me feeling squeamish. But this, this is an epic. This, I feel, will be one of the fics people will cite years from now when asked "is RPF even on the same level as normal fic?", and this will prove RPF can be above and beyond normal fic.
The story, according to the summary is: 'Fall 2016. The reformed Patriot Act pressures all forms of the media to comply with the new policies. Stephen dares to defy the FCC and censors, ready to face the consequences. He finds salvation in an anonymous e-mail, signed with the nickname of a man he believed died years ago.'
The genre is correctly listed as a dystopian suspense thriller. It's a scarily accurate image of Orwell's worst nightmares come true. The story starts off, in the Prologue, with Jon Stewart's disappearance, then continues in Part One with a world gone to hell. The story is extremely well researched without giving you the sensation of reading a textbook, which is a big plus for me. It's smart, has humor, has introspection, and a load of tension and awesomeness. The writing itself is very good, better than usual seen in fannish work.
It is a WiP. If you know me at all, you know that I hiss and hide at the mention of a WiP, but this is so good, I refuse to miss out.
So, I'm reccing this as a fangirl with an RPS-squick, but a huge amount of respect for a project as colossal as this one. I'm helping my girl Chi make a trailer vid of this, and I have some spoiler info of future events. So, if this fic doesn't end up blowing your mind, you can take it out onme Chi me.
Go read it!
In other news.
Fic: Working on it. Listen, folks, I have three major fic projects going on. One is a long, slash H/C that revolves around Lassiter being heavily injured ont he job with Shawn and the aftermath. It is tricky to write due to a (hopefully) cool thing I'm doing with the pace the story's told at. Two is "Seven Things No One Knew About Shawn Spencer", which is, I'm gonna admit it truthfully, is a long, character study that is meant solely to appease my metabrain and, to a larger degree, to smack some sense into people writing Shawn in fic. STOP FUCKING HIS CHARACTERIZATION.
*cough*
Then is the meme responses, which are coming not as fast as I hope. I have two major projects in school this week as well, so... this will be interesting. I apologize to all my more impatient readers. RL before fannish pursuits, mates.
Muzaks: Anyone have any songs from an artist called The Servant? I have "Orchesta" and "Body", love those some desperately, and want more. Can anyone help?
That's all for now, fen. Stay shiny.
-Luce
E Pluribus Unum is a Daily Show/Colbert Report RPF.
No, wait, stop, come back here!
Okay, seriously, I avoid RPS/RPF like a plague. It leaves me feeling squeamish. But this, this is an epic. This, I feel, will be one of the fics people will cite years from now when asked "is RPF even on the same level as normal fic?", and this will prove RPF can be above and beyond normal fic.
The story, according to the summary is: 'Fall 2016. The reformed Patriot Act pressures all forms of the media to comply with the new policies. Stephen dares to defy the FCC and censors, ready to face the consequences. He finds salvation in an anonymous e-mail, signed with the nickname of a man he believed died years ago.'
The genre is correctly listed as a dystopian suspense thriller. It's a scarily accurate image of Orwell's worst nightmares come true. The story starts off, in the Prologue, with Jon Stewart's disappearance, then continues in Part One with a world gone to hell. The story is extremely well researched without giving you the sensation of reading a textbook, which is a big plus for me. It's smart, has humor, has introspection, and a load of tension and awesomeness. The writing itself is very good, better than usual seen in fannish work.
It is a WiP. If you know me at all, you know that I hiss and hide at the mention of a WiP, but this is so good, I refuse to miss out.
So, I'm reccing this as a fangirl with an RPS-squick, but a huge amount of respect for a project as colossal as this one. I'm helping my girl Chi make a trailer vid of this, and I have some spoiler info of future events. So, if this fic doesn't end up blowing your mind, you can take it out on
Go read it!
In other news.
Fic: Working on it. Listen, folks, I have three major fic projects going on. One is a long, slash H/C that revolves around Lassiter being heavily injured ont he job with Shawn and the aftermath. It is tricky to write due to a (hopefully) cool thing I'm doing with the pace the story's told at. Two is "Seven Things No One Knew About Shawn Spencer", which is, I'm gonna admit it truthfully, is a long, character study that is meant solely to appease my metabrain and, to a larger degree, to smack some sense into people writing Shawn in fic. STOP FUCKING HIS CHARACTERIZATION.
