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sparrow2000 in buffyversetop5

5 Classic Remixes

Oct 23, 2018 18:01

It's buffyversetop5 classic recs time again, and to start off my lists this year I wanted to give kudos to authors who can remix - who can take someone else’s story and put a new spin on it, or expand it in an unexpected way. Here are five Remixes that I love.

Walking Higher by Liz Marcs in which Xander visits each of his old friends. This one just kills me and ( Read more... )

cat: remix, form: ficlet, fandom: btvs, char: xander, form: fic, cat: post-apocalyptic, cat: postseries, char: buffy, char: dawn, pairing: xander/giles, cat: gen

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petzipellepingo October 24 2018, 07:08:38 UTC

Great lists with some of the Buffyverse's best authors. Thanks for posting.

sparrow2000 October 25 2018, 01:31:45 UTC

It was a real pleasure rereading these when I was putting this together.

yourlibrarian October 24 2018, 14:03:13 UTC

What a great list choice! And nice to see that most of the original stories are still online. Maybe someone else will know where "Winter Garden" can be found. We're definitely a bit of a fic search community these days as well!

yourlibrarian October 24 2018, 22:00:55 UTC

Hah, I actually found Winter Garden myself while trying to see if I could download the remix at AO3!

Here you go: https://archiveofourown.org/works/29888

sparrow2000 October 25 2018, 01:32:36 UTC

Brilliant. I only had the link for the LJ entry, and the LJ had been purged, but I hadn't had a chance to go hunting around. I will update the original post!

yourlibrarian October 25 2018, 01:45:33 UTC

One other really interesting thing about that remix is the long author's note at the beginning discussing remix selection and writing -- it could be its own meta post!

aadler October 29 2018, 04:08:03 UTC

It’s always pleasant to be recommended, of course (and you keep doing it!), but even apart from “ Otherwise a Perfect Sky” - for which, thank you again - you have some solid stories here, of which I was already familiar with several.

I didn’t actually give “Orientation” enough attention when it first came out; even though it remixes one of my favorite (**cough**sroni!**cough***) people, I must have been preoccupied that year, or just forgot to remember. This wasn’t simply a matter of getting fresh insight with a perspective switch, it followed the original idea out to greater depth, and showed us new insights into authentic portrayals of familiar characters.

“the Ballad of Charles Whitman”, of course, is what got me into remixes in the first place. I had barely heard the word before, but this story … I have many times seen a good writer remix a so-so story and produce something impressive, but this was what happens when a good story by a good writer got chosen by a writer who was just as good and determined to do full justice to the ( ... )