Archive for the 'Fanfic' Category

The Charge: RPS

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

From the our-pron-is-erotica files: a British slash writer is up on obscenity charges for “a kind of splatter-core horror-porn tribute to a British girl band who can’t sing in tune without digital processing.” Hide your Twincest, fellas…

…to her folly

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

Sometime last week I added four more episode additions to the Firefly page. (Apparently you can watch Firefly free now on Hulu.)

If you’d like a little more existential angst and ennui than my fic can provide, try garfield minus garfield.

Popcorn Part II

Thursday, April 26th, 2007

There are four more new drabbles on the Stargate page, mostly under Season Six. I’m not actually churning them out this fast; I just found three old S6 drabbles that I’d never posted.

Thanks to Jade for the beta!

…So a Ficcer Returneth to her Folly

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

Yes, after over two years of not ficcing, I have returned, in a small, 100-word way, to writing fanfic. In fact, I’ve been working on an old Stargate novel on the side, and for research I’ve been rewatching Stargate season 7. About nine episodes in I realized that I have an unfinished Stargate drabble project that could be benefiting from my so-called research.

Don’t expect too much from my first official piece of fanfic in twenty-eight months: Double Standard, a coda to “Birthright.”

[Update:] They’re like popcorn! Backups, a coda to “Revisions.”

Write for Doctor Who

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

If you’re missing the allegedly-defunct Strange New Worlds contest already, here’s a chance to write for Doctor Who. Send them up to 2,500 words by January 31st. Paid published authors need not apply.

Fools Rush In

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

Sci Fi Wire has some good links to the Star Wars fanfic issue. I think if you don’t expect a lot of buyers, publishing your fanfic on Amazon isn’t all that different from charging for fanfic fanzines–something that goes on all the time in fandom. Amazon is just easier to link.

Retro Trek Redux

Monday, August 1st, 2005

Seema wants to wax nostalgic again. I’m still too post-fandom to put any work into gathering titles and links, so let me redirect you once again to The Jemima’s Trek Fanfic Awards.

First Lines

Thursday, October 14th, 2004

Ok, I’ve succumbed to the infectious first lines
meme
, but only so far as to post some first lines from my
stories. The first set are what was intended by the meme; the rest
are there for fun. Feel free to fic with any of them.

Generic first lines:

You really should have kept up with those guys from boot camp.

Immortality is growing on me.

It was easier when I was angry.

You frown at nothing as your teammates walk away.

Deprogramming means forcing the person to think when they don’t want
to think.

Gold becomes her.

I watch them silently from within the machine.

You lose your son, misplace your wife, fall for a woman you can never
have, and you figure, those are the breaks.

Everyone in the Air Force dreams of being an astronaut, just like
everyone wants to be a pilot.

The conference table stretched on and on and on, its red and black
stripes seeming to fade into infinity - or, possibly, infinite
boredom.

You’re shocked to see her at first.

I thought it’d be worse than it was.

Greetings to you, your wife, your parents and your children!

“I could find the answer, sir, if I just had a little more
time.”

She sat in the big chair, her head slightly tilted, her attention
fixed on the image before her.

“It wasn’t supposed to be like this,” she said.

Your duty has taken you far from home.

From time immemorial sailors have built ships in a bottle.

Few people get to see the past coming alive; even fewer want to.

The surviving crew of the unluckiest starship in Federation history
gazed entranced at long-range visuals of blue-green Earth.

The color…she couldn’t get the color right.

“A penny for your thoughts.”

How they’d gotten involved in the Asthani civil war was beyond them.

You think you’ll do it tomorrow.

“So old man, did you ask her out?”

Planet P3X-562 gave a whole new meaning to the term ’sand lot.’

When you’re in mourning for a Goa’uld, your friends look at you
strangely.

Until today I was a host for the Tok’ra.

Why are the Tok’ra always wandering off alone?

She threw the PADD across the room.

The worst day was the day I realized it wasn’t going to get any better
when we reached the Alpha Quadrant.

I always thought the end of the world would come with the shriek of
death gliders, the blast of staff weapons, and the descent of a
pyramid ship from the stratosphere - an apocalypse of forgotten, evil
gods.

It seems like every time I meet someone new, (1) one of us is
unconscious, (2) one of us is an alien, and (3) the alien has the
technology to show me exactly how it feels about me.

(more…)

Title Meme Again

Monday, May 10th, 2004

Writing link of the day: The Theory and Practice of Titles by B.W. Clough

I know I’m late to the title meme, which I spotted in Sara’s LJ. Since I’ve done this meme before and chimed in on other title rants, I’ll try to focus on newer titles.

