Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.

Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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.


esse - Jan 16, 2008 10:15:33 am PST #4999 of 10448
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

It's so beautiful to see barriers broken for other people. It reminds me of the halcyon days of my youth, before popslash systemically destroyed everything I thought I knew about myself and rebuilt me into something...well, if not better, then certainly hella more open-minded about fic. And pairings. And the 'cest. And wings, and AUs, and kink, and animorphing, and threesomes, and orgy-fic, and sex pollen, and, and, and.


Beverly - Jan 16, 2008 10:16:14 am PST #5000 of 10448
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

It's the other stuff like wingfic and rpf that I never thought I would read.

Well, this is more what I was talking about, actually. I still cringe at most Wincest, and especially parent/child.

I started out and am still, basically, a gen girl. In any fandom. Shenannigans are ancillary to good, plotty gen, for me. PWP is fun, and I do enjoy it, but gen remains a basic food group. Not grope, as I started to type.


shrift - Jan 16, 2008 10:21:58 am PST #5001 of 10448
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

My boundaries are mutable. I may be able to Go There in one fandom and not another. It all depends on the characters and how I relate to them.


Beverly - Jan 16, 2008 10:22:37 am PST #5002 of 10448
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Ooh, looka that, 5000!

SA, I hear you. But in my case, I was already really open-minded IRL about a lot of things that bore me in fic. Maybe because it's not new discovery for me. I have very few squicks, actually--there's more I don't read because of boredom than stuff I avoid due to squick.

open-minded about fic. And pairings. And the 'cest. And wings, and AUs, and kink, and animorphing, and threesomes, and orgy-fic, and sex pollen, and, and, and.

See, everything in there is basically fun. Except for the 'cest. I *saw* the River/Simon. I could just never go there. It just...no. Too much parent/child in that particular pairing.


Dana - Jan 16, 2008 10:22:51 am PST #5003 of 10448
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

It all depends on the characters and how I relate to them.

Except for sex pollen. There's always room for sex pollen.


Aims - Jan 16, 2008 10:23:28 am PST #5004 of 10448
Shit's all sorts of different now.

So many terms I have no idea what they mean.


Ailleann - Jan 16, 2008 10:24:49 am PST #5005 of 10448
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

Give it time, Aimee. Give it time.


Dana - Jan 16, 2008 10:26:37 am PST #5006 of 10448
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."

Sex pollen probably means exactly what you think it means.


Sophia Brooks - Jan 16, 2008 10:26:39 am PST #5007 of 10448
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Thank you Aimee!

Also, for some reason, the only thing I cannot read is wingfic. I'll read incest or rpf, but the wing thing just seems as crazy as the my little pony fic. I am sure, though, someday someone will post a great wingfic, and I will be sucked into that, too.


Aims - Jan 16, 2008 10:28:55 am PST #5008 of 10448
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Sex pollen probably means exactly what you think it means.

I have no idea what I think it means.

What is wingfic?

What is rpf?

Incest I know and, just ewww. In fact, I found a picture of James and Oliver Phelps. Oliver is holding up a sign that says, "TWINCEST IS WRONG" Made me chortle. Here it is: [link]