I'm doing all the classic fandoms, of course I can't leave out Inspector Spacetime!

The most common enemyships in IS fandom involve, not the recurring villains, but the Anti-Inspector - the inverted evil version of the Inspector who comes out as a result of being negatized. There's actually a lot of fandoms where this is an option for enemyship, whether it's a Mirrorverse AU counterpart or an actual evil clone or something more directly jekyll-and-hyde like the Anti-Inspector, but somehow this is the first time it's come up in my recs!

(On that note, today's Star Trek episode was The Enemy Within. WHAT was Spock's last line? Poor Janice, but is there *any way* to take Spock's last line with that smile, other than "evil Jim really turned me on"???)

The evil counterpart trope has a lot of possibility for shipping! It gives you a chance to let people team up who wouldn't otherwise - both with and against the evil version. It lets you see a different side of a character. It lets you create an opposite-good version of an evil character, a favorite of mine. You can have fun with moustaches. And it lets characters do things as their evil version that they would never do as their good version - even if they might have wanted to.

That one shows up a lot with the Anti-Inspector, especially since the Inspector is generally played as vaguely asexual, and the Anti-Inspector is played as... the opposite of that. So here's one of my favorite fics, featuring (as you probably guessed) that scene with Constable Reggie.

• Negatized (2414 words) by thingswithwings
  Fandom: Community, Inspector Spacetime
  Rating: Explicit
  Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  Relationships: Troy Barnes/Abed Nadir, Anti-Inspector/Constable Reggie
  Additional Tags: Consent Play, Rape Roleplay, Roleplay, Kink, Dreamatorium
  
  The Inspector is famously thought of as asexual; the Anti-Inspector is . . . not.

I posted a thing to AO3 last night! Don't get excited, it's not new fic, it's the Community werewolf AU I was working on last year. But all the '10 in 10' stuff got me looking at my older wips list, and I decided that the as-originally-planned first chapter would work as a finished fic if I cleaned it up a little. So here it is.

Mammal Ethology And Small Group Dynamics (4160 words) by melannen
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Community (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Troy Barnes, Abed Nadir, Britta Perry, Jeff Winger, Shirley Bennett, Annie Edison, Pierce Hawthorne
Additional Tags: Episode: s01e01 Pilot, Alternate Universe - Werewolf, Pack Dynamics, Inspirational Speeches
Summary:

"If we're going with the whole pack dynamics thing, I nominate Pierce for omega," Abed said.

While my sister was here, we went through and cleaned out a lot more of the Star Wars junk, so all that's left now fits on and around one bookshelf. (The junk we cleaned out is now sitting on the back porch, while we figure out what to do with it. I was in favor of just emailing the Star Toys museum about another mass donation, but sister wanted to see if anything was worth trying to sell, and meanwhile I'm trying to decide if I can bear to open all the mint-in-box action figures so I can play with them (and store them better), or just donate/sell them as mint in box, and also trying to convince our cousins to take it all.

...so uh anybody want any Star Wars junk?)

My sister gave me a list of the books we have that I haven't read that I should, starting with Jedi Apprentice, so I started with those.

You guys. Jedi Apprentice. I know that I've previously been told, when asked why Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan blew up into a giant fandom, that the reason was Jedi Apprentice, but somehow I was still assuming that most of it came from the fandom. NOT SO MUCH.

( Destiny! Soulbound! )

What I am saying is that these books are very silly, and I can't find any Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan on the AO3 that is quite as gay as them.

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I also had some crochet I needed to get done, so I decided to start watching Community. It is you guys's fault. Yes, you. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, Community people.

I am watching in silly mixed-up order, starting with the five legal free online streaming episodes (all from later in S3) and then at the beginning of S2. (since I have already read ALL THE FIC - and wow, Community people, that didn't take long, get on the ball there - and been to the con-txt panels, and been subjected to many people discussing it - I had already been spoiled, so that seemed like a good order to go in.) I'm about a third of the way through S2 now. Here are my comments:

1. JSYK, if somebody had told me that John Oliver had a brilliant recurring guest role on this show, I probably would have started watching two years ago. :P

( some more things that surprised me )

(There is nothing in the above about Troy and Abed and the general geek-friendliness and Annie and Britta and Pierce and Shirley and the Dean and postomdern magical realism and the episodes themselves and etc. because the fandom did prepare me adequately for how awesome all of that is. Yay!)

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Oh, so the last part of the Avengers-are-geeks fic went up on AO3 a few days ago, and so did that not!fic I posted on here a few months back, The One Where Tony Stark And Princess Leia Hook Up, since I was writing about Avengers and Star Wars anyway.

My writing has been going interesting places this year! I signed up for inkingitout with a wordcount total for the year, and it's the last half of July and I'm actually ahead by a comfortable margin!

The main thing I am learning about my writing is that writing hard things is hard, and writing silly crossovers is easy. So while I have a bunch of Hard Things that I am still pounding away at (including the Avengers fics I was talking about at con-txt, and some Homestuck things, and the next bit of the October megacrossover, and a couple of DF WIPs, yes, before you ask), it makes it easier if I am working on something silly at the same time, to turn to when all writing seems a pit of despair and failure.

Unfortunately once I let myself decide that I immediately got overrun with silly crossovers, so I need you guys to help me out.



...okay, I'll be honest, regardless of the poll, it's probably going to be the Avengers/Star Wars one, if only because it only needs about five hundred more words of snappy dialogue for a complete first draft. Unfortunately, despite being a silly crossover, I am filled with angst about what to do with it then.

( Completion and pairings )

(While I was working on this lettered wrote a much more coherent post on the topic of pairing tags, which covers the same ground, you should go read that instead.)