Buffy! If I wanted to fight, you could tell by the being dead already.

Glory ,'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.


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fan fiction and reprinted some of it in commercial Darkover anthologies, continuing to encourage submissions from unpublished authors, but this ended after a dispute with a fan over an unpublished Darkover novel of Bradley's that had similarities to some of the fan's stories. As a result, the novel remained unpublished, and Bradley demanded the cessation of all Darkover fan fiction.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


Beverly - May 17, 2010 10:31:40 pm PDT #6643 of 10434
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

nilchance on LJ has done a couple, ita. Mostly from the comic, rather than the movie.


§ ita § - May 18, 2010 6:32:22 am PDT #6644 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Nilchance is the only good person I've read so far. Her kitten!Jensen is ridiculously cute crack.


Jars - May 19, 2010 11:02:42 am PDT #6645 of 10434

Has anyone come across any Cameron/Clegg yet? It's not that I particularly want to read it. More that I'd like to know if it exists or if I'm just wrong inside.


Dana - May 19, 2010 11:03:38 am PDT #6646 of 10434
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Of course it exists. Not that I've seen it. But the answer to that question is always yes.


§ ita § - May 19, 2010 11:15:23 am PDT #6647 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Rule 34.

Ah, the link is to xkcd, not actual RPS.