some meme with that whine

[kindkit]

I've got a bad case of the Small Fandom Sulks at the moment--I'm feeling hard done by because there's so little good fic for my favorite fandoms, or if there is, there's little for the pairings I prefer. Discworld is my new love, and there's hardly any Discworld fic on LJ at all. There's a lot at fanfiction.net, but, well, ff.net. (Plus, WTF is up

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[stunt_muppet]

Wish I could point you to something, but I haven't found anything in those fandoms either, and I'm pretty sure you've read all the Three/Delgado!Master I could point you to. Although I'm as disturbed as you that there's love interests for Teatime. I...just...what? Out of all the characters? You'd think it'd be, I don't know, Carrot or something. But I suppose it's the same basic premise behind the Joker fangirls...who I don't understand either

[kindkit]

I'm pretty sure you've read all the Three/Delgado!Master I could point you to

I think I've seen everything, yeah. All five stories. *sigh*

I see what you mean about the "quality fandoms" issue. There's definitely source material I find intimidatingly good (like Bas Lag). But for me there's a sort of cutoff point of badness beyond which I can't enjoy the show/movie/book anymore. I could never get into the Sentinel, for example, despite the slashiness and a friend's best efforts. Most of the people I've seen talking about Supernatural or the Stargates have said, "This is a crap show, but it's really fun to write and read fanfic for." I don't get that, I guess.

[starlady38]

Most of the people I've seen talking about Supernatural or the Stargates have said, "This is a crap show, but it's really fun to write and read fanfic for." I don't get that, I guess.

I think there's a (perhaps partly perceived) gap between premise and execution that's really necessary for a particular property to take off--the Fannish Gap? sort of like the uncanny valley? I mean, since fans read against text anyway, I think it's a lot easier to read against the text when the text is just not good, or it so clearly could have been awesome but wasn't, on screen. Though I think partly it's also that fans tend to consume media through a fannish lens (i.e. slash goggles), so clear slash potential helps a lot, too.

Incidentally, I could be free for a few hours on Sunday afternoon, though I will be at, and will have to go back to, MCAD--there's a coffee shop that's only a few blocks away, though, that we could go to/meet at, if you're still free. Sorry it took me so long to pull my act together on this.

[kindkit]

the Fannish Gap?

I do think there need to be gaps, although not necessarily between premise and execution. Most of Buffy the Vampire Slayer was extremely well executed, in my opinion, but in its day it was a huge fandom. But there were gaps aplenty, because there was a vast mythos (including potential stories stretching back to the dawn of human civilization), canonical AUs and might-have-beens, unexplored backstories, etc. etc. It was roomy. I imagine that's a big part of the attraction for SPN and the Stargates as well

[sallymn]

I've always been a slow writer... which is probably why I went into short fics. Sorry (I have a different problem with Criminal Minds, there is a fair amount of long fic being written but most of it's dreadful, I'm still looking for The Site where I can find The Good Stuff. It must be here somewhere...)

For the meme, umm.... Servalan :)

[van]

I hear you completely on the Merlin stuff, at least. I'd love some good Arthur/Merlin, not cutesy, or some really good Uther fic. I'd love some younger-Uther/Gaius stuff, even. Ah well. Won't hold my breath there and I'm unwilling to dig through drek to find good stuff.

The lapse in B7 fic makes me sad too. I'm not exactly sure what happened. I know I stopped writing, but there were still lots of other fics being posted by others, so I'm not sure why everyone stopped. I almost wish that fandom would run a ficathon, I'm just not sure it'd have much success.

As for characters, how about Jamie?

[vilakins]

so I'm not sure why everyone stopped

I'm not sure either. I need a ficathon or some sort of challenge like picowrimo to make me write these days, even though I still have unwritten stories in my head. I don't know why that is. Maybe the lack of interested readers? That didn't stop me pre-LJ when I was just putting stuff up on my site though. Of course I mainly write gen, and most fans want ships (though I do write friendships).

[heliophile_oxon]

At the risk of being redundant, could you do Vetinari for the meme? *g*

I know what you mean about the frustration of craving well-written, interesting, intriguing,satisfying fic about a character or pairing .... and then you find there's just very little or even nothing out there (except maybe mediocre stuff or worse, that sometimes you read anyway in desperation and then you feel sick and it leaves a terrible taste in your mouth ...). Would happily read Dalziel and Pascoe! I read one good fic once, pairing Vic Mackey/Shane in The Shield, thought wow what an interesting dark/dysfunctional intense pairing - and then there was nothing else! Also sometimes wish there were some Robbie/Stuart from Taggart (!), and there is absolutely nothing to be found as far as I can tell. Just happy that there are some stellar writers in Due South and Pros (and happily anticipate anything you ever write in Discworld, of course!)

[dancesontrains]

TOS!Spock for the meme, please?

Have you looked at st_tos_kink? There's some decent stuff there.