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.

Comments

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

but it sure beats "she sucked his saggy ball bag."

OMG DAMNIT, YOU H0R, I CAN NEVER UN-KNOW THAT!

[tkp.livejournal.com]

You see why I had to inflict it on the world.

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

PS- Didn't get to see last night's BSG yet. Will read your fic once I can.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

It might not be a fic; it just came.

But damn, good ep, imo.

(((lotsa hugs))))

[lostakasha.livejournal.com]

Truth time... but only because kita0610 will read this and I want to make her pass liquid out of her nose.

When I read your bad!fic post, I was completely serious about you having mocked my fic. I have used probably 60% of those cliches in my porn. I love them, and I'm not ashamed, either. They have their roots in reality and I cling to them. And yes, like Snow, I too have had some lovely cock that I would happily and repeatedly describe as velvet over steel. Absolutely.

And, btw? Nothing sucks more than a weak orgasm. It's like an interrupted sneeze. In fairness, a dry fuck is worse. And sucking saggy ball bags. NOT THAT I HAVE lately but only because you know, the wife wouldn't approve and one day even Dave's will sag. Gravity is nobody's friend. Not even to the Big Boreanaz Ball Bag. I bet you dollars to donuts it's already heading toward his knees. Come 40 he's gonna need a tuck.

*cough*

I digress.

So I had to create some kind of witty rejoinder to hide my pain, thus the saggy sack crack. And today I look at the post as something akin to having SNL do a funny sktech about me. So all is cool. :-D

Full disclousure:

I have used brillo pubes. Not in this fandom, though. The cleaved, wormlike shaft? Is what's above the saggy ball bag. And one of these days, chickadee, you're gonna see it in my fic. With smegma.

Thank you for reccing me all over the place, oh bringer of Joy. Really. :::smooches you:::

And watch for the Saggy!Sac-a-thon because Giles and Ethan? So there.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I would apologize to you, but I can't. I just can't. I have no words.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

My FIRSTBORN, Annie.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Also, I have read your porn and loved it. Now I'm *skeerd* to read all the stuff of yours I have on my list to read.

[femmenerd.livejournal.com]

HI! I have nothing interesting to say but this comment cracked me up.

[tinpanalley.livejournal.com]

Witty recs and bits of information! My favorite kind! *pets post*

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Yay! Compiling reflexes kicked in, and I needed a way to start organizing things, but I hoped it be useful to others, too. :o)

[lynnenne]

I think you missed your calling as a gossip columnist. ;)

[tkp.livejournal.com]

hahaha! I thought about prefacing this, explaining what I was doing, and yep, what I came up with was gossip columnist. Except, one of those 19th c. ones where everyone knew everybody.

[marenfic.livejournal.com]

I am not as awesome and out of the box as chrisleeoctaves so I will just say- Hee!

Wait, how do I get in some of these women's boxes?

Yes, I just went there. Deal.

[lostakasha.livejournal.com]

You have a good chance to get in if you don't have brillo pubes or a cleaved, wormlike shaft.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

haha! I can't believe how long it actually took me (while writing the post) to see the woman's box entrendre. Most of the times I'm so on the ball with that, I can't even sing "Come all ye faithful".

I'm dirty. But apparently you are too and so I love you. And you are totally awesome!

[terilyn4.livejournal.com]

TKP, when you die, your brain MUST be taken out and preserved like Einstein's brain for future generations to ogle and marvel at the way your unusual brain works :D

[tkp.livejournal.com]

hahaha! One of the things I love most about you is how you always make me feel like I'm *really* weird. No, really, it's a cool feeling!

*dances around you*

[femmenerd.livejournal.com]

I HAVE A BOX! *snicker*

I have not watched the new BSG ep yet but when I do I will be reading your non-fic or whatever it is.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

You don't have a box but you do have a BOX. Because, you're femme. I might've had a wee too much wine just now.

The new BSG is damn good. I wonder if I'm really a negative person, though, because first when I wanted to talk about it all I had were negative comments. So instead I wrote . . . Yeah I have no idea what it is.

[regala-electra.livejournal.com]

*dances around a box*

But playing in many fandoms is fun. For me, it stops teh bitterness from taking over. "Oh, I didn't like that. That's okay, I'll just jump over into this other shiny playground of joy and play there for a while."

Hi, I'm a multi-fandom whore and I'm now crossovering everyone with the express purpose of sexing.

Badly written smut makes me incredibly sad. And then I mock it. Oh, one day, someone will use trembling man pillar and not just me in a fic where I'm mocking that term.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Haha! No, I am a big mutifandom lady. Though, unlike you and . . . say, people like femme, I usually do not play in more than one at a time. Before Buffyverse, lessee . . . I wrote and posted fic in *at least* TEN other fandoms. Yeah, whore. me. proud of it. I just get so intense about one thing, I have it for a while and then when I get bored move to the next thing. Just, people confuse me when they bop from one thing to another, because I do so go one thing at a time.

Badly written smut amuses me terribly. Though I *was* sad when Kita said someone inseted a tongue into someone's clitoris. That poor clitoris. Cleaved in two! And never the twain shall meet. *sniff*

[ex-dovil323.livejournal.com]

I heart you.

That is all.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

You crank my cheesewheel a bit yourself.

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

I've got no comments except puppets!

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I know! They sound so cool from what you describe! *loves*

[my_daroga]

OMG! I totally missed "outside the box" week! Damnit, and me caught without sexy fic. (oh, wait... sexy fic is WAITING FOR YOU TO CONSULT, YO!)

I love Neil Young.