Back when I first started reading fanfic, I read an epic in which Mulder and Scully got sucked into a fantasy world where Mulder became a powerful wizard and Scully became a legendary warrior. It wasn't exactly good, but I read the whole damn thing. I wish I could remember the name of that story. I bet it's still at Gossamer.
What you did to me was unbelievable, Connor. But then I got stuck in a hell dimension by my girlfriend one time for a hundred years, so three months under the ocean actually gave me perspective. Kind of a M.C. Escher perspective, but I did get time to think.
Angel ,'Conviction (1)'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Amber B. - Sep 20, 2002 9:03:14 am PDT #40 of 10000
I'm beginning to understand this now. It's all about the journey, isn't it?
Rebecca Lizard - Sep 20, 2002 9:03:29 am PDT #41 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
You know you want to, Anne.
(What else have you written, and where can I find it, by the way? Do you use the same name?)
P.M. Marc - Sep 20, 2002 9:08:47 am PDT #42 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
Willliam Gibson-y X-Files
Yeah, but Gibsony's, y'know... canon.
Well, okay, Gibsony Maddoxy.
(Maddox taught at my school, and the AI GM episode was essentially beta'd for techincal detail by one of my profs. This caused us no end of amusement, as the thing ended up resembling some of his more disjointed rambles.)
Dana - Sep 20, 2002 9:10:10 am PDT #43 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Back when I first started reading fanfic, I read an epic in which Mulder and Scully got sucked into a fantasy world where Mulder became a powerful wizard and Scully became a legendary warrior. It wasn't exactly good, but I read the whole damn thing. I wish I could remember the name of that story. I bet it's still at Gossamer.
Yes! That's the one. Now we have to find it.
Vonnie K - Sep 20, 2002 9:11:20 am PDT #44 of 10000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Amber, the X-files wizard story is Sue Bickerstaff and Jennifer Lyon's Magician. (scroll down on the alphabetical list). I read the first book because it was being recc'd all over the place at the time. I remember scratching my head at all the acclaim, because I didn't see anything really special about it other than the wild AU-ness and the interminable length.
Fay - Sep 20, 2002 9:13:50 am PDT #45 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Back when I first started reading fanfic, I read an epic in which Mulder and Scully got sucked into a fantasy world where Mulder became a powerful wizard and Scully became a legendary warrior.
Ripoff of Hambly's Darwath Trilogy much? (Although one could argue that Hambly rips herself off with the Antryg Windrose books, but I forgive her for it.)
The more common perspective, I think, is to treat that scene as background for a Love Forgives All epic
I was rewatching this X files ep again, and I just DON'T GET the people who want to write the fluffywuffy romance out of the angsty violent enemy slashy vibes. I don't get it. (Well, I don't get the wizard!Mulder/ unicorn!Krycek fic impulse either, admittedly, but it's more of a rarity. I assume. Whereas fluffywuffy romance out of angsty violent slashy vibes crops up in lots of fandoms, I think?) But it's okay that I don't get it - I'm not saying it shouldn't happen, whatever floats their boat & so forth. It's just not a boat I can get aboard myself.
...But the BDSM nearly-killing Krycek shaggage I could definitely read. Um. [/sheepish]
Amber B. - Sep 20, 2002 9:14:26 am PDT #46 of 10000
I'm beginning to understand this now. It's all about the journey, isn't it?
Yes! Thanks Vonnie. You're right, there's nothing special about it, but it was among the first things I read and I found it weirdly fascinating.
Dana - Sep 20, 2002 9:14:28 am PDT #47 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
It almost certainly must have been rec'd on ChronicleX, because that's how I found all my XF reading, in those days.
Nope. Not gonna go back and reread.
Anne W. - Sep 20, 2002 9:25:45 am PDT #48 of 10000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
(What else have you written, and where can I find it, by the way? Do you use the same name?)
I post on ff.net under the name Sophia Prester. The thing I like about ff.net is that I tend to hop from fandom to fandom in my writing. I think you've read my Angel fic ("Oedipus Paradox"). I'm an anime junkie, and have written one Trigun piece, a Sandman/Rurouni Kenshin crossover featuring Despair and Delerium, and...um...er... a Sailor Moon/Homicide:Life on the Streets crossover and oh, God I am so frelling embarrassed....
Nutty - Sep 20, 2002 9:26:15 am PDT #49 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I was rewatching this X files ep again, and I just DON'T GET the people who want to write the fluffywuffy romance out of the angsty violent enemy slashy vibes.
You and me both, sweetie. I tend to call them "chintz curtains" stories, because inevitably someone will mention window dressings. This is where the egregious Mpreg lives, in this fandom.