I gave her everything... jewels, beautiful dresses -- with beautiful girls in them.

Spike ,'Sleeper'


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.


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.


Connie Neil - May 07, 2010 5:07:26 pm PDT #6638 of 10434
brillig

Yeah, she encouraged people to write in the Darkover universe, a couple of collections got published.


Matt the Bruins fan - May 07, 2010 7:48:42 pm PDT #6639 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

Didn't she run a sort of sci-fi/fantasy writer commune back in the 70s and 80s?


§ ita § - May 07, 2010 8:37:30 pm PDT #6640 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

From wikipedia:

Bradley took an active role in science-fiction and fantasy fandom, promoting interaction with professional authors and publishers and making several important contributions to the subculture. In 1966, Bradley became a cofounder of the Society for Creative Anachronism, and is credited with coining the name of that group. In the 1970s, as part of the contemporary wave of enthusiasm for J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth, she wrote two short fanfic stories about Arwen and published them in chapbook format; one of them, "The Jewel of Arwen", also appeared in her professional anthology The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley (1985), although it was dropped from later reprints.

For many years, Bradley actively encouraged Darkover fan fiction and reprinted some of it in commercial Darkover anthologies, continuing to encourage submissions from unpublished authors, but this ended after a dispute with a fan over an unpublished Darkover novel of Bradley's that had similarities to some of the fan's stories. As a result, the novel remained unpublished, and Bradley demanded the cessation of all Darkover fan fiction.

Not sure how that worked out for her.

Bradley was also the editor of the long-running Sword and Sorceress anthology series, which encouraged submissions of fantasy stories featuring original and non-traditional heroines from young and upcoming authors. Although she particularly encouraged young female authors, she was not averse to including males in her anthologies. Mercedes Lackey was just one of many authors who first appeared in the anthologies. She also maintained a large family of writers at her home in Berkeley. Ms Bradley was editing the final Sword and Sorceress manuscript up until the week of her death.


P.M. Marc - May 11, 2010 7:03:30 am PDT #6641 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

The MZB thing is apparently a lot more complicated than the Official Tale.

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More comments in the entry, but I think this particular thread gets most of it.


§ ita § - May 17, 2010 7:02:52 pm PDT #6642 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I don't suppose anyone would know where I could find *good* Losers movie-verse fic (I'm not caught up in the comics yet and don't want to be spoiled)?

And it seems Cougar/Jensen is appealing to me. Curse them and their cuteness.