There are tons of them. Look at Shrift's and Nestra's recommendations at Polyamorous -- you'll find La Femme Nikita, X-Files, Sentinel, lots of other stuff.
You got all kinds of learnin' and you made me look the fool without tryin', and yet here I am with a gun to your head. That's 'cause I got people with me. People who trust each other, who do for each other, and ain't always lookin' for the advantage.
Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Betsy HP - Oct 28, 2002 4:49:56 pm PST #663 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
Rio - Oct 28, 2002 4:51:00 pm PST #664 of 10000
Are you ready to be strong?
at Polyamorous
Where is this? Is this PPO?
Betsy HP - Oct 28, 2002 4:51:40 pm PST #665 of 10000
If I only had a brain...
Fay - Oct 28, 2002 4:54:24 pm PST #666 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Blake's 7 fanfic springs to mind as a fandom that's still alive and kicking and having slash fanfic conventions despite the fact that the show went off air decades ago. I know there's Dr Who as well - Kalima has some lovely Dr Who stories over at fanfiction net (and she's also published one Dr Who novel, co-authored with some chap) and it's, what, a dozen years since Dr Who was on air. And of course due South - that's finished, hasn't it? t / uncertain
eta Woooh! Accidental number whore of Babylon! Go Team Me!
Rio - Oct 28, 2002 4:57:00 pm PST #667 of 10000
Are you ready to be strong?
Thanks so much, you guys.
Dana - Oct 28, 2002 5:24:09 pm PST #668 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Any websites besides fanfiction.net that my friend should be looking at?
If your friend wants the quality stuff, no way he should look at ff.net.
For Trek, try the Trekiverse archive, which I think is at trekiverse.org.
For X-Files, there's Gossamer, which is gossamer.org.
For Due South, there's the Due South Fiction Archive.
Those are all big fandoms for shows no longer on the air. (Except for Enterprise, the current Trek.) There are tons of others.
Rio, please tell me your friend is going to write an article that doesn't mock fan fic or get half the details wrong.
Rio - Oct 28, 2002 5:47:39 pm PST #669 of 10000
Are you ready to be strong?
He is a really smart and sweet person whose jouralism is not based on mocking people or encouranging others to mock them. I can't imagine he'd write anything mean or stupid.
Dana - Oct 28, 2002 5:53:05 pm PST #670 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
The entire community is pretty gun-shy about this...well, that's not the right word. It's just that these articles are almost always someone on the outside, looking at the strange group of people, and while that's not necessarily a bad thing, we've all seen mistakes too often. Conflating fan fiction with slash. Insisting that all slash is darkfic. Focusing only on the stuff that's prurient in some way.
I didn't mean to cast any aspersions on your friend. I'd love to see the article when it comes out.
Rio - Oct 28, 2002 5:54:43 pm PST #671 of 10000
Are you ready to be strong?
I know, Dana. I've seen those "ha ha, what freaks!" articles about fanfic.
Consuela - Oct 28, 2002 6:31:19 pm PST #672 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Even when they're not "what freaks" there's generally a tone of amused condescension that comes through. I'd love for someone to write an article with recognition that people have been doing this for centuries, and all the internet has done is allow us to share these stories.
The one danger is to come up with explanations for why people write it -- because there's no one reason for it, and making sweeping generalizations about it always ends up pissing someone off.