The State of "The Sting" fandom

[giglet.livejournal.com]

"The Sting" is a grand movie, full of grifters, crooked cops, chases, poker, card tricks, fakeouts, colorful lingo, wonderful hats, and a carousel.

It also has Paul Newman and Robert Redford's powerful onscreen chemistry, as they play sincerely dishonest con men in love.

Until recently, there just wasn't much fic for "The Sting". Just two Yuletide stories: Dorinda's Buried Treasure Racket and nova_mist's Too Long in the Rain, plus sporadic entries at the Newman/Redford community newford.

But that has changed in the past month! Folks are actually writing and posting stories and making fanart for "The Sting"!

Recent slashy contributions:

• goluxexmachina made a Title card.
  
• michele659 posted The Shot Glass
  
• ticken posted The Beginning
  
• petronelle posted Tricks
  
• michele659 posted "The Guardian Angel"
  
• giglet posted Playing For

With all that going on, we needed a home for fic, so started the_sting_fic a new community for posting stories (or links to stories) based on the movie "The Sting". Art is also very welcome! Fic and art can be slash, het, or gen. Mostly it's been slash. Thus far at the comm, 14 stories have been linked or posted including

• giglet posted Unprodigal Son
  
• giglet posted Plot-only story
  
• petronelle posted How They Could Love
  
• giglet posted Henry Makes Him Wait
  
• ticken posted "Rallying the Troops
  
• ticken posted the Hook
  
• giglet posted Youth
  
• ticken posted Henry has Lonnegan's measure
  
• giglet posted Letters Home
  

If you've been thinking about writing drabbles or limericks or longer stories, or drawing, or screencapping, or vidding for "The Sting", then now is an excellent time to do it! We'd love to see you at the_sting_fic!

Slightly older, but still lovely contributions to the fandom:

• mbicons posted shareable icons.
  
• tinted_glass posted Sketch. And Another sketch!
  
• Pheonix243 posted a Panic At the Disco Vid
  
• CapitalRadioTwo posted a vid, With a little help from my friends.
  

Comments

[fangirlism]

Man I wish I'd known about Yuletide Treasure earlier.

31 people willing to write for Reaper? I thought there were less of us.

[giglet.livejournal.com]

Isn't Yuletide great? Now if only Guns of Navarone were an active fandom...

[fangirlism]

Never heard of it, but I think that's exactly your point.

OTOH, I don't see Reaper as an obscure fandom. New fandom, yes, but obscure not yet.

[giglet.livejournal.com]

I think you are right -- Reaper is still shiny. Like a patina, obscurity takes time.

Never heard of it

Have I got a rare fandom for you!
The Navarone Pimping Post (http://giglet.livejournal.com/261922.html)

and two stories:
Transit (http://giglet.livejournal.com/247426.html), aka, "The one with the blowjob."
and
On Crete (http://giglet.livejournal.com/251842.html)
aka, "the one that's just homosocial as hell."

[ggreenapple.livejournal.com]

excellent! :)
will definitely check these out.