Fics I'd Like To Write

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These are not New Years Resolutions. No way I'd be able to write all these fics in a year. Also, no way I'm writing all these fics, period. I love starting fics, thinking about them, filling up that blank page, but I have serious trouble getting through the middles and especially ending them. Usually, the less ideas I have for a fic the more likely I am to write it, because if I've thought about what's going to happen, etc, half the fun is already used up. But because it's New Years, and because I like looking at them,



-Short Darla/Riley porn. Possibly in the universe of Best Souvenir, because I don’t see how else it can be done.

-Short S/A/Nina porn. With metaphors about beasts and bars.

-Short *single perfect tear* Spuffy porn. Because I should be able to write that pairing.

-Short *single perfect tear* A/S porn. Because I should be able to write that pairing.

-Short Xander character sketch. About Xander’s girls. Yes, girls. In some fics, he is straight!

-Short Justine character sketch. I forgot what it was about though. But in my head, it was fancy. Since I can’t remember, let’s just say it’s all about Holtz’s voice. *thud*

-short B/A angst. Character death, Sanshu, magic babies, and IWRY fic cliches. Yay!

-Shot –midlength Buffy gen. In the words of marenfic on the BBF: “a Buffy gen-fic that has little or nothing to do with who she's screwing (and my ultimate wish is to see her unpaired) and has excellent, balanced characterization. I'd like for it to have lightness to alleviate any angst or darkness. With a good Buffy voice.”

-Short, Dru/Angel/Spike (Buffy) version of “Destiny.” In which Dru forsees Buffy and Angel’s and Spike’s relationships to Buffy while Angel and Spike fight over Dru and fuck Dru. Scary stuff.

-Mid-length fanged four series. Expansion on Down There In The Reeperbahn. FF visit various cities in the world (each fic in the series would be a one-shot set in a different city each time). It would be fun to research the cities at various time periods and try to capture a real sense of place for each. Possibly various cities as seen through various ff characters (for instance, one just-Darla in America in 1600s, one just-Angel after skipping out on Darla in 1900 in China, Dru/Spike in Rome in ‘70s, etc) Though also possibly with a focus on seeing through Dru’s eyes. Also, opium. Also, corsets.

-Don’t know how long B/A post-NFA. With a2zmom. Because doing anything with her is fun.

-Short/mid-length ensemble piece featuring Willow, Oz, Xander, and Cordy, during the summer after "Becoming." They pick their code names and Xander issues talkies. Oz comes up with cool ideas for attacking things. Missing Buffy is intensely felt and never, ever mentioned.

-Short/mid-length ensemble piece post-NFA. Featuring all characters left post-NFA, with the possible exception of Buffy and Angel. Started out as the different characters talking, gossiping, being interviewed, and stating their opinions on B/A getting together. However, I might take the B/A aspect out, and just write everybody gabbing about everyone else. My favorite part is the Xander/Illyria.

-Short/mid-length A/Wes. That's all I got. I love A/Wes, I just never have ideas about them, because they're so impossible. (-meta on why I think A/Wes is just imposssible.)

-Short/mid-length A/Wes all human AU in Scotland with kilts. Because entrenous88 created a flesh eating plot bunny with her Scottish Ficathon. No, no, I don't know what is happening to me either.

-Mid-length ensemble porn series. Because we all know everyone and their moms secretly dream of Angel when they fuck. Faith/Lindsey. Lilah/Wesley, Justine. Connor/Cordelia. Possibly Spuffy. That’s all I got so far.

-Mid-length Buffy, Angel, Connor, and Dawn 5 Things Fic. Five ways NFA probably didn’t end. This is what I’m working on now, besides BS and AOLIT. FINISHED!

-Midlength S/A (or possibly, S/Aus) dark!porn!fic. In which Angel(us?) teaches and Spike . . . learns. I can’t figure out when to set it, and I despair of being able to write Spike!vioce. I probably can’t pull off what’s in my head for this fic.

