An Open Invitation
So, yeah... this is the week that I get to take a trip downstate and go lie down in the machine that goes "wub-wub-wub" (only slightly less expensive than the machine that goes "ping") and find out if I've got a short-term or a long-term issue to deal with (fortunately, so far it appears unlikely that it will turn out to be a condition that makes my long-term any shorter, so yay for that). I'm less than happy about this, but hey, better to rip it off like a band-aid, right? Anyway, I'm trying to shake myself out of the self-indulgent and obsessive funk that I've been in for the last two weeks or so, and what better way to do that than to make a self-indulgent, obsessive request? (This is how homeopathy works, or so I've been told)
Here's the deal: there's been some wank lately about people writing fanfic about other people's fanfic. And I say: to hell with that. I'd love to see someone interrogate my text from a different perspective. So, as a cheer-up request, invitation, what-have-you, I'm opening up my sandboxes to anyone who wants to play: be they remixes, sequels, missing-scenes, vignettes, meta-commentary, what-ever-crazy-fan-thing-it-is-you-do. I think fish_echo and others better versed in meta would say that the blanket term is "transformative works," or I may be abusing that term entirely. All I ask is for you to send me a link to see it so that I can ooh and awe or potentially tilt my head at it appropriately ('Dean slashed with the tentacled demon from the UU courtyard? Oh, and look, the author included helpful diagrams.'). For those of you looking at this on a friends page, there's a link to my Master Fic list at the bottom of this post.
So, please, go nuts. Make me giggle, make me wish I had thought of that, for the love of God, give me something else to read besides the emedicine articles on de-myelinating diseases because they're depressing as all hell. And, for the record, this is my official policy on transformative works from here on in. All's fair.
[Link to Master Fic List]
Here's the deal: there's been some wank lately about people writing fanfic about other people's fanfic. And I say: to hell with that. I'd love to see someone interrogate my text from a different perspective. So, as a cheer-up request, invitation, what-have-you, I'm opening up my sandboxes to anyone who wants to play: be they remixes, sequels, missing-scenes, vignettes, meta-commentary, what-ever-crazy-fan-thing-it-is-you-do. I think fish_echo and others better versed in meta would say that the blanket term is "transformative works," or I may be abusing that term entirely. All I ask is for you to send me a link to see it so that I can ooh and awe or potentially tilt my head at it appropriately ('Dean slashed with the tentacled demon from the UU courtyard? Oh, and look, the author included helpful diagrams.'). For those of you looking at this on a friends page, there's a link to my Master Fic list at the bottom of this post.
So, please, go nuts. Make me giggle, make me wish I had thought of that, for the love of God, give me something else to read besides the emedicine articles on de-myelinating diseases because they're depressing as all hell. And, for the record, this is my official policy on transformative works from here on in. All's fair.
[Link to Master Fic List]