Poll: Getting to Know You Even Better

[thefourthvine]

It's the end of the year. We all have millions of new stories to read, and will shortly have even more. Many of us are hanging out with our families, which kind of inhibits porn consumption. So, obviously, it is not a time for recommending. Which means that it is time for invasive, involved questions.

Today's edition: your fandoms and mine. Tell me what you read and I will tell you what to read. And we will all get to Scotland at roughly the same time. (Sorry, but it sounded like it needed a chorus.)

This is your opportunity to influence the future, folks! I mean, only the future of this LJ. And probably - let's be honest here - not all that much influence, given that I hardly have influence on the content of this journal. But it will be interesting. For me, anyway. And for you, there's shiny happy ticky boxes. Everyone wins!

[Poll #639824]

Comments

[m-butterfly.livejournal.com]

I'd really just be happy to find any good reccer doing some B5, because I fear to poke around the fandom myself. It's just that my attempts to find something, anything decent for one of the spin-offs left me B5-fic-spooked, and there wasn't even that much there--less than I expected, actually.

My friend azarias ascribes it to the fact that as far as a lot of the usual fanfic fodder goes, JMS has gotten there already. Canon ghey? Did it. Long, tortured character arcs? Did it. Silly, fun, cracky situations? Did it. Tentacle porn? Did it by implication. Alien pornos? Did it. (It was a plot point!) Women's underwear? Did it. Public sex? Did it. Telepathic sex? Did it. And so on and so forth. (I now pause to briefly marvel that there was no sexpollen.) Babylon 5: You'd be amazed how much you can sneak into a five-year-plus-extras story without anyone noticing. I mean, sure, Farscape had all this and more, but people actually noticed with Farscape. (And I've been told--and observed on my own peerings into the fandom--that Farscape dealt with the 'canon already did our crack' by becoming Land of the Darkfics, but I don't think that quite happened with B5.)