I tried to remember more details: -Cowboy maybe had glasses? Dark hair, skinny, not that tall? -I think there might have been another cowboy who was his specific antagonist, but I'm not sure -The general color scheme of the movie was kind of yellow. Or at least one of the final shots, outdoors. ... Yeah, that's not much!
I was/am in a humanities field, and I taught in the college honors program. (I'm trying to be more circumspect about information online, considering things like this - being vague here is not because of you personally, just so you know!)
GEN <3. I tend to like pairing stories more because I'm all about the non-familial love - especially how it intersects with, you know, reality - and I find that pairing stories (at least the good ones) tend to portray this with more nuance and depth (a lot of the gen I've found is.. I don't know, distant? Everyone is a closed-off world).
You know, I thought about this for a while! At first I sort of agreed - a significant fraction of the gen stories I like have a certain quality of distance between the reader and what's going on with respect to romantic/sexual relationships in the story, like this one (probably my favorite HP fic ever). But then I thought about other gen stories I've liked, like thesetwo, and I think those stories include pretty good insights into the romantic relationships featured, even though I would classify them as essentially gen because the stories focus on other things. (This is more true for the first of those two stories than the second. I link to HP stories here because I already have the recs/links on file!)
I read the four Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock BBC stories by Basingstoke at AO3 via your link and enjoyed them. (Black Books is my kryptonite, or whatever it is people say when they are totally weak for something. Bernard Black and Sherlock being related is an eerily plausible idea! Bernard is scary.) I half-heartedly tried poking around in people's bookmarks for similarly enjoyable gen in those fandoms, but didn't find anything. I have been contemplating this on and off for quite some time, but what is it about good gen that makes me want to 'ship the not-genetically-related characters in the relationship featured? I mean, when I have little to no interest in actually 'shipping them or reading shippy fic about them. (The latter conclusion reached after examining stories in that vein.) Platonic m/f and OT3 stories sometimes get me this way, too.
I have also been thinking about something vee_fic said: "The cruellest revenge I can think of to inflict on someone like Holmes is to ask him to solve the crimes chronicled on The Wire. The individual whodunnit is as nothing to the systems and structures of a struggling city's underbelly." (My own alienation from the whodunnit is probably one of the major reasons I've never been able to get into mystery serials in the Sherlock Holmes format - like House, for example. I think the reason Psych has gotten past my reservations is that in general it's so deeply unserious and hyperrealistic; usually, the characters might as well be living in a world made of brightly colored meringues, in terms of actual crimes and the solving thereof.)
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Date: 2010-11-01 10:51 pm (UTC)-Cowboy maybe had glasses? Dark hair, skinny, not that tall?
-I think there might have been another cowboy who was his specific antagonist, but I'm not sure
-The general color scheme of the movie was kind of yellow. Or at least one of the final shots, outdoors.
... Yeah, that's not much!
I was/am in a humanities field, and I taught in the college honors program. (I'm trying to be more circumspect about information online, considering things like this - being vague here is not because of you personally, just so you know!)
GEN <3. I tend to like pairing stories more because I'm all about the non-familial love - especially how it intersects with, you know, reality - and I find that pairing stories (at least the good ones) tend to portray this with more nuance and depth (a lot of the gen I've found is.. I don't know, distant? Everyone is a closed-off world).
You know, I thought about this for a while! At first I sort of agreed - a significant fraction of the gen stories I like have a certain quality of distance between the reader and what's going on with respect to romantic/sexual relationships in the story, like this one (probably my favorite HP fic ever). But then I thought about other gen stories I've liked, like these two, and I think those stories include pretty good insights into the romantic relationships featured, even though I would classify them as essentially gen because the stories focus on other things. (This is more true for the first of those two stories than the second. I link to HP stories here because I already have the recs/links on file!)
I read the four Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock BBC stories by Basingstoke at AO3 via your link and enjoyed them. (Black Books is my kryptonite, or whatever it is people say when they are totally weak for something. Bernard Black and Sherlock being related is an eerily plausible idea! Bernard is scary.) I half-heartedly tried poking around in people's bookmarks for similarly enjoyable gen in those fandoms, but didn't find anything. I have been contemplating this on and off for quite some time, but what is it about good gen that makes me want to 'ship the not-genetically-related characters in the relationship featured? I mean, when I have little to no interest in actually 'shipping them or reading shippy fic about them. (The latter conclusion reached after examining stories in that vein.) Platonic m/f and OT3 stories sometimes get me this way, too.
I have also been thinking about something vee_fic said: "The cruellest revenge I can think of to inflict on someone like Holmes is to ask him to solve the crimes chronicled on The Wire. The individual whodunnit is as nothing to the systems and structures of a struggling city's underbelly." (My own alienation from the whodunnit is probably one of the major reasons I've never been able to get into mystery serials in the Sherlock Holmes format - like House, for example. I think the reason Psych has gotten past my reservations is that in general it's so deeply unserious and hyperrealistic; usually, the characters might as well be living in a world made of brightly colored meringues, in terms of actual crimes and the solving thereof.)