And the Ao3 invite has been claimed. Thanks, all.
I don't really have a security blanket... unless you count Mr. Pointy.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
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.
Calli - Jun 26, 2012 3:02:08 pm PDT #7832 of 10434
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Juliebird - Jun 26, 2012 3:11:53 pm PDT #7833 of 10434
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Gripe: I think Florence + the Machine are the bees knees. But please stop using her song lyrics for fic titles, m'kay?
Dana - Jun 26, 2012 3:55:55 pm PDT #7834 of 10434
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Titles are hard.
Juliebird - Jun 26, 2012 4:15:30 pm PDT #7835 of 10434
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
They are! But the bandwagon jumping onto F+tM is ridic.
Both of my fics are essentially song titles. But for one the song didn't come until after the title was chosen, and it ended up aligning with a Platters song, and the other was a Blonde Redhead song title where the lyrics lined up nicely. And I don't care if you get the reference (my other pet peeve is every author letting you know just where such and such mundane detail came from. If I can't get it from the fic, it's not relevant to me. It's like DVD commentary. If it didn't make it to the screen, or even past a deleted scene, it doesn't really count for me. The rest is personal gratification that I'm not concerned whether the reader gets my internal choices or not.
Consuela - Jun 26, 2012 5:10:03 pm PDT #7836 of 10434
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Okay, so I wrote a novel titled Carpetbaggers, about the Pevensies settling into Narnia. What comes after carpetbaggers? Expatriates? Colonists? Settlers? Frontiersmen? Reconstructors?
Zenkitty - Jun 26, 2012 5:24:39 pm PDT #7837 of 10434
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Pioneers? You need another folksy-sounding word!
Amy - Jun 26, 2012 5:32:37 pm PDT #7838 of 10434
Because books.
Outlanders could be cool, but it's sort of specific. I like Expatriates, too.
Typo Boy - Jun 26, 2012 5:49:46 pm PDT #7839 of 10434
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Okay, so I wrote a novel titled Carpetbaggers, about the Pevensies settling into Narnia.
Link?
Connie Neil - Jun 26, 2012 6:39:45 pm PDT #7840 of 10434
brillig
I've always wondered what happened to them between times. Peter was more than old enough to get married and have kids.
Consuela - Jun 26, 2012 8:18:14 pm PDT #7841 of 10434
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Typo: [link]
I've always wondered what happened to them between times. Peter was more than old enough to get married and have kids.
Yeah, that's something I need to deal with. I suspect there's a lot of arguing about the succession, and politics. Because in reality they would have wanted to secure the succession; on the other hand it probably wouldn't have occurred to them that all four of them would be lost simultaneously. And they were quite young, still, so what was the rush?
There's a certain school of thought in Narnia fandom, that the novels are not entirely reliable: basically that they are fairy-tale/children's story versions of something that was rather more difficult and complicated. Lewis never mentions the succession, and in fact really elides dealing with the fact that they left Narnia leaderless and possibly unprotected.
Pioneers doesn't really work, and Outlander is too much Diana Gabaldon's now. Expatriates, maybe, but I wouldn't mind something conveying people settling in and committing to the new place. Colonist doesn't work, either, though. Hmmm.