#mcicioni

This is a love letter (and an accurate description of my pavlovian responses) to the fannish writings of @helenish, @astolat, @mcicioni-blog, @rageprufrock, @fabula-unica, @hopelessheathen , @eyebrowofdoom and other fantastic authors of many fandoms I’ve come across throughout the last 7 years. Thank you guys for your time, muse, talent and passion that brought me and scores of other people endless joy, squees, “my emotions!!!”, heartbreak, “hot damn”s, laughts and smiles, and what the hell not. You so rock.

(The guys and gals listed thought, I seriously adore. I've got into fandoms and ships because of them, and would gladly buy their original works in case they write professionally. What is the right way to ask your favorite fanfic author  “I love how you write, do you have a pen name and write books or articles outside fandoms, and how can I find them; just take my money and exited noises, please, please, please”? You see my dillema)

i have nothing to rec i’m just really excited you started The Get Down!!!!

Your posts were probably a big factor in my decision to finally watch it! I’d been intrigued and meaning to check it out for a while, but I’ve started seeing a little more of it on my dash lately (especially Rumi/Thor!) that bumped it up on my mental “Oh, yeah, I should watch that” list. (I’m trying to avoid spoilers now, but the knowledge that there is at some point a (seemingly adorable) canon gay ship is nice.)

geekboots replied to your post “I’m going to make a list of things I intend to find and watch.[[MOR]…”

hey have u herd of the Good the Bed and the Ugly its a cowboy movie

Oh, well heck! I’d better check that out! XD (Is it just Tuco and Blondie and a bed? Because...)

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LOVE every single one of your Western choices. Wrote a ficlet about Hour of the Gun (on AO3) and an ok fic about The Professionals (in a fanzine, not on AO3). Ben and Charlie is a little like Beyond the Law - silly plot, but so slashy (DAFT Italian title: Friend, stay away from me … a handspan at least).

The list of westerns came mainly from you, back in October or somewhere around there. (And I’ve been shamefully slow to watch them--I think The Big Gundown and The Magnificent Seven were also among those you mentioned, so at least I’ve now seen those!) “Friend, stay away from me … a handspan at least” -- wow, the Italian titles of everything are so great, lol. (A handspan is not very far away?!)

(psst, The Big Combo is a noir, not a western)

Oh, whoops. I’d just assumed, because Lee Van Cleef.

Other films: I would add Sanjuro to Yojimbo and The Hidden Fortress. If you like Shakespeare’s Macbeth, you will love Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood. Red Beard is quite slashy for Kurosawa, long but engaging. Not a samurai film (set in the 19th C), but Toshiro Mifune manages one scene of fight and mayhem.

I would also add The Defiant Ones to your Films of the Fifties and Seventies. Incredibly slashy, and very exciting.

Please, let’s discuss them as you watch them, especially the westerns.

P.S. Not a western, not slashy, but a great film: Denial (saw it twice in 4 days)