Travers: Perhaps you'll favor us with a demonstration while we're here. Buffy: You mean, like, right now? 'Cause, already had my recommended daily dose of fights tonight.

'Potential'


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.


Katerina Bee - Jan 08, 2010 3:46:55 pm PST #6484 of 10434
Herding cats for fun

Yes she does! She has a dealer table packed with stuff that some have unkindly described as a garbage scow because it has a little bit of everything and then some.

She says there are diehard Sentinel lovers out there still writing stories about the guys.

Here's a link to one of her "FTS" stories, which should be accessed with caution if one is offended by poking fun at the Baby Blair trope.

What fun. I KNEW the Buffistaverse would intersect Jenny's slash fiction universe somewherese along the way.

Huhn. Weird things happen when I try to format that, so fuggedaboudit. Here 'tis:

[link]


SailAweigh - Jan 08, 2010 4:01:56 pm PST #6485 of 10434
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

I never caught the Sentinel when it was originally on, I've only stumbled across it as a permutation of crossovers with NCIS. There seems to be quite a few of those out there where Gibbs ends up being a sentinel and Tony his guide and of course they need Jim and Blair to train them. It's actually made me a little curious towards the program, I may have to see if I can find DVDs of it.


Dana - Jan 08, 2010 6:44:59 pm PST #6486 of 10434
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Yeah, Katerina, I totally know her, though she may not know me. In fact, shrift and I will be at a convention with her at the end of February.


Katerina Bee - Jan 09, 2010 11:51:48 am PST #6487 of 10434
Herding cats for fun

OMG. I'm actually jealous of her trip to LA now.

Just mention the Buffista connection and she'll totally understand.

Sail, if you want Sentinel stuff on DVD we can totally hook you up cause she has collections called "Sentinel & Stuff, Volumes 1 through I dunno"


SailAweigh - Jan 09, 2010 3:21:00 pm PST #6488 of 10434
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

I figure I'll just Netflix 'em, Katie. Otherwise, they'd probably sit in a pile somewhere and gather enough dust to cause mites to evolve into Presbyterians. With Netflix, there's some internal prompt to finally get the damn DVD back to the company so I can get another.


Consuela - Jan 10, 2010 8:54:09 am PST #6489 of 10434
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I think some Buffistas would appreciate this fan-comic. It's SPN meta, but certainly more broadly applicable.


Connie Neil - Jan 10, 2010 9:29:30 am PST #6490 of 10434
brillig

re: the comic

Way to be supportive, Presumed Husband.

Was that supposed to be amusing or a slam on women who play online?

addendum: Interesting juxtaposition since I got a review this morning for an SGA Christmas story, where the woman who read it said the story gave her hope for happy Christmases in the future after a particularly sucky one this year.


P.M. Marc - Jan 10, 2010 9:56:26 am PST #6491 of 10434
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I thought the comic felt heavy-handed and like it misplaced blame on TPTB.


Beverly - Jan 10, 2010 10:02:49 am PST #6492 of 10434
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

I interpreted the comic two ways. First as a slam on the SPN producers who okayed a script that ridiculed a segment of their fan base that helps keep them on the air, i.e., fandom.

Second, that within the confines and definitions of the "real world" what women's imaginations invent to keep them interested, invested, and inventively alive, and which spills into and fuels the "reality" of their lives, is viewed as a dirty secret, something which should or must be hidden from people in their lives who are supposed to know and support them. Or something which they should give up because their nearest and dearest disapprove.

Others may, probably have, gotten more or different impressions from the comic. It's certainly swept a segment of my flist with reaction and discussion.


Beverly - Jan 10, 2010 10:06:20 am PST #6493 of 10434
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

What TPTB, Plei? Showrunners? Specifically SPN staff? Or wider spectrum of blame?

My reaction wasn't as strongly focused on show staffing as it was on people in personal lives from whom one's involvement in fandom must be concealed. Highly subjective, admittedly.