Although I expect that this will shock no one...

[elderberrywine]

Lured into this by the redoubtable blackbird_song...



1. Total number of fandoms that I like. Right now? Ah,well, LOTR all the way, and more specifically F/S. HP, unfortunately, tempts me not, and since I don't watch TV, am clueless on most of the others. Although hobbitdogs knows of another, if she'd ever WRITE, ahem.

2. My first fandom ever. Eheheh. Well, here I would have to drag in my aforementioned accomplice, since we pretty much went through these together. Man From UNCLE had to be the first, with Star Trek (K/S, of course) and LOTR coming right behind it fairly simultaneously. There were others that caught the eye from time to time (Rat Patrol? Wild, Wild West? I Spy? Girl From UNCLE?) but they were the big three.

3. My most recent fandom. OK, totally LOTR. (Am so very predictable and boring.)

4. Five fandoms that currently mean a lot to me. Oh, let me think, LOTR? And of course, the other mentioned in #1. Although I think I could totally get hooked on Sherlock Holmes, but I refuse to go there. One obsession at a time works the best for me.

5. Tag five victims

Only if you feel like it, guys. (and I added an extra)
hobbitdogs Aheheheh.
sierralois
tinewen
daffodil_bolger using evil twin alias, here
elanorgardner
chaos_chan

Comments

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

The thing about Sherlock Holmes is that the quantity of really good fiction is small and therefore manageable if you don't want to be distracted from The One Fandom. I'm out of touch with the SH fandom, although I still belong to the Yahoo ML, but I doubt if it's much bigger than it ever was.

[elderberrywine.livejournal.com]

Well, since I don't think I could begin to write it, I will have to let it sit for the moment, and save it for my more advanced old age. Although they are, omg like totally OTP, unless of course one is squicked by middle-age sex.

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

Holmes and Watson are always cast far too old. They were quite young when they met, and if you were writing pre-Reichenbach Holmes.... :P~~

Of course you could write it.

[elanorgardner.livejournal.com]

ECK!! I've been tagged.

*runs away*

[elderberrywine.livejournal.com]

Aheheheh. *cackles evilly*

[blackbird-song.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten Man from UNCLE when I did mine. *facepalm* Quite an early fandom, really, and my pre-slasher self just knew that Ilya and Napoleon ought to be together, though I didn't know that they could be "like that".

I seriously must have been born to slash! *thinks totally inappropriate fond thoughts of Ant and Bee*

Catherine

P.S. Of course, I'm totally curious about the fandom to which you refer so obliquely in #1.

[elderberrywine.livejournal.com]

OMG, how could you forget that cutie (and you know which one I mean!)?

*still has my stash of Man From UNCLE paperbacks and magazines*

*not to mention the 100+ Star Trek books*

PS Hehheh - original stuff.

[blackbird-song.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have dozens of Star Trek books. I never was able to get hold of more than one or two Man from UNCLE books, though. Probably the result of living (a) in England (b) with a very repressive parent.

I really must shovel out my house so I can find all my old goodies and write what I don't find.

Catherine

[notabluemaia.livejournal.com]

Could we puhleeze, pretty please, have some UNCLE fic from your fine pen??? The books were dreadful - so much wasted possibility there! Go, you!

[blackbird-song.livejournal.com]

I'll consider it, certainly. If I post, it may be in a very, very filtered setting, or in my other journal, or under a completely different alias. I was really throwing that possibility away as the total joke of a depraved mind, but your flattering request is very tempting, indeed.

I think I'll go and look for the series, now, just to refresh my ancient memory...

Catherine

[elderberrywine.livejournal.com]

*waves hand* Oooh, let me see! Let me see!

[blackbird-song.livejournal.com]

I will, if I ever get up the nerve to write it!

[elderberrywine.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, let's see, I have the James Blish seris (where he turned the episodes into short stories), and the similar series for the animated shows (some of those stories were quite decent). And then all the odd here-and-there books that came out at the beginning (New Voyages 1 & 2, anyone? Not to mention aheheh The Price of the Phoenix) and then the official Pocket Book series up to about #80, I think.

The Man From UNCLEs were harder to get ahold of. I only have 6 novels, but I subsribed to the magazine for about a year. That was sort of a rip-off though, because only the first story was UNCLE, and the rest was random stuff.

(And yay for parents that let me read whatever I wanted. Movies, though, were an entirely different thing.)

[blackbird-song.livejournal.com]

I have the Blish series, as well, and long may he have joy in Heaven! That man was so slashy in his adaptations! I also have the New Voyages books, as well as The Price of the Phoenix and its sequel, The Fate of the Phoenix, and many, many of the Pocket Books series, including (though I'm panic-stricken that I've lost it in the shuffle of a move) a rare edition of one which they pulped shortly after it came out, due to its very serious K/S overtones. (It did start out as a K/S story, according to a friend of mine who knows the publisher.)

