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vanillafluffyHALLOWEEN PARTY INVITATION-COME AS YOU'RE NOT: 2009
This is the fourth party of its kind---I participated the first two times. Year One produced Bad Fairy (a three-way House MD-Supernatural-Burning Zone crossover which I still think is one of the best things I've ever written---certainly the best-researched!). Year Two was good for my first work of RPF, True Love and Other Fairy Tales. Last year, I was just not up for it. Now, though, with unemployment giving me vast stretches of unoccupied time, I'm contemplating my ensemble.
It's a tricky question. I have multiple candidates: I could go for a new fandom (I've not ventured into Leverage territory yet, or Heroes), a new genre (I've never written a Western, despite being a long-time Louis L'Amour fan), a squick (I've never written Wincest), or I could try to finish something that's languished for ages (I can think of a few things that have been on the drawing board for a year or more, and that's usually the kiss of death).
Things I've done and can cross off my "To Do" list:
AUs, space operas, crossovers, slash (<---Actually nailed all four in "Beyond Blade Runner"), ghosts (<---prior to SPN), flashbacks, future fic, songfic, past tense, present tense, 1st, 2nd and 3rd person, parodies including Sues and self-insertion, OCs/OFCs, outsider PoV, obscure canon characters, obscure fandoms, unlikely pairings, missing scenes, sequels, prequels, multi-part epics, drabbles, multi-part drabbles (Seriously. Try a 36-chapter fic in which the 34 chapters in the middle were all double drabbles.), scads of holiday fic---including Arbor Day, twu wuv, fluff, tongue-in-cheek, screwball comedy and crack (not all of which has been recognizedd as such), murders, mpreg, med!kink, generally served up with a twist at the end, or as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
karaokegal would say, a KEL: Killer Ending Line.
Fandoms:
Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Edward Scissorhands, Secret Window, Ninth Gate, Pirates of the Caribbean, American Gods, Silence of the Lambs, Harry Potter, Benny and Joon, From Hell, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, National Treasure, Troy, Pacifier, Pitch Black, Blade Runner, Assassins, James Bond, British Comedy, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Janet Evanovich, Equilibrium, xXx, House, M.D., Batman Begins, Quills, Mummy, Due South, Flight of the Phoenix, Supernatural, Jericho, Burning Zone, Wild Wild West, Torchwood, Criminal Minds, Crystal Singer Trilogy, Watchmen, Gilmore Girls, RPF, Highlander, Royal Pains, Harper's Island, NCIS, and Heroes.
Any thoughts or comments? Bueller?
Thank the deity of your choice for the "Saved from draft" option---for some reason, this didn't post last night when I actually wrote it. I swear, this computer gets slower and slower and more and more idiocyncratic. I can't *imagine* why, it's *only* five years old. -- /sarcasm
This is the fourth party of its kind---I participated the first two times. Year One produced Bad Fairy (a three-way House MD-Supernatural-Burning Zone crossover which I still think is one of the best things I've ever written---certainly the best-researched!). Year Two was good for my first work of RPF, True Love and Other Fairy Tales. Last year, I was just not up for it. Now, though, with unemployment giving me vast stretches of unoccupied time, I'm contemplating my ensemble.
It's a tricky question. I have multiple candidates: I could go for a new fandom (I've not ventured into Leverage territory yet, or Heroes), a new genre (I've never written a Western, despite being a long-time Louis L'Amour fan), a squick (I've never written Wincest), or I could try to finish something that's languished for ages (I can think of a few things that have been on the drawing board for a year or more, and that's usually the kiss of death).
