Poor Buffy. Your life resists all things average.

Willow ,'First Date'


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.


§ ita § - May 07, 2010 9:17:42 am PDT #6628 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Didn't Zimmer-Bradley have a relatively thriving fic community? Not that I've thought about it since the web took control, but in 'zines, and the like.


erikaj - May 07, 2010 9:26:09 am PDT #6629 of 10434
Always Anti-fascist!

Fay, well played. Also, in the words of the great, but fictional, Ari Gold, "Conversations end when one person calls another a douchebag, Ms. Gabaldon."(Who do I owe money to for that? Ellin? Or Piven, cause it wouldn't be half as funny if he didn't say it? Or maybe Julian Farino, for being a brilliant director or maybe just for looking and sounding exactly like one might expect a Julian Farino to look and sound, a rarity in this contradictory world?) God, Arizona is just, like, Asshole Ground Zero, lately isn't it? Sorry about that.(It's not the heat...it's the stupidity.) I'm not really a fan of her writing, but it kind of gave me a "local girl makes good" kick to know someone from this area hit it so big. But that was before I knew she was so humorless and a member of the Fun Police.


Matt the Bruins fan - May 07, 2010 9:33:10 am PDT #6630 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

I think there's been a lot of Interview with the Vampire fanfic over the years... perhaps Anne Rice drove the authors into hiding? [link]


Aims - May 07, 2010 9:43:09 am PDT #6631 of 10434
Shit's all sorts of different now.

Is it fanfic if you go through the book with a red pen?


Zenkitty - May 07, 2010 9:51:50 am PDT #6632 of 10434
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

No, but it's damn satisfying.


erikaj - May 07, 2010 9:55:09 am PDT #6633 of 10434
Always Anti-fascist!

I wonder if it would count under the ADA as a "reasonable accomodation" Seska?


le nubian - May 07, 2010 10:49:13 am PDT #6634 of 10434
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

Is it fanfic if you go through the book with a red pen?

this is so mean, but I love it.


brenda m - May 07, 2010 11:22:45 am PDT #6635 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

Didn't Zimmer-Bradley have a relatively thriving fic community? Not that I've thought about it since the web took control, but in 'zines, and the like.

Yes, until, IIRC, some fic writer tried to sue claiming MZB had lifted plot from one of her fics. @@.


Consuela - May 07, 2010 3:36:55 pm PDT #6636 of 10434
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

relatively thriving fic community?

I ... guess? I know there was one, of course, but I guess I don't know how big a relatively thriving zine community would be. It just seems like it would necessarily be orders of magnitude smaller than the internet-based communities I'm familiar with.

Of course I could be wrong.


§ ita § - May 07, 2010 4:22:59 pm PDT #6637 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

MZB had one of those published shared universe constructs. I don't know if it thrives now, but it was probably one of the first communities I was aware of, and I wasn't paying much attention. Certainly the first book-based one.