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Renfield ([personal profile] darchildre) wrote2011-03-29 09:07 pm

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More things:

- My copy of All Eternals Deck came in the mail today. I am listening to it right now. Whee!

- So, while Megan was home over spring break, we watched a lot of Chuck. Which is a fun show, but not one that really catches my interest fannishly. However, it does remind me of the existence of Firefly (due to the presence of Adam Baldwin), so this morning I put mosca's Like Describing the Alphabet on my kindle and have been reading it today. Gosh, but that's still a lovely story. And still the only Firefly story I really needed, somehow. Sometimes, I think that all my reading in a fandom is about finding the one story that is everything I needed and then, sort of, stopping. After finding it, I might keep reading, but I'm much less likely to fic-binge, rather than just reading that one story over and over again. (With Firefly, I pretty much read that story and...didn't read anything else.) Some fandoms don't have one I can find and some fandoms I only find a story for one pairing or whatever and keep reading for other things. For instance: Doctor Who is obviously huge and sprawling and there are pockets of hundreds of different things. So I have a definitive Ten/Master fic (it is omphalos' New Dawn Fades, of course) but I don't have one for Three/Master or Five/Master or Four/Romana or Seven/Ace, et cetera, ad infinitum. I still read Holmes fic and there's a lot of it I like, but as long as I can reread Katie Forsythe's fic in general and Four Minor Interludes/Hallowed Be Thy Name in specific, I don't really need anything else. I don't have a definitive Sherlock fic yet, though. While I've been watching Psych, I've also been poking at fic online (mostly Shawn/Lassiter, because I am entirely predictable) but I read lucyhale's A Different Corner and sort of said, "Ah, okay. That's all we need there, then." And I still want the internet to be more full of Scorpius/Braca than it currently is but I figure as long as I have astrogirl2's Consumate, I can be content.

There are a lot of fandoms and pairings where I never find that one story (which is totally okay - the joy is in the looking as much as is the finding). But I'm always happy when I do.

Do you guys do that? And what are your That One Stories? If you don't mind sharing.

- What with rereading Firefly fic, I'm kinda thinking of maybe watching Firefly again. Which, in turn, makes me think about rereading the Dark Tower series. And on the one hand, it's been a long time and I'm sure I'd enjoy it. But on the other hand, I have something like 12 library books out right now and one is an interlibrary loan that I haven't even started and the other thing about Megan being home this past week is that she made me want to reread Grapes of Wrath and oh god, too many books. My life, so hard. I think Roland is just going to have to wait.