DPP: What's new?

[howlinchickhowl.livejournal.com]

Hello hello hello, I hope everyone is having a wonderful Monday and for those of you joining us from Commonwealth countries a very happy Jubilee weekend :)

This is my week doing the DPP and I thought I'd start us off nice and gently.



For one reason or another I've spent quite a bit of time away from fandom recently and as a result of such absence, I feel as though there is a lot of new fic that has kind of passed me by, and there is also the general sense among people I talk to that it is becoming harder to get people to read new writing.

So I thought we'd have a bit of a love-in. Here are your options:

1) Tell me about your favourite pilots fic published this year (i.e. since January 1st).

2) Link to a fic you have bookmarked to read but haven't got around to yet

3) PIMP YO'SELF! Have you written something this year and feel like it maybe got passed by or under-exposed? Or maybe you just want it read by EVEN MORE PEOPLE. LINK IT HERE!


Have at it folks! And remember, if you read, it is really very nice if you also comment :D

Comments

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

I'm one of those people who haven't been reading and writing very much lately; looking at my journal, the only K/L writing I've done this year was Never So Comfortable (http://rachelindeed.livejournal.com/15704.html), which is a remix of one chapter of taragel's wonderful Ice!Pilots AU saga, "The Cutting Edge."

taragel also recommended a really wonderful vid that came out this year, and I highly recommend it in turn to everyone here: bob-radar's amazing Kara-centric, angsty K/L vid No light, no light (http://bop-radar.dreamwidth.org/241592.html). This is wonderfully edited, with perfect song choice, deep character insight and wonderfully condensed and powerful narratives contained within it. Very, very impressive.

[howlinchickhowl.livejournal.com]

I am too, and I keep intending to read things and not getting roun d to it, so I thought this would be nice :)

I love your remix! oh wow. (I am commenting properly on your actual post).

Out of interest (because I'm in a discussy kind of mood) have you stopped reading/writing because you've discovered a new fandom or your interest in Pilots is waning or for some other unquantifiable reason? Or have you just been busy with actual stuff?

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Oh, I've always read and written in multiple fandoms; I usually go whole hog with one character or pairing for a while, then move on to something else, then come back around for more when I'm in the mood. This is the first fandom I've been in where I've gotten to know fellow fans pretty well, so I'm sticking around with a low-level consistency that's a bit unusual for me. I love saying hello to everyone and keeping in touch, and pilots always make me smile. But, yes, with fanfic I've been reading more in other fandoms for quite a long time, and of course RL stuff takes over sometimes. But I'm going to be writing a story for the leeadama-daily ficathon and another one as a gift for friend -- I do enjoy being prompted to dip my toes back in and write! Once I fall for fictional characters, they stick with me and I carry them in my mind; my excitement comes and goes in cycles, but it always comes back around :)

[anamarya.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that I wanted to read your addition to Tara's Ice!Pilots in like for ever but I never got around to it. Now that about 5% of my time is under my own control and even more -you were knd enough to link to it - I promise I'll do it (after a quick re-read of the original chapter).

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

I wrote this (http://kdbleu.livejournal.com/26470.html) AU with Kara as a cop and Lee as a reporter for the last the_applecart challenge. I'm going to get back to it when I've finished my leeadama_daily ficathon fic.

[howlinchickhowl.livejournal.com]

fab fab fab! Thank you :)

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

You are welcome!

[plaid-slytherin.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you asked this because I haven't updated my masterlist in forever and thought I'd only written one K/L fic so far this year.

So then i had to go digging so I could add Something to Stay For (http://plaid-slytherin.livejournal.com/177628.html), which was my bingo blackout.

As for a fic by somebody else, I really love This Wall Around My Heart (http://pilots-presents.livejournal.com/33614.html) which is the fic sci_fi_shipper wrote for me for pilots_presents. It's a really lovely AU with a fantastic new backstory.

[howlinchickhowl.livejournal.com]

See! And now I've remembered there's an entire round of PP fics that I haven't read! Wheee!

Thank you :)

[anamarya.livejournal.com]

you and me both. at least I sort of started catching up with the applecart. but I should start PP also because there are some good things there

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Hey bb, it's been a while! I'm SO late to this, but here are my favourites of 2012:

http://taragel.livejournal.com/216010.html#cutid1

http://workerbee73.livejournal.com/126643.html

http://taragel.livejournal.com/209098.html#cutid1

(all one-shots/drabbles, though, and sorry for the lack of linking - lj is kind of slow on me today)

[howlinchickhowl.livejournal.com]

So it has! And I'm gonna let go that you were late to the party and just embrace the fact that you came at all :) (It's pretty slow around these parts atm!)

Thank you for bringing the recs, I will be checking these out shortly, and your self-pimped ones also!

[winegums.livejournal.com]

I forgot to post two of kag523's, here (again, one-shots):

Pro Bono: http://kag523.livejournal.com/242894.html

Blindfold: http://kag523.livejournal.com/243731.html

It's good to see you back again, I've been off squeeing like an idiot over the Avengers, but that will probably lift soon enough and I'll be back here with my OTF.

[howlinchickhowl.livejournal.com]

It's good to be back :) Ah the Avengers, I feel like maybe it's stolen a lot of good piloty folk. But it's just a phase I'm sure!

<3

[winegums.livejournal.com]

I won't lie, I have something of a Tom Hiddleston problem after watching Thor in prep for the Avengers, lol.

But movie fandoms are usually short-lived, I'm a glutton for punishment and will probably come right back here to the land of Epic Angst and Devastation soon enough.

[howlinchickhowl.livejournal.com]

But he's so...greasy...and whiny...(as Loki, I mean, I have no knowledge of him outside of Avengers verse, except that I feel like he looks like a younger Fassbender maybe?)

In any case, the Land of Epic Angst and Devastation (though I think it's maybe a bit on the strong side to call it that...we have fun, too!) will be here waiting for you when you get bored of everything being all sunshine and roses and nice neat endings :P

[winegums.livejournal.com]

I really liked him in Thor? I mean, he's a little shit but kind of a heartbreaking little shit who's gone off the deep end, if you get me.

What really sunk me were his interviews, though. He's like a five-year-old who's six feet tall, super geeky and scarily good at doing velociraptor impressions - I fell like a house of bricks.

[howlinchickhowl.livejournal.com]

I get that, he was heartbreaking and I thought he was good, but not in a way that made me want to fangirl him, you know?

Hehe, he does sound cute, though a velociraptor impression isn't something that usually makes me weak at the knees... :P

[winegums.livejournal.com]

I think a lot of the fangirling has to do with his real-life personality to be honest. (it does not hurt that he's a good actor too, lol)

And at least he has a personality, I find most young Hollywood leading men so bland/douchey/try-hard, that one who defends superhero movies in the Guardian and wears fanart tshirts with no shame is a breath of fresh air.

[howlinchickhowl.livejournal.com]

Hehe, ok, I think I'm gonna have to check him out now. Recommend some favourite interviews that you think I should watch? :)

[winegums.livejournal.com]

I think these are really funny


this is a vid of his various impressions


and this is kind of long and mildly geeky, so here you go





(there's also the Loki'd vid that I can't find which is basically pure crack, but it's about a minute of Hiddleston with a fake moustache/pretending to be Loki, lol)

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Oh, and I wrote two little ficlets myself for Tara, which I think are the best things I've written for pilots yet:

http://winegums.livejournal.com/15237.html