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Angel: Eve. So, I guess we should, I don't know, talk? Eve: About what? Angel: About what happened back there with us. Eve: Angel, it's not like this is the first time I've had sex under a mystical influence. I went to U.C. Santa Cruz.
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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.
Lee - Jun 27, 2003 7:39:07 am PDT #5646 of 10000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
esse - Jun 27, 2003 7:46:05 am PDT #5647 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Oh, Deena, read Herself right now. Immediately. Everything. She's how I became a Buffista, bless her.
And Buffy/Willow is not canon. Not not not. Wrong wrong wrong.
(Mind you, I feel this way about Buffy/Xander too.)
Theodosia - Jun 27, 2003 7:48:38 am PDT #5648 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Laura Shapiro will indeed share her vids, but you have to ask, and she asks you to promise not to distribute them, i.e. make copies on CD/mail the files/put up in FTP/put on Kazaa for your friends or the general public. (Showing them to your friends on your laptop is fine.)
Am-Chau Yarkona - Jun 27, 2003 7:49:46 am PDT #5649 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
And Buffy/Willow is not canon. Not not not. Wrong wrong wrong.
I didn't say it was canon. I said it was obvious and therefore boring.
§ ita § - Jun 27, 2003 7:52:05 am PDT #5650 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But Buffy/Faith and Angel/Lindsey are pretty obvious -- does that make them inherently boring?
Rebecca Lizard - Jun 27, 2003 7:55:36 am PDT #5651 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 didn't say it was canon. I said it was obvious and therefore boring.
And I think it's rather-- I wouldn't have said obvious, but I would have said has a fairly fertile ground provided by canon (which is nearly what you mean, I think), which is what makes it particularly exciting for me.
Willow/Faith, for example. It's most exciting when I see the show providing premise: S4BTVS!Faith/Willow leapt off the screen, for me, and that's why I like it, and that's why I'm writing in. In fact.
Obviously, we look at, and prioritise, slash and 'shipping differently. Which is okay! Diversity being the spice of fandom.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Jun 27, 2003 7:56:31 am PDT #5652 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
But Buffy/Faith and Angel/Lindsey are pretty obvious -- does that make them inherently boring?
One, Angel/Lindsey is not obvious; two, yes, in some ways.
I'll still read Buffy/Faith if it's written by someone I know, who I'm sure can make the character interesting-- the writing can redeem the inherent obviousness of the pairing; but I don't 'ship them, I don't go out there looking for more fic about that pairing, whatever the quality.
This may be entirely my issue. I'm certain that not seeing Angel/Lindsey is.
Am-Chau Yarkona - Jun 27, 2003 7:58:58 am PDT #5653 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
And I think it's rather-- I wouldn't have said obvious, but I would have said has fairly fertile ground from canon (which is nearly what you mean, I think), which is what makes it exciting for me.
What I'm struggling with is that some pairings which have fertile canon ground-- say, Spike/Angel(us), or Willow/Fred-- are exciting to me, where Buffy/Willow isn't. It's... odd, and I'm trying to articulate why.
Rebecca Lizard - Jun 27, 2003 7:59:02 am PDT #5654 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
One, Angel/Lindsey is not obvious
"It's not me you want to screw."
brenda m - Jun 27, 2003 7:59:05 am PDT #5655 of 10000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
"It's not me you really want to screw."
But I guess I'll accept the 'eye of the beholder' clause.