adventures in plebefic

[cimorene]

Last night an idle delicious search prompted by Yuletide-born curiosity (there's a very amusing Mac & PC story in this year's Yuletide haul called Hanging Out, BFF, with a running joke about Vista security settings) showed me that there exists a plebe fandom for Mac/PC fic. There's usually badfic, now, but that doesn't mean there's always plebefic for everything. I didn't expect a community including 13-chapter epics, unintentionally funny authors' notes, and cut tags that look like "( -:¦:-•:*''''*:•.-:¦:-Let the Magic Begin-:¦:-•:*''''*:•-:¦:- )". When I followed a bookmark to the main community, that cut tag confronted me right on the main page, along with a high school AU and several pieces of fanart based on it. Also the line, "Ahh, Macintosh, now I finally have you in my grasp." The things you can find on the internet. I daren't look for the inevitable story about Mac and PC getting Ideas from slash about them. The creative use of USB ports was already a bit much for me.

Comments

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Wow, I wouldn't have expected that, either.

Speaking of Yuletide, I bookmarked a Jon/Stephen fic or two to read, but I'm so scared of that fandom thanks to you! XD

[cimness.livejournal.com]

I read them! Neither is badfic! One is a hilarious one about the fictional characters from The Colbert Report (and rather mis-sorted in my view. That hardly counts as RPS). The other is a kind of bittersweet nostalgic thing where not much happens and it's not all that slashy: not my cup of tea, but not badly written.

[vass]

I'm a veteran of that comm.

dysmorph's System Restore was pretty good: standard h/c + amnesia, only with computers. There's a link to all 13 parts on the front page of the comm. And margarks wrote this fluffy thing with the terrible anachronism in the first story, and also this serious noncon (with a sequel), and also sappy kidfic. And svilleficrecs wrote this Mac/Vista Guardian bdsm fic. Also: some of dysmorph's fanart.

Yeah, there are also things I don't click on unless I'm actually looking for badfic, but where isn't there?

I love the Mac/PC pairing because there's so much science fiction / cyberpunk potential. Not every story lives up to it. But yeah - I like the USB port thing - finding computer equivalents for human things, and anthropomorphic responses to computer things, is what drew me to Mac/PC.