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Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
§ ita § - May 24, 2005 9:43:45 am PDT #102 of 10431
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
askye - May 24, 2005 9:46:28 am PDT #103 of 10431
Thrive to spite them
I don't really have a problem with pairing characters between the jossverse (well, except crossing over buffy or angel with firefly, that bugs) but it can make me roll my eyes. Depends on what the set up is.
However for the most part I have no problem with characters from other shows being paired up together. My exceptions are:
any of the vampire universes (Anita Blake, Dracula, Buffy, Forever Knight) being crossed over. The rules for vampires are so different that writers have to come up with convulated ways to make them mesh. Well, if it was a PWP then I wouldn't care, but the stories with a plot bug.
and, characters played by the same actor being crossed over into the various shows and movies.
Dana - May 24, 2005 9:49:58 am PDT #104 of 10431
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
You could stick Sark in there too. Is anyone sensing a theme?
And Faith.
§ ita § - May 24, 2005 9:51:56 am PDT #105 of 10431
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
characters played by the same actor being crossed over into the various shows and movies
I vaguely recall enjoying a Manchild/Buffy fic -- but admit that the idea is funniest to me when the resemblance is no never mind.
Jars - May 24, 2005 9:56:47 am PDT #106 of 10431
Okay, so, if anyone wrote a story with Methos, Lex, Krycek, Sark and Faith, there'd be some kind of quantum space collapse thingy and fan fiction would cease to exist. Or something.
amych - May 24, 2005 10:12:33 am PDT #107 of 10431
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Okay, so, if anyone wrote a story with Methos, Lex, Krycek, Sark and Faith, there'd be some kind of quantum space collapse thingy and fan fiction would cease to exist.
Sadly, no. They'd just post it to all the lists for all 5 fandoms and then whine when they got bad fb.
Steph L. - May 24, 2005 11:03:28 am PDT #108 of 10431
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
any of the vampire universes (Anita Blake, Dracula, Buffy, Forever Knight) being crossed over. The rules for vampires are so different that writers have to come up with convulated ways to make them mesh.
Have you read Connie's BTVS/Anita Blake fic? It's short (maybe a ficlet) and funny as hell, because of all the conflicting vampire rules.
P.M. Marc - May 24, 2005 11:35:51 am PDT #109 of 10431
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
I vaguely recall enjoying a Manchild/Buffy fic -- but admit that the idea is funniest to me when the resemblance is no never mind.
Victor wrote one, twisting the Patty Duke Show identical cousins thang. I seem to recall it were keen.
Okay, so, if anyone wrote a story with Methos, Lex, Krycek, Sark and Faith, there'd be some kind of quantum space collapse thingy and fan fiction would cease to exist. Or something.
A long time ago, when I was first writing, I decided it would be fun to write something where all the slashy hotties wound up naked in a field, shamelessly ripping off Riverworld, except without the baldness. (Except for Lex, mind. He was still bald.)
Never finished it, but it was fun writing while it lasted.
askye - May 24, 2005 11:39:12 am PDT #110 of 10431
Thrive to spite them
See, Connie's story is good and funny.
It's the stories that earnestly try to wank the rules to make the two universes meet.
Anne W. - May 24, 2005 11:48:53 am PDT #111 of 10431
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
It's the stories that earnestly try to wank the rules to make the two universes meet.
If it's done badly, or simply to get two likely victims in bed together, or if character bashing is a prime motivator (parody doesn't count), then yeah, it can suck.
OTOH, I love crossovers that find the story potential in the area where the two universes overlap. This one is a favorite, as is this.