>VERBOSE

It is most unsatisfactory that I as the author have to come up with the actual complete and correct backstory that the characters only know parts of so that those revealed parts will be consistent with one another and action related to them will make sense. Most unsatisfactory indeed.

Roll Opening Credits by sleepymarvel
Fandom: MST3K
Characters: Joel, Crow, Tom, GPC
Rating: General
Words: 2238

Author's summary: Joel's first moments on the satellite and the five stages of grief.
Author's notes: Takes place during the first few weeks Joel is in space.
Author's warnings: None
Additional tags: Five Stages of Grief, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Character Study

My comment: "I like the device of the stages of grief. Neat idea."

Quote:
Joel sits on the floor in the center of the bridge and decides he won't cooperate. He'll wait until everything returns to normal. He'll wait till Dr. Forrester explains exactly what's going on. There has to be an explanation.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Transexual, Transylvania by atrovel
Fandom: Rocky Horror Picture Show, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Pairing: Frank N. Furter/Everyone, Frank N. Furter/Arthur Dent
Rating: Teen
Words: 2523

Author's summary: Arthur Dent meets an alien he can actually sort of relate to.
Author's notes: i doubt this appeals to anyone except myself. it doesn’t really matter though, because myself is who i wrote it for. (also i haven’t brushed up on my h2g2 knowledge in quite a while so apologies for any inaccuracies or mischaracterization! frank on the other hand i have no excuse for i’m just not that great at writing him i think)
Author's warnings: None
Additional tags: Post Rocky Horror-Canon, Except Frank didn’t die, Crack Crossover, Crack Treated Seriously, Light Angst, Hurt/Comfort, but only kind of, Unexpected Bonding, I don’t know what this is, Frank is Zaphod’s ex-situationship, Bisexual Freak Ford Prefect, Frank just went back to Transexual instead of being killed

My comment: "Neat concept. I quite like it. From what I remember of Rocky Horror, I think you nailed Frank's tone of speaking, like that he made Arthur's name sound "thick and sticky"."

Quote:
Arthur perked up, not unlike a dog upon hearing the front door opening. “I’m sorry, did you say Earth?”

“Yes.” Frank looked at him. “Tiny blue-green planet. Fun little people with all these silly rules. Fascinating culture, really, because it’s ridiculous how-“

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On the 125th Story by Random_Guise
Fandom: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Characters: Arthur, Benjy Mouse, Frankie Mouse
Rating: General
Words: 2439

Author's summary: Arthur Dent has another encounter with Benjy and Frankie Mouse shortly after arriving with his group at Milliways. I don't own these characters, and even if I did I would still follow good advice and Don't Panic. Written as my 125th story (at the time).
Author's notes: For my 125th story, a tale that ends up ON the 125th story, with a few stops at earlier stories along the way. The building has a bit of inspiration from the Heinlein story "...and He Built a Crooked House".
Author's warnings: None

My comment: "Good one, very Adamsesque tone!"

Quote:
"That's the easy part. We've brought you to a special building; you're in the basement of a building 125 stories tall" Benjy explained. "Actually, none of the floors exist together but thanks to an extension into the fourth spacial dimension…"
"…it's amazing what you save on property tax by doing it that way…" Frankie interjected.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Nominator, please email us (see contact information in the footer).

(https://yuletide-admin.dreamwidth.org/126646.html)

Hmmmm that's certainly, ah, mysterious! Wonder what was so irregular about the nomination that this didn't just get the usual 1-2 lines describing the issue ("can we combine these nominations?" "we couldn't find a character by that name. did you mean x?" "we don't approve All Media Types. pick one")...

Oh, uh, did I mention I made a community for monkeyisland? I was a little surprised there wasn't a now-dead one hanging around from Ye Aulden Days of Dreamwidth of 2009-2010, since there was a fair amount of buzz in the fandom at that time about the release of Tales of Monkey Island and the special editions of Secret and Revenge. I actually had to submit a support ticket to be able to create it because the names monkeyisland, monkey_island, and all the variations with the underscore in silly spots (m_onkeyisland, etc.) were "reserved for administrative use" -- which turned out to mean "specifically blocked as account names because of some kind of prior problem with spambots"? I dunno who bothers to use the word "monkey" or "island" in such things, but whatever. (Maybe they meant those dang ugly-ape NFTs?) I don't know how long the block had been in effect although I would be surprised if it went as far back as ~2010.

Aaaanyhoo, I fear it will meet the same fate as weareloonies, where there were never more members than I could count on one hand, I was the only person who ever posted, and I spent a lot of time updating recs lists for no one, but for now I'm rowing the boat myself, as it were.

eta: I've come across an interesting portion of my keyword search of journal entries that might be related (click to embiggen):


There's a block of like 25 of these in this period of what would have to be late 2017 to early 2018 given what they fall in between, sorted by date. (Note that despite the quotes in the search term, Dreamwidth isn't actually using a phrase search; entries that contain the two words, but separated from one another, still turn up in the search. That meant a completely unmanageable number of results on LiveJournal, so I had to use a proxy search term and try to branch out from its hits by other means, but on Dreamwidth there's few enough that it's plausible to go through them all.)

