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Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers  

This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.


Rebecca Lizard - Feb 06, 2003 11:07:18 am PST #3356 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

All of the original stuff I've ever seen at ff.net (or nearly any other public online original-stuff archive) has sucked like an industrial-strength Hoover, but I haven't spent that much time trolling it, so I could have just missed the good stuff.


Vonnie K - Feb 06, 2003 11:23:10 am PST #3357 of 10000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

Question: How does Silverlake compare to GO, other than the inclusion of RPF? I've been resisting temptation to join Silverlake, mainly for time issues (and my indifference to RPF), but I hear there are some exellent stories posted there. I probably won't want to join if half the stories coming through there are popslash, but if there's good variety, I may take the plunge.


Am-Chau Yarkona - Feb 06, 2003 11:42:45 am PST #3358 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty

All of the original stuff I've ever seen at ff.net (or nearly any other public online original-stuff archive) has sucked like an industrial-strength Hoover, but I haven't spent that much time trolling it, so I could have just missed the good stuff.

You've probably read mine. Which is to say, it's much the same standard as fanfic. ie, tends to suck.


shrift - Feb 06, 2003 11:46:33 am PST #3359 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

How does Silverlake compare to GO, other than the inclusion of RPF?

There's quite a variety, and I think Silverlake has more traffic -- although the stories are mostly short. Very short.

The RPF isn't overwhelming. I'd say RPF accounts for 20% or less (often less) of posted stories.

As an example, last week, the fandoms broke down to: Alias, Angel, Buffy, Chicago, due South, Harry Potter, LotR, Ringu, Smallville, Velvet Goldmine, Voyager, popslash, actorfic, and historical/political satire.


P.M. Marc - Feb 06, 2003 11:48:13 am PST #3360 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Question: How does Silverlake compare to GO, other than the inclusion of RPF? I've been resisting temptation to join Silverlake, mainly for time issues (and my indifference to RPF), but I hear there are some exellent stories posted there. I probably won't want to join if half the stories coming through there are popslash, but if there's good variety, I may take the plunge.

About 75% show/movie/comic stuff, and about 25% or so various RPF, not all of it popslash. (There's a fair amount of political stuff, too.)

Lots of weird/small/obscure fandoms. Gangs of New York, oddly, seems to be going like gangbusters there.

Feedback Fridays (which I love), light on meta, heavy on fic, lots of good stuff there.

It's my List of Choice. Have you checked out the archives?


Vonnie K - Feb 06, 2003 11:54:46 am PST #3361 of 10000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.

Hmmm. Thanks. Variety is a definite plus. If the traffic is heavy, I may go on Digest, but it sounds like a list worth joining.

I've seen the occasional fic from the archive, since BSO folks sometimes link to it. I haven't checked out the archive myself. It doesn't sound like there's a lot of overlap with GO.


askye - Feb 06, 2003 12:15:22 pm PST #3362 of 10000
Thrive to spite them

There is some overlap with GO, I know that occasionally I'll find that my yahoo inbox will be HUGE and that's because someone has posted a multipart story to both GO and Silverlake.


Rebecca Lizard - Feb 06, 2003 1:33:18 pm PST #3363 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

I'm seriously dancing over the question of joining Silverlake. Let me just make good grades on these midterms.


Rebecca Lizard - Feb 06, 2003 9:25:44 pm PST #3364 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

something I'd meant to post before:

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It's kind of typo-a-licious. But, goddamn, read it, if only for the chance to hear Ron doing Eminem.

Not doing Eminem doing Eminem.


esse - Feb 06, 2003 9:59:02 pm PST #3365 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

I post to both, I know Plei posts to both... There's some doubling, but not a lot. More as people realize how good SL actually is. It's a great list. lookit me pimp.