Pick five, or ten, or more, of your fic titles. List them in your journal and explain how you came up with each one. Post this prompt as well, so that the meme spreads.

  1. The Lamne’rau: Everyone’s heard this story before - the title that took longer than the fic. I explained it in “The Lamne’rau” Unplugged as a Romulan verb in the acquiescent mood, meaning “let them collect; let us gather together.” I made up the name of the mood, but there’s a real Romulan root (so to speak), *lamne*, meaning “collect,” taken from the online Rihannsu - English Dictionary V. 3.1. The postfix *rau* (let) is from the online Introduction to Rihannsu Morphology and Syntax.
  2. The Other Side of the Gate: This was my first real SG-1 fic, written in response to a crossover request, and the big issue was how to cross SG over with the other show, while keeping the technobabble consistent with both canons. I decided to send the team through the back of a Stargate rather than the usual flushing side, since that hadn’t been done and anything could happen. Daniel whines about going through the “wrong side” of the gate but I thought “other side” had a more ethereal, titlelike flavor to it.
  3. Goodbye to VOY: This one is a typical filked filk title, for a filk of the Carpenters’ “Goodbye to Love.” It’s notable mainly for the use of a fannish abbreviation (VOY) as a real word. Fortunately, I didn’t need to rhyme anything with it.
  4. Raj of Rage: Although I Will Revive is my most popular Khan filk, this one has my favorite title. It’s a filk of “Turn the Page,” and I owe the title to Seema.
  5. One Brass Horus: This one was another filky titling challenge, for “One Tin Soldier.” Horus guards are those Jaffa soldiers with the silly brass hats.
  6. I do not love you Thursday and And why you come complaining: I adored the episode “2010,” and I wanted something special to put at the top of my Bitter!Jack codas. Nothing says I loved you and you stabbed me in the back but I’m cool with that because bitter becomes me like Edna St. Vincent Millay. Both titles are from her poem “Thursday”.
  7. We Call Them Angels, Theoretically Possible, The Highest Risk, Cordesh Is No Longer, Hail, Dorothy, The Petty Needs of the Goa’uld, and We have no joy on the burn: Drabbling has led to no end of titles, but my favorites are the ones stolen directly from episode dialogue.
  8. A White Dove: Not my best titling work, but since it was just recced at BSO I feel that I ought to explain. This songfic was inspired by “Blowin’ in the Wind” and that was the working title as well. I wanted something a little better, but still taken from the song. Since the story turned out to be about Sam, as was the scene for the verse How many seas must a white dove sail / before she sleeps in the sand?, I decided to name it after her - though I’m still not quite satisfied with it.

Nameless Pairing Meme

Friday, March 26th, 2004

I gather from various responses I’ve seen, such as Rocky’s, that the point is to list all the pairings you’ve written. Here goes:

BtVS:
Buffy/Spike
Xander/Anya (just hanging around canonically)
Willow/Tara (unfinished)

Stargate:
Sam/Jack
Hussy!Sam/Bitter!Jack
Sam/Jack~, Sam~/Jack~, Sam/Jack~~ (the things you can do with a quantum mirror…)
Sam/Narim (just a drabble, but they were so cute together!)
Sam/Pete (unfinished)

Trek:
Janeway/Chakotay (don’t blame me - everybody does it)
Janeway/Paris
Chakotay/Seven (thank you, PTB!)
Chakotay/Seska
Chakotay/Crusher
Chakotay/Derryn (OC)
Paris/Torres
Torres/Kim
Torres/Vorik
Kim/Seven
Kim/Megan Delaney
Kim/Tazise (alien babe)
Kim/Evil!Libby
EMH/Seven
Garak/Seven
Tuvok/T’Pel
Ken Dalby/Jenny Delaney
Magnus Hansen/Erin Hansen (Honey, I stalked the Borg!)
Khan/Marla
Inna/Talbid (aliens)
Thivil/Tilme (aliens)
Anardil/Anarde (legendary aliens)
Emnil/Ymne (legendary aliens)

Pairings only mentioned in passing:
Janeway/Mark (if filk counts)
Janeway/Michael Sullivan
Chakotay/Torres (if mind control counts)
EMH/Mrs. EMH
Kim/Celes Tal
Neelix/Dexa
Neelix/Kes (if parody counts)
Tuvok/Mary Sue (implied, same parody)
Billy Tefler/Celes Tal
Boylan/White
Chell/Jenny Delaney
Noah Lessing/Dorothy Chang
Agril/Perde (aliens)