Fanweek Recap #1

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THIS WEEK IN TKP's WORLD OF FANDOM:

marenfic had a cool discusion, about how sometimes writing in closed canon feels like it's all been done. For instance, B/A fics start to feel the same, after a while. There was discussion about multifannishness, freshness and enthusiasm in fandom, and the infinite potentiality of plot/concept/execution of fic. Great topic and discussion.

And kita0610 went, What, you want new B/A? Get your fresh hot of the press, it's everything we know and love but have never thought of in this way before fic here. If Ever 's epic and intimate; frail and robust; it's darkness on hard shiny gold; if you haven't read it, go read it. And with someone who's always slashing Angel writing B/A, we kicked off The Week Of Fans Outside The Box.

crazydiamondsue promptly squeed, "B/A! B/A! My het OTP, B/A!", when we all know her heart belongs to slash. Which is apparently why her and elcazavampiros promptly sat down an made a B/S vid (Something There). Apparently she got the Outside The Box memo. The vid is hilarious and quite sweet, and there's a hil-frickin'-larious Angel pun near the beginning. It's their first vid (read: so fb), which made it, you guessed it, outside the box.

At this point, the chrisleeoctaves we all know and love would have said, yeah, but let's get back on the subject of B/A. But apparently pod!chrisleeoctaves took over and saw slashers doing all this het, and our beloved, consummate, so reliably B/Aer said, Screw that. I'm doing slash. Sign On The Dotted Line is a quickie I highly recommend for the sound of Angel's zipper. The voices are spot on. And? Outside Chrislee's Box (dude. That sounds diiiirty).

Which made lostakasha voice the declaration that was my number one fandom lesson this week: Chrislee can do anything. We thought we knew, but we didn't until now. We really didn't. In fact, in a recent poll, 6 out of 13 people voted they wanted to be sad imitations of Chrisleeoctaves. Even Chrisleeoctaves.

But if lostakasha wants to be a sad, sad imitation of Chrislee, she needs to not do such a good job of going outside the box with her Xander/Wesley fic. That's a pairing I'm pretty much certain I've never seen before, and she pulled it off with panache, man. Percipitation is another instance of a talented author finding a way to say the stuff we all know and have been over before in ways that open new vistas we never even thought could happen for characters and details we know so well. I just want to frame some of her sentences. I highly rec reading and feeding.

And then marenfic was like yeah, but multifannishness, people. Remember, it was The Week Outside The Box. So chrisleeoctaves who often looks sadly at her flist and wonders why anyone would post anything that wasn't Buffyverse, said, "yeah, well, Booth/Hodgins! *flings at flist*". Which proves you apparently can teach a--a very young looking and beautiful dog new tricks. And lostakasha and tkp said again, Chrislee can do anything, with many foreheads to the floor.

But then we get to femmenerd, who in the interests of multifannishness went to Winchester Con and had the craziest stories about her and brandil pantyfanning on Jensen Ackles freakin' phone, and apparently hung out mostly with Buffyverse fans. I don't think Femmenerd even has a box, or a playpen, or even a pasture. And then there's romanyg, who has her roots in Buffverse, went to Winchester Con, but keeps posting Clex. The world, it is confusing.

And then all my flist sat down and watched BSG. And then I wrote something that smells like BSG fic (yes, I did just self pimp) and dude, that was totally out of my box. I confuse myself. *hangs head*

Things I zoomed by that look interesting, and I'm saving up to read:
Why my_daroga loves Phantom of Paradise
lostakasha Zack fic and catch up on her B/H WIP. BECAUSE SHE USED NEIL YOUNG, OMG
sweptawaybayou's DB/CK RPS
lots and lots of recs to look into by viciouswishes
Buffy/Gunn by viciouswishes

Things I learned this week in fandom:
1. Chrislee can do anything.
2. Posts about badfic always bring the kids to the yard.

and for the win:
3. Velvet over steel may be overused, but it sure beats "she sucked his saggy ball bag."

I might've had just a *little* too much time on my hands this week.