Comments | cereta: Fanfic as Play, or Eating my Words

cereta

Fanfic as Play, or Eating my Words

Oct 05, 2006 08:22

Many, many moons ago, I wrote a long, detailed essay called The Ten Commandments of Crossovers. It was a thorough look at what I called the do's and don't's of crossovers. Mostly don't's, actually. These included things like not crossing sources just because you think it would be "neat" (unless it could actually go beyond that to a real story), ( Read more... )

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way2busymom October 5 2006, 13:38:14 UTC

Should I do the "It's all my fault" chair dance?

cereta October 5 2006, 13:40:01 UTC

You really, really should.

ratcreature October 5 2006, 13:42:37 UTC

You're all laughing at me really hard right now, aren't you?

Aww, but in a totally friendly way. *G*

cereta October 5 2006, 14:11:28 UTC

Aw, g'won with ya. ;).

reginagiraffe October 5 2006, 14:07:08 UTC

Sometimes, it's about CSI investigating the death of the troll in Moria.

I? Would pay money to read this.

cereta October 5 2006, 14:11:06 UTC

Ask and ye shall receive.

reginagiraffe October 5 2006, 14:35:09 UTC

LOL! Where do I send the check? *g*

cereta October 5 2006, 14:44:43 UTC

I'm pretty sure she'd settle for feedback ;).

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crazywritinfool October 5 2006, 14:24:42 UTC

That was an awfully long way to say, "Yeah, I wanted Dean and Dick to fuck... deal with it."

rofl...

cereta October 5 2006, 14:45:00 UTC

*snort* Yeah, yeah,

elynross October 5 2006, 18:16:05 UTC

I was thinking that exact thing. *g* It's just amazing the lengths she'll go to to get Dick laid!!!

cereta October 5 2006, 19:46:03 UTC

You're complaining about this, Ms. Thou-Shalt-Get-Dick-Fucked?

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annezo October 5 2006, 14:59:41 UTC

We can always find reasons to do what strikes us as a good idea. Hee.

I used to do a lot of ranting, laying down the law about what people should and should not write. There wasn't a one of my own "laws" about the subject that I didn't break myself - most of them over and over and over again. (In my own defense, I've never pretended that I write the kind of stories I like to read.)

Except crossovers. I've always left them in the "font of all evil" category.

Mind you, I'd pretty much already sold my integrity years ago just to have President Bartlet say, "Get me the Fortress of Solitude."

But now I may be changing my mind. That line, alone, is worth it all.

cereta October 5 2006, 16:30:34 UTC

That line, alone, is worth it all.

Dude, I wrote that entire snippet just to have that line.