Things I've done and can cross off my "To Do" list:
AUs, space operas, crossovers, slash (<---Actually nailed all four in "Beyond Blade Runner"), ghosts (<---prior to SPN), flashbacks, future fic, songfic, past tense, present tense, 1st, 2nd and 3rd person, parodies including Sues and self-insertion, OCs/OFCs, outsider PoV, obscure canon characters, obscure fandoms, unlikely pairings, missing scenes, sequels, prequels, multi-part epics, drabbles, multi-part drabbles (Seriously. Try a 36-chapter fic in which the 34 chapters in the middle were all double drabbles.), scads of holiday fic---including Arbor Day, twu wuv, fluff, tongue-in-cheek, screwball comedy and crack (not all of which has been recognizedd as such), murders, mpreg, med!kink, generally served up with a twist at the end, or as
karaokegal would say, a KEL: Killer Ending Line.Fandoms:
Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Edward Scissorhands, Secret Window, Ninth Gate, Pirates of the Caribbean, American Gods, Silence of the Lambs, Harry Potter, Benny and Joon, From Hell, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, National Treasure, Troy, Pacifier, Pitch Black, Blade Runner, Assassins, James Bond, British Comedy, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Janet Evanovich, Equilibrium, xXx, House, M.D., Batman Begins, Quills, Mummy, Due South, Flight of the Phoenix, Supernatural, Jericho, Burning Zone, Wild Wild West, Torchwood, Criminal Minds, Crystal Singer Trilogy, Watchmen, Gilmore Girls, RPF, Highlander, Royal Pains, Harper's Island, NCIS, and Heroes.
Any thoughts or comments? Bueller?
Thank the deity of your choice for the "Saved from draft" option---for some reason, this didn't post last night when I actually wrote it. I swear, this computer gets slower and slower and more and more idiocyncratic. I can't *imagine* why, it's *only* five years old. -- /sarcasm
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Date: 2009-09-02 10:47 pm (UTC)I would love to see you write Benny and Joon, NCIS, Torchwood or Harper's Island fic. Flight of the Phoenix and Burning Zone would be like getting an early Christmas present.
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Date: 2009-09-03 12:33 am (UTC)Actually, I've already written in all those fandoms:
Benny & Joon 2
NCIS 1 (drabble)
Torchwood 1
Harper's Island 1 (drabble)
Flight of the Phoenix 4
Burning Zone 2 (including Bad Fairy)
They can all be found here. (http://www.fanfiction.net/~vanillafluffy)
But I'll keep your longings in mind!
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Date: 2009-09-03 12:56 am (UTC)You could whip out another of your fabulous crossovers. Maybe Edward Marcase gets called in as infectious disease expert on an NCIS case. Or House meets Joon in the mental hospital and Captain Jack Harkness runs across Ian Crowe in a bar in Mongolia. The possibilities are just endless. :D
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Date: 2009-09-02 11:20 pm (UTC)a new genre (I've never written a Western, despite being a long-time Louis L'Amour fan)
personally, I'd love it if you wrote something in the Morgan's Rangers 'verse, because I'm still fascinated by the world building in it
http://morgans-rangers.livejournal.com/3227.html#cutid1%23cutid1
it's very AU Western (main story J2/CWRPS, but there are side stories with different folks, so you could use anyone you liked)
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Date: 2009-09-03 03:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-03 01:02 am (UTC)(I never read L'Amour, but I read tons of McMurtry)
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Date: 2009-09-03 03:52 am (UTC)*mulls*
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Date: 2009-09-03 05:27 am (UTC)If you need inspiration, Tom Selleck and Sam Elliot did a whole slew of L'Amour-based movies (together and seperately) from 1979 (The Sacketts) to 2001 (Crossfire Trail).
OTOH, an NCIS/Torchwood crossover could be fun.
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Date: 2009-09-03 05:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-03 02:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-03 03:56 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-03 07:21 am (UTC)rrrowrrr I bet that man looks good in a saddle. *melts*
Being from Texas, I was raised on Westerns, but I never got into Western novels until I was married. My ex was a huge L'Amour and Zane Grey fan. I was surprised at how many were the basis for movies I'd loved.
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Date: 2009-09-03 03:33 pm (UTC)He certainly has the legs for it.
I never did get into Zane Gray. I read two of his---don't recall the titles---and they were both the identical plot. Turned me right off.
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Date: 2009-09-03 07:16 pm (UTC)You seem to have some great suggestions contemplate, so all I'll throw in is the reminder that the costume can be the style itself, and that if you wanted to hard back to the glory days of House, there's always the
I'm looking forward to your presence, as always. If I provide the fixings, can I impose upon you to bring the Pannini maker again?
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Date: 2009-09-03 08:30 pm (UTC)I'll dust off the pannini maker and fire 'er up!
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Date: 2009-09-05 01:02 am (UTC)If the PC is slow because you need more memory, well.... it won't help so much with that, I'm afraid.
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Date: 2009-09-06 01:28 pm (UTC)