my yuletide stories revealed

[isiscolo]

Now that the initial seekrit-santa period is over, I have put two of my three Yuletide stories on my website. (The third is a ficlet, written as a stocking stuffer, and as is my habit with stories under 1000 words I have linked it rather than putting it up there separately.)

My assigned story was Post Scripts (now on my website here) | Mark Dunn

Comments

[cordelia_v]

Looking over that list of fandoms, I don't even recognize many of them (not the ones you wrote in, for sure). Makes me feel like I'm not as well-read as I thought. :-)

[isiscolo]

You know, you might like Slings & Arrows (which is a Canadian miniseries). It's about the trials and tribulations of a Canadian mostly-Shakespeare theatre company, and it's smart and funny and very well done.

The list of sources for Yuletide - I hate to call them fandoms, because in many cases there are no associated fandoms the way people are fannish about e.g. Harry Potter - are amazing. And I don't know if you've been following the Yuletide meta at all, but in most cases the stories written are of the missing-scene variety and tend to hew closely to the style of the original source. It's more as though we're writing homages to the books or movies, than stories set in those universes.

[cordelia_v]

I did look at a few where I knew the canon source (and you're right, most are not fandoms). And you're right that most hew very closely in style and content to the source. They ARE often missing scenes or homages.

Don't you think that's perhaps related to the lack of fandom material? If there's no fanon to play off against, or to read the Yuletide story against, that might tend to place the writer squarely in front of the canon text: that (and not fanon) becomes the sole starting point.

Or maybe I'm talking through my hat. :-) Because I've never written anything that didn't have a huge body of fanfiction written already, for me to write against (and build on) in my own story.

[isiscolo]

Oh, I think that's a big part of it. Because those stories in fandoms where there are established fandoms (and fanon) are more "traditional" in the fanfiction sense. (I'm thinking of for example Hard Core Logo and Wilby Wonderful, which actually do have associated fandoms but still qualify for Yuletide because there aren't many stories in either.) But even soon-to-be-big fandoms such as Heroes and Torchwood - new shows that have inspired a lot of fanfiction, but there's not much fanon built up around them yet because they've only started this past fall - have stories which seem more canonically-derived.

[riadsala]

I think I'll have to check out Ella Minnow Pea. I love epistolary stories and playing with words, so thanks!

[isiscolo]

It's a lot of fun! And then you can read my story. :-)

PS I got your card, thank you SO much!

[dipping_sauce]

Hey, speaking of Molly and Callum, have you ever watched Twitch City?

[isiscolo]

Hee, I haven't, despite having written this story with references to it. I've seen a clip from it, and lots of screencaps.

[delurker]

Although I didn't tell you (mostly because I only went looking ten minutes before the reveal), I did guess that you wrote strut and fret, so it's nice to see I was on the money.

I know very little about Slings & Arrows, but I enjoyed this - it made me sad for Darren, and I loved this line:
Or perhaps he only hopes that he does. Because the alternative is that Geoffrey doesn't think about Darren at all, and wouldn't that be horrid?

[isiscolo]

Hee, I'm glad you liked it! And the show is seriously fantastic, honestly, if you haven't seen it I have it up for download (or I can make you disks and mail them - I know Australians are frequently bandwidth-limited). The characters are - even the ones the audience are invited to laugh at, such as Darren, are also sympathetic in many ways. And it's Shakespeare!

[delurker]

I am trying to avoid downloading new shows - I still have a heap to watch sitting forlornly on my harddrive - but thanks anyway.
Thanks for your kind offer to send me disks - I'm fine for bandwidth, and also postage is exorbitant.