Sweetie, we're crooks. If everything were right, we'd be in jail.

Wash ,'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.


erikaj - Oct 14, 2011 9:19:24 am PDT #7468 of 10434
Always Anti-fascist!

My god, is she *trying* to make people hate her? Because I'm a little fish, you know, and I don't fic that much anymore, but there are a lot of Law &Order drabbles and stuff that I'd be pissed if people treated like that.


Consuela - Oct 14, 2011 9:31:31 am PDT #7469 of 10434
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

My god, is she *trying* to make people hate her?

I think she's one of those people who consider themselves mavericks and thus not bound by the conventions/etiquette of the fannish community. She's got quite a lovely website, but she made the mistake of drawing a bunch of the stories from writers with a presence on LJ and long experience in fandom. If she'd stuck with the FFN crowd, I suspect nobody would ever have noticed.

She claims that the service she provides is for people who aren't fans and wouldn't know where to look for good stories, and now they can just download her PDFs. But in reality, what non-fans are going to look for fanfiction to begin with? There's no point to the exercise.


Consuela - Oct 19, 2011 7:48:12 pm PDT #7470 of 10434
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Man, fandom kills me.

This, for instance, is a Bad_penny report about Chuck Shurley, the writer from SPN, who became a ficwriter in Supernatural fandom, and then caused a wanksplosion.

It's SO AWESOME. It's not even really an SPN story, so much as it is a story about reality and writing and how the invisible people in our computers are actually real people too, even the ones we hate.


Atropa - Oct 20, 2011 12:33:40 pm PDT #7471 of 10434
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

That story was flat-out amazing. I wanted to click every user name and link.


Consuela - Oct 20, 2011 12:36:47 pm PDT #7472 of 10434
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I wanted to click every user name and link.

Me too! I was so disappointed that most of them were just links back to the post itself.

I hope she's getting lots of feedback for it; it's so creative.


Juliebird - Oct 20, 2011 1:26:11 pm PDT #7473 of 10434
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Just finished it! So good!

Then I got confused as I read the comments, because I thought it was still the fic...


DebetEsse - Oct 21, 2011 7:30:12 am PDT #7474 of 10434
Woe to the fucking wicked.

Julie is me.

Just to be clear, in a completely metaphorical sense.


Anne W. - Nov 06, 2011 12:19:58 pm PST #7475 of 10434
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

What are some active SPN fic comms on LJ other than sn_fic, supernaturalfic and spn_gen that would accept a long gen fic? To put it bluntly, I've got a case where I have had a hard time finding an audience for a story. The few comments I have received have been gushing (so I'm reasonably sure the story doesn't suck), but they've been few. Hearbreakingly few, and I don't know what to do about it.

I feel bad posting about this because it sounds all beggy and whiny, but the frustration has been building, so if I'm going to ask, this is the safest place to do so.


§ ita § - Nov 06, 2011 12:26:39 pm PST #7476 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Does it have any other angle? Is it pre-series? Hurt boys? Involve one or more angels?Anything like that?


Anne W. - Nov 06, 2011 12:32:01 pm PST #7477 of 10434
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

It's a mix of pre-series and S1/early S2, although it pulls from canon through S6. It's basically about how John learns about the plans for Sam (also, his time in and escape from Hell). It does involve angels to a degree. I did xpost at papawinchester.

Also, although it's technically gen, it's heavily John/Mary.