No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.

Early ,'Objects In Space'


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.


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.


Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 03, 2011 3:35:09 pm PST #6984 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

Fusion.


Dana - Feb 03, 2011 3:35:30 pm PST #6985 of 10434
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

There's a word for the type of AU where the characters from one show are swapped into the setting from another show.

Fusion.


Laga - Feb 03, 2011 3:37:46 pm PST #6986 of 10434
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

Thank-you! (was driving me batty)


§ ita § - Feb 03, 2011 4:27:01 pm PST #6987 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

When I was composing this post in my head, I was thinking that I liked AUs from canons with strong characters. But, then I realised I'd have no interest whatsoever in a Buffy AU. I like that universe as is, and I like those characters in that universe.

On the other hand, I can read Supernatural AUs until the cows come home, as long as people respect the same things about the characters and relationships that I do. I think it is the relationships, actually. The interactions between the characters. I like seeing that translated into different worlds. My enjoyment of a show like Buffy is a lot less about the relationships and more about the mythology and the characters' places in it.


Anne W. - Feb 03, 2011 5:19:54 pm PST #6988 of 10434
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

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.

Yeah, I'm not too fond of 'fixit' AUs, but there are times when a 'what if?' scenario can yield some interesting results.


askye - Feb 03, 2011 5:46:59 pm PST #6989 of 10434
Thrive to spite them

I don't like "fixit" AUs but I do like AUs in general. As long it feels the writer is staying true to the character I can read just about anything.


Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 03, 2011 6:22:53 pm PST #6990 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

Yeah, I'm not too fond of 'fixit' AUs, but there are times when a 'what if?' scenario can yield some interesting results.

True, you just reminded me that I loved "Snuffleupagus." But that what if? is a pretty big game changer.


§ ita § - Feb 03, 2011 6:31:46 pm PST #6991 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

It's weird how sometimes I get a "what if?" vibe off a fic, and sometimes it's a fixit. I don't know if it's a tone thing, or what. But if I put it into fixit beyond something truly simple and sappy (SAMULET!!!) I generally get pretty testy.