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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.


Consuela - Nov 15, 2004 2:48:24 pm PST #9195 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Susan, the sites that I go to for recs are Shrift and Dana's Polyamorous Recs (which no, doesn't mean the fics are all poly, it means they love many fandoms), and Bright Shiny Objects.

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Also, Crack_Van may have good recs, although I find them less reliable than PolyRecs and BSO, frankly. [link]


P.M. Marc - Nov 15, 2004 2:52:19 pm PST #9196 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

Yeah, I find Crack Van really depends on who's reccing. The last few things I've tried, I've not enjoyed at all. Also, I've, as a result of that, found that, for a fandom I don't write, I'm pickier about Sports Night dialogue than I am about any other fandom's. Up to and including BtVS and AtS.

And, it would seem, I'm all for abusing the comma today.


Susan W. - Nov 15, 2004 2:54:10 pm PST #9197 of 10000
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

Thanks!


Anne W. - Nov 15, 2004 2:54:19 pm PST #9198 of 10000
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.

Speaking of Crack Van, I'm kind of curious what people think of the CSI fics I've recced this month, especially "All Fall Down."


Consuela - Nov 15, 2004 2:55:32 pm PST #9199 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

There was a CV reccer a while back who recced a string of excellent Firefly stories. Now, of course, I have no idea who they are. Although that may have been where I first ran into Salieri. [link] "Scavenged" is excellent, and "Utopia" is jawdropping.


Dana - Nov 15, 2004 4:21:45 pm PST #9200 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Anne, I'm saving your recs for a time when I have time to sit down and read. Or maybe I'll load them on my Palm for Thanksgiving. But I'm salivating at the descriptions, especially the Grissom/Sara stuff.


shrift - Nov 16, 2004 5:44:59 am PST #9201 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

I'm baffled by wingfic. Even more baffled by mpreg, unless it's evil mpreg that Consuela makes me write.

There's Sports Night fanfic?

SN archive for all types of fic, the lion's share of which is good: [link]

Which reminds me that I need to upload some stuff there...

Where does one go for good Firefly fanfic?

Tara LJC's Firefly recs: [link]

I'm kind of curious what people think of the CSI fics I've recced this month

Like Dana, I am hoarding, because I trust you, and also, I am working 12 hour days, so not much free time.


Calli - Nov 16, 2004 5:50:26 am PST #9202 of 10000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

I can sorta kinda see mpreg in situations where one of the characters is an alien (although the whole cross-species thing makes my eyebrows twitch) or there's significant magic in the fandom. But seeing it as a possibility is a long way from actually wanting it to show up in the fic I read. The few times I've run across it it's been part of a whole feminization of one of the male characters, which tends to bother me anyway.


SuziQ - Nov 16, 2004 7:32:43 am PST #9203 of 10000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

I just wish some authors were better about posting warnings. Sure, I don't want every bit given away in the header, but certain things need to be stated up front.


Consuela - Nov 16, 2004 7:50:25 am PST #9204 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

The problem is determining which things, and how much information, Lexine. Everyone has different hot buttons, and no writer can be expected to warn for everything.

I keep my warnings as general as possible, and I use the rating system. "R for violence and language", and "caveat lector". I don't warn for character death. I haven't yet had a rape in a story, but if I did I would probably just warn for sexual violence without getting specific.