The Dirty Energy Source

[heavensqueen]

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.

Comments

Re: Brooklyn Nine Nine

[(Anonymous)]

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

Re: Brooklyn Nine Nine

[(Anonymous)]

+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.)

Re: Brooklyn Nine Nine

[(Anonymous)]

I'm American, too, and I went through the exact same journey. I got my mother into the show and only partially because she buys DVD sets when she likes things. And that's the story of how I got season 2 of Miss Fisher on Blu-Ray.

But I guess it backfired on me because she's on vacation in Australia now and she somehow got invited to the set and I'm so jealous I could die.

Re: Brooklyn Nine Nine

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Oh my GOD coalie I'm jealous too now, that sounds amazing.

Re: Brooklyn Nine Nine

[(Anonymous)]

They're making Season Three after all?

::dies of squee::

Re: Brooklyn Nine Nine

[(Anonymous)]

It makes me so happy that the love is spreading overseas! I have a terrible cultural cringe habit of "It's Australian, you wouldn't have heard of it." Sometimes I really love being proved wrong.

Re: Brooklyn Nine Nine

[(Anonymous)]

I grew up watching Mystery! on PBS, which was where the US used to repackage all of those mystery costume dramas from the UK in the 80s and 90s. It has been ages since something new and good in that general vein came along, at least that I saw, but it's a type of show that is insanely mega-popular with everyone I know (i.e. the sort of crowd that rarely watches conventional US TV but loves art films with subtitles and all things costume drama).

I got pimped into this fandom by somebody posting DL links as the first season aired. All I could think was "Why on earth isn't PBS airing this?" And then they did and my parents and all of their friends got into Miss Fisher too. We don't get much Australian media here, but this one slotted into a large and enthusiastic pre-existing market.

Re: Brooklyn Nine Nine

[(Anonymous)]

I impulse bought the first season of Miss Fisher on DVD when it was at Costco (I guess a year or so before it hit Netflix?) and never looked back, although alas for me, I can't really get fannishly into TV shows. But god, it's such an enjoyable series. I should read the books.