Your fandom weather report for the day: The sky is not falling, but you’ll want an umbrella, because we’ve got a heavy shitstorm settling in for the duration.
I have spent the entire day trying to come up with a coherent response. It’s such a massive topic that I don’t know where to begin - but coming on the heels of yesterday’s post about publishing & fanfiction (which was specifically about fanfic that gets the ‘serial numbers filed off’ before publishing), I felt an obligation to write a follow-up in the light of Amazon’s announcement.
You should probably read those links before you freak right the fuck out, because it’s totally okay to get outraged, here, but probably not for the reasons you think.
Now let’s dissect the likely reactions from all quarters and compare them to the actual facts:
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I’m a child of the 80s, and Top Gun came out when I was about 9 years old. I wasn’t allowed to watch it in the theater, but I think I managed to see it within about a year or so, and my sister and I were hooked. We were Tom Cruise fangirls, so much so my step-mom let us watch Cocktail even though there was - gasp! - sex in it. Anyway, all that is to say that by the time last year rolled around, I’d seen Top Gun so many times it may be etched into my brain. So when I heard Berlin’s Take My Breath Away on the radio in 2011, I sort of giggled and then posted a kinkmeme prompt with a Sherlock/Top Gun crossover, then promptly forgot about it.
Until last summer, when I heard it on the radio again, and promptly sat down and wrote the entire fusion, Sherlock as the movie Top Gun, in about a week.
Incidentally, the title is from Kenny Loggin’s Mighty Wings, so here’s some bonus music, with the added benefit of being the best fighter plane footage from the movie. I think it can help people visualize the dogfights in Across the Sky a bit better, if fighter planes weren’t a thing you ever spent time thinking about (dear God, why not?). I swear, I completely blame this movie for the serious hard-on I have for fighter pilots to this day. NNNNNGH.
(if it doesn’t show up on your dash properly, it’s that little grey box above this note. Sigh. I hate Tumblr sometimes.)
Love this fic. Love this song. Love this movie. Love the 80s!
*laughs* I live in the Philadelphia area, and my mother lives north of the city. When I drive home from visiting her, my route takes me down past the airport. When I’m on the bridge that’s close to where the planes make their landing approach, if I see that there’s a plane coming in, I give that little Tom Cruise fist-salute EVERY. TIME.
prompt: summer I have been remiss in drawing wee!Stiles and Scott, and this was the perfect excuse to do so. PLUS, I HAVE JUST BEEN HAVING A LOT OF BROTP FEELS LATELY, OK?
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Tanya, 40, fat, lives in Pennsylvania :) Likes: Police procedurals, cute animals, BBC programs, and the Oxford Comma
Fandoms: Teen Wolf, Sherlock (BBC), Avengers, X-Men, NCIS, Vampire Diaries, Flashpoint, Firefly, and many more! Ask me Stuff!