Fay, you terrible woman. Do you even *watch* Alias, or is this just general principle taunting?
No, no, no, sir. No more chick pit for you. Come on.
Riley ,'Lessons'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Dana - Sep 19, 2002 2:09:10 pm PDT #22 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
esse - Sep 19, 2002 2:17:00 pm PDT #23 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
I'd, uh, help you. If you wanted to. Set up a site, that is.
Because there's gen and het too, damn it!
shrift - Sep 19, 2002 2:18:37 pm PDT #24 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Well, there's the Krycek/Skinner archive over on RatB, the Skinner/Krycek Slash Archive, and Warm Thoughts, a Krycek/Skinner e-zine.
Dana - Sep 19, 2002 2:21:18 pm PDT #25 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
The thing is, there are three decent-sized archives. But Credit Dauphine's announced it's shutting down (no idea why), and the other two haven't been updated since January and April.
Fay - Sep 19, 2002 2:22:47 pm PDT #26 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I've seen a couple of episodes - enough to wish I'd started watching it when Sky One first aired it, but luckily Channel 4 (terrestrial telly) have just started screening it, so I caught most of the pilot episode last week. I've also seen the Oh My God!!!! episode involving the Xanderish character, and the everything-suddenly-goes-X-Filesish-and-isn't-that-Maggie-Walsh episode.
But yeah, it's pretty much general principles taunting. *g*
Also? Thanks SO much for the link, you doll. I've found one Balconyfic immediately, which was just enough to have me yelling "no, not like that you fool!" - so I may just have to pen something fast and dirty for my own satisfaction. (Er. Which really sounded pornier than I meant, but I guess that's appropriate.)
Can I just add my astonishment at the fact that The Basement boasts an AU piece of Mulder/Skinner/Krycek entitled "Apprentice Wizard and the Unicorn 2: The Grand Wizard meets Prince Alex". Suddenly I'm starting to see where the writers-of-disparaging-articles get their whacky notions about this fanfic business. (Not to say this is a bad story. It may be the greatest piece of writing in the history of literature - I didn't read it. But that's quite a title.)
Which reminds me - today's lecture on teaching literature (which I'm SO looking forward to) included a splendid ten minute section in which the lecturer read us a book called "The True Story of The Three Little Pigs", or something along those lines. Fairy Tale fanfic from the Big Bad Wolf's POV - nothing more, nothing less. Fanfiction.
Fay - Sep 19, 2002 2:35:25 pm PDT #27 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
[stumbling back, blinking]
Well, I think I can say with some justification that the aforementioned AU reads very much like something that's entitled "Apprentice Wizard and the Unicorn 2: The Grand Wizard meets Prince Alex".
Connie Neil - Sep 19, 2002 2:35:46 pm PDT #28 of 10000
brillig
FayJay, if you want the quintessential X-Files fic, read the Iolokus series by Rivka and Mustang Sally. WARNING: this goes into some damned weird freaky places and graphic unhappy sex seems to be their rason d'etre. But the last two sections of the story are plot-ful, and nifty and frequently funny and the Gunmen are lovely, and if your psyche is up to it you won't regret reading it.
Steph L. - Sep 19, 2002 2:37:11 pm PDT #29 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Iolokus rocks hard. And I don't read X-fic at all. But it was recommended so much that I finally did. Worth it.
Connie Neil - Sep 19, 2002 2:39:29 pm PDT #30 of 10000
brillig
Teppy, you keep claiming to be vanilla. You must be that incredibly rich and tasty premium-ice-cream-sold-in-little-packages French vanilla. Cause I don't claim to be vanilla and Iolokus squicks me in some large places.
Steph L. - Sep 19, 2002 2:40:59 pm PDT #31 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Oh, it squicked me in some places, but it was still good writing. And I loves me some angst. I loved Cicatrix, too, and that was squicksome in places.
Good writing is good writing.