FANFIC AUTHORS' APPRECIATION WEEK DAY 3
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speaker_to_customersStill rushed and disorganised. I think tonight I’ll recommend the Kings of the Crossover. Authors who mix the Buffyverse with other settings and actually manage to make it convincing.
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booster17, known as Booster 1 on his fanfiction.net profile. Superman, Predator, the Stargate SG-1 crew, and – most memorably of all – Aziriphale from “Good Omens”, Booster has introduced the Buffy characters to them all and more with riotous results.
Marcus Rowland,ffutures, the absolute master. Check out his stuff at Twisting the Hellmouth. From Remo Williams the Destroyer, to Batman, to CSI – too many to mention, and all brilliant. Current WIPs include a Buffyverse/Stargate SG-1 crossover that balances the two sets of characters absolutely perfectly and is seriously gripping and superbly plotted, and – my personal favourite – the uproarious “Deeds of Maidenly Unkindness”, in which Buffy and Willow get jobs as substitute teachers at the most notorious school in English fiction; the ghastly St Trinians, the only girls’ school to be mentioned in the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty.
And Kate Nuernberg, author of “Demons are forever”, an awesome Buffy/Terry Pratchett’s Discworld crossover that captures the character of both environments beautifully and with wonderfully comic effect. Alas, the entry in my Favourites is coming up as a dead link and I can’t find the story again.
ADDITION: I missed out of this list Don Sample, who has crossed BtVS with Dragnet, Captain Scarlet, and others, and done it very well indeed. I've known him on Usenet for years (not as long as I've known Marcus, but nearly) so I really shouldn't have overlooked him.
I haven’t done much writing in the past couple of days, haven’t felt well enough to give the WIPs the attention they deserve, but I’m recovering. Here is a drabble in the Doctor Who universe, for no particular reason.
The vast space ship’s shadow cast a pall of darkness over Glastonbury as it descended. It came to a halt a few feet above the ground and hovered. From a hatch in its side a ramp extended, leading down to the stage, and four Daleks emerged and traversed the ramp. Coldplay fled hastily as the warrior machines approached.
The Daleks took the place of the departed musicians and picked up the discarded instruments with their strange appendages. The leader seized the microphone and the others struck chords.
The rasping mechanical voice rang out.
“IT’S NO FUN - BEING AN ILLEGAL ALIEN”
booster17, known as Booster 1 on his fanfiction.net profile. Superman, Predator, the Stargate SG-1 crew, and – most memorably of all – Aziriphale from “Good Omens”, Booster has introduced the Buffy characters to them all and more with riotous results.Marcus Rowland,
ffutures, the absolute master. Check out his stuff at Twisting the Hellmouth. From Remo Williams the Destroyer, to Batman, to CSI – too many to mention, and all brilliant. Current WIPs include a Buffyverse/Stargate SG-1 crossover that balances the two sets of characters absolutely perfectly and is seriously gripping and superbly plotted, and – my personal favourite – the uproarious “Deeds of Maidenly Unkindness”, in which Buffy and Willow get jobs as substitute teachers at the most notorious school in English fiction; the ghastly St Trinians, the only girls’ school to be mentioned in the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty.And Kate Nuernberg, author of “Demons are forever”, an awesome Buffy/Terry Pratchett’s Discworld crossover that captures the character of both environments beautifully and with wonderfully comic effect. Alas, the entry in my Favourites is coming up as a dead link and I can’t find the story again.
ADDITION: I missed out of this list Don Sample, who has crossed BtVS with Dragnet, Captain Scarlet, and others, and done it very well indeed. I've known him on Usenet for years (not as long as I've known Marcus, but nearly) so I really shouldn't have overlooked him.
I haven’t done much writing in the past couple of days, haven’t felt well enough to give the WIPs the attention they deserve, but I’m recovering. Here is a drabble in the Doctor Who universe, for no particular reason.
GENESIS – OF – THE – DALEKS
The vast space ship’s shadow cast a pall of darkness over Glastonbury as it descended. It came to a halt a few feet above the ground and hovered. From a hatch in its side a ramp extended, leading down to the stage, and four Daleks emerged and traversed the ramp. Coldplay fled hastily as the warrior machines approached.
The Daleks took the place of the departed musicians and picked up the discarded instruments with their strange appendages. The leader seized the microphone and the others struck chords.
The rasping mechanical voice rang out.
“IT’S NO FUN - BEING AN ILLEGAL ALIEN”
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Date: 2005-03-09 01:04 am (UTC)*Gasp* Suddenly it all makes sense!!!
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Date: 2005-03-09 12:26 am (UTC)I just googled on Kate Nuernberg fanfic but all of the results I got were dead links - looks like she's pulled her stories and dropped out of fanfic.
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Date: 2005-03-09 02:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-09 01:05 am (UTC)OMG! My two favorite fandoms collide!!! Thank you for rec'ing this!! ::scampers off to read the goodies::
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Date: 2005-03-09 01:06 am (UTC)Thanks.
*blushes more*
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Date: 2005-03-09 01:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-09 02:02 am (UTC)... and then Peter Gabriel left and Phil Collins took over vocals.
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Date: 2005-03-09 02:13 am (UTC)Here, the public tv stations beg viewers for money at regular intervals. I remember one local station "humoring" the sci fi club by showing a few episodes during a fundraiser, and promising to show more if they got enough donations. They raised so much money during the airings, they started showing Doctor Who every night of the week. Mr. M and I used to watch as newlyweds.
We got Red Dwarf by using similar tactics.
Truly, Americans are insane.
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Date: 2005-03-09 03:01 am (UTC)It just won't be the same without the cardboard sets.
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Date: 2005-03-09 04:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-03-09 04:35 am (UTC)Actually met Anneke Wills once - Polly to the first and second Doctors. She looked so young that she must have been an embryo when she was acting back then, because... damn.
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Date: 2005-03-09 06:16 pm (UTC)She really is something else, isn't she?
The New Daleks
Date: 2005-03-09 05:21 pm (UTC)Re: The New Daleks
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Date: 2005-03-09 04:36 am (UTC)Maybe the new computer graphics mean that the Daleks will finally be able to pursue people up stairs...
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Date: 2005-03-19 02:55 am (UTC)Remembrance of the Daleks, back in 1988. Eeeeek! I remember that well!
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Date: 2005-03-09 03:55 pm (UTC)Coldplay fled hastily - we can but hope. I wonder what
Genesisthe Daleks will make of Billie Piper?no subject
Date: 2005-03-09 03:58 pm (UTC)Toast, hopefully.
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Date: 2005-03-19 03:02 am (UTC)Deeds of Maidenly Unkindness : right here.
Enjoy!
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Date: 2005-03-10 04:48 am (UTC)Feel better soon.
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