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X-parrot ([personal profile] xparrot) wrote2010-04-17 11:41 pm
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(I would apologize for spamming your flist, but...this is like the first time I've really posted in a month, so...) I forgot to put this in the last post, so it gets its own, in the name of positive squee about fandom - if you haven't seen, after six years, [livejournal.com profile] lanning is posting the next story in her Identical series, one of my favorite fanfic series of all time. I assume if you've read any Smallville or Clex fic that you've read Identical (if you're like me, half a dozen times), but in case you haven't - Identical is a Clex canon AU, diverging from the end of SV's first season but incorporating later canon, and future Superman canon as well, and I tend to forget that it's not the real canon because dang it, it should have been. It's got h/c, it's got angst, it's got true love, it's got the Kents slowly adopting Lex into their family, it's got wicked evil villains. It's got Eli Cohen, my favorite fic OC ever, and he is as awesome as ever, if not moreso. It's got this fantastic and gorgeous trailer vid. And now it's got a new story, which is shaping up to be as good as anything before it!

Snips and Snails and Puppy Dog Tails

[identity profile] katharos-8.livejournal.com 2010-04-18 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
*squeaks* Oh, thank you for pointing this out! I'd consigned this under 'awesome series that will sadly never be finished. *dashes off to read*
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[identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com 2010-04-18 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I know, I can barely believe there's more myself! ^__^
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[personal profile] sholio 2010-04-19 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh ... along those lines, I finally went and read the end of "Hearts of Ice" last night. Total blast from the past. :D
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[identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com 2010-04-19 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG - was there actually an end posted? Wild!!

(it's odd, now that I think about it, that was one of the few Ranma epics I read penned by a girl - it's the only fandom I think I read in which had at least as many guys writing as women...)
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[personal profile] sholio 2010-04-19 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, she actually finished it! :D Last year sometime, apparently. I guess it's never too long to give up on a WIP ...

There actually seem to be more guys in anime fandom in general - I never noticed Ranma being quite that guy-heavy, but I wasn't really thinking about it much, because I was used to being in fandoms with a lot of guys. Comics fandom was mostly male, and DBZ had quite a few guys too. It's actually a little weird that western media fandoms tend to be so overwhelmingly female; I don't know if it's because slash fandom deliberately drew itself away from the male-heavy sci-fi-fan/geek crowd, or what ...

[identity profile] thirdbird.livejournal.com 2010-04-20 10:55 am (UTC)(link)
Unrelated, but...drive-by friending, hello! I stumbled across your LJ and thought it looked interesting, so I've added you to my reading list, I hope that's all right.
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[identity profile] xparrot.livejournal.com 2010-04-20 10:58 am (UTC)(link)
No fears - the more the merrier, welcome aboard! ^_^