Cool, thanks for the heads up.

Gen comm! YAY!

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

Why has nobody written a CWRPS (or whatever the hell it's called) version of The Princess Bride OR Pirates of the Caribbean?

I know I saw one where one of the Js was in the next PoTC.

I have not yet brought myself to read the mermaid crack, but I would so read those in a heartbeat.

The Mermaid crack was really quite charming - Splash, reworked. Although I think I'm much fonder of the Sabrina one.

In terms of crack RPF fic, have you read Chash's stuff [link] especially the Tractorbeam stories? [link]

She also wrote a Misha fic I think you might like [link]

On the non-rpf side, her Leverage stuff is quite good as well.

Owen Wilson is a hilarious mental substitute for Chad, who looks like a low-rent Justin Timberlake with dinnerplate-sized nipples.

I've read the Tractorbeam story (or at least the first) - I enjoyed it a lot, but I suspect I'd have enjoyed it more if I'd seen the TV show it's based on? But today I have read a Splash AU and a reworking of Tootsie. And there was a FANTASTIC spy one by fleshflutter that was like mainlining a whole season of Alias, only with added gay.

I have concluded that it's cracktastic AUs I'm enjoying, rather than RPF. Just random RPF that's recognisably about the actors does still squick me. (Which isn't to say I won't read it, but - mostly it squicks me.) But this whole cracktastic AU thing is like something else entirely - it's kind of like acting out a story with your Barbie dolls. Only, you know - awesomer. And especially cracktastic slash AUs, which are of course what I'm mostly looking at - it's fascinating what changes are wrought. I mean, I like the Sabrina fic more than the original movie. It actually makes more sense for the Linus character to be a closet case than to be an asexual workaholic.

So - whether the AUs are about real people or fictional people kind of doesn't matter. It's like suddenly I realise that the whole world can be crazy gay penguins, you know?

It's like suddenly I realise that the whole world can be crazy gay penguins, you know?

One of us! One of us!

But this whole cracktastic AU thing is like something else entirely - it's kind of like acting out a story with your Barbie dolls. Only, you know - awesomer.

Yes! And speaking of cracktastic AUs, one I learned about in your LJ, Fay: Gerard Way's (Vampire) Detective Agency. Oh, my heart! It's my favorite, right after the infamous Bandpires story.