TFW in the course of an archaeological dig on LiveJournal you seem to have found yourself, except Norwegian, and wonder whyyyy you never crossed paths back in the day. Other than that I am not into The Mighty Boosh and not really into Red Dwarf slash (just the show in general)... bah! just look at that fannish interests list! even "purple hair" and about my same age!

(kahvi here is an RP journal and not the same person. Well, I assume not the same person.)

eta: kahvi seems to be the same person, though, judging by the list of fandoms their works belong to, and is even likely to be still active (last posted December 2024).

And There Will Be A Reckoning by (Anonymous)
Fandom: Discworld
Pairing/Characters: Tiffany Aching, Granny Weatherwax
Rating: General
Words: 1420

Author's summary: It was the sort of cold where - if you were out in it for too long - you went right around in a circle and started to feel warm again.
Author's warnings: Chose Not To Use
Additional tags: Implied/Referenced Character Death, In that it is the apocalypse and most people are dead by this point (Fic was written for Apocalyptothon 2014)

Quote:
She was distracted from these thoughts by a "Caw!" from high above. She had barely seen the raven before her hands were out in front of her.
"Thunder on my right hand. Lightning in my left hand. Heat above me. Frost below me."
As she stole its heat, a curl of warmth sprang up inside her chest.
The raven fell dead from the sky. She never saw where it landed.

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The Case of the Vanishing Vampire by (Anonymous)
Fandom: Discworld
Pairing/Characters: Reg Shoe, Visit, Vimes, Vetinari, Carrot, Angua, Cheery Littlebottom, William de Worde, Otto von Chriek, Rufus Drumknott, Death, George Pony
Rating: Teen
Words: 19,552

Author's summary: Reg and Visit are drawn into a mystery at the heart of Ankh Morpork's undead community. Why would a lifelong black-ribboner suddenly try to kill his landlady? And why have his ashes mysteriously disappeared? With the rest of the Watch focused on a threat to the new underground rail network, Reg and Visit will need to work together to solve the case, because if the two of them can't manage to put aside their differences, somebody's going to get away with murder...
Author's notes:
Q. Why is this fic like the Ankh-Morpork coat of arms?
A. They were both supported by hippos.
This fic is dedicated to the good people of #Yuletide: Doranwen and Fran who dropped ropes when I fell into my own plotholes, SteelNeko who came up with one of the OCs, Kurushi who agreed to beta-read despite an impossibly tight deadline and TL whose gentle command of "This is never going to be finished on time, you need to start writing an alternate fic NOW" is the only reason I'm not perma-banned from Yuletide.
But most of all it's dedicated to my recipient, who has the patience of the saint and whose prompt basically amounted to "One's an evangelist, the other's a zombie; together THEY FIGHT CRIME!" which is clearly the most awesome prompt in the history of Yuletide.
Author's warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Additional tags: Complete, Action/Adventure, Bechdel Test Pass, Blood, Canon Compliant, Case Fic, Crimes, Drama, Friendship, Gen Fic, Gift Fic, Humor, Minor Canonical Character(s), Mystery, Mystery Stories, Past Tense, Photography, Police, Politics, Post-Canon, Prompt Fic, Religions, Teamwork, They Fight Crime!, Trains, Yuletide, Vampires, Whodunnit, Zombies, #Yulechat Challenge 2010

My comment: (Chapter 5) "I don't suppose the dwarf symbol for "mine" resembles a circle with a horizontal line through it, by any chance?"
(Chapter 8) "Kinda love that Visit now basically has one of those things you get by laying a penny on a railroad track. (Don't do this, kids.)"
Quote:
'We're in the middle of a heatwave and Detritus has never been particularly swayed by debate even when his brain's at a reasonable temperature.'
'Yes, but we can't just walk away.'
'No.'
'Oh.'
'Yeah.'
'Stoneface is going to go absolutely Bursar.'
'Well, if you want to let a murderer get away because you were afraid of getting in trouble.'
'Oh shut up.'
'No, you shut up.'
'No, you shut up.'
The two corporals turned to Detritus and smiled.
"Fair enough, Sarge. Can you just move to one side for a minute so we can turn the cart around?"

