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[doyle]

Okay, just did my first major flist rehaul. I *hope* I only defriended communities and people who don't have me friended back and are thus unlikely to care, but if you think I've wrongly defriended you, let me know. (My info page toys with my emotions by displaying some of the names in ordinary font as opposed to bold. I keep thinking I've defriended sallyanne or circe_tigana, and that would never do.)

Lots of names on the list that I don't know. I don't think I've ever done a step-up-to-the-mic post. Here we go, then.

- Name?
- Fandom? (I assume most folks are Jossverse but I'd love to hear your deep, dark fandom secrets. Put another way, I know one of you must have written Teachers slash and I'm determined to find them)
- Where are you from?
- Got any fic kinks I should know about? Favourite characters, pairings, stuff that makes you go 'mmm'? Imaginary prizes to the oddest.
- rec me something. A fic, a movie, a book, a LJ community, anything you like.
- anything else...

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Name?

-Dani Mephistopholes

- Fandom? (I assume most folks are Jossverse but I'd love to hear your deep, dark fandom secrets. Put another way, I know one of you must have written Teachers slash and I'm determined to find them)

-Whedonverse for sure (Spike/Angel and Wes/Gunn), the only het I consistently like in any fandom has been Spike/Dawn, but only if written from a proper evilista viewpoint and with sufficient plot. (And if anyone can rec me a long plotty IC Wes/Gunn I would love them, they are hard to find.)

also Harry Potter (though finding good long plotty stories amongst the trash is hard - I am still looking for a good novel-length story which features hot-heavy-and-unhealthy Harry/Draco and then fades into Snape/Harry with lots of plot, and good characterizations. *bangs head* Never going to happen.)

I did the LOTRips thing and read everything that I could get my hands on, but then kind of lost interest a few thousand fics later.

Read some QAF, but in general I find it to be rather lacking, especially as the majority of it seems to be just sex instead of story.

Love RPS and mythic slash (especially bible slash though I have only found it a couple times).

- Where are you from?

-Well my mother would say from hell and I should get on with getting back there. My residency of the last 4 years has been Detroit, though I am toying with heading somewhere else.


- Got any fic kinks I should know about? Favourite characters, pairings, stuff that makes you go 'mmm'? Imaginary prizes to the oddest.

-Er refer to the fandom one above. Also, I love very plotty stories and generally dislike PWP (with some definite exceptions). I also like extended UST instead of the characters jumping into bed at the slightest provocation/altercation. Bleak post-apocalyptic, or angsty endings also make me hot. *hangs head* Oh the terrible things that I wish on these characters that I like so much.

-Plot kinks: in HP I like stories where Harry breaks and has to be put back together again, or is isolated from his annoying friends and does hard training. In LOTRips I like Orlijah gradual realistic first-time, and in Jossverse, I like both Spike and Angel wrestling with their inherent moral ambiguity.



- rec me something. A fic, a movie, a book, a LJ community, anything you like.

I have been reading some fabulous books this summer:

Wicked (the story of the Wicked Witch of the West)
Glamorama (a subtly twisted tale from the writer of America Psycho - Bret Ellis, revolving around some fabulously shallow models in the 90's)
The Borne Identity and the Borne Supremacy (very different stories from the movies).
Pattern Recognition, by William Gibson - the easiest read of any of his books - high recommended
Cryptonomicon, which I am currently reading and everyone and their brother recommended to me.