====== Grumpy Sutcliff Nonnies ======

{{ http://i.imgur.com/Z3RTqGV.jpg|famous kneeling scene from The Eagle}}GSNs, or [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/31204.html?thread=139937508#t139937508|Grumpy Sutcliff Nonnies]] (sometimes //Gleeful// Sutcliff Nonnies), were a subset of memers who — especially for a while after the release of the 2011 film //The Eagle// (loooosely based on the 1954 novel //The Eagle of the Ninth// by Rosemary Sutcliff) — popped up in [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/31204.html?thread=140713188#t140713188|almost any thread]] in meme, [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/19265.html?thread=84208705#t84208705|defending book canon]] and fandom, [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/37289.html?thread=167745961#t167745961|recommending fics]], and enthusing about [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/25068.html?thread=109995756#t109995756|other]] [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/25068.html?thread=109995756#t109995756|Sutcliff]] books as well.

There was a [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/32491.html?thread=146620139#t146620139|not-so-secret handshake]], which often involved mentioning "[[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/31898.html?thread=144434842#t144434842|my historical fandom suffers from too many modern AUs]]." [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/32016.html?thread=145568528#t145568528|Other GSNs]] might have swooped in to sympathize, someone might have asked "[[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/32016.html?thread=146354448#t146354448|what's GSN]]?", and the [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/31498.html?thread=142646794#t142646794|thread sometimes turned into a drive-by GSN love-in]].

Topics that might have summoned a GSN included:

  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/25068.html?thread=109395180#t109395180|loyalty kink]]
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/30619.html?thread=137482139&|attractive prose]]
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/32016.html?thread=145567504&|semicolons]]
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/32491.html?thread=146611691#t146611691|scenery porn]]
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/27894.html?thread=122870006#t122870006|AUs]] (including [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/30100.html?thread=134870420#t134870420|coffeeshop AUs]], [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/32016.html?thread=146356752#t146356752|in-space AUs]])
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/31498.html?thread=142651914#t142651914|ATG (Any Two Guys) fic]]
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/28649.html?thread=126838761|(Charming)]] [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/31481.html?thread=141455097#t141455097|Potato]]
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/27894.html?thread=123574262#t123574262|canon power imbalance/slavery]]
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/27894.html?thread=122763766#t122763766|hurt/comfort]] (sometimes with [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/27501.html?thread=121932141#t121932141|the same character doing both the hurting and comforting]])
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/21470.html?thread=94825950|OT3s]]
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/22095.html?thread=99428687|childhood]] [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/29340.html?thread=131200412&|favorites]]
  * [[http://fail-fandomanon.livejournal.com/28884.html?thread=127843796|earliest slash ships]]

In recent years, the GSNs seem to have faded from meme.


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