*cough*
Then is the meme responses, which are coming not as fast as I hope. I have two major projects in school this week as well, so... this will be interesting. I apologize to all my more impatient readers. RL before fannish pursuits, mates.
Muzaks: Anyone have any songs from an artist called The Servant? I have "Orchesta" and "Body", love those some desperately, and want more. Can anyone help?
That's all for now, fen. Stay shiny.
-Luce
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Date: 2006-10-02 04:34 am (UTC)I second this rec. GO. READ FIC. NOW.
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Date: 2006-10-02 05:16 am (UTC)Meanwhile, I so have to get you to rant to me about fanfics you've read that have Shawn characterized in ways that drive you batty, because I love nothing more than to bitch about and/or hear about fanfic bitchings.
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Date: 2006-10-02 05:22 am (UTC)If you poke at me enough tomorrow, maybe I'll take my latent, repressed fannish wrath out on you, if you like. *wink*
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Date: 2006-10-02 05:48 am (UTC)And I hope you mean rant TO me about it and not take out your anger ON me, because I may not be in a masochistic mood enough tomorrow for a lashing.
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Date: 2006-10-02 07:45 am (UTC)*waves meekly* I'm Jen, I swear I'm not stalking my readers!
You've flattered is horribly, truly, it's just, wow. The praise is almost unjustified in my mind. Thank you so much! *blushes deeply* You've made my shitty day a lot better (and blew up my ego on the way.)
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Date: 2006-10-02 07:58 am (UTC)So. Um. Hi everyone. Thank you Luce, you and Chi pretty much, um, what's the word? RULE. So yes. Thank you to everyone who reads this story... I'm just writing it for the hell of it, and it floors me everytime people give me and Jen feedback. FLOORS me.
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Date: 2006-10-02 12:18 pm (UTC)Knowing what I know of the story, you two better get used to getting feedback, because with what's coming up... yeah, it'll rock so hard. *nods*
Hee, I just imagined Jon saying your little "pretty much, um, what's the word? RULE" bit. I need to stop watching my Indecision 2004 DVDs...
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Date: 2006-10-02 01:54 pm (UTC)AND LOL OMG WHEN I MADE THAT COMMENT JON WAS IN MY MIND. SO YOU KNOW WHAT??? YOU'RE NOT ALONE HAHAHAHA.
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Date: 2006-10-02 12:15 pm (UTC)Always happy when my fic snobbery makes some happy rather than those times it accidentally starts a flamewar. *wink*
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Date: 2006-10-02 03:43 pm (UTC)As for zine form, LOL, I doubt it'll ever be published outside of the community. I just don't think it's that kind of community and selling it would feel wrong. Although feel free to print it sans errors and tote it around, even thought right now it's at about 90 pages.
Fic snobbery is a good thing; I'm a secret fic snob. ^^
And I agree with Trinny, it still completely floors me everytime we get compliments.
(no subject)
Date: 2006-10-02 09:13 pm (UTC)See, you don't make money off zines. If you did, it'd be illegal and the Internet Lawyers would nail your ass. Zines cost purely their production price (cost of paper, binding, ink, etc). No profit.
And, dude this story must be cross-posted once it is finished. I mean... It must be. I was just assuming you two were waiting for when you hit a *cough* "stopping point".
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Date: 2006-10-03 12:20 am (UTC)I see, well, publishing in zines are still umm... feels quite pompous? I don't know how to say it, because I think once words are on paper, they need to be of a certain quality and I don't know if we're up to that standard.
Oh, so you know about the format too? If you know what we based the format on, you can probably guess some of the story. As for cross posting, I think RPF is still a touchy subject so I don't know if it's such a good idea to cross post. I don't even know if there's another forumn that this fic would cater to, since we started out (and still are) catering to just the TDS/TCR RPS fandom.
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Date: 2006-10-02 12:17 pm (UTC)Muzaks: The Servant are pretty awesome! I haven't actively searched for any of their stuff, but anytime my flist posts a song of theirs I don't have, I'm snagging it eagerly.
This is what I have so far:
Get Down
Cells
Liquefy
Beautiful Thing
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Date: 2006-10-02 09:14 pm (UTC)And, YAY! Servant! I'm snagging all of them, thanks!
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Date: 2008-06-14 02:22 am (UTC)Devil (http://www.mediafire.com/?i1ndd9vgubd)
I Can Walk In Your Mind (http://www.mediafire.com/?uwlzhmsnmhn)