The day before...
Apr. 21st, 2012 03:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenakThe AO3 meme is making the rounds again, and I would do it, except a checking reveals that other than one story, I have the same top ten most read stories as last year on that archive. The one exception: Patterns (Doctor Who) is out, and Five Things Which Never Happened Between Garak And Bashir (DS9) is in. I presume it got linked somewhere. (As it's an older story.) Or it benefited from a general revived interest in all things Trek. Anyway, it and the requivalent Kira & Dukat stories are my favourite examples of how to explore a canon relationship from various angles via AU in my own work, so colour me pleased.
Tomorrow this year's Remix Archive gets opened, and I'm both excited and gearing up to be fannishly angst-ridden. You know, the usual. :) Incidentally, as a reader, if I don't know the original story a remix is inspired by already, it depends on the remix whether or not I read it. If the remix is interesting, I'm curious about the spark, so to speak, but otherwise it tends to be a case of so many stories, so little time. One thing this particular ficathon guarantees is a high percentage of good stories, I've found, some of which completely work on their own, and some who get that extra dimension if you read them as commentary on the orignal and/or the source material. Which may have changed between the time the original story was written and the time the remixer gets to work, and that, too, can influence the second story a lot. I've written two stories this time, one for the regular Remix and one for Remix Madness. Both recognizably me, I think, but since neither has a Beatles song title, one is in a canon I haven't written before and the other in one I love but haven't written often, I'm offering to write a drabble for anyone guessing between tomorrow and reveal day which ones are mine on the subject of their choice.
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Now I'm still standing by my reasons why as opposed to 90 percent of the fandom, I was distinctly underwhelmed by Loki in Thor and saw him mostly as a gigantic case of adolescent self pity, but none of those were directed against the actor who plays him, Tom Hiddleston, who now has written an absolutely charming article about superhero movies in general. D'awwwwwww.harmonyangel, this is the article for you!
(BTW: we're getting the Avengers next Thursday. Sometimes being in Europe does mean being ahead instead of behind.)
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And a Being Human fanfic rec: The Life in a Day, or, one take at those fifty years Leo, Hal and Pearl shared.
Tomorrow this year's Remix Archive gets opened, and I'm both excited and gearing up to be fannishly angst-ridden. You know, the usual. :) Incidentally, as a reader, if I don't know the original story a remix is inspired by already, it depends on the remix whether or not I read it. If the remix is interesting, I'm curious about the spark, so to speak, but otherwise it tends to be a case of so many stories, so little time. One thing this particular ficathon guarantees is a high percentage of good stories, I've found, some of which completely work on their own, and some who get that extra dimension if you read them as commentary on the orignal and/or the source material. Which may have changed between the time the original story was written and the time the remixer gets to work, and that, too, can influence the second story a lot. I've written two stories this time, one for the regular Remix and one for Remix Madness. Both recognizably me, I think, but since neither has a Beatles song title, one is in a canon I haven't written before and the other in one I love but haven't written often, I'm offering to write a drabble for anyone guessing between tomorrow and reveal day which ones are mine on the subject of their choice.
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Now I'm still standing by my reasons why as opposed to 90 percent of the fandom, I was distinctly underwhelmed by Loki in Thor and saw him mostly as a gigantic case of adolescent self pity, but none of those were directed against the actor who plays him, Tom Hiddleston, who now has written an absolutely charming article about superhero movies in general. D'awwwwwww.
harmonyangel, this is the article for you! (BTW: we're getting the Avengers next Thursday. Sometimes being in Europe does mean being ahead instead of behind.)
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And a Being Human fanfic rec: The Life in a Day, or, one take at those fifty years Leo, Hal and Pearl shared.
