Unpublished fanficcy list part 2
More of the same!
Title - Universe
Be-Longing - DS9
Beastly Passions - DS9
Changeling’s Cradle - DS9
The Clay Caper - DS9
Emotional Crisis - DS9 crackfic
Elf (Cheap) Shot - DS9 sillyfic/parody
Fever - DS9
In The Dark of the Night - DS9 darkfic
If You’ll be True To Me - DS9
Lessons Learnt - DS9
Love and War - DS9
Love Sickness - DS9
No Child Born of Woman - DS9
The Obligatory Sappy Christmas Story - DS9 sillyfic
Pique - DS9
The Professional - DS9
Save Me - DS9
Time Killer - DS9
Wart - DS9
Wish You Were Here - DS9
Chance Meetings - DS9
Innocent Eyes - DS9
The Messenger - DS9
Nasty Little Surprises - DS9
Little Miss Sorrow - DS9
Mama’s Going Away - DS9
Teen Titans/Misfits Xover [aka Give Me a Good Title, Damnit!] - XME/TT
Who wants to see what?
Unpublished fanficcy list
As I mentioned earlier, I have over 100 fanfics squirrelled around the place.
This is all the titles of the ones that have not seen Tumblr yet, and their universes.
Mother - XME
A Singular Day - XME
And Thou Beside Me - XME
Bayville By Gaslight - XME
Blue Love - XME
Blessing-Curse - XME
Little Blob Lost - DS9
Blue Summers - XME
Broken Minds - X-Men Comicverse
Could Have Been - DS9
We Need a Dang Title (The Dragon Story) - XME
Dreaming Off Leash - DS9
In Another World - DS9
Elf Service - XME
The Everfree Demon - MLPFIM
Fable - XME
Fein! - XME
First Days - XME
Firsts - DS9
Free to a Loving Home - XME
Haunted Institute - XME [and not entirely mine]
So Into You - XME
Nor Iron Bars A Cage - XME
It's… It’s Green - Girl Genius
I Will Follow You - XME
Kurt Wagner and the Weirdo Wizards - XME/Harry Potter
Lift Me Up - XME
Lost and Found - X-Men Movieverse
Lost Souls - X-Men Comicverse
Learning to Fly - XME
Listen What the Man Said - XME
Miracles and Machinations - XME
The Help - XME/Nanny McPhee
Meet Mikie - XME
Mein Teufel - XME with a hint of BTVS
Michael Meets World - X-Men Comicverse… sorta
The Nightcrawler Movie - It’s Own Good Self
Never Give Up - XME
Out of the Darkness - XME
An Ingenious Paradox - XME
Plus la Change - X-Men AU
The Price - XME
Plot? What Plot? - XME
Mirror Malevolent - XME
Raising Enigma - MLPFIM/DS9
Reale Liebe - XME
Salvation - XME
Sara’s Wish - XME
The Scion - XME
Be Sure Thy Sins… - XME
Summer Breeze - XME
Therapy - DS9
Through the Mirror Crack’d - DS9
The Shapeshifter - DS9/TNG
The Sun Will Shine, But There’ll be no Light - DS9
Toad Transformed - WATXM
Through These Broken Memories - XME
‘Till There Was You - XME
Love Bites - XME
Waifs and Strays - X-Men Movieverse
Warped Mirror - DS9
When Der Fuhrer Says… - XME
The Wings of a… Butterfly - WATXM
Where the Heck is Bayville? - Crossover-utopia
Picking up Pieces - X-Men Movieverse
After the Hurt-Comfort - X-Men Movieverse
Currently Nameless X-3 Ficcy - X-Men Movieverse
1000 Deaths - Portal
A New Slice - Portal
Proposed X-4 - X-Men Movieverse
In the Sky, Hope - Doctor Who
There, Only Hope - Doctor Who
Hope Springs Eternal - Doctor Who
Toybox - X-Men AU
Bringing Up Pilot (Serial) - Farscape
Downtime - Farscape
Emancipation - Farscape
The FarSmut Project - Farscape crackfic
The Good Shepherd - Farscape
Imaginary Friend? - Farscape
Hell is Other People (Especially if They’re Rygel) - Farscape
Tying Up Loose Ends - Farscape
Somebody to Love - Farscape
…Whether We Like it or Not - Farscape
Strange Bedfellows - Farscape
The Major’s New Clothes - DS9 crackfic
A Light in the Darkness - DS9
The Rebellion Saga - DS9
43 Minutes, 20 Seconds - DS9
The Assassin - DS9 rejected script
Baby Mine - DS9
When I find any of my other fics, I’ll publish an addendum list.
Meanwhile, which one do you want added to the queue?
Fanfic Time: Recycled Souls part 2
I swear to Blob I had more of this. Feckin backups… why do they never back up automagically. Blah.
Fanfic Time: Recycled Souls part 1
Warning: this is yet another unfinished fic. I kinda lost the umph to write more some time ago. It’s still lurking in the back of my head, so tallyho!
Next fics in the queue:
Recycled Souls An XME Kurmanda fic in which both are reborn again and again into different times and places.
Flotsam Sara Louise comes into the MovieVerse to rescue a toad and turn him into a prince.
Don’t Pity Me A rare finished fic, that also happens to be darkfic. Contains child abuse, rape, hideous things happening to good people, evil people and generalised nastiness. You have been warned.
I’m still taking requests?
Where do I go from here?
Wow.
That was a LOT of fanfic.
Now that I’ve submitted my entry for Understatement of the Year… I have two little things.
First, an apology.
