What do *You* Want in Fan Fiction?

[dryaunda]

Well, I'm halfway through section 4 of 4 in my very first fanfic. Isn't that wonderful?

Yes, I do plan on writing more fanfic in this series. Yes, series. There'll be a continuity but the overall plan is for an episodic string of plots, which leads to my question. What kind of plots would you be interested in?

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[dryaunda]

What fandom?

Bratz. I explain my insanity here.

I like fluff[.]

If you mean in the sense of not having a metaplot then that's the plan (until the last four fics I haver planned in the series). If you mean in the sense of WAFF then I'm afraid I'll have difficulty there.

[jsarek]

Depends on the fandom, of course, but I do tend to be partial to a well-done crossover. Sometimes, the simple question of "What would it be like if X met Y?" is the itch you *most* want to have scratched by a story, but crossovers tend to be the hardest kinds of stories to get in profic, because the legal details are such an extra hurdle. A fanfic, though, is just as legally dubious with one copyrighted 'verse in it as it is with two (or three, or four, or . . .), so that extra hurdle isn't there.

As for your fandom of choice . . . well, I'm not sure WHAT you could cross-over with them to get me interested. ;-) Though I've oft harbored the thought that the Bratz, who seem to my (admittedly limited) understanding to be a very image-conscious, self-absorbed, and pro-conspicuous-consumption property, are the ideological children of the Beverly Hills Teens . . . I wonder if they might be literal children, as well? Hmm, given that they were the Beverly hills *Teens* in 1987, if you add a few years to make them young adults, any

[dryaunda]

I do in fact have a couple of crossovers in mind, none of which are Sailor Moon or Harry Potter.

I've oft harbored the thought that the Bratz [...] are the ideological children of the Beverly Hills Teens[.]

They're certainly the thematic children, since both are about teens doing zany antics. The Bratz are more politically correct though. I've not once seen a limo with a jacuzzi in the series. I did see a gated community, but that was when Yasmin and Chloe were breaking into one. I won't rule out Beverly Hills Teens though.

On a semi-related tangent, Switchboard is a vision of beauty.

[jsarek]

Well, the whole country's more politically correct than it was in the 80s, so that's to be expected; besides I wasn't expecting to find the absolute opulence in Bratz, just the attitudes and themes.

As for Switchboard, she may be a vision of beauty . . . but the audio sure screws it up. ;-)