-Mid-length ensemble comedy. Make that existential black comedy. Because I Heart Huckabee’s did it first but it was my idea, dammit! Also: mad Wes/Giles sex while arguing Locke’s theory of tabula rasa—possibly with Fred and her Freudian slit. Also, Spike and Gunn beating Xander and Angel at Super Mario Smash Brothers, thus inducing Xander,Angel bonding and possibly Spike/Gunn victory fucking. Or possibly Gunn/bitch!Xander, or S/X, but Angel won’t get any action, because did I mention he’s Liam and thinks Spike’s a psychotic perv (and Spike thinks he’s a repressed twat, and bloody hell, even Angel was more fun)? And I don’t care if Joss thrust Liam into the modern era first, I clap for his (Angel’s, not Joss’s) mental rape, and besides I want him (Liam, not Joss) to obsess over Cordelia’s boobs (though Joss does too, I’m sure of it), while Oz ponders the nature of the self, existence, Immanuel Kant and karmic cycles. Meanwhile Buffy pouts in the corner, tending baby!Connor, while said baby (though redfaced, screaming, and caterwauling) still fills Liam with strange paternal longing.

-Mid-length/long A/S all human AU. With incest. What?

-Mid-length B/A series. Angel’s porny sketchbook. Each picture tells smut a story.

-Mid-length B/A series. Character/‘ship sketches, with a line in each (short) fic from an album I like. Because it would be a challenge.

-Mid-length 5 things fic B/A porn. 5 ways they didn't have sex...yet: 1. Phone sex and/or cybersex. Because I have a fetish. 2. B/A/S. 3. dom!Buffy. 4. A/B/F. 5. Mutual masturbation, because I have another fetish.

-Mid-length B/A porn. Angst. Kink. That’s all I got.

-Long B/A epic-thing. Take on the movie “Groundhog’s day”: the day from IWRY repeats over and over again. (I've already started this fic, here. It's a WIP, which I have shelved until I finish it and can send it to the lovely a2zmom to beta. It's proving to be a very long fic, so it may be a while.)

-Long B/A epic-thing. Buffy goes back in time. Shut up. I want to write it.

-Long B/A epic-thing. Post-apocalyptic alternate reality, slightly wishversish but also kind of not. More of a “I wish Buffy had been born 20 years later” wishverse. I don’t know about this one. It’s pretty similar to other post-apocalyptic ARs I’ve read—in this fandom and in others.

-Long season 6 rewrite. Whistler doesn’t show Angel Buffy until after Buffy has jumped into Glory’s portal. Angel’s first view of her would be her wandering the streets of Sunnydale directly after her resurrection. I’m afraid it might be too much like Best Souvenir, but at the same time, I’m thinking about keeping the alternate history in Best Souvenir. I.e., Spike and Drusilla would be dead; Darla would be in Sunnydale with a chip. I just don’t know whether I should play in my own universe like that.

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Okay, now. Other fandoms. Yes, I write and have written in other fandoms, a-and don't laugh at some of the wack things I've written fanfic for!

-Finish my "Sound of Music" fanfics. Yes, Sound of Music. Yes, me, fluff.

-Finish both my "Ever After" fanfics. Even fluffier. Strangely, I didn't even like the movie all that much. I just love the fairy tale Cinderella to itty bits and pieces.

-Mid-length "Firefly"! Starts directly after "Serenity." It's six chapters, and each chapter a new character has died and a different wacky pairing is having sex. Mostly, just porn. Must include Simon/River, Mal/River, and Jayne slash, because he is so gay.

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ETA:

-short meta comedy about writers block, muses, inspiration: Conversation with Semby.

-something about the Immortal

-a slash fic in which one character has to go save the other from one of those dreadful AUs.

Comments

[cuimhne.livejournal.com]

-Mid-length B/A series. Angel’s porny sketchbook. Each picture tells smut a story.

You should seriously write this one. Cause i've never believed that Angel's pics were all lovely romantic portraits.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

-Mid-length B/A porn. Angst. Kink. That’s all I got.

BWAHAHA! I think that's the plot of a large percentage of what I read.

All of these sound like fun.

And here's why Angel/Wes doesn't work if you stick to cannon. Through mid-season 2, Wes has a complete crush on Angel. Angel is not interested in Wes in that way (I never saw any evidence) but not only knows about Wes' feelings but is not beyond using them to get Wes to do whatever he wants. Yeah, I see Angel as a complete user in the relationship.

Sticks tongue out at the world.

[canadiangirl-86.livejournal.com]

Anything that includes B/A porn sounds good to me! *G*

[lillianmorgan.livejournal.com]

Do you know what most pleases me about this list? That someone else has as long a "To Write" list as me ;) But that's also possibly incredibly selfish of me...
-Mid-length fanged four series. Expansion on Down There In The Reeperbahn. FF visit various cities in the world (each fic in the series would be a one-shot set in a different city each time).
OMG Yes please! Yes please!
-Shot –midlength Buffy gen.
Gosh, isn't that amazing? I can't remember the last time (ever?) I read a Buffy gen fic. Perhaps I've been swimming in too shallow waters...

