Sometimes it feels as though all the fics have been written. Particularly having come late to a (any, all) fandom, I find myself second-guessing rather a lot ( Read more... )

I just finished catching up on an epic RPS AU fic (that would be Hawkmoon, for those in the know; yes, I realize the icon's not quite sufficient to cover the pairings, but it'll do). SO good, oh wow. And very, very long. First chapter was posted in 2004, hundred and... one? chapters if you include the holiday specials, and it is still being written ( Read more... )

It's a brief Eye Weekly article about fanfic.The gist of it is, the gap between fic and say, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, is narrowing (Wide Sargasso Sea comes to mind, as well); fic is gaining legitimacy (anyone read that Cathy Young article he mentions?); and that the problem with fic is that it's "boring" and it "sucks ( Read more... )

( I wish I knew. )

Some of you will recall eliade's list of fanfiction kinks, tropes, and cliches (about a gazillion NSFW words on that page, some of which some folks will find disturbing, so don't say I didn't warn you, eh?). Truly inspired. And inspiring, one presumes.

To that end, entropy_house has created a generator using said items -- wherein you click the button and get a ( Read more... )

( I hope. )

( Clyder? Flem? Spucker? )

entrenous88 asked folks to share their shameful plot bunnies. (Warning for those not expecting it, shameful sometimes equals illegal and NC-17.)

( What's shameful to you just might be someone else's crack. )

( Requests and questions. Quixotic questing. Etc. )

LJ seems oddly quiet tonight. Maybe it's that writing meme thing. Which I'm not doing (I can't even keep track of comments here, let alone remember to look at comments on a comment I've made somewhere else...). I've been allowing anonymous comments on here for quite some time now (not that anyone's taken advantage of that) and welcome concrit (for ( Read more... )