Title: sweet chocolate
Fandom: Monkey Island
Pairing/Characters: Guybrush/Elaine
Rating: General
Words: 222
Summary: Guybrush eschews the straightforward way in favor of the silly (but in this case, sweet) way, as usual.
Additional Tags: Fluff, Kissing
Notes: From OTP Prompt #7 by dont-call-my-name-alejandro. Yeah, this is weightless saccharine fluff. Nobody send me their dentist bill. 😂 I've just been struggling to come up with anything lately and was looking for prompt lists.

sweet chocolate

Title: Dress-Up
Fandom: Monkey Island
Pairing/Characters: Guybrush/Elaine
Rating: Explicit
Words: 7812
Summary: What Guybrush was doing here was plain enough: he was after her piece of the map to Big Whoop. But as much as she would have liked to boot him out and go back to her pleasant day of keeping aloof from the insipid party downstairs, she couldn't in good conscience let it go at that without trying to find out exactly what he'd been up to.
Warnings/Contains/Additional Tags: Game: Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (1991), Vaginal Sex, Crossdressing, crossdressing as per canon, that is Guybrush in the dress in the scene in which that actually occurs, abuse of semicolons
Notes: This was a personal challenge to me from someone who shall remain anonymous: When Guybrush is at the Mardi Gras party in the costume dress, could I manage to make that seem sexy? Whether I've succeeded is perhaps another question 😅 as that's not really the sort of thing I would usually focus on as a positive in itself.

That Supreme Charm by thestarsapart
Fandom: Princess Bride (1987)
Pairing/Characters: Fezzik, Inigo Montoya, Westley/Buttercup
Rating: General Audiences
Words: 2912

Author's summary: Fezzik's lifelong journey to understand his love of rhymes.
Author's notes: The title is from a quote by Victor Hugo: "Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter."
Author's warnings: None
Additional tags: Missing Scene, Rhyming, Found Family, Character Study

My comment: "gah *flail* this is marvelous!"

Quote:
If only he could figure out how to explain it in a way that other people could understand… but Fezzik didn’t really understand it either; he just felt it. When he found a thyme and said it aloud, it just… fit. Like his father sliding two hand-carved planks together in a dovetailed joint. A smooth slide, then a gentle “clunk” in his ear. Just right.

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Graduate Student-Snake Alliance: Fall Schedule of Events by ipreferaviators
Fandom: FAQ: The "Snake Fight" Portion of Your Thesis Defense - Luke Burns
Rating: General Audiences
Words: 447

Author's summary: The Graduate Student-Snake Alliance is committed to providing high-quality training and practical education to facilitate successful thesis defenses for the greater university community.
Author's warnings: Chose Not To Use, but none

My comment: "This is deranged 😆I love it."

Quote:
Clobbering a Colossus: Techniques for Big Snakes
Maybe research hasn't gone as planned, or you can't find the sources you need. Maybe you're just not sure how your results will be taken. Regardless of why you think you might be up against a huge snake, the GSSA is here to help you prepare!

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"God Damned Them All"? Documenting the Loss of the Privateer Antelope by machiavellijr
Fandom: Barrett's Privateers (Song)
Pairing/Characters: Elcid Barrett, Narrator
Rating: General Audiences
Words: 1674

Author's summary: A grim narrative of fraud, deception, false advertising, murders, robberies, puttings in fear and operating without a Board of Trade Certificate.
Author's notes: All errors of history, chronology and musicology are my own.
Author's warnings: None

My comment: "Love a good epistolary format. The bit about it being insurance fraud was funny 😆"

Quote:
Note from Naval Storekeeper Richard Williams to Master Attendant David Hooper
Davey - Antelope is to be condemned, we’ll have her towed round to Sherbrooke ‘for breaking up’, and if the buyer sails her away from there, not our problem is it?

Snow by Nyx_Knacks
Fandom: Takin' Over the Asylum
Characters: Campbell Bain, Campbell's father, Campbell's mother
Rating: Teen
Words: 818

Author's summary: Campbell runs out into a snowstorm after an argument with his father and subsequently gets lost in his thoughts.
Author's notes: DON'T READ IF SUICIDAL THOUGHTS TRIGGER YOU. I never explicitly wrote in that that's what was going through his head, but it's certainly implied.
Author's warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply, Suicidal Thoughts

Quote:
How many times had he told Campbell to control himself? How many times had he told the poor boy to calm down, mind his volume, think rationally? How many times had he told his own son to muscle through, stop being lazy, just get up and do something? Too many times.

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Missing Mirth by smilingformoney
Fandom: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (nominally the 2005 movie as this is for an Alan Rickman challenge, but there's not really anything that wouldn't work for other incarnations of Marvin)
Characters: Marvin, OC (nominally "Reader" as the fic is reader-insert second person for some reason, but it works just as well imagining whatever you like)
Rating: General
Words: 1190

Prompt: Rickmas 2024 (an Alan Rickman prompt challenge) day 12: Missing Mirth
Author's warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

My comment: "Waaah my Marvin 😭 🥰 I'm not crying, you're crying. idk why, he's just always been my little blorbo in this series since long before that word existed; he's a completely miserable little git but I'm weirdly protective of him. Seems like there's a metaphor in here for what I hear it's like when people who need medications for their mental health finally find the right one for them."

Quote:
“And it’s a miracle you survived,” you commented as you examined the gaping hole in the robot’s head. “You should count yourself lucky.”
“Oh, yes, lucky. Vogons are the worst marksmen in the galaxy, and I managed to get hit by one. Just my luck that I had to survive.”