<Host1> NEW QUESTION: Is there any type of FanFic, character,

<Host1> pairing, whatever that you *really* dislike?

* Host1 gets ready to sheild his guest from flying fruit

<Hal> PairinHost4 - MSR, definately. Almost any three-way. And I don't like Sc/Sk either. Most slash pairs are fine.

<Hal> Though I don't often read M/K

<Hal> And I think everyone knows how I feel about Mulder in general <g>

<Guest 6> no--- please explain

<Host1> gosh, Hal, your tastes sond just like mine described that way!

<Host1> except for that last <g>

<Hal> Explain about M/K or about Mulder?

<Guest 6> mulder

<Hal> I don't really like Mulder very much, though I think his *character* is good for the show

<Hal> He's the hemi-semi-demi-Kirk

<Host1> you see him similar to Kirk?

<Hal> But Mulder gets on my nerves, makes me want to slap him

<Guest 2> Me too!

<Hal> Host1, I do.

<Host1> hmm...how's that?

<Hal> he has the same "do stupid thinHost4 that work out OK in the end" ability

* Guest 6 notes that Guest 2 offten spanks mulder in her stories

<Host1> oh, I see.

* Guest 1 wants to slap Mulder too but in entirely different ways.

* Host1 is with Guest 1, there.

<Hal> And something about his looks kind of creeps me out, I don't know why

* Guest 1 sets off in search of Guest 2 stories

<Guest 2> I'd happily spank Kirk too <g>

<Hal> but if I accidently come across a pic of DD in a magazine or something, I jump

<Guest 5> LOL!

<Hal> but I support the right of others to like Mulder!

* Host1 guides Hal to lay down on his couch and tell him all about this possible transference issue with Mulder...

<Hal> Maybe we should slash kirk and mulder

<Guest 2> Has that been done by anyone? Hal you must write it!

<Guest 1> oh god.. almost spewed Fresca on my keyboard.

<Hal> who would do whom? that's the question

<Guest 6> mulder is on the bottom... always

<Guest 1> It'd be a race to the bottom?

<Hal> About M/K though,

<Hal> I think the reason I don't usually read it is because M & K have so much on-screen chemistry that I don't always find the fic does it for me

*** Host1 changes topic to "Mulder/Kirk? Who's the bottom?"

<Hal> I have the same problem with Picard/Q

<Guest 2> Don't you think Skinner and Mulder have onscreen chemistry?

<Host3> Sorry guys... but the image of old Kirk and Mulder... <downs his Foster>

<Host1> well, folks, Hal needs to take a 2-minute intermission here....

<Hal> Nope, I'm back

<Hal> I do think M & Sk have chemistry, but it's more subtle

<Host1> NEW QUESTION: What do you find to be the hardest thing

<Host1> about writing and is writing slash harder than gen?

<Hal> somehow it translates to fic better for me

<Hal> The hardest thing about writing is sitting down and making myself type

*** Host1 changes topic to "When Slash is Hard..."

<Hal> The ideas are really easy, but actually doing the work is the worst

<Hal> I don't write gen, so I can't really answer that bit...

<Hal> If I have to write sex scenes, those are really difficult for me

<Guest 6> do you write in long hand and then type it... or straight to the computer

<Hal> I type straight, usually

<Host1> ah, yes - we found that out in the interim after we got the question...

<Hal> I envy people who do the sex easily - I always feel really awkward

<Hal> I do have a notebook for on the bus, etc

<Host1> so do the sex scenes often get written last?

<Guest 1> I find the sex easy, reatively, the hard part for me is the 'in character' interaction. That stuff is *so* easy to get wrong.

<Hal> I remember sitting on the bus after class, writing the bit about Martha Stewart fashioning a lovely ball gag from a bandana and a dog ball <g> it felt really kinky

<Host1> I find the dialog the easiest, and the sex the hardest!

<Guest 6> LOL hal

<Hal> I usually try to do the scenes in order

<Hal> but with First Light I did skip ahead and leave one of the sex bits for last

<Host1> Oh, Hal, I *love* the Martha Stewart image!

<Hal> With one Scully slash piece, Spontaneous Human Combustion, I deliberately wrote out of order

<Host1> do you outline first,k or just write it straight out?

<Guest 2> Do you find it easier to write girlslash or boyslash?

<Hal> dividing the piece into five parts with the sex in part three, then I wrote 1, 5, 2, 4, 3 -- trying to make the whole thing as yonic as possible <g>

<Hal> I outline longer pieces, which I don't write often

<Hal> I find boyslash easier, but both are fun

<Host1> Yes, we had a question on the Scully Slash topic waiting in the winHost4 here...let's let this one have it's turn, though.

