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Do you want to make a spreadsheet about spreadsheets?
Do you still need to figure out what two other fandoms you should request beside the only one you really want fic for?
Or are you trolling ALL the letter posts for placeholders, just so you can write those people some nice, dry coal?

We want to know all about it.

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Dredd is a really epic movie for me. I saw it in IMAX though so that's part of it. Every time I rewatch it I get flashbacks to KARL URBAN'S ENORMOUSLY UNIMPRESSED MOUTH, lmao.

I recced this in the cinematography thread, but it's also slashy: Lawrence of Arabia. Seriously, give it a chance. They are both so incredible lovely, and their devotion to one another is breathtaking.

I also second (or third or fourth) Hot Fuzz. It's adorable, and probably the slashiest of the movies Pegg and Frost have made together (at least that I've seen). Shaun of the Dead's actually kind of slashy between them, too. Not as much, though.

The Fall (2006). Hands-down the most gorgeous movie I've ever seen.

I have three:

Agora (2009) - Hypatia of Alexandria has to deal with some serious shit and eventually gets murdered by a Christian mob, but she also spends huge chunks of this movie just hanging out on sailboats being a math dork.

Mozart's Sister (2010) - Nannerl Mozart trades porn with a nun and dresses up as a boy so she can go to music theory school. (Sadly, the movie ends when her horrible boyfriend dumps her and she burns all her compositions.)

Belle (2013) - Dido Elizabeth Belle sneaks around 18th century London with her abolitionist lawyer boyfriend, AND IT EVEN HAS A HAPPY ENDING!

Awww... I hope you'll write something for that fandom anyway!

Sometimes, Elodie just has to be cruel to be kind.

My best hint is to pay attention to all the little updates on what she's learning, don't just click through. You get a lot of "aha, that's what I should have known!" moments that way.

Also, don't eat the chocolates.

Most people do offer outs for their kinks, but when it's obvious they'd rather have the kink, I try to give it to them.

How is this the most popular (most requested/most offered, or close to it) fandom so far? Sitcom fandoms are never that popular- I think there were something like sixteen fics posted for yt last year, and that seemed wild to me at the time. What is going on?

Huge. It's set at a fat camp, so probably 40% of the cast is large women.

I think they probably haven't because he'd just sock up and write under a different name.

I think it's probably due to the diversity on the show as well as how shippy it gets sometimes. Also, it's short and easy to catch up with.

I'm wondering about Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries myself. I've never even HEARD of that show, and I'm usually aware of anything remotely popular in the fandom sphere. Where did it come from?

He's busy boning his velociraptor.

I had been considering How to get away with murder, but that looks way too well supplied with both offers and asks.

It's unusual for a sitcom to be the most requested, but its numbers aren't that odd:

In 2013, Parks & Rec was 32,44. In 2012, Parks & Rec was 24,40, and Community was 44,39.

DA

Wasn't Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries pimped pretty well last year? Also, it was added to US Netflix this year, which probably helped a lot.

Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983). Not a well-known film, but visually stunning, and did an amazing job of evoking the right atmosphere.

The first season of Miss Fisher is on Netflix. It's popular in certain circles for having a lead who is basically a female James Bond. Roaring 20s Australia, She's an independent detective who saves the day a lot, including saving the men, she's rich, she wears fabulous clothes, and she sleeps with the guy of the week without consequence. Her best friends are a plucky sidekick girl who is sweet as pie and the butch lesbian doctor.
In other words, it's fandom catnip.

The Life and Loves of a She-Devil -- the 1986 TV series, not that craptastic movie with Roseanne Barr. The series is also one of the most faithful adaptations of a book I've ever seen.

Miss Fisher is Australian. Maybe there are a lot of Australians signed up this year? I sure requested it. And the first season is now available in the US on Hulu, so I assume it is picking up fans overseas.

Hell, there is a Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Cluedo.

Appeal? It has het UST, lots of femslash potential (including a canon lesbian friend with wonderful tailored suits), family of choice, the only female protagonist I can think of who has as much guiltless hedonistic sex as possible without ever being shamed or punished for it, a fun setting (Melbourne in the 1920s) and great clothes. I mean, really great clothes. I mean, as I squee every time Phryne wears a new outfit, which is like seven times an episode.

<3

I think a lot of people picked it up during/after the spring episodes when most of the Jake/Amy developments were happening.

Taking a stab in the dark, are there dolls as well as webisodes and books?

If so, I have the same complaint, and I'm probably dropping my offer. If not... there's two of them.

I would have requested Check Please but it's a short webcomic about an adorable twinky gay hockey player. All the other fandoms I wanted, I wanted femslash, gen, or aliens.

Even if I got matched on one of my other fandoms, I have a sneaking suspicion that I still would have gotten Check Please fic.

I decided I didn't want Check Please that much after all. Someone else will request it.

+1 to all of the above except that I'm American, and when I found the show I basically tried to foist it upon every single one of my mystery/crime-show-loving friends to a resounding "but it's not on Netflix? how can I watch something that isn't on Netflix?"

(It's on Netflix now and I'm so glad. Not requesting, because I have no good prompts, but I am so looking forward to the fic that gets written.)

It's better be extremely clear about some things or you might get raptor/human babies fic.

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