I made someone boggle!
I was browsing google links, looking for various things people had said about the word "squick", and ran into an old discussion on the whys and hows of fanfic in Teresa Nielsen Hayden's blog. (I apologize for linking to that person, but, well, I've linked to worse.) It was from the perspective of non-ficcers, yet not hostile, so I read the comments with antropological interest. :-)
And then I bumped into this comment (concerning fanfic expanding on minor characters):
#220 ::: Tom Whitmore ::: (view all by) ::: December 10, 2004, 04:40 PM:
Then there's the Angel/Diskworld crossover short story featuring Nanny Ogg's cat....
Now, that simply has to refer to An Encounter With Death. Which means a fic I wrote in 2000 was still on someone's mind in 2004. Yay!
And to make it even better:
#262 ::: Michelle ::: (view all by) ::: December 13, 2004, 01:24 PM:
Tom Whitmore said:
Then there's the Angel/Diskworld crossover short story featuring Nanny Ogg's cat....
(boggle)
You're kidding? You have to be kidding. I can't even comprehend, no less imagine.
#263 ::: Tom Whitmore ::: (view all by) ::: December 13, 2004, 08:46 PM:
When I'm kidding, I'll let you know. You now join with Mike Glicksohn in completely disbelieving some of the things I run across (he thought "Raiders of the Lost Basement" was fanfic).
I made someone boggle! *dances around* If it were a recent fanfic, that would probably cause me all kinds of insecurities, but since AEWD is such an old fic (only two years younger than my horrible pseudo-Western original novella which NO YOU CAN'T READ), I find it completely delightful.
And then I bumped into this comment (concerning fanfic expanding on minor characters):
#220 ::: Tom Whitmore ::: (view all by) ::: December 10, 2004, 04:40 PM:
Then there's the Angel/Diskworld crossover short story featuring Nanny Ogg's cat....
Now, that simply has to refer to An Encounter With Death. Which means a fic I wrote in 2000 was still on someone's mind in 2004. Yay!
And to make it even better:
#262 ::: Michelle ::: (view all by) ::: December 13, 2004, 01:24 PM:
Tom Whitmore said:
Then there's the Angel/Diskworld crossover short story featuring Nanny Ogg's cat....
(boggle)
You're kidding? You have to be kidding. I can't even comprehend, no less imagine.
#263 ::: Tom Whitmore ::: (view all by) ::: December 13, 2004, 08:46 PM:
When I'm kidding, I'll let you know. You now join with Mike Glicksohn in completely disbelieving some of the things I run across (he thought "Raiders of the Lost Basement" was fanfic).
I made someone boggle! *dances around* If it were a recent fanfic, that would probably cause me all kinds of insecurities, but since AEWD is such an old fic (only two years younger than my horrible pseudo-Western original novella which NO YOU CAN'T READ), I find it completely delightful.