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.

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[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.