This week's fannish five....
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graculus1. AUs: yes please or what's the point?
Both. Depending on the skill of the writer involved and their ability to mess with the setting without messing with the characters. AU is *not* just an excuse to write original fic where the protagonists just happen to have the same names as the characters they're 'based' on.
And by 'AU' do we mean Jack and Daniel as pirates or Jack and Daniel in a universe that resembles our own but is slightly/more than slightly altered? I'm going with both possibilities here... ;)
2. What's the best AU you've read?
BTW, these are all slash:
I'm very fond of This Is It by Quinn, which has Daniel-whumping taken to the extreme. He gets whumped, doesn't get better, Jack has to cope...
Then there's Prison by Jack Reuben Darcy, which is an excellent Sentinel AU.
I'd also highly recommend Lilith Sedai's excellent series of Phantom Menace AU stories that start with Water, when Obi Wan ends up as Yoda's apprentice instead.
Then, despite it being Skinner/Krycek (kind of), there's Beyond the Barrier of Snow by Josan.
3. What's the worst AU you've read?
Most of the Mag7 AUs are pretty poor, or just badly thought out and disobey Grac's First Law of AU (that'd be 'Who the hell are these guys and why should we care? If you can't make me bother, you've lost me...'). The seven as dog show judges? The seven as a rock band? Pffft.
4. How would you like to see your fandom altered that you haven't seen yet?
Don't really mind as long as the characters stay true to themselves. Is this a good time to say that I've written an AU Stargate novella that pretty much breaks new ground this way? ;)
5. What AU worked that you never would have expected?
Another slash fic:
Shalott's Master & Commander story, Five Things That Never Happened 5: The World Turned Upside Down. Read it and discover why! ;)
Both. Depending on the skill of the writer involved and their ability to mess with the setting without messing with the characters. AU is *not* just an excuse to write original fic where the protagonists just happen to have the same names as the characters they're 'based' on.
And by 'AU' do we mean Jack and Daniel as pirates or Jack and Daniel in a universe that resembles our own but is slightly/more than slightly altered? I'm going with both possibilities here... ;)
2. What's the best AU you've read?
BTW, these are all slash:
I'm very fond of This Is It by Quinn, which has Daniel-whumping taken to the extreme. He gets whumped, doesn't get better, Jack has to cope...
Then there's Prison by Jack Reuben Darcy, which is an excellent Sentinel AU.
I'd also highly recommend Lilith Sedai's excellent series of Phantom Menace AU stories that start with Water, when Obi Wan ends up as Yoda's apprentice instead.
Then, despite it being Skinner/Krycek (kind of), there's Beyond the Barrier of Snow by Josan.
3. What's the worst AU you've read?
Most of the Mag7 AUs are pretty poor, or just badly thought out and disobey Grac's First Law of AU (that'd be 'Who the hell are these guys and why should we care? If you can't make me bother, you've lost me...'). The seven as dog show judges? The seven as a rock band? Pffft.
4. How would you like to see your fandom altered that you haven't seen yet?
Don't really mind as long as the characters stay true to themselves. Is this a good time to say that I've written an AU Stargate novella that pretty much breaks new ground this way? ;)
5. What AU worked that you never would have expected?
Another slash fic:
Shalott's Master & Commander story, Five Things That Never Happened 5: The World Turned Upside Down. Read it and discover why! ;)
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Date: 2004-05-01 09:21 am (UTC)Anyway, this novella has Teal'c and Bra'tac in it, as well as a couple of recurring characters making appearances. I hope people will enjoy it... Like you say, it's hard to mess with the premise without completely short-circuiting the characters. What is it about Jack and Daniel that makes them *them*?
Annie's AU zines are equally home to what if? stories as they are to messing around with the quantum mirror or out and out AUs.
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Date: 2004-05-01 11:37 am (UTC)Yay! You deserve it. Well, the compliments, not the blushes
And the next novella sounds exactly like something I want to read.
"What is it about Jack and Daniel that makes them *them*?"
They both have nice smiles, nice eyes, nice hands and nice arses. What, you want characterisation as well?
"Annie's AU zines are equally home to what if? stories as they are to messing around with the quantum mirror or out and out AUs."
In all that blushing, I think you missed what I was getting at. Since the finances are low, the only way I can get hold of this zine is to write a story for it. But since I want to read your fic, I have this problem in that I've never written slash. No idea how to go about it. But damn, I wanna read your fic! Waaaaa!
So, it's time to expand into a different realm of writing, methinks. All I have to do is find a way to control time so I have at least 36 hours in the day.