I think it's perfectly ok to refer to canon...god knows I do. Well, if She likes funky crossovers. Although I was tempted to make my tag "Canon? We don't need no stinking canon." after getting lectured about it.(It could also be a fic thread title, she said, hopefully)
Well, it's just good to know that when the chips are down and things look grim you'll feed off the girl who loves you to save your own ass!
Xander ,'Chosen'
Buffista Fic: It Could Be Plot Bunnies
Where the Buffistas let their fanfic creative juices flow. May contain erotica.
erikaj - Sep 24, 2003 1:40:33 pm PDT #6809 of 10001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Cindy - Sep 24, 2003 2:01:16 pm PDT #6810 of 10001
Nobody
I think it's perfectly ok to refer to canon...god knows I do.
This is sort of rewriting season 6, though--changing the premise of Buffy's resurrection--but I'm stealing lines from s6 episodes that dealt with it. Oh well, never said I wasn't a badfic hack.
erikaj - Sep 24, 2003 2:06:23 pm PDT #6811 of 10001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
It never occurred to me to wonder...I was like Faith."Want Take.Have." Is that so wrong?(Or like the Criminal on the Simpsons, "Yoink!") Maybe I should go be painfully self-conscious now and reflect on the error of my ways....I'm learning from the best.
Theodosia - Sep 24, 2003 3:11:09 pm PDT #6812 of 10001
'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"
I don't find it jarring to use canon elements in AUs -- there's quite a tradition of "change just one thing" in SF AUs that would support many essential-to-character traits and actions occurring regardless.
Cindy - Sep 24, 2003 3:14:07 pm PDT #6813 of 10001
Nobody
Is actually stealing a line okay?
amych - Sep 24, 2003 3:17:25 pm PDT #6814 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Is actually stealing a line okay?
Absolutely fine, I'd say -- part of the point of fic, whether it's AU or not, is weaving in canon elements with your own story to make something new of them. I spin things off from bits of dialog all the time, and I don't see any reason not to do it just because it's an AU.
deborah grabien - Sep 24, 2003 3:38:52 pm PDT #6815 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
It occurs to me that I am in fact totally ignorant of the canonical rules regarding fic, since up until recently all mine were essentially original characters, moving through an AU of someone else's landscape. But I can't - from this seat of newbiehood - see any reason why, if it enhances the story, the writer shouldn't go with existing dialogue.
sj - Sep 24, 2003 4:09:08 pm PDT #6816 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Cindy, I am really enjoying this, and I don't see a problem with using actual lines from the show in an AU story. Actually, I like it because in AU stories one element has changed which effects other elements of the story, but it does not change everything.
erikaj - Sep 24, 2003 4:16:13 pm PDT #6817 of 10001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Yeah, cool, huh? Although sometimes,it changes more than you expect. Although it was fun to take that whole "Kick his ass," thing and move it...I find I give Xander's lines to Bayliss pretty frequently, actually.
Connie Neil - Sep 24, 2003 6:41:28 pm PDT #6818 of 10001
brillig
As the queen of "yank as much from canon as you can get away with while still making sense", if the dialogue fits, use it.
I adored the part with the consecrated ground.