<Hal> Scully is just harder to write and there are less options for slashing her

<Hal> Which question am I meant to be on, now? <g>

<Hal> by the way, everyone is being so nice - thank you!

<Host1> Well, I guess we're on the Scully slash one now...

<Hal> Okie

<Host1> I wanted to ask you about the Scully Slash archive - why and how you got it started.

<Hal> Scully slash is hard too because I find the sex harder - I don't enjoy the cruder terms for body parts, etc, so I have to be more subtle

*** Host1 changes topic to "Scully Can Have Fun, Too!"

<Hal> I didn't start any of the archives, I just maintain the Scully slash list one

<Hal> Tamy started the list - she should get all sorts of credit

<Hal> without the list, there wouldn't be the volume of Scully slash there is now

<Host4> What draws you to write Scully slash?

<Hal> I lust for Scully

<Hal> I suppose that's pretty basic <g>

<Hal> but also, wanting to explore a different area of fic

<Guest 2> Do you lust for Skinner too?

<Hal> Yes, for Skinner too

<Guest 2> And what about Mulder <G!>???

<Hal> But I can't read Sc/Sk because I think "get that man away from my Scully! Get that woman away from my Skinner!"

<Host4> lol

<Host1> LOL!

<Hal> Scully slash is a different sort of fanbase, for the most part

* Mulder grins

<Host1> I can't take Sc/Sk either, but for different reasons.

<Hal> Mulder lusts for Skinner. Is that what you meant, Guest 2? <eg>

<Guest 2> Yeah, but do you, Hal?! <G>

<Hal> God, no!

<Host1> Well, folks....

<Host1> this is now Hal's turn to pose some questions to you....so, Hal, what do you have for them?

<Hal> OK, the main thing I wondered about. I write a lot of pairinHost4 - which one is your favourite?

<Guest 1> Tuff one

<Guest 2> Skinner/Pendrell definitely, made in heaven!

<Host3> M/Sk - there can only be one (4 me)

<Hal> M/Sk doesn't count <g>

* Host1 says "ditto"

<Hal> I only use them for parody

<Guest 5> Um... of yours? Mulder/Frohike (really!) then Pendrell/Cort

* Host1 figuyred that, Hal, but we had to say it<g>!

<Guest 1> Pendrell/Courtenay is wonderfully dynamic, Skinner/Pendrell is sheer bliss, but of course you know I'll pick Spender/anybody.

<Host4> Since my default answer has been bagged, I'd say Pendrell/Court and your Scully stories

* Guest 3 likes Scully/Holly, especially Holly :-)

<Hal> Thanks, LZ, I love Holly too

* Mulder enjoyed your little snippet for Guest 2...

<Guest 3> Yes, she's the best there is for Scully, Hal

<Guest 1> 'Haunting of the Hoover Bldg,' really was fun... caught me guessing.

<Hal> Haunting was supposed to have a much larger scullyslash componant, but Mulder kind of took over

<Hal> What is it about Courtenay anyhow? It kind of took me by surprise that people wanted to read about an OC.

<Host1> Maybe partly because there aren't many good OC's out there?

<Guest 1> I think it, at least for me, it was they way Pendrell reacted to him and the fact that the sotry was really well written.

<Host4> For me, it's what he does to Pendrell, how he gets him to respond.

* Hal nods.

<Guest 5> I like trying to figure him out, and what he does to Pendrell too <g>

<Guest 1> We don't know much about Court, but Pendy finds him interesting, which makes him interesting to me.

<Hal> I'm trying to think of another question for you

<Guest 5> He's sort of sinister and I like bad guys...

<Host1> Are there any more questions out there for Hal? Please send them in to a host, and we'll get 'em out right away!

<Hal> Nobody asked me why I'm so weird - I though someone would <g>

<Guest 1> You're weird? hadn't noticed.

<Guest 3> Nobody's noticed, Hal :-)

<Hal> OK, here's a question for you. Is there an idea or a pairing you wish I'd write?

<Guest 5> Mulder/alien

<Guest 2> Is there anyone you haven't written <g>?

<Hal> Good idea!

<Guest 2> Skinner/Spender???

<Host1> NEW QUESTION:

<Host1> <Host1> what do you like to read other than fanfic?

<Guest 5> been thinking about that one for a while, you could pull it off!

<Hal> Other than fanfic...

*** Host2 changes topic to "What's on HAL's Bookshelf..."

<Hal> Mysteries - Ruth Rendell and Ngiao Marsh, lots of different sf

<Hal> Connie Willis

<Guest 2> Have you read any Sheri Tepper?

