I needed to do something to cheer myself up, so I started thinking about what the summaries for various published fan fiction books would like if they were posted on LJ or Fanfiction.net. I'm mercilessly mocking some of my favorite books, but it's fun.
Title: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Author: William Shakespeare
Fandom: Crossovers
Summary: A Greek mythology and The Faerie Queene crossover with lots of OCs. What happens when four young lovers go into the forest to escape their families? And who do they meet there?
Character/Pairing Lots of OCs. Oh, yeah, and implied Theseus/Hyppolita.
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Crackfic, implied bestality.
A/N: Look, Elizabeth I! I mention you in chapter 8!
Title: The Mists of Avalon
Author: Marion Zimmer Bradly
Fandom: King Arthur
Summary: A rewrite of the King Arthur legend from the POV of the women, who show how it really happened. Morgaine (Morgan) and Viviane (The Lady of the Lake) are priestesses of the Great Goddess. Chapter 59 is up!
Character/Pairing: Morgaine, Gwenyfar, Igraine. All the canon pairings plus a few surprises!
Rating: R
Warnings: Incest, implied non-con, etc.
Title: Andromache
Author: Euripides
Fandom: Greek mythology
Summary: Did you ever wonder what happened to Andromache after the Trojan war? Well, her suffering certainly wasn't over yet!
Character/Pairing: Andromache, Hermione (Helen's daugher; no, this isn't a Harry Potter crossover!), Neoptolemus, implied Neoptolmeus/Andromache
Rating: PG
Warnings: None, really. This is actually pretty innocent, compared to other things I've written like The Bacchae.
Title: Sirena
Author: Donna Jo Napolli
Fandom: Greek mythology
Summary: Philoctetes' life abandoned on the island was more eventful than he thought it would be. He meets Sirena, a lonely mermaid. This is the story of their love.
Character/Pairing: Philoctetes/OFC
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Well, Philoctetes has this disgusting wound that has to be drained every day...may be disturbing to some.
Title: The Firebrand
Author: Marion Zimmer Bradly
Fandom: Greek mythology
Summary: The true story of the life of Kassandra, prophetess of Troy. From when she goes to live with the Amazons to the destruction of Troy by the Akhians, to Klytemnestra's murder of Agamemnon. ETA: I use the letter "k" in place of "c" because the letter "c" didn't exist in the Greek alphabet. If you don't know that, you don't deserve to be in this fandom!
Character/Pairing: Kassandra, Kassandra/Aneas
Rating:Warnings: Come on, it's Troy, what do you expect? Lots of blood, some non-con, other things like that.
Title: Trolius and Cressida
Author Shakespeare
Fandom: Greek mythology
Summary: Did you think that Hector and Paris were the most important Princes of Troy? You were wrong! Meet Trolius, Hector's young brother (yes, FYI, he is a real character), and his lover, Cressida. And Achilles is sulking.
Character/Pairing: Trolius/OFC
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Sex and war! It's what the play's about, you know.