FYI for all West Wing fanfic fans, Spitz the Cat has finally (after 10 months) added another chapter to her ongoing Joshua Monologues (I've linked to the NC-17 version). Probably the best AU Josh/Donna fanfic I've read.
Bar maid! Bring me stronger ale! And some plump, succulent babies to eat!
Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
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.
Kathy A - Jan 25, 2006 3:24:46 pm PST #1726 of 10434
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
brenda m - Jan 28, 2006 11:05:16 am PST #1727 of 10434
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Some kind of charming SGA CrackFic for your Saturday afternoon.
I think I've rarely had so much pure giddy fun in a fandom before.
Consuela - Jan 28, 2006 11:25:08 am PST #1728 of 10434
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Oh, that was hysterical.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 28, 2006 2:56:28 pm PST #1729 of 10434
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
What is it about SGA fandom that makes crackfic actually work as entertainment? I know that I'd be rolling my eyes if it were done with any other show's characters....
Betsy HP - Jan 28, 2006 3:30:00 pm PST #1730 of 10434
If I only had a brain...
I think it's the cheerful admission that yes, I'm on drugs, but isn't it fun?
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 28, 2006 6:24:46 pm PST #1731 of 10434
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Yet I don't like such things in Farscape fic. Though, then again, the actual show had stuff way more twisted than what fanfic authors can normally come up with.
All of you bitches out now! Crichton is mine.
This is for calling me Sparky. [whhhp-pshh]
And this is for "Fluffy". [whhhp-pshh]
And this is for "Buckwheat." [whhhp-pshh] Whatever that means.
Betsy HP - Jan 29, 2006 10:27:55 am PST #1732 of 10434
If I only had a brain...
Hmm. Maybe it's that nobody sane can have much reverence for the source material? (In the SGA case.)
Duck, run.
Nutty - Jan 29, 2006 11:05:47 am PST #1733 of 10434
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
A formal analysis of the mood-structure of hand-waving: two comparative cases. (Yeah, I don't know, but I get what you all are describing.)
Sounds like a good advanced literature paper, actually.
Consuela - Jan 29, 2006 11:57:09 am PST #1734 of 10434
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Came across a fantastic vid-analysis on the LJ vidding community. Complete with a response by someone who didn't get the point at all. Seems to think that one cannot have an opinion about a vid if one doesn't know the source. So I can't have an opinion on a story if I haven't watched the show? Huh.
Michele T. - Jan 29, 2006 5:31:12 pm PST #1735 of 10434
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
Well, on a technical level, of course that's dumb, but on a character/plot level I think fanfiction *is* different from vidding, and in ways that make me like vidding a lot less, in all honesty.
It seems to me that most vids just recapitulate the story of the source (movie vids, in particular, I mostly have found extremely dull or confusing, depending on whether or not I know the source text), or tell the story of the relationship the vidder likes across multiple episodes/instances. So there are plenty of very effective vids that are indeed totally dependent on your knowledge of the source, whereas fanfiction is more likely to ask "what if something completely different had happened?"
The vids I have liked have been ones that created some sort of radical disjunction (see, e.g., the shallot/Ces video for the Sharks!!1! challenge) and used the music to ask me to look at the source material in new ways. Most vids just use the music to emphasize some point about the source, which can be fun for an evening's entertainment, but there have been very very very few I've ever wanted to watch a second time. (And, yes, I've been walked through The Highlights of Vividcon two years in a row, by extremely knowledgeable vidders and vidding fans, so it's not a problem with the quality of the vids I've seen.)
As always, YBMV, but I can see where the person is coming from, even if they put it badly.