housekeeping

[raven]

Some fannish housekeeping! So today, in and around building flatpack furniture (The Great Flat Redecoration '14, don't even ask) I hung out on Tumblr and was fannish about silly Star Trek AUs, and it made me SO HAPPY. (Fandom and I have been kind of... on a break, recently, for Reasons.) But possibly there is hope for me yet! Hurray.

Anyway, so, I have just been alerted to the existence of Deep Dish Nine, a fluffy all-human Deep Space Nine AU where Sisko & co run a pizzeria. It is just as adorable as it sounds. And, totally delightfully, there is also Chez Entreprise, which the TNG crew run down the street, and over the road, the coffee shop run by Janeway and Seven called (what else?) Nebula Coffee.

So I wrote this piece of total fluff.

The Flaw In The Plan (571 words) by Raven
Fandom: Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: The Next Generation
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Kathryn Janeway/Seven of Nine, Data/Geordi La Forge
Characters: Kathryn Janeway, Seven of Nine, Data, Geordi La Forge
Additional Tags: Deep Dish Nine, Alternate Universe, Fluff
Summary:

"Huh. Next you're gonna tell me Swedish Fish aren't made of fish."

I am also writing another, longer, more serious story about Janeway and Seven, which is super fun, and contemplating whether anyone would read fic for The Oversight. (Probably not, is the answer to that.)

And finally! So there's a meme going round where you post your ten most important, most indentity-constitutive films, and I - well, I just. I am so bad at films, I don't have the attention span for them. So I had dinner with happydork quite recently and we spent a couple of hours playing the same game, for TV episodes. And here is my list, for completion, with a line of dialogue from each because I thought it would be fun:

"Sometimes You Hear The Bullet", M*A*S*H ("Rule number one: young men die.")
"The Measure of a Man", Star Trek: TNG ("Consider that in the history of many worlds, there have always been disposable people.")
"In The Cards", Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ("It's not my fault that your species decided to abandon currency-based economics in favour of some philosophy of self-enhancement.")
"The Fifth Race", Stargate SG-1 ("Right now I'm possibly his only hope for communicating on any kind of serious level. I can't leave him like this, and I won't.")
"Are You Being Served", Frasier ("My reasoning? My reasoning was based on my mother's obsession with VERMIN!")
"Win, Lose, or Draw", Parks and Recreation ("I never wrote it.")
"Mary Pat Shelby", Sports Night ("How much do you love me?")
"Take This Sabbath Day", The West Wing ("Shalom, Toby.")
"The Body", Buffy the Vampire Slayer ("I don't understand how this all happens!")
..and season 1 of Slings and Arrows. ("Why did you fuck me over?")

(Shh, I know that's not a single episode, but happydork's chosen episode of The Wire was... The Wire.)

That's my list! I should go to bed.

Comments

[lemon_badgeress]

WAIT WAIT WAIT THE OVERSIGHT BY CHARLIE FLETCHER THAT THE OVERSIGHT FIC YOU SAY FIC I WILL SIT RIGHT HERE AND WAIT FOR. :D

[raven]

Yes! Yes, that one! After that sterling endorsement I may well post it. :) :)

[lemon_badgeress]

That would make me happy. I have FEELS about that book.

[such_heights]

eeee, yes, I like this version of the meme a lot. What a good set of choices.

[raven]

Hurrah! :) I love your icon, btw. Dax and Kira!

[littlered2.livejournal.com]

The Body is amazing, but I can never bring myself to watch it. Too dreadful to contemplate.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Heh, I haven't seen it too many times myself, I thought about picking The Dark Age or Passion or something for my list. But it's actually The Body that had the most influence on me as a writer - Anya's speech, the one that begins "I don't understand how this all happens", it really brought home to me at an early age how can you do so much with simple, unflashy writing. It has no fancy tricks or long words but it's so upsetting and so good.

[tau_sigma]

I find it oddly cathartic, now, which I think also shows just how good it is. It makes me cry, and I never cry at TV, but sometimes I cry because of TV, because it gets it far, far too right; and that is good. (See also: the last episode of the latest season of Call the Midwife.)

[littlered2.livejournal.com]

It is fantastic, but devastating.