Here Be Hyppogryffs

[doyle]

My ficathons info is updated. :looks at it: We are one whacked-out fandom, you realize this?

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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[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Would love to read this. Spike/Angel/Wes cell!sex...