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11:40 / 06.06.03

The Lost, But Now Found, Annals of a Wandering Uruk Hai...Well, I laughed anyway

14:47 / 06.06.03

Not half as good as The Very Secret Diaries. Still, a brief perusal of the host website prompted me to spend the afternoon reading LotR slash. Why is there not more fantasy novel slash?

We're The Great Old Ones Now

16:31 / 06.06.03

Because it gets published and becomes de facto fantasy. Mary Gentle's 'Grunts', for example.

16:53 / 06.06.03

Or oooh, ooh, The Fall of the Kings: m/m romance by a RL f/f couple in fantasy novel form. With academics and aristocrats and lots of intrigue. Also a piratical lesbian who saves the day.

Happy happy.

unheimlich manoeuvre

16:55 / 06.06.03

or bored of the rings, which beggars belief.

21:35 / 06.06.03

Just looked 'em up on Amazon. Rock!

But its not exactly the same thing, is it? As writing actual slash about pre-existing characters... just surprised people don't write more about, say Paul Atreides and Feyd-Rautha...or Fitz and the Fool...or...well, you get the picture.

But, more interestingly, Deva - Award-Winning Slash Writer? Mmm?

ONLY NICE THINGS

21:42 / 06.06.03

I can't wait for my copy of the award-winning work.

Or my manflesh.

16:54 / 07.06.03

Yes! Hah! I am award-winning! I have won a Screwz!

Well, technically, two: one for the f/f B7 zine I co-edited (which won Best Zine, amazingly, given that it single-handedly accounts for about 35% of all published B7 f/f in the last twenty years), and one, jointly, for Best Novella. What I really like about that is that my story is a completely non-explicit coming-out narrative about two original female characters - it's barely slash at all in any traditional sense - and the other story that won is, like, vile dirty kinky sex in one of the most popular m/m pairings in the fandom. We are a happily diverse bunch in B7...

And Haus, I shall mail you your copy of the award-winning zine containing the award-winning novella AND award-winning art on Monday. But I have no manflesh for you.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

20:02 / 07.06.03

Worth reading if only for the phrase "dirty rotten shagging thoughts", which is going to root itself deeply into my personal lexicon.