I am very sorry I haven’t written any more. Please contain your screams of anguish.
Second, an announcement.
I am working on a novel where Sara gets her own universe. This has not stopped her from wanting to butt in on my other fandoms. I also have several other fics in progress including one inspired directly by this blog entry.
Now, since the one related to Dresden Codak requires their kind permission lest I get into trouble for ripping off their art… that last one may not see the light of day for quite some time. I have asked for kind permission, but nothing has come of it. Alas, alack.
Note, that I am in no way encouraging my fans [You loyal few] to spam the poor fellow on my behalf. I have asked thrice with no reply. That is, at least to my mind, an ungentle clue that my attentions are not wanted.
I am, however, encouraging you all to buy at least one of my short stories over at Smashwords, because I need an income, blobdamnit.
Third, yes, I am planning to write more Misfits, just as soon as I can figure out what the living eff I’m doing next. I remember having more, but that’s not the same thing as actually having it in my possession.
Insert generic appeal to fans who may actually have more here.
Because, you know, reconstructing a missing hunk of fic sucks arse.
That said, I’m pretty sure there’s some of you who would like to see more of any of my fics. I have lots. Not just in X-Men: Evolution. I have fics in Farscape, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Portal, and, of course, Doctor Who.
So send an ask if you have a specific title in mind, or even if you want to see something of a specific size in a particular fandom [drabble, short, novella, novel, epic, and OMG-are-you-still-writing-that?]. Keep in mind that the longer the fic is, the longer the queue gets.
So. Any requests?
Changing Worlds
I thought I’d take a break from OWS for a bit to discuss my writing. It is why I started this blog in the first place. Thinking of something to write every day has had me quasi-geared towards finding material for my blog. Great.
But it’s been keeping me from my indfic.
Thank goodness for fanfic.
I love writing fanfic. There’s so much less one has to explain, keep straight, or look up. An admired writer once told me, “It’s fanfic. You can make [character(s)] purple if you wanted to.” [FYI- that writer is Donna Barr and we were communicating via email of my depiction of her character, Stinz Lowhard.]
But… I like being accurate. Sure, you could make character X purple. Or put them on the moon. Or make them walk across the ceiling for the lulz… but would they still be character X? Or are you making a new character based on the character you love?
This is where cannon meets fannon. It’s also where Movie vs Book tends to raise a lot of fire. When you change the environment that something is depicted in [even if it’s a transition from prose to stage] things have to change.
You can’t always find an actor that looks exactly like X should. And you can’t always write character X walking into world Y and have it turn out to be a good story.
So when my figment, Sara Louise Adrien, wanted to be a pony [I have a strange relationship with my creations] I had to really think about things. The things that made her wonderful in my X-Men: Evolution fics could not translate directly into the land of Equestria.
Verbally abusive mom? Ponies aren’t abusive moms of any kidney. This is a world where ponies are (mostly) nice to other ponies and, if not fully befriending - at least accepting. So I couldn’t put Jaqui in a horse skin and have it work.
So… Jaqui became a dragon. Literally. Who has yet to appear in my fic. Dragons strike me as being a lot more… physical… than verbal, so she’s both a dwarf dragon and obsessed with exactness. And Sara, now Star Wishes, is a lot more high-strung and strung out than her mutant version, as a direct result.
Absentee dad? Er. The story surrounding Sara’s adoption is still unravelling in my head [I’m debating whether or not Dragon-Jaqui destroyed Star’s village in the final act of the Dragon-Equine war and was forced to adopt the only survivor…] so I’m currently not mentioning dad at all. I have another debate as to whether or not pulling a long-lost dad out of my butt at the end would make for satisfying narrative.
Pretty much most of this got thought out before I put finger to touchscreen [I write on an iPad - it goes everywhere with me] to place the first words in my story.
Even if you’re writing fanfic - where the world-building is unnecessary - there’s still a bit of history and continuity to consider. Some you may know. Some, you may draw conclusions for from things mentioned or shown in cannon [that which we see or is stated by Word of God (the creators of said work) ] to create your own or shared fannon [stuff the fans hold to be true, regardless of what the work explicitly states or the creator has said].
For instance, back when I was running Realm of the InterNutter [it’s down and out for the count, until such time as a sufficiently large mallet can be found] I had the fannon town of Heirelgart for Evo!Nightcrawler to grow up in as a well-rounded individual. It also had centaurs in it, which explained why an entire town could be so casual about a kid with blue fur and a tail. I was happy to share Heirelgart with anyone who asked - or gave credit - and it was entirely up to them as to whether or not they wanted the centaurs with it.
Give it a decade or so and Nightcrawler’s home town may be mentioned in cannon as being Heirelgart, just because it got around :) I like that idea. I’m not going to squeal “copyright” or sue for millions. I’m going to grin like a smug little bastard ‘cause something I made up is Out There. But I digress.
Fannon or cannon, I like to stay as consistent as I can to make the story read true. And I’m an obsessive-compulsive, sometimes. Which is why I sent Laura Faust a note asking if there was a Cutie Mark Code writers as anal precise as me could use.
Of course I’m going to share any reply. I’m not selfish.
Anyway. I was trying to make a point, wasn’t I?
Um.
The point I’m trying to make, I guess, is no matter what changes you make when writing something, the work comes out better for those changes making sense. If only sense to you. You are your first audience when you write. That’s why so much writing advice boils down to, “write what you love to read”, because you’re going to be re-reading that sucker ad infinitum to make sure it’s all good.
And if you can’t please yourself with what you make, how can you find anyone else who likes it?