Melancholy Danes: A Slings & Arrows Community

Fic: ...A Sex Thing (Richard/Holly)
Hey, all! I only very recently had the good fortune of finding Slings & Arrows, binged on the first two seasons (awaiting the third), and fell in love. ...And kinda' had to do some Richard/Holly (because I have no restraint). I love and pity Richard probably a little more than I should.

Title: "...A Sex Thing"
Summary: Relationship/character piece on the "sex thing" that led Richard so far astray, fills in s1e06. Kinda' sad and sexy.
Warnings: Relatively graphic and fairly kinky het, unhealthy/abusive relationship, some language and beating on Richard.
Words: 1734
Spoilers: Season 1
First time writing for this fandom. Feedback is love!

( ...A Sex Thing )

Current Mood: anxious
Current Music: "I'll Fight," Wilco

fic: And Count Myself a King of Infinite Space
I hope that linking crossover fic is kosher! And apologies for any repetitions via crossposting.

Fandoms: Hard Core Logo/Slings & Arrows
Rating: R
Word count: 5713
Summary: Despite the music, despite the obvious patchwork lie that makes up the final cut, there is something raw and honest about this damn film, something -- something Geoffrey overused and abused, applied with indiscriminate disaster to his own life, something Shakespearean.
Spoilers: Spoilers like crazy for all of HCL and for a little s1 S&A.

And Count Myself a King of Infinite Space

This is posted to Dreamwidth, but if the spirit moves you to comment, I have both OpenID and anonymous commenting turned on. :)

Got my DVDs
Got my Slings & Arrows box set in the mail, and watched it all the way through. I haven't seen the show for a while, since it's not re-run anywhere. I'd forgotten how good it is. This has to be one of the best TV series ever made.
Just wanted to share with people who might agree.

Slings & Arrows prompts
I'm running a multi-fandom comment fic fest over at my Dreamwidth journal, and since it includes 25 Slings & Arrows prompts I wanted to come over here and invite y'all. OpenID and anonymous commenting are turned on, so you don't have to have a Dreamwidth account to play - and if you want one, I have a few invite codes in need of homes. Hope to see you comment ficcing over there!

Fic: Two unrelated stories, one Geoffrey/Darren and one Darren/Richard
Title: Grace and a cod-piece (Reference/Scene under discussion) (1000 words)
Fandom: Slings & Arrows (pre-series, no spoilers)
Summary: Shakespeare is full of dirty jokes, though not perhaps as full as Darren thinks it is.
Pairing: Geoffrey Tennant/Darren Nichols
Rating: Adult
Notes: Thanks to Carla for pre-reading. Written for Meresy's porn tag.

Story Here

and also

Title: Un travesti exécutif (400 words)
Fandom: Slings & Arrows (post-series, moderate spoiler)
Summary: It would offend the hell out of Richard's pride, but he asked for this.
Pairing: Darren Nichols/Richard Smith-Jones
Rating: Adult
Notes: This was almost titled "Everyone cries when they're." Thanks to for immoral support and astute suggestions.

Story Here

C6D Fic Exchange!
(

mergatrude asked that I post this here on her behalf)

midsummer2009, the C6D fic exchange of \o/

In previous years,

brooklinegirl ran a fic exchange for
movies/shows featuring actors who are part of the "six degrees of Due
South."

mergatrude is running the challenge this year. Introduction
and rules are in this post. Come and sign up to write Wilby
Wonderful or Men With Brooms fic! Hugh Dillon or Don McKellar fic!
(Or Hugh Dillon/Don McKellar fic!) Request that ReGenesis or Chasing
Rainbows story you've always wanted! It's All Canadians, All The
Time! \o/

Sign ups close June 1st, and assignments are handed out by
June 8th. Stories are posted over the weekend of August 7th
to 9th.

Please pimp this round your friends lists and circles. &hearts

[crossposted to a number of c6D comms]

S&A pic spam
I made a massive semi-introductory pic spam over here.

Images are from seasons 1 and 3, but no real spoilers beyond the first couple of episodes.

Screen caps are from here.

New fic: 'That Late I Led'
That Late I Led
Geoffrey (Geoffrey/Ellen) | NC-17ish | ~1,500 words
Life is small in the holding cell.

Link is to dreamwidth, but if you're inclined to comment, you can do so on livejournal, too.

S&A DVDs on sale!
S&A on sale at Deep Discount for $29.98 including shipping. For some reason they seem to think this is a British show as it's part of their "British Box Set Sale." Price is good through noon CST (CDT?) April 27th.

