Here Be Hyppogryffs
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lyrajane's Hometown Challenge. Buffy or Angel fic set in your own hometown. Come on, I know there are more Belfast people wanting to sign up for this. Buffy the Spide Slayer!
Anyhoo, hyppogryffs:
thebratqueen says: In fanfic I've started to amass a collection of things I like to call "hyppogryff fics". They're not meant to be good, they're not meant to be in character, they're not meant to be anything except a way for me to get insane plot bunnies out of my head. And also, admittedly, they tend to be meant to stroke my fic kinks pretty fast and hard. Open fictional masturbation, I suppose one could say, but hyppogryff fic sounds cooler.
This got me to thinking - do more people have hyppogryff fics that they want to write and just never have? Because what with reading TBQ's Angel/Wes arranged marriage fic I'm dying to know what other people would come up with.
World Without Superman - and it will get finished one day, dammit - is a total hyppogryff fic. Screw canon, I want to write a student teacher relationship between Buffy and Connor that's doomed from the get-go. Except just in the first five chapters (and the one that's half-finished on my hard drive) it's obvious I'm taking my sweet time about getting there. Six chapters in and about twelve hours have passed within the story. And if/when I do go on with it, it's going to take little sidetrips from the plot for, say, a dinner party at Giles's house or Joyce's adventures at her book group or Spike and Numero Cinco (the school janitor) stealing a bus. Plus the fact that the Xander/Riley and unrequited Xander/Andrew and the Spike/Dawn have to come into it, and Cassie and Amanda and Carlos and zillions of other people. So clearly, it's not big, it's not clever, and it's definitely not the greatest writing. It's fic just for me to get my writing rocks off. Which is why I love it and keep abandoning stuff I'm meant to be doing for it.
So what's everybody else's? The totally non-canon thing kink-hitting thing that you want to write? (ETA: Psst,connorbeast. You should do that Angel/Xander human AU based on The Parent Trap. Or Joyce as a spy.)
And we should declare July to be National Hyppogryff Writing Month. NaHypWriMo. We should.
Hot off the presses is
lyrajane's Hometown Challenge. Buffy or Angel fic set in your own hometown. Come on, I know there are more Belfast people wanting to sign up for this. Buffy the Spide Slayer!Anyhoo, hyppogryffs:
thebratqueen says: In fanfic I've started to amass a collection of things I like to call "hyppogryff fics". They're not meant to be good, they're not meant to be in character, they're not meant to be anything except a way for me to get insane plot bunnies out of my head. And also, admittedly, they tend to be meant to stroke my fic kinks pretty fast and hard. Open fictional masturbation, I suppose one could say, but hyppogryff fic sounds cooler. This got me to thinking - do more people have hyppogryff fics that they want to write and just never have? Because what with reading TBQ's Angel/Wes arranged marriage fic I'm dying to know what other people would come up with.
World Without Superman - and it will get finished one day, dammit - is a total hyppogryff fic. Screw canon, I want to write a student teacher relationship between Buffy and Connor that's doomed from the get-go. Except just in the first five chapters (and the one that's half-finished on my hard drive) it's obvious I'm taking my sweet time about getting there. Six chapters in and about twelve hours have passed within the story. And if/when I do go on with it, it's going to take little sidetrips from the plot for, say, a dinner party at Giles's house or Joyce's adventures at her book group or Spike and Numero Cinco (the school janitor) stealing a bus. Plus the fact that the Xander/Riley and unrequited Xander/Andrew and the Spike/Dawn have to come into it, and Cassie and Amanda and Carlos and zillions of other people. So clearly, it's not big, it's not clever, and it's definitely not the greatest writing. It's fic just for me to get my writing rocks off. Which is why I love it and keep abandoning stuff I'm meant to be doing for it.
So what's everybody else's? The totally non-canon thing kink-hitting thing that you want to write? (ETA: Psst,
connorbeast. You should do that Angel/Xander human AU based on The Parent Trap. Or Joyce as a spy.)And we should declare July to be National Hyppogryff Writing Month. NaHypWriMo. We should.
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on 2004-04-21 04:28 pm (UTC)My kink? Time. Travel. I just have to find a way to do it that isn't Mary-Sue-a-licious. I also have an alternate one, where Angel doesn't get rescued from the bottom of the ocean for, like, a hundred years, and then he's all insane? But seeing as everyone else would be dead at that point- yeah. Too many OCs.
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on 2004-04-21 04:30 pm (UTC)What time period would you want to write the time travel fic in, and who would you send back/forward?
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on 2004-04-21 05:28 pm (UTC)Yes! It'd be all about the Shanshu anyway... *plots* If I had the character of my choice time travel? Dude that might go beyond even Hyppogriffs. But it'd be so beautiful!
My other time travel plot involved offspring traveling back to present day/early S3. Hence the Mary-Sue problem of the plot revolving around the new character.
But a 2134 battle for the Shanshu... or to prevent the delayed Apocalypse, whatever... yes. For some reason I am totally unironic when I say that makes much more sense to me. (Plus? Can still play with offspring. Just further down the line.)
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on 2004-04-21 05:33 pm (UTC)(Somebody has to do an It's a Wonderful Life style hyppogryff where a friendly angel shows Angel/Spike/whoever what life would have been like if they'd never been born/sired/souled...)
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on 2004-04-21 05:57 pm (UTC)See, I think that's my big kink, that's why this is as fun as AUs and time travel fic. The big fun is in working all of this out. What could've happened, what would've happened- making it all work logically.
(And for the record, yes. Sunnydale would have been destroyed. Lilah was pushing that amulet on Angel, and I don't think he would have asked for it at the end if she hadn't outright given it to him. I figure the Senior Partners wanted to give a smackdown to the FE, and would have done it anyway. Now, how they get it there, and what sort of role Spike plays in all this... well, that's the sort of thing that becomes a plot point.)
Whee! So, uh- we are totally pushing this July thing right? Cuz this is way too much fun.
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on 2004-04-21 06:04 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2004-04-21 06:08 pm (UTC)*patiently waits for July*
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on 2004-04-21 04:55 pm (UTC)As far as Hyppogryffia, I've got half of this really really terrible Verona Beach a/u just 'cause I want Dawn to be slutty and hot and hook up with Faith and Spike. I suck. :)
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on 2004-04-21 04:57 pm (UTC)Slutty Dawn is never wrong.
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on 2004-04-21 06:15 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2004-04-21 05:13 pm (UTC)Hee! You know, these days I think I'm keeping every month as Hyppogryff writing month, but I'd support the movement if other people wanted to do it. Why should I be the only insane one around here? ;)
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on 2004-04-21 06:20 pm (UTC)I'm writing RPS that is so far out of any canon there isn't even any other word for it but Hyppo!RPS, based loosely on the Soupverse, which is also pretty Hypppo!Tastic.
Mmm. Hyppogryffs!
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on 2004-04-21 06:22 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2004-04-22 12:44 am (UTC)Then again, most of what I write is mildly hyppogriffy. Gaze is the huge one - threesome, Katrina, barely repressed sexual tension masquerading as rivalry, voyeurism...
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on 2004-04-22 08:06 am (UTC)no subject
on 2004-04-22 08:08 am (UTC)