You should try the Atlantis flashfic archives Matt. There's a surprising ratio of good to bad stuff, and a lot of it is excellent.
Angel: Yeah, I never told anyone about this, but I-I liked your poems. Spike: You like Barry Manilow.
'Hell Bound'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
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Jars - Apr 17, 2005 4:35:40 am PDT #9817 of 10000
Theodosia - Apr 17, 2005 4:47:09 am PDT #9818 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Seconding that, Matt. There's a large overlap with Due South fandom, somehow. Perhaps it's the Canadian factor kicking in.
Dana - Apr 17, 2005 7:22:47 am PDT #9819 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
and a lot of it is excellent.
Including some excellent gen.
Consuela - Apr 17, 2005 12:36:25 pm PDT #9820 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Some of the excellent stuff is by Dana.
Emily - Apr 24, 2005 6:44:48 am PDT #9821 of 10000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
So, this whole Australian thing? Hugely annoying. Disrupting my online fannish routine. Also, I think, really bad law.
Consuela - Apr 24, 2005 6:46:14 am PDT #9822 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
What Australian thing, Emily?
Emily - Apr 24, 2005 7:03:56 am PDT #9823 of 10000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Oh, sorry. Um... the text of the particular act seems to be here and some discussion here. That lj seems to be particularly focused on how that act (and others) affect chan, but there are a lot of people who write, say, 16- or 17-year-old characters who've gotten nervous. A lot of HP writers have taken their stuff off the Web completely (including a ridiculously multiparted work in progress that I was reading).
ETA: so yeah, largely HP writers for obvious reasons, but not exclusively.
EATA: Also, skyehawke.com apparently operates under Australian law, so there's some concern there. Comments at [link]
Fay - Apr 24, 2005 7:48:26 am PDT #9824 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Huh. Bugger.
I suppose I'd better take Invisible to See down from Skyehawke, then. My characters are seventeen, but from the looks of things they need to be 18+. Which - annoying. Although I actually rather sympathise with (what little I gather from a cursory scan of the info of) the Act, because chan totally does my head in.
Meanwhile, a friend has just fallen belatedly into X Files fandom...except that she can't find any fandom to fall into. I've pointed her towards fic, but what she actually wants is meta, and discussions, and suchlike. Anyone got any suggestions? Most X Files writers I can think of have moved on to pastures new - is that the case for everyone? Or is there anywhere she could go, maybe even just to read up on OLD meta?
Dana - Apr 24, 2005 8:17:43 am PDT #9825 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I've missed most of the Australian discussion but caught some of the Skyehawke discussion, Fay. Penknife had a post about it in her LJ that's probably worth looking at.
Emily - Apr 24, 2005 8:19:46 am PDT #9826 of 10000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Chan doesn't exactly flip my lid, either, but there isn't evidence that it contributes to actual, um... actions. My verbal skills seem to be gone, sorry.