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[rusty_halo]

AAAHHHHH, if I open one more fic where Sharpe

* is a space captain a hundred years in the future

* is really an immortal and is sleeping with Methos and/or Duncan MacLeod

* was really a male whore sleeping with superior officers the whole time

* just needed to meet the Mary Sue of his dreams to be happy

* cries like a little girl at the slightest provocation

* thinks about nothing but sex and spends the entire Napoleonic wars plotting ways to sneak off privately with Patrick Harper

I'm going to kill someone!

Seriously, the proportion of badfic in this fandom is blowing my mind. Someone, please, help! There's got to be recs page, or a secret site of good fic, somewhere out there that I'm missing, right? Right???

(I've already been through the Sharpetorium and through ff.net and through several LJ communities.)

*deep breath*

Okay, maybe I'll get some work done instead.

Comments

[bookishwench.livejournal.com]

Out of curiousity, what fandom is this?

[rusty_halo.livejournal.com]

Sharpe. It's a series of books by Bernard Cornwell about a soldier in the Napoleonic wars named Richard Sharpe, who was raised from the ranks by Wellington and struggles to prove himself while not fitting in anywhere (too low-born for the officers, but with too much authority to fit in with the ranks). The books written earlier in the series are quite good.

It was made into a British TV series, with a laughable budget and writing that varies from good to goofy. But the most important thing about the TV series is that it stars the unbelievably gorgeous Sean Bean, who is frequently shirtless, often injured, has mega-chemistry with various men and women, and is always either passionately in love or passionately angry about something. Mmmm, Sean Bean.

[chase820.livejournal.com]

I share your pain. I experience the same problems finding decent Who fic. I was finally forced to write some myself, but one can't compose all the time, can one?

It would be so nice to let other people do the work sometimes, but if you have any taste at all, good fic in any fandom is always a treasure hunt. The less marquee the fandom, the more impossible the whole process becomes.

[rusty_halo.livejournal.com]

God, I know. I actually got so desperate while reading GoldenEye fic the other month that I wrote some of my own. Unfortunately I'm not much better than a badfic writer. *sigh*

We were SO SPOILED in Buffy fandom. Seriously. We had such an incredible amount of good fic. Looking back, I had no idea how rare that is.

[chase820.livejournal.com]

X-Files fandom was my first fandom, and it had even more well-written fanfiction than BtVS. I've never seen the like of it since, nor do I expect to.

[rusty_halo.livejournal.com]

Man, I so wish I'd known about the internet back then. I was a huge X-Files fanatic for the first four seasons or so, but I had no clue about fandom.

[chase820.livejournal.com]

It was one of the first fandoms to truly be birthed and nourished by the internet. We were all a little giddy over it, way back then. Such a feeling of community in such a short time! That might account for the strength of the fannish response.