<Hal> Anything by Daniel Pinkwater

<Hal> No Tepper thus far

* Guest 6 loves tepper

<Hal> Non-fiction sometimes

<Guest 2> Guest 2 thinks Hal would like Tepper.

<Hal> I like books about the brain and how we think - read a good one about number sense

<Host1> ah, you ever read Sagan's "Broca's Brain"?

<Hal> No, but I like Sagan

* Guest 3 agrees with Guest 2. Tepper is the wonderful

<Hal> But I regret reading The Demon Haunted World the week before theXF movie came out.

<Host1> Oh, check it out - I read it as a kid, but I thinkit's still very current in it's info.

<Hal> His debunking of alien abduction stuff kind of spoiled thinHost4 for me :)

<Host1> ah...well, "Broca" isn't anything about ETs, so... ;^)

<Hal> I find movies influence me a lot too

<Host1> Yes? Like which ones?

<Hal> I see a lot of foreign films, indy movies

* Host1 has recently seen "Deliverance", inspired by something Host2 wrote.

<Host1> Oooh, Indiana Jones??

<Hal> LOL! not indy indy

* Host1 nudges Mulder and His Lady Zas

<Host1> aww ;^)

<Hal> Though my SO is watching Star Wars as we type

<guest 9> Indy=indepenent

* Guest 3 slaps Host1,No: Independent movies :-)

* Mulder smiles... hehe

<guest 9> have you seen the trailer for Phantom Meanace

<Hal> Have it on my hard drive

<guest 9> Can't wait to see it.

<guest 9> Love the psoter for it

<Host1> NEW QUESTION: If you could write anything at all, any

<Host1> fandom, any pairing, slash or gen, FanFic on not, what would you write?

<Hal> Right now I have a real desire to write Twin Peak slash

<guest 9> Blair/Jim, Ironhorse/Blackwood/, LaCroix/Nick

<Hal> I mean, what a slashy name : Twin Peaks?

<Host1> oh, yes!

<Host4> Who would you slash in Twin Peaks?

<Hal> I don't think I've ever seen such great bonding and chemistry as between Cooper and Truman

<Guest 1> Well unfortunately I have to go, I had a great time; thanks Hal, bye everyone.

* Host1 likes the Log Lady for some weird reason

* Hal huHost4 Guest 1.

<Guest 2> How about some nice Skinner/Cooper slash Hal? Pretty please!

<Hal> Skinner/Cooper?

* Hal ponders...

<Guest 2> Yeah. It'd be sooo sweet. Sergeeva likes the idea

* Guest 5 is stuck on Krycek/Cooper from Free Agents...

<Guest 2> That *was* nice <g>

<Hal> Don't you think Krycek's hair looked like Coopers?

<Hal> all slicked back so nicely

<Hal> Outside of fanfic, I'd like to write anything I could get paid for, really

<Hal> I'm not proud

<Hal> Do people *like* crossovers?

<Guest 6> yes

<Guest 5> I do

<Guest 3> yes, I do

<Guest 2> Yeah.

* Guest 4 does sometimes

<Host1> Yeah, I do

<Host1> I have to be at least a little familiar with the other show, though.

<Hal> anything from anybody?

<Guest 6> sometimes a good crossover can get you interested in another fandom

*** Host1 changes topic to "Thanks, Hal!!"

<Guest 6> that's how i found oz

<Guest 5> I love that show

<Guest 2> What is oz

<Guest 5> "Cakewalk" was awesome

<Guest 6> i'd love to see mulder in oz..... oz is a series on hbo about a prison... ozwald state pen

* Guest 5 doesn't think Mulder would last long in OZ

<Guest 2> It's nice to think of him in prison though :-) Or maybe I'm just a pervert.

* Hal rolls around laughing at Guest 2.

<Host2> THANKS HAL!

<Guest 6> if you're a perv.... you have lots of company

<Host2> Can we have a round of applause for our keynote speaker?

* Host4 stands and claps her hands

* Guest 2 Standing up clapping and shouting BRAVA!!!

* Guest 3 joins Host4 and applauds Hal

* Hal blushes and boww.

* Guest 4 applauds

<Guest 6> \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/

<Hal> Thanks everyone for being soooo nice!

<Guest 7> <clap> <clap> :)

* Host2 , Host1, Mulder and Host4 Shadows want to thank everyone for coming today. And a special thank you to our guest, Hal.

<Hal> I'm going to hang around to chitchat, but I'll slide off my stool now.

<Host3> Thank you, Hal, we had a splendid time "grilling you" <big grin> Thank you for being frank and elaborate with us!

* Host1 gives Hal one last big hug

* Hal hugs everyone.