Brighid writes fan poetry. Although only for Stargate, I think.
Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage, and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny.
Oz ,'Beneath You'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Dana - Jan 30, 2003 8:53:11 am PST #3200 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Jan 30, 2003 8:56:55 am PST #3201 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
It occurs to me, in a very tangenty way, that part of the problem may be the same as original poetry has. Most people- even very well-read, literate people- feel that prose is much more accessible, and when they buy from a bookshop it's prose and not poetry they buy.
Add that to the problems that fanfic has already- inaccessible if you don't know the show, looked down on slight as not 'real' writing- and fan poetry is under two kinds of stigma. People who aren't fans won't read it, and people who don't read poetry are unlikely to.
And fans-who-are-poets is a small group. Worth contacting, because we clearly have some and we need to get in touch with each other, but never going to be as large as general fanfic.
esse - Jan 30, 2003 9:23:36 am PST #3202 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Nope, she wrote one for Sentinel, too.
askye - Jan 30, 2003 10:07:01 am PST #3203 of 10000
Thrive to spite them
I've seen fan poetry for Due South by (I think) Kellie Matthews and collen.
Currently I'm working on a poem based on Warren's last moments alive, I'm kind of stuck on certain phrasing, trying to find the words I want.
Connie Neil - Jan 30, 2003 11:22:08 am PST #3204 of 10000
brillig
I'd read it, but I know my poetry-crafting skills are not what I would like.
Michele T. - Jan 30, 2003 3:49:23 pm PST #3205 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
This is a really good essay, and captures my own discomfort with the overuse of the term "Mary-Sue" far better than I've been able to.
Connie Neil - Jan 30, 2003 4:01:05 pm PST #3206 of 10000
brillig
Michele, that's perfect. That's a definition of Mary Sue that I can get behind. I love it so much I"ve bookmarked your post so I can find that again.
§ ita § - Jan 30, 2003 5:12:26 pm PST #3207 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Dude, I love that.
Consuela - Jan 30, 2003 5:12:50 pm PST #3208 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Yeah, that's really good. I like Alara, she's quite thoughtful.
Rebecca Lizard - Jan 30, 2003 5:35:18 pm PST #3209 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Hm. I think I disagree with it in a few different ways; but then again, my personal definition of Mary Sue pretty much is "is it an unrealistic, or boring, over-sympathetic character? stamp her ass." I find MS in original intendedly-literary fiction all the time.