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musesfool via jennyo:
We're all familiar with those infamous "things I never want to see in a fanfic story again" lists. Sure, we all have mental lists of things that drive us crazy: bits of fanon that don't jive with our ideas about canon, overused words, improbable scenarios, bad characterizations, etc. But what about the opposite? What are the things you want to see more of? (Even if other people think it's overdone!)
I only get ten? I'll just work 'Holden Webster' in at the outset, then...
1. AUs, either the canon ones - Wishverse, Birthdayverse - or ones that branch off at some point in canon. I'm talking about things that logically progress from what 'really' happened, with cause and effect and chaos theory, bring me to:
2. The weird and wacky world of physics. Science, magic, differences and similarities between the two. Which is a longwinded way of saying "Fred and Ethan on a roadtrip would be great".
3. Road trips. Motels, gas stations, big open stretches of road, uncomfortable tension between the travellers.
4. Post-apocalypse, because I don't care how much of a cliche it is, I will literally never get enough of Oh Noes, We Are The Only Survivors In This Wasteland/Destroyed City/Whatever Full Of Demons.
5. Nature of reality/humanity/metaphysical stuff. You have no idea how fast my Eve dislike became fascination as soon as she mentioned being immortal, created by the Senior Partners. Then there's Dawn, canon afterlives, souls, dreams, the Cheeseman, prophecies, gods, powers that be...
6. Ensemble, especially if it's both casts, with people who didn't meet on the show getting to interact. Episodic comedy gen action-adventure comes under this, I guess.
7. Ordinary people stumbling into this world of demons and vampires - Kate, Nina, Kit, Buffy's class at Sunnydale High. (I've actually just wondered why Holden didn't know Buffy was the Slayer... I thought her graduating class knew? There's that scene in I Was Made To Love You where she asks Warren if he knows who she is and he says he does...)
8. B-movie sci-fi. Killer robots. Man-eating plants. Zombies!
9. High school fic. Not human AUs, but stories set within the high school years and in Sunnydale high, preferably focused on someone other than the Scoobies. Subset: first loves, teen romance, especially between the unconventional combinations of Buffy, Willow, Xander, Oz, Cordelia, Amy, Larry. (By which I mean, Willow/Oz and Xander/Cordelia are both out, much as I like them, since we got that in the show; but Buffy/Oz? Buffy/Cordelia? Amy with Xander or Willow? Xander/Larry? Oh, yes.)
10. Lower decks Angel season 5 stuff, the inner workings of Wolfram and Hart - Harmony, Knox, Files and Records, the secretarial pool, Wesley's prophecy department. I'm still bummed we didn't see the Christmas party, or the company picnic, or diversity training...
musesfool via jennyo:We're all familiar with those infamous "things I never want to see in a fanfic story again" lists. Sure, we all have mental lists of things that drive us crazy: bits of fanon that don't jive with our ideas about canon, overused words, improbable scenarios, bad characterizations, etc. But what about the opposite? What are the things you want to see more of? (Even if other people think it's overdone!)
I only get ten? I'll just work 'Holden Webster' in at the outset, then...
1. AUs, either the canon ones - Wishverse, Birthdayverse - or ones that branch off at some point in canon. I'm talking about things that logically progress from what 'really' happened, with cause and effect and chaos theory, bring me to:
2. The weird and wacky world of physics. Science, magic, differences and similarities between the two. Which is a longwinded way of saying "Fred and Ethan on a roadtrip would be great".
3. Road trips. Motels, gas stations, big open stretches of road, uncomfortable tension between the travellers.
4. Post-apocalypse, because I don't care how much of a cliche it is, I will literally never get enough of Oh Noes, We Are The Only Survivors In This Wasteland/Destroyed City/Whatever Full Of Demons.
5. Nature of reality/humanity/metaphysical stuff. You have no idea how fast my Eve dislike became fascination as soon as she mentioned being immortal, created by the Senior Partners. Then there's Dawn, canon afterlives, souls, dreams, the Cheeseman, prophecies, gods, powers that be...
6. Ensemble, especially if it's both casts, with people who didn't meet on the show getting to interact. Episodic comedy gen action-adventure comes under this, I guess.
7. Ordinary people stumbling into this world of demons and vampires - Kate, Nina, Kit, Buffy's class at Sunnydale High. (I've actually just wondered why Holden didn't know Buffy was the Slayer... I thought her graduating class knew? There's that scene in I Was Made To Love You where she asks Warren if he knows who she is and he says he does...)
8. B-movie sci-fi. Killer robots. Man-eating plants. Zombies!
9. High school fic. Not human AUs, but stories set within the high school years and in Sunnydale high, preferably focused on someone other than the Scoobies. Subset: first loves, teen romance, especially between the unconventional combinations of Buffy, Willow, Xander, Oz, Cordelia, Amy, Larry. (By which I mean, Willow/Oz and Xander/Cordelia are both out, much as I like them, since we got that in the show; but Buffy/Oz? Buffy/Cordelia? Amy with Xander or Willow? Xander/Larry? Oh, yes.)
10. Lower decks Angel season 5 stuff, the inner workings of Wolfram and Hart - Harmony, Knox, Files and Records, the secretarial pool, Wesley's prophecy department. I'm still bummed we didn't see the Christmas party, or the company picnic, or diversity training...
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on 2005-01-29 10:35 pm (UTC)It's geeky and has a bibliography and I have been writing it since the break between season 2 and 3, and updating as things became easier to incorporate. Having the A-team move to W&H was like a godsend in terms of making the plot that much more plausible.
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on 2005-01-29 10:45 pm (UTC)I drove myself nuts trying to figure out the rules of magic in the Buffyverse, then realized - well, there aren't solid rules, that's the point, it's not a science. Except for where it kind of is (Xander making the book burst into flames in Superstar just by reading the incantation, for example).
This is why I'm not in Harry Potter fandom, because it would kill my brain ("but do you need wands? How exactly does Potions relate to Chemistry and Arithmancy to Maths?" etc, times a million)
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on 2005-01-30 12:11 am (UTC)It's geeky and has a bibliography and I have been writing it since the break between season 2 and 3, and updating as things became easier to incorporate. Having the A-team move to W&H was like a godsend in terms of making the plot that much more plausible.
Oh, god, I must read this story! This is like my dream AtS fic, in a nutshell.
Er, do you accept bribes?