Where you trade stories with another person, and take their story and rewrite it from a certain point. Which is a challenge Ple made, only her's was take your own fic instead of someone else's.

Which is how Absolution was sprogged. No pun intended.

Huh. Interesting thought.

Are they good enough to warrant such close scrutiny?

The author in question is good. But it's all pairings I don't write and fics that are kind of...vague. That's not the right word but it's the best I can come up. The stories are ambiguous in some respects.

And I'm not the sharpest spork at KFC when it comes to this stuff. So I need to read them and figure out what they mean and they decide how I'ma gonna fuck with that.

Can you make them...less vague? Like, plothaving?

Don't read Stargate, but Brighid, whose taste I trust, says that this is excellent.

Whoa. Would this be the same Amperage as in Amperage and Livengoo who wrote in The X-Files way back when? I gotta go check it out. Whoo! t /recent Stargate convert

Vonnie, I almost posted some other Stargate links in your LJ this morning, but they were slash. Regardless, Brighid writes some of the most fabulous stuff in any fandom, so I bet her Stargate is pretty nifty.

Whoa. Would this be the same Amperage as in Amperage and Livengoo who wrote in The X-Files way back when?

Oh! I've been looking for any websites of theirs. (Another reason it's cooler to have a name like HelenBecka than Amperage, as lovely a word as it is: I can goddamn google you for a website when I'm trying to write this woman's rec page.) Thank you.

Don't read Stargate, but Brighid, whose taste I trust, says that this is excellent.

Thanks, Dana.

Vonnie, I almost posted some other Stargate links in your LJ this morning, but they were slash.

See, it's not like I don't like romance in my fic - I do (although I almost always prefer UST to RST), but not all the time, and not when 'getting the characters together romantically' is the be-all and end-all of the fic. At this point, I feel like I've had enough of stories in which Mulder and Scully, Buffy and Spike, Jack and Daniel (and whatever other major pairing in a given fandom) realize their deep abiding love for each other, then celebrate their passion in the Most Fantastic Sex They've Ever Had. If Jack and Daniel undergo some interesting & harrowing ordeal during one of their missions, and through the hardship, come to realize the depth of their feelings - then that's great. Bring'em on.

Man, does that make me sound like Miss Prudence McPrudepants. Anyway, the overabundance of earthshattering sex in fic annoys me - it's one of the reason I couldn't finish Iolokus. And I get incredibly irritated when people say "why write or read fanfic at all, unless there's graphic sex in it?".

Bah. Who knows? Maybe it's because sometimes, it looks like everyone's having great sex but me. t /Clyde Bruckman

Eeeeee. I didn't mean to go off like that. Even with my weird attitude, I'd still read pretty much anything as long as it's well-written.

Oh! I've been looking for any websites of theirs.

RL, if you are looking for Amperage & Livengoo's XF-fic (most of which are insanely long), most of them are in The Gossamer Project. Just search under their respective pseuds.