How do people who write outside the Buffyverse refer to being Jossed?
Do I wish I was somebody else right now. Somebody not... married, not madly in love with a beautiful woman who can kill me with her pinkie!
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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.
Betsy HP - May 11, 2005 12:54:43 pm PDT #13 of 10431
If I only had a brain...
Dana - May 11, 2005 1:02:09 pm PDT #14 of 10431
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
It gets a fair amount of pan-fandom usage.
Gris - May 11, 2005 1:04:10 pm PDT #15 of 10431
Hey. New board.
What does that term mean, out of curiosity?
amych - May 11, 2005 1:06:43 pm PDT #16 of 10431
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
What does that term mean, out of curiosity?
You write a lovely fic about Spike's childhood as a street hoodlum. And then Joss comes along and reveals him to have been a pretentious if mediocre twit of a poet. Congratulations, your fic has been unconsensually fucked by canon!
(so named because Joss is a master of the fic-busting plot twist)
Gris - May 11, 2005 1:07:36 pm PDT #17 of 10431
Hey. New board.
Ah. Okay. So it's not really something that Joss, specifically, does bad.
EDIT: I bet any background fics written early on in "Lost" fandom were just screwed.
Connie Neil - May 11, 2005 1:14:40 pm PDT #18 of 10431
brillig
You write a lovely fic about Spike's childhood as a street hoodlum. And then Joss comes along and reveals him to have been a pretentious if mediocre twit of a poet.
Also, "What do you mean, Dru's his Sire! He said himself it was Angel!"
askye - May 11, 2005 1:21:33 pm PDT #19 of 10431
Thrive to spite them
I think it's pretty easy to figure out where in the series Lost fic were written.
Consuela - May 11, 2005 7:45:51 pm PDT #20 of 10431
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Sometimes in Farscape we would refer to it as "Kempered". I like the multisyllabicness of it. But just about everyone knows what "jossed" means.
Connie Neil - May 11, 2005 7:51:50 pm PDT #21 of 10431
brillig
Alternately, you can just mutter "Chris Carter" and shake your head, and everyone knows that you mean no continuity, plot lines that are never resolved, and character development that's abandoned whenever convenient. Though this gives you the leeway to write a story that proves how all that was just a cover for the *real* story.
P.M. Marc - May 16, 2005 12:53:50 am PDT #22 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
As I wait for the baby to wake up for a feeding, I've been entertaining myself with the random story link on BfA (after entertaining myself by writing DCU fic). I managed four stories before something really ghastly popped up, then hit another three or four just like it, before it gave me A is For..., which I somehow have no memory of reading before, but which is really pretty dang good.
Will have to send her a note mentioning that.
Anyone who hasn't read it, and likes Anya, should read it, on account of the aforementioned pretty dang good part.