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

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.

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.

("Col" is "colonization"?)

"Col" is "colonization"?

Yes. So it works for XF and Stargate and Farscape fic pretty well, NSM for the Jossiverse.

Hey, did someone call my name? I mean, did someone say "post-col"?

Yeah, I got so used to the wealth of *great* post-col fanfic in The X-files fandom, I was quite befuddled at the lack thereof in the SG fandom when I first started reading SG fanfic. (I also see that Consuela has modestly left her name out of the good post-col fic list. The "Wartime" series for which she collaborated with Marasmus and Maria Nicole really sets the bar for the post-col genre, IMO.) Katie and I had a long-ish conversation about this on my LJ a while back if I recall; I think I argued that unlike TXF, SG-verse, despite its premise and the constant threat of global annihilation, had a fundamentally optimistic worldview which didn't foster bleak post-col scenarios. Or something like that.

I can't recall if I've read anything other than "In the Wrong Story" that fits the 'post-col' definition. Oh! Christine (cgb) had a couple, one of them a 2010-based dystophic AU with a Janet/Daniel pairing. And there's Jemina's White Dove, which both Katie and I had recced a few weeks ago. But other than that, I'm drawing a blank. Which is a pity.

NSM for the Jossiverse.

Yeah. I think it's the lack of a long-term, seasons-spanning enemy in the -verse. I *have* read a few good dystophic AU Buffyfic though, which is sort of the emotional equivalent to post-col fic in TXF. Most of Wishverse stories, Roseveare's Return, and Lise William's Ripcord come to mind.

Post-col scares me.

I've got an idea for a sort-of post apocalyptic Buffyverse series, but as I have an inconvenient thing called a day job, I don't have time for it plus V!Giles and the Africa!Xander that wants to stick its head up.

Post-col scares me.

Heh. You *can* write a post-col fic that is not all about the bleak and the doom. (See Katie's story.) Although, most of the time when I read fic, I usually mumble to myself, "Man, where's all the despair and the death, huh?" Must have something to do with having cut my teeth on the XF fanfic. In the long-gone-but-not-forgotten XF fic rec site, Chronicles of X, there was a fair size section devoted exclusively to post-col fic. (And in XF, post-col is now almost-canon, ain't it?)

Oh, and if anyone cares, the first part of the new V!Giles series, Career Advancement, is up in the usual places (Shrift, ff.net) and my website

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It's called, surprise, Reorganization.