Static Shock / Batman:TAS story: "The Year of Living"

[mtgat]

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The Year of Living
a Static Shock / Batman:TAS story
by Merlin Missy
copyright 2005
PG-13
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Comments

[djonn]

Whoof.

It's work like this -- meaning work this d*mned good -- that drives a lot of my personal theories about the nature of collective-universe storytelling, "fanfic" being a label of increasingly less use in defining all of what's out there. In qualitative terms (and in terms of quality, which is not exactly the same thing), there's no practical distinction between this piece and the stories that have made it to screen, save the minor matter of prose-form vs. script.

Well done.

[djonn]

Aside: When did it get to be February (per datestamp on the last couple of posts)?

Of course, having perfected time travel, you're expected to look up appropriate winning lotto numbers for the last part of January and send them to all of us on your friendslist. [This will require a number of different number-sets from different drawing dates in different states, so that we don't all have to split the same jackpot....]

[mtgat]

You I'm gonna respond to when I have more time, but I just checked. I think the computer's calendar got reset somehow. Should be fixed now.

[djonn]

Darn, and here I was so hoping that you really had perfected time travel....

(Yup, January again now.)

[mtgat]

Give me time. ;)

[mtgat]

Thank you. I am all about the collective universe of storytelling. Remind me, are you familiar with Henry Jenkins? If so, I will shut up.

[djonn]

I am woefully uninformed about Henry Jenkins, and clearly require enlightenment....

[mtgat]

'Kay. Henry Jenkins is the Patron Saint of Fanfiction. He's done a lot of work trying to explore and explain the phenomenon of fanfiction. (Try Textual Poachers for a great read.) Basically, he sums up his theory with the notion that modern-day myths are owned by corporations rather than by societies --- we no longer tell stories about Coyote losing his penis, but tell a story about Superman finding kryptonite in his boxers and everyone will understand you. Fanfic is our way of reclaiming the myths that shape our lives.

[djonn]

Basically, he sums up his theory with the notion that modern-day myths are owned by corporations rather than by societies -- we no longer tell stories about Coyote losing his penis, but tell a story about Superman finding kryptonite in his boxers and everyone will understand you.

Heh. Sounds fascinating, and I'll definitely have to look up that URL -- however, I have to note that my latest short story sale (the anthology is due out this spring) is sort-of a Coyote story.

[mtgat]

:D Don't forget to tell cadhla then. Strangely, I credit Warner Bros. with keeping interest in Coyote alive. I still say you'd get wider comprehension of a story with Superman. But you can't, because again, Warner Bros.

I need a trickster icon.

[djonn]

:D Don't forget to tell cadhla then.

That can be arranged (I read and have occasionally commented in her LJ, though I don't think she reads mine -- not a surprise given her rampant and justifiable popularity).

Just to be evil, I have also just posted a Very Small Bit of the forthcoming opus in my own LJ....

[mtgat]

She is coolness personified yes. Great snippet! What's the anthology going to be called?

[djonn]

The book will be Fantastic Companions -- it's part of a series of anthologies targeted to "young adult" readers that Julie Czerneda edits, and the publisher (like Julie) is Canadian. However, I gather that the book will be available in the States as well, certainly from Amazon. There's good company in there; Jay Lake, who won the Campbell this past Worldcon, has a story in the book; so does

[djonn]

Foo. One measly quote mark omitted in the tag....

(Someday we will be able to edit comments. Someday.)