Yeah, I think it's Smallville maybe? I'm 90% sure it's from a Vividcon.
Kaylee: So, uh, how come you don't care where you're going? Book: 'Cause how you get there is the worthier part.
'Serenity'
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.
Dana - Jan 29, 2011 5:41:19 pm PST #6974 of 10434
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Anne W. - Feb 01, 2011 5:32:10 am PST #6975 of 10434
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Halfamoon has started up over on LJ. For the next two weeks, there will be fics, fanart, vids, recs, meta, etc. all focused on female characters. Very much worth checking out, IMO.
§ ita § - Feb 03, 2011 5:23:12 am PST #6976 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Another great Inception fanartist. Great angles and lighting and colouring.
Inception gets all the great artists.
Juliebird - Feb 03, 2011 2:39:19 pm PST #6977 of 10434
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
A thought niggling at the back of my head has been why AU's are so appealing to me where they are an automatic turn-off to others.
All I can think of is for me, they allow play and fresh story potential with characters I love without confusing canon. And all I can think about the dislike is that there is no canon. I love the characters, but sometimes I like to shake free of all the shit they're tied to, some of it poorly thought out. And I like to not get my fanon too confused with the canon, and AU's are a big help in that department. Also, AU's are an interesting place for the themes of canon to take place in a completely foreign setting, and sometimes, when done right, that's an interesting exercise and sometimes illuminating for the oringal source.
Anne W. - Feb 03, 2011 2:47:57 pm PST #6978 of 10434
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
AU's are an interesting place for the themes of canon to take place in a completely foreign setting, and sometimes, when done right, that's an interesting exercise and sometimes illuminating for the oringal source.
I rarely, rarely like AUs (reasons to follow), but there are a few I adore, and what you describe there is exactly why I like the ones I like.
For most of the series I follow, the world-building is as important to me as the characters, so removing that aspect of a source can easily kill the appeal. With something like Avatar: the Last Airbender, the world and the different cultures are such an integral part of why I enjoy the series that something like a high school or band AU does not appeal. On the other hand, I could see Supernatural translating into, say, a Revolutionary War AU in a way I would find appealing.
Cass - Feb 03, 2011 2:49:23 pm PST #6979 of 10434
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
And all I can think about the dislike is that there is no canon.
Well, some characters really need their 'verse to work, for me. Frasier and Niles in the Supernatural world was hysterical and cracktastic and I loved it but it wasn't the Cranes on their show. Making characters work outside of their world without it going as pure crack (nothing wrong but I think not what you are discussing) doesn't always work.
Then there is the my hed iz pastede on yay effect which happens so much more often then not when I try and read AUs. It's like an OC, but the author didn't want to say so.
And then there are AUs that are my favorite things to read and reread and reread forever. But there are so many AUs that I see and I will never click. They just don't appeal.
Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 03, 2011 3:21:54 pm PST #6980 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 tend to dislike AUs where they diverge from canon over specific peeves of the authors, like a character they dislike having died (or the reverse), but are otherwise in the same basic setting. But wildly different settings/plots with the familiar characters transplanted into them seem to suit me better. "Guns and Neuroses" was a sterling example of how well that can work.
Juliebird - Feb 03, 2011 3:27:19 pm PST #6981 of 10434
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I've read some lovely AU's and yet there was one character the author obviously disliked and turned them, wildly OOC, into the most heinous villian, when they'd been a canon good guy, and I just don't get it.
Cass - Feb 03, 2011 3:32:26 pm PST #6982 of 10434
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
and I just don't get it.
I'm guessing the show on tv isn't the show they want, so they wrote their version. And, hey, more power to those people if they want to write their AU their way.
But I think that's why they often don't work for me. If I don't like something, I am more likely to slowly just wander away from it. I can see fix-its for an ep or so, but once you are changing the story, well, you're changing the story.
Flight of fancy things where it's people talking and "oooh, what if Char A were in Plot B or Story C" are excellent when they work outside of their circle but I think you usually have to be in on the original joke. Which is what fandom can be.
Laga - Feb 03, 2011 3:34:02 pm PST #6983 of 10434
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
There's a word for the type of AU where the characters from one show are swapped into the setting from another show. (Like the Frasier/SPN one which I loved.) But I forget what it is.
I'm not sure I've read an AU that wasn't of this type. I heard of a good one that was SPN in the old west but I forgot to click the link and lost it.