Snowflake challenge - day 2 - recs

Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create.

I thought I'd go way back and rec three fanworks from the 1990s, when I guess dinosaurs still roamed the earth? :D One vid (originally made on videotape!), and two novel-length stories (originally printed as zines!).

1) "Detachable Penis", by the Media Cannibals (and remastered by justacat). The Professionals, Bodie/Doyle. Though also about the enormous (lol) homoeroticism of rough-tough-macho-manly-gunly media in general.

Detachable Penis is a vid from 1997, made by members of the vidding collective Media Cannibals. It illustrates the story from the avant-garde King Missile song/monologue using clips from The Professionals, showing us what happens to Bodie and Doyle and their biiiig, haaaaard guns cocks guns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYsSIDDkwNk

"Detachable Penis - by Media Cannibals (1997)" (Watch on YouTube)

2) Chains of Being, by the_shoshanna. Space: Above and Beyond, Hawkes/McQueen.

Chains of Being is a slash novel from 1996, written for the cruelly short-lived science fiction TV show "Space: Above and Beyond". The novel explores the gradual maturation of Cooper Hawkes, a "tank" (clone), sentenced to serve in the (space) Marine Corps, and his growing connection to T.C. McQueen, his commanding officer, who it turns out is also a tank.

I always keep a copy of this novel on my phone, for re-reading and general morale. And I think it could just as easily be read as original science fiction--she does plenty of worldbuilding (and more than the show does, as the best fanworks do), and gets us settled into Hawkes's unusual POV--a grown man, but because of the cloning technology he's new to the world, with a lot to learn and assimilate. I love watching him figure things out, and build connections and relationships, especially of course the intimate relationship he eventually develops with McQueen.

Chains of Being (90836 words) by Shoshanna
Chapters: 8/8
Fandom: Space: Above and Beyond
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Cooper Hawkes/T. C. McQueen
Characters: Cooper Hawkes, T. C. McQueen, Shane Vansen, Vanessa Damphousse, Paul Wang, Nathan West
Summary:

Cooper Hawkes is an in-vitro in a world of natural-borns.

A Marine, because the judge sent him to the Corps instead of to jail.

Six years old, and caught up in the middle of a war.

Cooper has learned, painfully and well, that humans despise him, that human society rejects him: the nipple-neck, the wetbrain, the tank. That surrounded by his squadron he is still, and always, alone; that, whether in the crowded barracks of boot camp or the screaming fury of battle, none of them are like him, none are what he is. None of them are bound to him with chains of being.

Except one.

3) "Fumbling Towards Ecstasy", by Cherilyn & HG. The Fugitive (1993), Gerard/Kimble.

Fumbling Towards Ecstasy is a slash novel from 1997, written for the 1993 movie "The Fugitive". It follows the aftermath of the movie, with the now-exonerated Kimble receiving mysterious threats and Gerard taking him into protective custody.

It's case-plotty, but underscored all the time with the growing emotions of Kimble and Gerard, plus always fleshed out by Gerard's team. The tension between Richard and Sam builds and builds for the first half, but then having sex doesn't suddenly dissolve all the issues and make everything better--there's a good long time of them figuring out what the hell they're doing, and understanding themselves as a pair.

Fumbling Towards Ecstasy (131362 words) by Cherilyn, hgdoghouse
Chapters: 19/19
Fandom: The Fugitive (1993)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Samuel Gerard/Richard Kimble
Characters: Gerard, Kimble, Renfro, Poole, Newman, Biggs, OCs, Ritchie
Additional Tags: canon and OC characters of colour
Series: Part 1 of Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Summary:

Kimble has suffered various attacks, which neither the police or FBI are taking seriously.

Gerard takes them very seriously, and after Kimble narrowly escapes being shot, takes him into protective custody while he and his deputies investigate.