Another InstaRec and Another Meme. . . .

[alixtii]

. . . and another suitcase in another hall. Ahem. I've managed to close another of my hundreds of tabs, and I have another fic I want to pass on. Someone probably recced it to me, but since it's not Buffy many of you have probably not read it.

How Much String is in the World. Who Has It. By someinstant. This is DC comics fic, but you probably know as much canon as I do no matter who you are. Dick is a former Robin, now Nightwing; Tim is Robin; Bludhaven is this place where they fight crime and it is sort of like Gotham and sort of not.

But I don't care if you have to approach it as a piece of original fic; it's good enought that you'll love it anyway. It's not about the universe; it's about the emotion, recounted from a quasi-detached viewpoint that just works. The style and tone are reminiscent of wisdomeagle at her best, and that's not praise I'd just throw around. someinstant does things with language that are just gorgeous, taking that quirky diagonal approach to the reality of the emotion.

It's m/m, which I rarely ever read, and I'm in love.

Going to Hell in a LiveJournal Handbasket by ihavebadideas
Username
Favorite letter	~ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXyZ
Day you get sucked down to Hell:	November 28, 2044
Gets sucked with you:	nemo_gravis
Is your ferryman across the river Styx:	ladyvivien
Guides you through the place:	marenfic
Turns down the heat for you:	flurblewig
Argues your case for reinstatement to life:	liz_marcs
Is the guardian of your own, private Hell:	jadedcynic
Turns out to be Satan:	unfitforsociety
Turns out to be Satan's bitch:	moodfic
Performs the ritual to bring you back:	noelia_g
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Based on the lj interests lists of those who share my more unusual interests, the interests suggestion meme thinks I might be interested in
1. lxg score: 17
2. dorian gray score: 17
3. league of extraordinary gentlemen score: 16
4. hegel score: 16
5. wittgenstein score: 16
6. the league score: 15
7. mina harker score: 15
8. phenomenology score: 15
9. mr. edward hyde score: 14
10. tom sawyer score: 14
11. victorian literature score: 14
12. mina murray score: 14
13. heidegger score: 13
14. rupert giles score: 13
15. immortals score: 13
16. h.g. wells score: 13
17. comic book movies score: 13
18. allan quatermain score: 13
19. the invisible man score: 13
20. the beast score: 13

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You might want to compare these results to those of a few months ago. I still don't know whence the huge LXG thread in the results comes.

My "rare" interests used for the meme were: time enough for love, also sprach zarathustra, motifs, liberal catholicism, naomi wildman, roger wyndam-pryce, kaylee/mal, canon whores, world-as-myth, third order irony, edwardian literature, eris discordia, watchers' council, canon whoring, interdisciplinarity, mesektet, liberal theology, the chosen ones, theories of truth, recurring characters, james moriarty, metafic, noumena, futurefic, german idealism, intentional fallacy, death of the author, paratextuality, transcendental idealism, philosophy in literature, the immortal, dawn/giles, socialist literature, quentin travers, metatheatricality, dawn/ethan, social construction, ethan/dawn, the emh, mal/kaylee, antifoundationalism, metapoetics, metatextuality, antirealism,

Again, you might want to compare these results to those of a few months ago. Still no hint as to the source of the LXG results, other than a single reference to Moriarty.

And here's a similar meme that doesn't edit out the wildly popular answers:

Based on the lj interests lists of those who share my more unusual interests, the interests suggestion meme thinks I might be interested in
1. harry potter score: 48
2. reading score: 48
3. slash score: 41
4. music score: 40
5. fanfiction score: 36
6. poetry score: 36
7. movies score: 34
8. books score: 33
9. buffy the vampire slayer score: 30
10. shakespeare score: 28
11. anime score: 26
12. angel score: 25
13. fan fiction score: 24
14. sex score: 24
15. art score: 23
16. lord of the rings score: 23
17. oscar wilde score: 22
18. sarcasm score: 22
19. buffy score: 20
20. rain score: 20

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And here is the version from 3 months ago. What did I do between then and now to get it to suggest "rain" to me?

Comments

[someinstant.livejournal.com]

I saw you'd friended me, and came over here to nose around a little-- and now I'm totally blushing. Thank you so much for the kind words, and I'm thrilled you enjoyed the story.