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)
She ain't movin'. Serenity's not movin'.
Kaylee ,'Out Of Gas'
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
Always Anti-fascist!
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
Always Anti-fascist!
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
Always Anti-fascist!
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.