Post-col scares me.
Saffron: You just had a better hand of cards this time. Mal: It ain't a hand of cards. It's called a life.
'Trash'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
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Dana - Mar 21, 2004 2:26:50 pm PST #7567 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Connie Neil - Mar 21, 2004 2:34:46 pm PST #7568 of 10000
brillig
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.
Vonnie K - Mar 21, 2004 2:58:04 pm PST #7569 of 10000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
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?)
Connie Neil - Mar 21, 2004 3:02:49 pm PST #7570 of 10000
brillig
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
It's called, surprise, Reorganization.
Consuela - Mar 21, 2004 3:10:39 pm PST #7571 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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.
Yeah, Shari's a huge post-col junkie. Whenever a post-col thread pops up on the Haven, Shari reposts her list of best-ever post-col.
Post-col scares me.
And yet you've read it, cause you were kind enough to read Wartime. And I blush at Vonnie's kind recommendation (although I clung to the description of Wartime as "during-col" *g*). There still is one fat chunk in Wartime that needs to be finished, and then it'll be done. Blame the Casablanca crossover that took over my brain.
Katie M - Mar 21, 2004 3:17:48 pm PST #7572 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
(And in XF, post-col is now almost-canon, ain't it?)
I'd say so. I mean, the series ended on "well, we lose, but at least we can cuddle now!"
Steph L. - Mar 21, 2004 5:25:15 pm PST #7573 of 10000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Africa!Xander that wants to stick its head up.
JaneGoodallJaneGoodallJaneGoodallJaneGoodallJaneGoodall....
P.M. Marc - Mar 21, 2004 7:54:32 pm PST #7574 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
I love post-col.
There's something about it that makes me very happy. (I don't read much X-Files, but every few months, I get the urge for something meaty and Files-like.)
That I love Buffyverse post-Apocalypse stuff, of course, pretty much goes without saying.
Rebecca Lizard - Mar 22, 2004 4:15:17 am PST #7575 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
Post-apocalypse-- or just plain old dystrophic, like the Wishverse-- are my fic bread and butter, too.
That and sweetly fumbling first-times between gay adolescents.
And the Wartime series was great! There was obviously stuff I couldn't follow, not being very well versed with the show, but the stories were perfectly gorgeous.
Dana - Mar 22, 2004 5:52:32 am PST #7576 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
And yet you've read it, cause you were kind enough to read Wartime.
Which was wonderful. But I skimmed the scary parts. And then I needed candy afterwards.
I have zero need for dark Stargate fic. I like the fluffy, and the sexy, and the funny. I understand the appeal of the angsty and the hurty, but it does just about nothing for me in that fandom.