...so, having just gone to find one of the stories described above (shut up) (no, not the dolphin one) (look, fine, the Broke Straight Boys doing gay porn for cash one. Shut up) it turns out that one cannot read it. Because it's not available after all - she'd done a find & replace on the names, and it's getting published.
...which, you know - a lot of (RPS) AUs
do
ping me as being basically Original Fic with the actors' pictures on the front cover. Which seems to me rather a different exercise from 'straight' (RPS) fic? But then I've not read enough AUs or thought about them enough to be very clear on this.
In truth, I rather tend to suppose that [insert title of popular novel sequence published by well-known fanfic writer under her own name] happened as a result of her
Master and Commander
fic, since she's written some cracktastic AUs for that fandom, and her published work seems likely to have derived from that, yes?
...God, I must start trying to write things I can get published.
At a guess--because the people who have worked hard for years organizing and running the newsletters, challenges, and comms don't feel the same way, and well, they are the ones who have worked hard for years organizing and running the newsletters, challenges, and comms.
Well yes. That is why this whole discussion began with me venting here, in a general fanfiction thread where I sometimes come across people with similar opinions, and not with me barging into a thread on lj and bitching that they absolutely positively must change things now! Now! NOW!
...yeah, um, I'm pretty positive I didn't say that.
You didn't say that, Morgana said that. I folded my response into the one post.
In S1, from what SA would know being in it at the time, and what I dimly recall from other friends who were in it, when it was small, it made logistical sense for it to be grouped in one newsletter.
At that point we didn't have a newsletter. It was maybe twenty or thirty people going "It's like a Gilmore Girls/Dark Angel crossover! And they're from Texas! Yes!" I kind of miss those days.
Either way, from my perspective they've been just about inextricably linked from the beginning, and just as Supernatural fandom changed enough that I don't enjoy being there anymore, so too has the RPF fandom shifted into something I don't really recognize from its origins. But I doubt they're ever going to get split up.
That is why this whole discussion began with me venting here, in a general fanfiction thread where I sometimes come across people with similar opinions, and not with me barging into a thread on lj and bitching that they absolutely positively must change things now! Now!
Oh, totally understandable. It's just that, well, some of us have run newsletters or challenges in the past and/or are longtime fannish friends of some of the people running them now, which get us on the defensive side when structural change is mentioned as a desire.
The new gen-focus community just posted a huge list of Sam recs, btw. (I think they got something like 67 submissions?) It's looking like a good way to find stories I haven't seen before, and I give it a thumbs up to anyone looking for SPN to read. Well, gen SPN. Which is something like 95% of the SPN I read.
Which gen-focus community, Plei?
spngenlove, with possibly some combination of underscores I'm not recalling at the moment.
I like how spngenlove is grouping recs by genre and/or theme (e.g. "post-series Sam-centric").
Cool, thanks for the heads up.
surfacing briefly from 3-day orgy of nonstop SPN RPF crackfic featuring a cast of assorted chefs, hookers, teachers, schoolboys, mermaids, spies and God knows what else.
Holy crap. Why has nobody written a CWRPS (or whatever the hell it's called) version of
The Princess Bride
OR
Pirates of the Caribbean?
I have looked up Chad Michael Murray on Google and stared at him blankly, but I'm afraid every time he pops up as a character I see Owen Wilson.
In no way am I contemplating writing more RPS crackfic.
looks shifty
