That's one spunky little girl you've raised. I'm gonna eat her.

The Mayor ,'End of Days'


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 03, 2013 7:26:02 am PDT #8737 of 10434
Always Anti-fascist!

I'd say "Really sexy!" is good. "I just totally rubbed one out to this." much less good from a stranger.


Juliebird - Oct 15, 2013 4:39:42 pm PDT #8738 of 10434
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

I got all excited, there's a Night Vale fusion fic for the DCBB, but man, it's over 100,000 words long. I'm also disappointed that the art contains the fanon of the third eye on a specific character.


§ ita § - Oct 15, 2013 5:05:41 pm PDT #8739 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Cecil? Is it a spoiler to say he doesn't have three eyes?

You know canon is weird when...


Juliebird - Oct 15, 2013 5:22:30 pm PDT #8740 of 10434
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Canonically, I would say it's not a spoiler, but I can't say for sure regarding the fic.


Juliebird - Oct 16, 2013 11:26:11 am PDT #8741 of 10434
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

So that NV/SPN crossover is actually only 10,000 words, so I decided to give it a try.

So. Much. Navel-gazing. Lots of vagueness. I think I skimmed a quarter of the way through before the characters started interacting with other and using actual dialogue instead of just musing on possibilities and feelings and desires.


Juliebird - Oct 16, 2013 12:38:00 pm PDT #8742 of 10434
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

An older, heavily tattooed, broad shouldered, goateed, blonde man, dressed in typical biker gear sat with a younger, lesser-tattooed man that had a bandana tied over his hair with a number of bottles in front of them.

This particular fic is written almost entirely in this manner. IDEK. It's succinct? Cuz, y'know, that could have been a much larger paragraph . . .


§ ita § - Oct 16, 2013 12:56:08 pm PDT #8743 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Did "succinct" change meaning on me?


Juliebird - Oct 16, 2013 1:10:24 pm PDT #8744 of 10434
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

I meant that in the way that if the writer wanted to express all of those details, but in not such a weird way, it would have been wordier, with more sentences, and therefore less "succinct". The air quotes were there in spirit the first time around.


§ ita § - Oct 16, 2013 3:00:51 pm PDT #8745 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I think the author should consider the value of those details. I'm sleepier already.


§ ita § - Oct 20, 2013 12:30:12 pm PDT #8746 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Sometimes it's clear that it's not simply a matter of hitting F7.

The room was too small, that’s the first thing Castiel noticed when he pushed the wooden door open. It was to small for him, to small for two people.

With a sigh he doped his bags to the floor, looking at the beds on the right and left walls. One sported a maroon quilt and tan sheets, as well as a couple of pillows. The chest at the end of the bed was overflowing with clothes and other belongings. A poster for a band Castiel didn’t recognize hung on the wall. The bed to his left, his no doughtily was bare. No comforting pillows or blankets, no recognizable posters.

He sat on the edge of his bed, putting his hands over his pale face. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. He counted in his head until he got to 60, a minuet had past and he as okay, wasted he? He was still here, breathing, living. He probably did this to often; it was a way of keeping himself calm, put together.