[lynnenne]

I would pay you money to write anything Spike/Angel. Or at least offer to help you with the Spike voice.

Short, Dru/Angel/Spike (Buffy) version of “Destiny.” In which Dru forsees Buffy and Angel’s and Spike’s relationships to Buffy while Angel and Spike fight over Dru and fuck Dru.

I kind of wrote this one. Though really, Dru is forseeing the souls, but you could read it either way.

[m-phoenix.livejournal.com]

-Mid-length fanged four series. Expansion on Down There In The Reeperbahn.

Oooh, yes please. I'd love to see you do that one.


-Short/mid-length A/Wes.

I love A/Wes too but I hardly ever read it. Did you ever read the AU one that yhlee wrote, were they are stuck in the Hyperion together post NFA? Sadly I can't remember what it was call just now but it was dark and weird and sad and just perfect. Anyway, I'd enjoy seeing what you did with the pairing.

The rest of the list sounds fun too. I thought my 'to write' list was scary until I read yours *g*

[chrisleeoctaves.livejournal.com]

'K...here's a thought- stop with the list making and get on with the writing! It'
s a new year...I need new material to read (and new stuff for Sublime!)

[violaclaire.livejournal.com]

-Short/mid-length ensemble piece featuring Willow, Oz, Xander, and Cordy, during the summer after "Becoming." They pick their code names and Xander issues talkies. Oz comes up with cool ideas for attacking things. Missing Buffy is intensely felt and never, ever mentioned.

I love all of these, but for some reason I'd really like to see you do that one.

-Long B/A epic-thing. Buffy goes back in time. Shut up. I want to write it.

Hey, I'm writing that :) Sorta. I write a paragraph and shudder with horror and leave to do homework. At this point it's two pages long. And, yeah, the idea's probably ridiculously cliched, but you would do an amazing job with it.

[semby.livejournal.com]

OMG! You're so mean! Because you write us this list with the disclaimer of "I'm so not going to write all of these" but I really, really want to read the results of all of them. Mean.

I know the feeling though. I have a long list of half-written, slightly-started fics on my computer, most of which I have no intention of going back to because they were more just the mood I was in at the time. That was awhile ago, and I've since been better at only starting fics if I really, really plan on finishing them. Usually. And I never dangled my never-to-be-written plot bunnies lists in front of anyone! :-P

[margotlefaye.livejournal.com]

First, a note: you should definitely play in your own universe. TBS is a beyond-brilliant fic, and I like the idea of the other variation, with Angel being the one to find recently resurrected Buffy tremendously. I think that there's room in the fandom for both versions.

Second, another note: So what if half the fandom has written "Buffy goes back into the past" fics, and the entire concept is a cliche. The genre of Vampire fiction was so cliched, it was a bloodless running joke, until Anne Rice came along and reinvented it. It was winding down again when Joss got this neat idea the tiny blond girl beating the crap out of the monsters, instead of being a screaming, weeping victim. My point is, that a good writer can take a cliched concept and breathe new life into it. If you have an idea for the topic, feel free to write it. And you are absolutely a great writer.

And, on to the general comment, which would be: I am desperate to read some of the ideas you've posted above, particularly the ones that involve B/A because that's my particular thing, but they all sound good. You may not end up writing all of these, but I hope you end up writing a goodly number. A lot of us will be waiting with bated breath for anything you care to share with us.

[lostakasha.livejournal.com]

...Or possibly Gunn/bitch!Xander, or S/X, but Angel won’t get any action, because did I mention he’s Liam and thinks Spike’s a psychotic perv (and Spike thinks he’s a repressed twat, and bloody hell, even Angel was more fun)? And I don’t care if Joss thrust Liam into the modern era first, I clap for his (Angel’s, not Joss’s) mental rape, and besides I want him (Liam, not Joss) to obsess over Cordelia’s boobs (though Joss does too, I’m sure of it), while Oz ponders the nature of the self, existence, Immanuel Kant and karmic cycles. Meanwhile Buffy pouts in the corner, tending baby!Connor, while said baby (though redfaced, screaming, and caterwauling) still fills Liam with strange paternal longing.

Marry me.

[aloneinthetown.livejournal.com]

ahhh you must write B/A porn! That would be super hot.

[zibbycomix.livejournal.com]

Okay, I would totally love to see you (or anyone else) write that last one that you mentioned in your edit- "a slash fic in which one character has to go save the other from one of those dreadful AUs." That would be soooo amazing! =D