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red_satin_doll) wrote2013-10-03 10:11 pm
red_satin_doll) wrote2013-10-03 10:11 pm
Happy Birthmonth Bone_dry1013: Meta-fic-y goodness & Crossing Jordan Icons
Happy birthmonth to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bone_dry1013 , with whom I've spent many, many hours discussing one of our favorite subjects: Buffy Anne Summers, not just as part of a 'ship but in her entirety: friends, lovers, psychological traumas and personal triumphs. ("Many, many hours" is not an exaggeration, btw; I mean, literally all day last Thursday while I was at the Cape. P'town and the sand dunes just had to wait.)
Bonedry's multi-chapter "metafic" Origins completely re-images Buffy's story pre-series from her Calling to the beginning of the show; it discards most of the semi-canon version of Joss' original script for the film and the comics based on it. The Seasons series (in S1 now) is slightly different in that the "camp" of S1 in canon is discarded in favor of a darker tone more in keeping with S2 and later. Canon events are not discarded but the focus is on the emotional and psychological fallout from those events. The fic incorporates the Normal Again!verse and the Key!verse, although Dawn is not a huge presence here. I particularly love the use of Slayer dreams in this fic, including the fantastic notion of Buffy receiving the first inkling of her calling through one before Merrick finds her.
The Master Post has links to all the chapters, meta essays and pretty, pretty banners/artwork in one convenient place. (Yes, meta essays about a meta fic about Buffy Summers. I HAVE DIED AND GONE TO HEAVEN, Y'ALL.)
"it requires me to try to synthesize an episode as it is within both my knowledge/interpretation of canon (through the series) and my invention of Buffy's Calling and her subsequent experiences before she came to the Hellmouth, the goal being to more or less erase the lines between episodes – to make the seasons (and the series) one big story, rather than a collection of a lot of smaller ones."
Origins/Season1 is a nominee in the No Rest For the Wicked Awards and round 29 of the Sunnydale Memorial Fanfiction Awards.
bone_dry1013 , with whom I've spent many, many hours discussing one of our favorite subjects: Buffy Anne Summers, not just as part of a 'ship but in her entirety: friends, lovers, psychological traumas and personal triumphs. ("Many, many hours" is not an exaggeration, btw; I mean, literally all day last Thursday while I was at the Cape. P'town and the sand dunes just had to wait.)Bonedry's multi-chapter "metafic" Origins completely re-images Buffy's story pre-series from her Calling to the beginning of the show; it discards most of the semi-canon version of Joss' original script for the film and the comics based on it. The Seasons series (in S1 now) is slightly different in that the "camp" of S1 in canon is discarded in favor of a darker tone more in keeping with S2 and later. Canon events are not discarded but the focus is on the emotional and psychological fallout from those events. The fic incorporates the Normal Again!verse and the Key!verse, although Dawn is not a huge presence here. I particularly love the use of Slayer dreams in this fic, including the fantastic notion of Buffy receiving the first inkling of her calling through one before Merrick finds her.
The Master Post has links to all the chapters, meta essays and pretty, pretty banners/artwork in one convenient place. (Yes, meta essays about a meta fic about Buffy Summers. I HAVE DIED AND GONE TO HEAVEN, Y'ALL.)
"it requires me to try to synthesize an episode as it is within both my knowledge/interpretation of canon (through the series) and my invention of Buffy's Calling and her subsequent experiences before she came to the Hellmouth, the goal being to more or less erase the lines between episodes – to make the seasons (and the series) one big story, rather than a collection of a lot of smaller ones."
Origins/Season1 is a nominee in the No Rest For the Wicked Awards and round 29 of the Sunnydale Memorial Fanfiction Awards.
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At Bonedry's rec I watched the series Crossing Jordan this year because we were both bitching about how stupid Bones had become mid-S3 on. CJ is a smarter, darker and somewhat grubbier predecessor to Bones, which "borrows" many elements of the earlier series. (Although the attempts to deal with race, gender and sexual orientation are problematic at best.) I had a huge crush on Jill Hennessey in the '90's when she was a regular on Law & Order, so I'm not sure why it took me so long to check out the series. I don't love Jordan Cavenaugh as much as Buffy, of course, but she was so much fun to watch. And Garret Macy and Renee Walcott might be my second-favorite canon 'ship after Buffy & Spike. Their banter was sexy, witty, angry, mature, evoking old-school movie couples; like Buffy and Spike they're perfectly matched characters.
So I'm returning the favor to Bonedry with some CJ icons. Weirdly enough there's only one fansite, Crossing Jordan Online, dedicated to the show currently with screencaps, from which I've borrowed the images for these. Enjoy the pretties.
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Yeah, that's the primary barrier. And between three fics that for some reason I decided was a good idea to be working on/posting concurrently... as it is there have lately been days where I've been writing since getting off school and suddenly I realize it's 11:34 and something is due tomorrow and I forgot to eat but I also forgot to go shopping but all I want to do is keep writing...
(I really DO NOT think the human brain was meant to handle this amount of information at the speed we're trying to do so. No wonder ADD is becoming so pervasive...)
I honestly think you're right. I feel like I'm living in a world of over-saturation, but all the colors bleed away and get replaced by something new everytime I try to look at them. And the internet is such a good visual metaphor for it, when you can just watch the update count climb, when you can barely finish reading a meme before it gets buried under a hundred more. And it's hard because I want to focus (which is probably why I like single-focus activities that take massive amounts of time, like writing and art), but the world is always pulling me in a dozen different directions between my likes and classes and other people and other activities/obligations. It just doesn't feel like a healthy mindset or way to live, but short of becoming a hermit, it doesn't seem like there's much of a way to simplify.
There have been times when I've read a fanfic and not really wanted or had time to do a review but wanted to let the author know I've read it, and wished there was a "like" function as with Facebook.
I can get that, but just back in '09 it feels like the amount of lurkers/subbers and the amount of reviewers was a lot closer together. I'm kind of glad there isn't a like function, because I feel like that'd make it even easier for people not to say anything.
she's gotten some very good numbers re: readers there
Yeah, I mean, actual view count is great on the site (and, yes, I am talking about fanfiction.net), but review count is terrible. I think one of the primary problems with that site is it doesn't encourage discussion at all, since the reply system is awful. And you're right that the vast majority of the stuff posted there is beyond terrible, but I have found the rare and occasional gem there.
But, I mean, I got 2.2k views yesterday, between a drabble I'd posted a few hours to midnight and then an update to the longfic (this is for Castle), and I think somewhere around 30+ new subscriptions, but very little actual written response. Maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing? I dunno, it's just kind of frustrating, since feedback is the only way we get paid for our time. One PM I got yesterday meant more to me than seeing how many people were reading, if that makes sense.
...to having a desktop, a laptop and her ipod is her CONSTANT companion.
A pattern that's becoming increasingly pervasive. See: my grandmother.
More activity, more people discovering the fandom, but more anger and arguing as well. (And the revival of the shipper wars oh hurray everyone really wanted that, didn't they? */end sarcasm*)
Oh, no, you're completely right. And I've ranted for hours about the horrors/annoyances of fandom and the people it attracts (oh god, fluffernutter shippers, why?), but the lack of centralized forum and places to find people who care about the same crap you do is frustrating. But I am glad for your optimism, that fandom is resting rather than dying. I hope we do see a resurgence, that we'll see people deciding they'd prefer actual discussion over slapping impact font on a screencap... that'd be great, even if it'd also be pretty awful (fannits and stupid arguments that always seem to fall six hundred yards short of the point...).