A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything.

Wash ,'The Message'


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.


SailAweigh - Jan 14, 2015 9:28:21 am PST #9294 of 10434
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Never understood that ship, either, Plei and Sherlock fic is about all I read anymore. It irks the heck out of me when a fic spends as much, or more, time on the Mycroft/Lestrade as it does the Sherlock/John. I feel with the mutual antipathy between Sherlock and Mycroft on the show neither would want to share the spotlight.


esse - Jan 14, 2015 9:30:10 am PST #9295 of 10434
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

::sneaks into thread::

I feel like someone should do an "entirely invented ship" ficathon. Clint/Coulson, Mycroft/Lestrade, Ori/anyone from the Hobbit...


P.M. Marc - Jan 14, 2015 9:34:00 am PST #9296 of 10434
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Clint/Coulson is weirdly sort of sneaking into the comics, because... why?????????????????????????????????????????

Ahem.

Types of fanfic I apparently read, based on today and yesterday:

  • Wow, this is amazing, and I am filled with a horrible combination of feels and envy. BRB, deleting everything I've ever written now.

  • This is really well written, so why isn't it working for me? It's working for everyone else, damn it!

  • You know, I thought this was great the first time I read it, in that other fandom, five years ago.

  • This idea was so promising, and I am so sad the execution betrayed it.

  • God, I want to be able to read this writer's native tongue.

  • This story is awful. The porn, however, is really uncomfortably hot. Thank fuck for private bookmarks.

  • Dear fucking lord, there is nothing about this that is good, why the hell am I still reading it, why?

  • ACK, WHERE THE FUCK DID THIS STONY COME FROM, YOU FUCKING FUCK! THAT WASN'T IN THE FUCKING TAGS! MAKE IT FUCKING GO THE FUCK AWAY! I HATE YOU! EWW! EWW! EWW! (I may have a strong NOTP. Like, Angel/Cordy strong.)


Dana - Jan 14, 2015 9:37:30 am PST #9297 of 10434
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

I feel like someone should do an "entirely invented ship" ficathon. Clint/Coulson, Mycroft/Lestrade, Ori/anyone from the Hobbit...

Markham/Stackhouse, Lorne/Parrish...


Dana - Jan 14, 2015 9:39:55 am PST #9298 of 10434
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

On another topic, there's a page for ita at Fanlore, which is OTW's fandom history wiki. If anyone with information wanted to add it to the page, that would be great. Though they've already got some information about her art, which is great.


esse - Jan 14, 2015 9:59:07 am PST #9299 of 10434
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

This story is awful. The porn, however, is really uncomfortably hot. Thank fuck for private bookmarks.

This one happens to me rather a lot. Clear history!

Markham/Stackhouse, Lorne/Parrish...

I feel like I have so many more examples but I am just spinning my wheels in the Hobbit for the forseeable future.


Betsy HP - Jan 14, 2015 10:07:57 am PST #9300 of 10434
If I only had a brain...

In the last three months, I have written:

  • The Thick of It wingfic
  • Mary Renault / TED talks mantisfuck voreworld.

My sense of shame: farther gone than Mae West's cherry.


Vonnie K - Jan 14, 2015 10:08:14 am PST #9301 of 10434
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

Markham/Stackhouse, Lorne/Parrish.

Ha! I have watched all of SGA and I have no idea who those people are. Well, I think I remember Lorne. The rest, not so much.

I might grumble at how these pairings almost always involve two white dudes, but then, there are a bunch of Darcy-centric fic in Avengers that involve various characters she's never met.


Connie Neil - Jan 14, 2015 10:17:10 am PST #9302 of 10434
brillig

Lorne and Parrish had one scene together, but it's spawned hundreds of fics. But they had great snarky interaction, which is more than enough for (some of) us.


Vonnie K - Jan 14, 2015 10:17:22 am PST #9303 of 10434
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

BTW, are all fandoms overrun with High School/College AUs these days or is that because all the shows I watch are on CW? It seems like these account for about the half the fic I encounter when I go trolling for fic randomly. (While the other half appears to be babyfic, like, I'd rather read a thousand poorly-written High School AUs.)