Wondering

[deelaundry]

Housefic writers on my f-list (or any who happen to stop by), I'm curious. [Special call to purrlia: want your opinion here, too!]

We all know Jimmy Wilson is the Cy Young of medicine. Compared to an author in the broader literary world, who are you in the Housefic fandom, and why?

Example: XX (particular fanfic writer not on my f-list) is the Jeffrey Archer of Housefic - popular, but not meaningful. As one columnist said about Archer's work, it "has always struck me as being above average of its kind. Its kind being airport books. You buy one in New York, read bits of it with some amusement and interest on the plane, and then chuck it in the bin at Heathrow."

For bonus points, because I'm hugely self-centered, to whom would you compare me?

This post is open to everyone, so feel free to email if you're feeling shy.

Comments

[diysheep.livejournal.com]

What a fun idea.

You are a bit all over the place, but quite a lot of your stories start with the line 'he walked in the front door' or some such and revolve around domesticity.... I could be being influenced by the whole laundry thing here.

I know one writer who is the literary version of In and Out. I have never been able to find their site again, but every story was 'oh my God I am gay let's come to terms with it' every single bloody time: just come out of the closet ff author.

So if we expand the peramaters - maybe Dee is the literary House author version of Queer as Folk: Some laughs and some hystrionics because life is like that. A chaotic rough and tumble of emotions that blur before you as they spin in the dryer.

Just going on comments I am the Kate Orman/Lloyd Rose (with a bit of Lawrence Miles thrown in)/ the Monty Python team on illicit drugs author. Kate and Lloyd are two Doctor Who/sci fi writers who are notorious for writing books that poked the Doctor with sharp sticks. Lawrence is in real life a total fruitloop, but wrote this insane two parter that half the time you had no idea what was going on. People either loved or hated it.

Ironically they really like my Doctor Who fan fiction - but the funny stuff.

Blackmare is literary version of I from Withnail and I. Cute in that little red number, but can be led astray by the evil Withnail and can be turned to the darkside.

Namaste so types with an old fashioned type writer in my mind. And wears those half glasses. Cue Jessica Fletcher music, but literary version - she lives in Spain, drinks vino, has a younger lover and a complex about her height (tall) - and smokes cigarettes as she discusses philosophy with dudes in black polo necked sweaters. At the moment she is mourning the death of that French philosopher Builliard or something because she found him sexy.

The lady who does those really long House/Wilson stories (Isander) is that romance lady who dresses in pink and eats chocolates. Such a romantic and no matter what you think about the two Gs they leave your busom heaving.

And now this post is officially over as my mind has gone blank and I cannot remember a single other story anyone has written (I'm not good on Saturdays) - except that one where PEOPLE SHOUT AT EACH OTHER ABOUT HOW MUCH REALLY GOOD SEX THEY ARE GETTING AND HOW GREAT TEH HAWT MAN SEX IS, but this would be a great thing to do individually.

"Hi, I loved your story." But I'd probably get a lot of "This story makes me think of you as a RAVING PSYCHOPATH!"

[petrichor-fizz.livejournal.com]

Nooo, Withnail isn't evil, how can you say that? All right, he's selfish and morose, but he's no Geoff Wode.

And when does Marwood wear red?

[diysheep.livejournal.com]

When Uncle Monty is trying to roger him over the kitchen table.

[petrichor-fizz.livejournal.com]

Isn't he wearing the leather jacket?

Damn, I'm rusty.

[diysheep.livejournal.com]

Nah - this is the bit just after he has showered and is cooking with Monty - after Monty has come to recue them and bring food.

That's when Monty tries to roger him over the kitchen table.

[diysheep.livejournal.com]

We are all quite clear on the whole 'rogering' thing here aren't we?

[petrichor-fizz.livejournal.com]

I can't speak for all of us, but I know what you mean.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

No clue about "Withnail and I" but I do know the word 'rogering.'

When I was a teenager, I went to a movie in which one of the characters said something about getting buggered (I have it in my mind that is was Fish Called Wanda but I can't find the quote), and I was the only one in the theater who laughed. It was quite funny, too, so I'm sure that it was just because I was the only one who knew what 'bugger' meant.

[petrichor-fizz.livejournal.com]

I must watch that again. I had to stop for a while because it always made me cry (favourite film of an ex, we used to quote it incessantly, you know how it is). I would probably be all right now, though.

[blackmare.livejournal.com]

Er...I've never seen Withnail and I. I am therefore not certain how to respond to the comparison. Perhaps I'll respond by seeing whether I can get some episodes of this show from Netflix.

Led astray? Turned to the darkside? Whatever could you mean? What darkside?

*blinks innocently*

[diysheep.livejournal.com]

You have never seen it! Oh Mare - as a Doctor Who fan you'd love it. It is a cult British movie made by some unbelieveable famous director, but I (or Marwood) is played a very young and ruff making Paul McGann and Withnail is played by Richard E Can't.

It is about two unemployed actors who go for a weekend in the country.

[deelaundry.livejournal.com]

I do so agree with your ideas, and am quite pleased to be analogized to Queer as Folk. I've only seen the US version but hot damn I loved it. Except I'd like to kill the writers for what they did to Brian at the end, but that's just me. Oh and the lesbians were boring; I fast-forwarded through them every time.