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Green Day :handshake: Farscape :handshake: Easter

this was already a very good idea, our culture succeeded with this one, we do not need a man jumping around in a full-body rabbit costume to make things more exciting

So while browsing conventions, I serendipitously discovered that there was a convention outside of Baltimore, and their guests of honor this year were none other than Ben Browder and Claudia Black! (Who played John and Aeryn, respectively, in Farscape.) Given that I'd only just gotten around to watching Farscape after twenty years, and there they were, it seemed like fate.

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( We're So Screwed: Fetal Attraction )


( We're So Screwed: Hot to Katratzi )
( We're So Screwed: La Bomba )

( Bad Timing )Anyway, four seasons! And "Peacekeeper Wars" is pretty brief so I'll probably wrap that up this weekend. :)

So today I went and browsed a couple new-to-me used bookstores a friend told me about, so now I have lots of assorted reading material to jump between amidst the lots of writing projects I am not jumping between and will possibly start Farscape again at some point just for another distraction? Anyway? Realistically I am not catching up on the FFN backlog but here are a couple fics I found on Ao3 (backdated probably) for the S3 era.

Portrait of the Warrior as a Young Boy: ~1300 words, Talyn PoV!
Redeem the Blood: ~2400 words. "Scorpius, a Peacekeeper, and a baby. No, not romance, not humor, and not fluff." It takes the over-the-top Scorpius backstory from episode 11 and makes it more compelling, even "humanizing" so-to-speak.

( Episode 5: Different Destinations )( Episode 6: Eat Me )

Aaaaand at the start of the new month this disappeared from Amazon Prime, gotta love the modern streaming system /o\ I'll probably cancel Prime until Wheel of Time comes back. I am a youngster who doesn't own any more permanent archival takes (I could afford them financially, just not a priority), so I'm probably going to put the blog on hiatus until further notice/I decide to invest in a new stream platform. Don't worry, I have lots more bad hot takes from book media etc. ;)

So, I've been delving into the deep past of FFN (and backdated Ao3 stuff) to find stories that were posted when Farscape was an ongoing fandom, to read stuff that's based on the same canon I'm caught up with. And I have a few recs, but first, some thoughts on the time-travel aspects:

• I made an effort to at least browse most things, if something was very long/not engaging/clearly unfinished/a crossover with a fandom I didn't know I probably didn't finish. But at least I was curious. (FFN didn't have a "Complete"/"In Progress" toggle when I joined in late 2005, I remember that one being added, so a lot of older stuff that predates that feature you just have to figure whether or not it's "complete.")
• it looks as if there was once more formatting allowed (different fonts, sizes, people posting their email addresses without it being censored), later updates I think removed those options but left the existing fics backwards-compatible, as long as you don't edit them anyway.
• there seems to be more (completed, not WIP) longfic, on average, than I'm used to. Obviously it'll vary a lot per fandom.
• there's also a lot of crack/songfic/baby's first fic, but then again, there are lots of baby's first fic in 2022 as well! I don't want to ding the overall quality just because it's old
• a lot of this was clearly crossposted from forums, and there's often some "you can archive this on your own site if you want, just give me credit, my e-mail is ..." The concept of a mega-archive like FFN and especially Ao3 wasn't as obvious as it feels now.
• anyway, feel free to ask for more specific recs if there's some particular theme/mood you're interested in, I took notes, but here were the overall standouts:

"Ask Me Tomorrow" by Kitsah. 29k words. Post-Season 1. John and Aeryn have a chance to go (back) to Earth, but even though it's the real Earth and not a simulation, things don't work out. Since the disappearance of Farscape, the astronaut program has shut down. There's a lot of Washington DC description, and the author clearly knows the city well--I recognized metro stops, etc. from my time there. This was impressive to me because this was written in early 2000, it's not like you could have just gone to Google Maps or Wikipedia to get the places right! So either they lived in DC at some point or are just very methodical. :)

"Between the Worlds" by Ann Brill White. 11k words. Early-S2. After the Gammak base stuff goes down, Aeryn and Zhaan invade John's memory to heal him. John/Aeryn, unsurprisingly, but it does justice to the John/Gilina relationship as well had brings some closure.

"By Any Means Necessary," also by Ann Brill White. 35k words (4 chapters). Post-S2. Zhaan's goddess resurrects Aeryn, but she's now Scorpius' prisoner and being manipulated by him. Lovely imagery of how the goddess metaphorically sees Moya and the crew, and the POV back on Moya of Zhaan checking in on the others (D'Argo being D'Argo, Pilot being Pilot, etc.) was well-done. Note, lots of dub-con.

Anyway, onwards to S3!