Various fannish delights

[altariel]

First of all, there are an amazing 135 prompts for the 2008 Bujold Fest! Take a look here. I'm sure you'll find something to tempt you. Story posting begins August 10th, and with a minimum word count of 500 words, you definitely have time. (Think: 500 words - that's a Five Things That Never Happened drabble series.) Thank you to sahiya for organizing and for collating that huge list of prompts.

Also, take a look at the beautiful new Blake's 7 fanfic archive Hip Deep in Heroes (great name). I had a play with it this morning and it's dead easy to use: go, post! (I gather that if you're familiar with the Doctor Who archive A Teaspoon and an Open Mind you'll find this similar to use.) Thank you to vandonovan and everyone else who has helped create this.

Comments

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

The new B7 archive (hadn't realised it had a name) is such a fantastic idea. I'm really feeling enthusiastic about B7 fandom for the first time in several years.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed writing my recent Servalan fanfic. When our new telly finally arrives, I might start B7 again from the beginning.

It's a great name for the archive, although nothing will ever equal the subtitle of that site that focused on the relationships between Istari: "Meddling in the Affairs of Wizards".

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I missed Altariel Servalan fic? I can't watch B7 (we have tapes & no functional tape machine), and Mr EA hates B7 so much I daren't suggest buying the dvds. Have to have a marathon DS9 watch instead.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Here it is: I wrote it for majoritython.

I think I'm about due a rewatch of DS9 too...

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I like that (says she unable to come up with more intelligent feedback, & unable to offer even a B7 icon). By the way, did majoritython only get ~four entries, or are there more if one joins the community?

I started to rewatch S1 a few months back, but got distracted by shiny Twin Peaks somewhere before the writers fathomed what the set-up was good for.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Glad you like! There are only four entries at the moment, but several more stories are still due to come. (There's nothing f'locked.)

[gair.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAHA MILES/SIMON.

But in the wrong place in the timeline! ::mourns::

[altariel.livejournal.com]

DO NOT FEAR TO USE THE FLASHBACK.

[gair.livejournal.com]

Also, are you going to write 'Cordelia and the Doctor'? BECAUSE YOU MUST, IT IS THE LAW.

Shush about the flashback. I am going to finish my HP novel and my MONOGRAPH this summer. Shush.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

SHOW ME YOURS AND I SHALL SHOW YOU MINE.

Which Doctor, do you think?

[gair.livejournal.com]

Well that one obviously ::points at your icon:: Actually, possibly my brane is fried by the Sevenlove, but I think Seven and Cordelia would be a nice pair. Or Five? Because he would sort of disappear into the background and be completely unlike anyone in Cordelia's usual orbit...

SHOW ME YOURS AND I SHALL SHOW YOU MINE.

IT IS BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION, I am resolutely undazzled by the tinsel of neofascism. (But no-one has claimed it yet! And I haven't written a short story in so long! And there would be Miles and Simon having sex in it!)

[gair.livejournal.com]

Okay, you win.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Everybody wins!

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Hah! I was also shuffling through Five, Seven, and Ten! I quite fancy letting Ace loose on sexist Barrayar. But I also quite like the thought of Donna and Cordelia coming face-to-face, though - A Riot of Remarkable Redheads. I shall have a ponder...


IT IS BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION

I protest! In fact it is LOW CUNNING.

[gair.livejournal.com]

Squee!

Oh, Ace on Barrayar would be quite literally ace. I can't quite imagine Donna and Cordelia together (though it was gerald's first reaction, too, and of course not being able to imagine it makes me all the more wildly curious to see someone else's imagining...)

Hey, I was thinking about The Fires of Pompeii the other day and the 'Mr and Mrs Spartacus' line and how that interacts with your Slave War story, and I suddenly realized that you write Doctor Who canon and came over all peculiar. Do you think of your pro Who stuff as canonical, out of interest?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Do you think of your pro Who stuff as canonical, out of interest?

I've been pondering this over the last couple of days and I came to the conclusion that I just don't naturally think in terms of canon/canonicity. The aim is to write something that doesn't (to the best of my ability) contradict anything seen on screen, because that makes the process an intellectual pleasure of teasing the story out of the gaps, rather than 'playing by the rules'. Which of course I'm going to prefer to imagine myself doing!

Having said that, the moment I saw the word I'd established for the postwar Cardassian head-of-state used by another writer in one of the Trek books, I got a massive thrill: "I HAZ MADE TREKZ! LIKE - PROPER TREKZ!"

I don't know if the DW Big Finish productions are generally seen as canon, btw. The debate about the canonicity or otherwise of the Star Trek books is raging at the moment - again - over at the Trek BBS. I just read in that thread that the Star Wars books talk in terms of an "Expanded Universe", which I think means, "Canon until George Lucas decides to contradict it on screen."

Hmm, not sure I answered your question.

[executrix.livejournal.com]

Oh, it means Miles/Simon ILLYAN! I got quite a shock, because in my threatened Vorkosigan/Firefly crossover, of course it's Miles/Zoe.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

LOL! Yes, there's more than one Simon out there, although the Boy Tam is perhaps the prettiest...

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Maybe I should dust off my picowrimo attempt, and see if I can make it progress. It started off being about Ekaterin and Laisa being friends, but diverted into Gregor/Laisa and stalled.

It depends on what happens over the next couple of weeks, in all sorts of ways, though.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

It'll be lovely to see that story. But, yes, you have loads on your plate at the moment.

[avon7.livejournal.com]

Thank you for that B7 archive - I've been wanting a nice B7 archive for a while. I'd really like to get all my B7 stuff online, now that the world of the paperzine is largely dead. (Or at least as much of it as doesn't make me run screaming in the opposite direction, given I learnt to write in B7.)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

It's weird looking back on old stuff (a lot of my B7 stuff is early too). I suppose you can always give them a polish before posting online.

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

Don't lead me into temptation with all the LMB prompts! I haven't even begun my story for femgenficathon...

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Ooh, go on, you know you want to. 500 words, that's all...

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

As I am apparently unable to get any writing done these days, even so much as a drabble, I shall have to decline politely. But I'm sure that I could write feedback for other people's stories!

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

Ooo you've claimed Cordelia and the Doctor! I'll look forward to that.

I haven't felt up to claiming something, but I'm off walking in Yorkshire for a week on Saturday so maybe I'll get inspired.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I'll have to think up something first *scratches head*

Hope the walking clears your head, and we must get together when you're back!

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I hadn't quite realised how much I needed to get away ;-) See you when I get back - unless I disappear down a bog. I have a feeling that even spiffy boots aren't going to keep me dry.

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

Ooops that's scalps ;-)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

And it is the Other Side of the Pennines, so be extra careful out there amongst them!

[edge-of-ruin.livejournal.com]

I'll have to think up something first *scratches head*

I'd like them to find a use for the Cetagandan sculps in the attic.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yes, do that!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Oh oh oh, you put Under the Influence there!!! I love that story!! I belong to a genfic mailing list - okay if I rec it???

[altariel.livejournal.com]

By all means! Thank you!

I'm looking forward to rereading A Christmas Canto, which I adore.