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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.


Steph L. - Mar 21, 2004 9:08:28 am PST #7555 of 10000
I look more rad than Lutheranism

Definitely read Cicatrix. To pull out a well-worn cliche, it's the Iolokus of Buffyfic.

Spike/Angel(us)/Drusilla

Any of this that I've ever read is kinky as hell. Which isn't a problem for me. Check Slashing the Angel -- I think that's where I read Spike/Angelus/Dru.


Consuela - Mar 21, 2004 9:13:49 am PST #7556 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

To pull out a well-worn cliche, it's the Iolokus of Buffyfic.

Pretty much. Although it's a little more (a lot more) disconnected and elliptical than Iolokus, which is challenging for its characterizations and plot elements, but not for the writing itself. If that makes any sense. It's very very good.

Oh! Speaking of fic, I read Katie M's "The Wrong Story" last night, and it was very good. Mmmmm, yummy post-col angst and implied SG threesomes.

Katie needs to write more. ::pokes::


Katie M - Mar 21, 2004 10:17:23 am PST #7557 of 10000
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies

Oh! Speaking of fic, I read Katie M's "The Wrong Story" last night, and it was very good. Mmmmm, yummy post-col angst and implied SG threesomes.

Aw, thank you! You're very kind.

Katie needs to write more. ::pokes::

Working on it. Honest. The current project's just... sloooooooow.


Consuela - Mar 21, 2004 10:19:40 am PST #7558 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

And then I surfed off to Talullah Rasa's site and read a bunch of her SG fic, which is also very good.

You people are going to make me care about Daniel Jackson, damn you.

Working on it. Honest. The current project's just... sloooooooow.

Is it ... post-col? t hopeful I'm such a post-col junkie.


Katie M - Mar 21, 2004 10:26:12 am PST #7559 of 10000
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies

You people are going to make me care about Daniel Jackson, damn you.

Sorry about that, she said unreprentantly. Hey, you want recs? You should read the Cost of Doing Business. Maayan liked it. And I enjoy pointing people to it and then watching them howl.

Is it ... post-col? I'm such a post-col junkie.

Alas, no, though there may be at least one more of those. (That one I'm leaving the infrastructure intact, though, because I am not trying to do plot in a story where I have to spend half my brainpower thinking "but where are they getting their water? Shouldn't they all have, like, dysentery?") AU, branching off mid-S7; Teal'c goes home. I'm pretty close to the end, actually; I've got wild hopes of getting there today, though I don't really expect to.


Consuela - Mar 21, 2004 11:34:27 am PST #7560 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I am not trying to do plot in a story where I have to spend half my brainpower thinking "but where are they getting their water? Shouldn't they all have, like, dysentery?"

Oh, yeah, that's always fun. Hard, hard, hard. And lots of handwaving. And yet, when it's done well, like in The Stand, or Rachel Howard's "Ask About the Weather", or Analise's "The Thin Veneer" or "Weight of the World", I just love them to death.

There's something terribly romantic about stories where they're struggling in the ruins. Even though I'd never want to be there myself.

I've even read a few post-apocalyptic Buffyfics, although they usually end very badly.


esse - Mar 21, 2004 11:36:32 am PST #7561 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

And yet, it was a post-apocalyptic Buffy fic that cemented my place in fandom, so I hold them dear to my heart.


Katie M - Mar 21, 2004 12:00:30 pm PST #7562 of 10000
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies

Oh, yeah, that's always fun. Hard, hard, hard. And lots of handwaving.

Hee, yes. "And... we don't care about that. Hey, look over there, a turtle!"

I was very chuffed to discover that the emergency ham radio network works exactly like I thought it should, and then I had to forcible restrain myself from pulling a Jean Auel and infodumping.

Rachel Howard's "Ask About the Weather"

Just went and looked that up. Oh, that's a lovely thing. You know, inasmuch as one can call postcol lovely.

There's something terribly romantic about stories where they're struggling in the ruins. Even though I'd never want to be there myself.

The impossible odds thing, and then again the chance to have a whole new context. It's like a full-on "and in this story, they're pirates!" AU wherein you don't have to ignore past canon.


Consuela - Mar 21, 2004 12:21:19 pm PST #7563 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Rachel Howard's "Ask About the Weather"

Just went and looked that up. Oh, that's a lovely thing. You know, inasmuch as one can call postcol lovely.

I am a complete ho for XF post-col. So add to that Rachel Anton's "Love During Wartime", and CazQ's "The Furious Winter", Alicia K's (yes, our Alicia K) "Looking for America", and Meredith's "Show of Strength" and "Tangible". All of those are excellent, and several will make you cry.


Rebecca Lizard - Mar 21, 2004 1:55:02 pm PST #7564 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

("Col" is "colonization"?)