I don't even remember the names of the UNCLE books that I found, as they were execrable. I remember thinking then that I could do better, and I was just a kid! (A rather arrogant kid, I'll admit, but my dog could do better, and he doesn't know Illya from a Kong toy!)

Catherine

[elderberrywine.livejournal.com]

There was definitely more than a hint of K/S in some of the earlier Pocket Books, you don't remember the name, do you? Unfortunately, they eventually became totally plot-driven, with very little character interplay. Sigh.

True enough on the UNCLE books, although I do have a great fondness for The Vampire Affair. That one was fun.

[blackbird-song.livejournal.com]

I think that book was called "Killing Time", but I might be wrong. It was quite spectacular! I quite agree about the descent of the Pocket Books series into almost nothing but plot. That was the reason I stopped buying them. In my opinion, Star Trek was not nearly as much about plot as it was about character, which was by a very long shot its strongest attribute. One of the reasons that I don't like to see the more technically-oriented science fiction writers tackle this series is because they lose the essential feel of it.

The title of that UNCLE book sounds vaguely familiar, and it does awaken a memory of some good stuff. However, it could just as easily have been a dream. (I had a lot of them about those two!)

Catherine

[notabluemaia.livejournal.com]

UNCLE! Whee! Illya! Napoleon (suave jerk that he was!) And remember April, and Mark (Mark being far more interesting... shouldn't he have *known* Illya???)

The Hornblower films are wonderful, especially the first four. I'm planning to introduce Lurea to them asap; she's a great BSG fan.

And, always - till our little circle of rocking chairs - LotR. F/S Live!

[elderberrywine.livejournal.com]

Illya/Mark would have been the coolest pair. Hmmm. No, no, can't do that, no time, no time. And of course, April had the hair to die for, not to mention those kicky little outfits. (It was a fine time to be a teenager!)

I've never seen the Hornblower films, although I'm fond of the books (definitely prefer them to the M&C ones). But what is BSG? *is mystified*

But, yes, F/S forever!

[hobbitdogs.livejournal.com]

Hehe. Yeah. I think I found some of the old Star Trek things gathering dust, you know, the ones where we made up a plot based on the TV description of next week's show. And of course we were usually dead wrong. *snicker*. I particularly remember the one we did about the Horta. Bwahahahah.
MFU, gotta be Napoleon/Illya. Just because only Illya can bring Solo down a peg or two.
And the "other"....(I can't do that small print thing)...well...*smirks*

[elderberrywine.livejournal.com]

Oh, God, remember the mad dash for the Outpost Market, so we could check out the latest TV Guide description? And mangle it to our satisfaction? "Oh, yeah, Good Scene!" *smirk* Don't tell me we ever put those in writing. The Horta? Oooh, tell, tell!

And the "other"? see, I can do that small thing... Yes, yes?

[hobbitdogs.livejournal.com]

Outpost Market. Right. And the cashier always gave us really suspicious looks. I mean, what was so odd about two idiots who mangled the TV guide and drooled all over it, then returned it to the rack without buying a damn thing, as they staggered outside chorteling and muttering. Perfectly normal.
The "other" fandom, which has no other fans. Hello.
And yes, I have the "Horta" story somehow. I seem to recall a near death experience for Spock. Of course. Based on the split second scene in the preview of his first contact with the Horta where he screams. As usual, we were totally wrong about why.

[elderberrywine.livejournal.com]

Totally wrong, but ever imaginative.

Yeah, and I think that clerk always sorta twitched when he saw us coming.

[hobbitdogs.livejournal.com]

Sorry, that was TV Guide description. Duh.

[elderberrywine.livejournal.com]

Heh. Oh, yeah. and if we actually had any money (a rare occurence) we could actually buy something to eat. That was a good day.

Ah. Dead poor, and totally slash-committed. Good times, good times.

[hobbitdogs.livejournal.com]

Yeah but in those innocent days we didn't have a clue about slash. Only that, well, they were really, really, really good friends. *chortle*

[elderberrywine.livejournal.com]

No clue about slash, eh? *raises suggestive eyebrow*

[hobbitdogs.livejournal.com]

Waaaaaaaaay back then?????? I seem to recall being hopelessly clueless. But then, I could be wrong.

[shirebound]

Omigosh, someone else loved (or even remembers) "The Rat Patrol"!! I had a crush on the British cutie.

"The Girl from UNCLE"... wow. We *must* be the same age.

*hugs*

[elderberrywine.livejournal.com]

Hehhehheh. For me, it was always the British one. (Those accents, *swoon*)

And they would sometimes stick one of the GFU people on MFU, remember? And the other way around, too. I kept waiting for David McCallum and Noel Harrison to be together in "The Affair of Impossible Cuteness", but that never happened. Sigh.

[shirebound]

Noel Harrison! I haven't thought about him since... well, since...

*adrift in memories of Nehru jackets and love beads*

[elderberrywine.livejournal.com]

Oooooh yeah, the 60's was a great decade in which to be a teenager..

*sings* "And the summer sun is shining, like a red rubber ball..."

*runs outside in a kicky tent dress*