Audiofic
TITLE: I would rather be anywhere else than here today
AUTHOR: Spuffyduds
READER: FayJay
FORMAT: M4A (Mp3 also available at site)
DURATION: 23.34
PAIRING: Oliver/Geoffrey
EXCERPT:

“Another bourbon, “ Oliver says, searches for an appropriate Shakespearean epithet, comes up dry, tries for some sort of hearty Anglo-Saxon insult but can’t retrieve any of those either, and settles for, “You—not-nice person, you.”

“Look,” Neil says. “I’m not exactly supposed to be discouraging consumption. But, memory gaps? Losing your last six evenings? Not a happy signpost. More of a “This way to rehab, I’d turn back if I were you.”

“Do shut up.”

“Right,” Neil sighs, brings him another glass. “Got something you wanted to tell me about?”

Oliver looks around at the almost-empty bar, finds that he’s ensconced himself at the loneliest corner of it. And launches into the tale. Again, apparently.

Oops, never linked my Yuletide story here!
Pre-series; R-ish; Darren and Geoffrey (just barely Darren/Geoffrey); 1800 words.

Five Times Geoffrey Really Should Have Admitted that Darren is a Fucking Genius

Fic: "alt.shakespeare.burbage"
Title: alt.shakespeare.burbage
Pairing: None
Rating: PG
Notes: In which New Burbage discovers the Internet.

alt.shakespeare.burbage

[ficlet: "excels the quirks", rated PG.]
Title: excels the quirks
Author:

sionnain
Fandom: slings and arrows
Pairing: Geoffrey/Darren (probably not very obvious!)
Rating: PG for language
Word Count: 300
AN: Thanks to

inlovewithnight for the beta. The title is from Othello. This is set during 2X6, "Birnam Wood." Thanks to

brynnmck for finding me caps to answer all-important wardrobe questions! <3 This was written for the

ds_snippets Rapid Fire Challenge.

(excels the quirks).

FIC: picfor1000 Geoffrey/Darren fic, 1000 words, NC-17

Fandom: Slings and Arrows
Title: As Performance
Author:

llassah
Pairing: Geoffrey/Darren
Rating: NC-17
Prompt: Here
Notes: This takes place pre-series, when they were in Godspell together, living in a shared house. Darren has asthma, bad wallpaper and existential angst. Geoffrey has alcohol.

Here

LYRICS: Series Closing Theme
Peace, good lords and ladies! I am new to this community and, as such, I come bearing gifts: a transcript of the lyrics to the Series Closing Theme.

(Follow the fake lj-cut...)

FIC: Come Ruin or Rapture. Ellen, Geoffrey/Ellen. R.
Title: Come Ruin or Rapture
Author: atra (

atrata)
Characters/pairing: Ellen. Geoffrey. Oliver. Geoffrey/Ellen.
Rating: R
Length: ~7,600
Summary: Pre-series. Ellen returns to New Burbage, gets ambushed by Oliver, meets Geoffrey, drinks too much coffee, and really hates Romeo & Juliet.
A/N: Anyone who has spoken more than two words to me in the last, like, two months has heard about this story, and I need to thank everyone I know for not just killing me for being annoyingly obsessed. I especially need to thank

murklins, and I know I always do that, but I really mean it this time, because this story would be either unwritten or really terrible without her. She was much more than a beta reader and I don't know how she stands me.

tangleofthorns also did beta duty, thank god, because

murklins and I drove ourselves more than a little crazy and needed to walk away.

Link: Come Ruin or Rapture

fic: As Madmen Do, Jack/Kate.
Title: As Madmen Do.
Pairing: Jack/Kate.
Rating: soft R?
Warning: S2 spoilers.
Summary: Young, in love and in Hawaii. Originally written for

oxoniensis's porn battle.

The world feels shiny and new.

Recs?
Hi! I just got on LJ, mainly to follow fandom, and when I went looking for Slings and Arrows I stumbled on this community. I'll probably end up going through the archives, but there's so much to read I thought I would ask you all for somewhere to start. What stories would you recommend to a newbie? I like most about anything, het, slash, or gen. Thank you!

FIC: "That Man That Is Not Passion's Slave" (Slings and Arrows; Geoffrey/VARIOUS)
Hey, guys, recently a bunch of us wrote fic for

loneraven (whom you may know from her many brilliant Slings and Arrows stories) on the occasion of her birthday--including some S&A. Here's mine, and there's also a lovely story by

marymac over at

grimandancient.

Title: That Man That Is Not Passion's Slave
Author:

likethesun2
Genre: Het and slash, Geoffrey/various.
Rating and Warnings: Somewhere between PG-13 and R, for sex and language. Spoilers for the pilot.
Summary: “. . . Even Gielgud dabbled in Hamlet homoeroticism. It’s not… that interesting a story.”

"That Man That Is Not Passion's Slave"

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