That Train Has Sailed by rubberbutton (R)

[akamine_chan]

Fandom: DUE SOUTH
Pairing: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski
Length: ~2,500 words
Author on LJ: rubberbutton
Author Website: List of fiction
Why this must be read: because this is a sweet little story with all of the little details that I love so much. A clueless Ray, a domestic scene, a spider, some parrots, Chinese food and an explosion. Ray as he carefully picks his way around emotional land mines, not realizing that Fraser is two steps ahead of him, as always.

Well, I certainly hope you've managed to find at least one new thing to read in the due South fandom. Thanks for letting me drive this crazy van. Enjoy!



So now I’m standing in my own kitchen watching Fraser hunt through my cupboards in the vain hope he’ll find something worth cooking. All he’s got so far is a can of creamed corn, a bag of frozen vegetable and half a package of spaghetti, and I’m not sure I’m looking forward to dinner. He’s got his stupid red jacket off and he looks pretty silly in just an undershirt and those pants. And who thought those were going to strike fear into the hearts of hardened criminals, anyway? Still, they can’t totally hide the shape of his thighs while he squats down to dig around under the counters, and I’m rather enjoying watching his forearms flex as he pulls out a stack of pots and pans that just might have rusted together.

“You certainly have a fine assortment of cookware,” Fraser observes with a grunt.

“Yeah, Stella decided to buy all new when she left, I got to keep these.”

“Ah.” He makes a selection, returns the rest, and stands. “Would you mind washing this out, Ray? Mind the spider.”

I manage to not drop the pot and keep my shit together. I’m not too keen on spiders. Luckily I have dish soap on hand and I make like a fifties housewife while he looks for a can-opener. He finds one just as I finish evicting the spider.


That Train Has Sailed

Comments

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

You know, I really need to load some dS icons, don't I?

Anyway, I'm going to try and compile a searchable list of DS recommendations from Crash Van, in aid of those who are writing recommendations here, and post it in my journal- possibly as early as next week, certainly by the end of June. So the people writing recommendations may find themself with a bit wider field and maybe some older stories which everyone assumes have been recommended will see new eyes.

Julia, I hope. I could be wrong, and everything good and old will really be on the list.

[akamine_chan]

If you need help, let me know.

I had actually been toying with the idea myself, since I had been looking for authors who hadn't been recced before. Luckily, last month was the first month they switched from memories (which are easily searched) to tags (which are not).

Eventually, the tags are gonna get difficult to search...Currently, there are 328 recs in memories...

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

memories (which are easily searched) to tags (which are not).

That was my thought, too; it's quickly going to get unmanageable for the people writing recommendations, even though the tags are much more direct and browsable for a reader.

I was planning on pressing my fannish daughter into helping organize and proofread, but her summer job may entail more hours than we thought (which, good: college is being all kinds of expensive) and I don't want to press my beta into such a job in a fandom he doesn't share!

Julia, especially since I've been stuck on a fic since last August!

[akamine_chan]

Feel free to press me into helping with either the organization and/or proofreading.

[magician113.livejournal.com]

Excuse me for breaking in from Sentinel Land, but I wanted to do the same thing since i'm reccing for June. i was disappointed that they went to tags from memories for the same reason. So, until I figure out a better system, I went to Sentinel memories and highlighted them all and pasted them into an Excel spreadsheet and they very obediently went into separate cells that are easily searchable by title or author. Then, I just added the newly tagged ones as they came up. TS had over 300 stories. I did the same for the crossovers and the vids, all in separate columns so it would be easy to understand.

I don't care so much whether an author gets recced a second time, although I like it that I can rec someone who hasn't. I really didn't want to duplicate a story though.

Good luck and pardon the intrusion.

[akamine_chan]

...pardon the intrusion.

Oh, no, no, no intrusion. Just extra helpful-Sentinel-Land-dwelling-peoples. *g*

This will make it so much easier. Thank you. I wouldn't have occurred to me to do that. And once it's in Excel (or possibly an open-source version of it) it'll be easy-peasy to manipulate the data.

I'll defer to julia_here, since she was actually planning on doing it, whereas it was just a passing, that-would-be-nice thought on my part.

Thank you for the tip!

[magician113.livejournal.com]

My pleasure! I think you could put it into anything, a Word doc or even a .txt file. Any of them would be searchable. I just find that Excel or its equivalent is something that most people have and it can act like a database file, which a lot of people don't have. As you said, it's also easily manipulative and I've had no problem with hyperlinks being able to work in Excel. The memory links actually go to the original recommendation. I like clicking on them to find out who recced which story. But then, I can be a little obsessive *G*.

Good luck with it.