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Three literary fandom recs
My top three favorites, of the stories I've read so far:
Moby Dick, Ishmael/Queequeg: Where There's a Whale There's a Way: or, How to Kiss a Harpooneer in Ten Leagues (5,751 words)
When Ishmael angsts over never having kissed his bosom friend Queequeg, the crew of the Pequod rally around his increasingly desperate efforts, serving up a cavalcade of terrible romcom clichés in their misguided attempts to find Ishmael his happily ever after. They’re serious about putting romcom back into Romanticism—and if there ain’t no extravagant musical number sung in the shadow of a breaching whale, then by Neptune it ain’t love.
Plato's Dialogues, Alcibiades/Aristophanes: ephemeral thing! do you address me? (1,641 words)
On the eve of the City Dionysia, Aristophanes receives a menacing visitor.
The War of the WorldsThe War of the Worlds: Secondary Infection (2,620 words)
The Martians have the very best of intentions. And they don't die. Not exactly.
(I also adored all THREE(!) gifts I got for my extremely rare fandoms -- two for 春光乍洩 | Happy Together (1997) and one for The Duke of Mount Deer (Hong Kong 1984). Recommended if anyone happens to be familiar with these canons. :D )
Moby Dick, Ishmael/Queequeg: Where There's a Whale There's a Way: or, How to Kiss a Harpooneer in Ten Leagues (5,751 words)
When Ishmael angsts over never having kissed his bosom friend Queequeg, the crew of the Pequod rally around his increasingly desperate efforts, serving up a cavalcade of terrible romcom clichés in their misguided attempts to find Ishmael his happily ever after. They’re serious about putting romcom back into Romanticism—and if there ain’t no extravagant musical number sung in the shadow of a breaching whale, then by Neptune it ain’t love.
Plato's Dialogues, Alcibiades/Aristophanes: ephemeral thing! do you address me? (1,641 words)
On the eve of the City Dionysia, Aristophanes receives a menacing visitor.
The War of the WorldsThe War of the Worlds: Secondary Infection (2,620 words)
The Martians have the very best of intentions. And they don't die. Not exactly.
(I also adored all THREE(!) gifts I got for my extremely rare fandoms -- two for 春光乍洩 | Happy Together (1997) and one for The Duke of Mount Deer (Hong Kong 1984). Recommended if anyone happens to be familiar with these canons. :D )