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.

Comments

[inyron.livejournal.com]

July works for me. We should so do that.

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.

[moireach.livejournal.com]

Hey! Not to be at all naggy about your own ficathon masterlist, but is there a reason the Willowficathon isn't included? Just worried there's something I've overlooked or whatnot. I am teh nervous. :)

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. :)

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

And we should declare July to be National Hyppogryff Writing Month. NaHypWriMo. We should.

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? ;)

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

Oh yes Hyppo!July please!

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!

[vanilla-tiger.livejournal.com]

My human AU Andrew/Dawn/Connor college fic would probably be my main hyppogryff. Or possibly Slayer!Katrina.

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...

[moonlettuce.livejournal.com]

My human prison!AU where Wesley gets set up by the people he works with for their embezzlement and goes to jail. Angel and Spike are a pair of serial killers who take a liking to him. Where the AI team are in jail, and the Scoobies are the warders, because I want to see Giles as Warden of the prison, and Buffy as a guard who both Angel and Spike are fucking in order to get her to ignore the times they break the rules.