Collaborative fic -- it began in Florida and now we're in Boston (redux)

[rthstewart]

Trying again since LJ doesn't seem to want to cross post.

It all began with anastigmatfic writing Mary, Peter, Asim, Eustace, Alligator Snapping Turtles, and Alligators. It is wonderful, magnificent and awesome and it is right here.

And then the equally awesome lady_songsmith wrote an absolutely hysterical (and M not really M, more like PG-13/T-rated pre-smut) follow on

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[lady_songsmith]

Is it really M, though? I've been musing on this lately, and I think it's more a heavy pg-13. Cuz there's nothing in it you couldn't show on evening TV - well, they get entirely naked which'd be HBO/Showtime level TV, but camera angles could fix that! I failed my attempt for actual smut and just ended up with the pre-smut.

[rthstewart]

You know, I posted this and then went back and read it (laughing the whole time) and I agree. It's not M. It's still hilarious.

[lady_songsmith]

Hilarious I can live with! :)

I have been thinking a lot about rating and content issues in general lately -- there was some wank about it (of course there was, when isn't there, somewhere on the internet, ratings-wank?) but it made me start pondering it & now I may be hyper-sensitive. :)

[min023]

I'm delighted to see this lot continue, and even more delighted that there are so many peeps playing in the wading pool. Collaborations (or collaborative metas, if you prefer) always seem to throw out such interesting and sometimes unexpected stuff.

Interesting that you're musing on ratings and wank. With very few exceptions, I've quit reading on ff.net, and that's partially because of last year's BS over ratings, and the unexpected deletion of works. Yes, it's in the TOS, but I object to the unevenness of how the policy was applied. A handful of high-profile stories/authors got deleted and then it all fell over again. Blah, just blah.

[rthstewart]

Blah indeed. AO3 is there, and other Comms, and Dreamwidth. I still post on FF because I do have some people who only read my stuff there. The ratings thing was bad and it's bizarre how the site has let harrassers prevail over some very respected authors who do things like write second person point of view that is NOT make your own adventure sorts of thing. The site is run by vigilantes.

[min023]

Actually, I hadn't thought of it like that, but vigilantes is a really good word. And yes, AO3 has become my fandom goto, and I'd have never known t was there if you hadn't rec'd it a long time ago.

[varnafinde]

I believe I will have read some of this before.

I also believe it will be worth rereading (and it's great to see new postings!) ...

*goes to start reading some of it*

[rthstewart]

OFG's work is wonderful and I've just been reading Starbrow's and it's wonderful too. It's such an honor to have other people play in the verse.

And then... mine follows.... Winning His Spurs

From part 1, Return of the King,

The truck rattled and bounced on the rough road, leaving a cloud of red New Mexico dust in its wake. Peter smoothly downshifted and slowly turned down an even narrower road marked by an ox skull perched atop the fence post. Georgia had painted the skull years ago and it had become the symbol of Ghost Ranch.

He and Mary had come here from the Everglades after Eustace had packed up and shipped out; Asim had finally had enough of the No Colored signs all over the American South and returned to England. So it had become just the two of them, more alone than either he or Mary had been in years, and first testing tentatively then enthusiastically embracing their new relationship. Peter felt some twinges of occasional, residual guilt, but no regrets.And from chapter 2, either Investiture or Knight of

[runesnspoons]

Chapter two has me giggling. Oh, Pevensies. I'm loving the chapter titles, too. Excitement!

[heliopausa]

Oh! I am loving the announcement of the knighthood!! :D
And looking forward to it all. Also, I've been having a terrific time reading all the preceding leopard-skin-underpants-linked fictions!

[anonymous]

Woo Hoo! I'm so very excited by this. I'm saved (at least temporarily) from Mary Sue self inserts and other unbelievably awful stuff.

doctor dolly

[rthstewart]

Thanks, Dolly! Do drop a line for OFG in the R&Rs. Last I checked, she enabled anon reviews! She did a great job on it, Starbrow's got a really fun Jamaica story in the works, and I've given a teaser up above.

There are all these cool things that she stuck in there where she and Starbrow asked, "well what about...." and I had no idea as it was all, you know, post EVERYBODY DIES.

[pencildragon11]

I always enable anon reviewing. *greedily grabs all the reviews*

Thanks so much for the shout-out, Ruth!

[runesnspoons]

"I always enable anon reviewing. *greedily grabs all the reviews*"

I read that and this meme popped into my head. Here, I made this for you:
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3t1ddl/

(And if you need a laugh and haven't read the Hyperbole and a Half story that spouted the meme, you should: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-is-why-ill-never-be-adult.html )

[lotl101]

I haven't had a chance to read yet because academics and good life stuff, but I'm so excited for when I get a chance to sit down and read. I'm looking forward to the O'Keefe (one of my favourite painters!) and Tolkien (favourite author full stop) bits very much.