Cheer in small fandoms

[marycrawford]

This is something that just won't happen in a massive fandom like SGA: someone friends you, you go to look and discover with disbelief and glee that they are writing in your fandom, OMG! About your favorite characters! Eeeee! You fall upon them, starving!

I'm talking about cyloran, who suddenly popped up on my fannish radar, and who is writing 100 Iolaus drabbles for drabbles100. Good drabbles, too - I particularly like The Sky Is Falling, and Just Hanging Around (scroll down a bit), with a deliciously defiant Iolaus, and Journey's End, which is one of the best descriptions of That Scene I've read.

Turns out cyloran is a HtLJ oldtimer - she has several challenge responses and two longer stories on the Iolausian Library. Brother's Keeper and The Peacock's Eye are classic Hercules & Iolaus stories, with that appealing mix of humor, banter and sword & sorcerous adventure that made the show so much fun.

The crowd cheered their delight. Equally pleased with himself, Iolaus offered his fans an elaborate bow and a wide grin that said, 'I meant to do that!'

"Eh-HEM," grumped a voice at his feet.

Iolaus looked down. Hercules, laying flat on his back on the ground, was covered from head to toe in flower petals.

"If you don't mind?"

(from Brother's Keeper)

"Have I ever mentioned you'd be a natural at horseshoes?" asked Iolaus as he critically observed the aftermath of his friend's throw.

"I tried it once," admitted Hercules as he dusted off his hands. "When I was six. It didn't go very well."

"What'd you do, throw the horseshoes too hard and break the pole?"

"Well, no. I sort of ... broke ... the horse."

(from Peacock's Eye)
I am hugely cheered that cyloran is here, and still writing, and working on more longer stories. Go encourage her! *eg*

Comments

[castalianspring.livejournal.com]

O.O

Dude. I had no idea Carolyn was still around at all, let alone on LJ. Those stories were some of my favorites waaaaaay back in the day. She's writing again? Whee!!

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

I know! And she says she's working on new stories. Yayy!

[ltlj.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool, I loved those stories.

[cyloran.livejournal.com]

Thank you. And I love your icons! *g*

[cyloran.livejournal.com]

Wow! *blushes* Thanks so much! And I'm thrilled to discover that I'm not alone. That there are still HTLJ fans out there! Yayness!! *bounces*

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

There are indeed, yay! And as you can see, they remember you. :-D

[cyloran.livejournal.com]

How amazing is that?! I was pretty certain no one would remember those fics from years ago. One of the few times I'm glad to be proven wrong! :)

[toliver.livejournal.com]

Oh, it is nice to see someone writing in HtLJ! *beams*

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

Who knows, HtLJ may be due for a second renaissance. :-)

[kseenaa.livejournal.com]

Well, well. What do you know. :-) Big yayness!

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

Double yay! And oo. With the great icon again.

[kseenaa.livejournal.com]

Well, it is one of my favorite Xena-icons, so... ;-D

[mickeymvt.livejournal.com]

Wheee! More stories! I've never read those before, must check them out. :)And those drabbles are so fab!:)

This...

appealing mix of humor, banter and sword & sorcerous adventure that made the show so much fun.

is one of the best descriptions ever of the show!

[marycrawford.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks! And yeah, definitely check out the stories, they're old favorites for me. I particularly like Peacock's Eye, which has Iolaus in a very tricky situation...