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OTW Fannews: Collaborative playgrounds

  • May. 18th, 2013 at 3:10 PM

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  • It's not only communication between entertainment creators and fans that's becoming common, but also a creative dialogue. Anna Pinkert at Spinoff Online wrote about the benefits of embracing slash and other fan creations. "At a recent event, a reporter showed The Avengers star Mark Ruffalo a series of drawings of his character snuggling with Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark. He began giggling, and then even made up captions for one of the cartoons, “Would you like a gummy worm?” Better yet, he told the reporter, “I endorse [this art] 100 percent. You know what it is? It’s open-source creativity.” She suggests that "[h]omoerotic fan art might be a new signal that you’ve arrived in Hollywood. People know your face (and your abs) well enough to do 30 sketches of you embracing another star." At least some actors are ready to invite fans to play.
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Media References to Fanfic, the week ending 5/18/13

  • May. 18th, 2013 at 8:50 AM

wneleh
fanthropology
(Note – No Star Trek-related refs this week, I’m seeing it this evening and I don’t want to spoil myself!)

Regarding the finale of The Office, Los Angeles Times’s Robert Lloyd wrote Endings are hard, especially in a series whose very subject is that things go on much the same year after year. […] But we also crave official, canonical assurance that everything will be OK for the characters after we part. We can't just leave it to the fan fiction.

Also in the Los Angeles Times, Meredith Blake reported that Tony Goldwyn and Amy Schumer recently teamed up for a dramatic performance of some "Scandal" fan fiction they found on the internet, for “Watch What Happens Live.”

In “Embracing the culture of fanfiction” for DNA India, Neharika Nair wrote Anybody who has ever read or watched something has noticed that there are always a few questions left unanswered, or a few bits that they would change. And that is why fanfiction exists.

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MIT’s The Tech’s Deena Wang interviewed Flourish Klink, who said I think there’s a lot of things that have changed since fandom moved off of LiveJournal and on to Tumblr. For about 10 years, fandom was really centered about LiveJournal. Moving to Tumblr has made a lot of changes in terms of how you get involved in fandoms, and how you can build communities or not. I think that fandom has become a lot more decentralized and there’s less of an emphasis on fanfiction now than there ever has been, and more of an emphasis on GIFs, on a lot more visual stuff. GIFs get a lot more traction because you’ve got a way to propagate images a lot more easily.

Finally, in a review of Christie Golden’s StarCraft II: Flashpoint for Forbes (FORBES??), Jen Bosier wrote The world of expanded universes is that of a mixed bag — so much of its legacy is owed to internet boards and forums, spawning from the dark art that is fan fiction. As an active writer and follower of fanfic, I would never naysay the art (and it is an art in its own right), but I’m not necessarily a fan of published fanfic. These offerings do firmly belong on the internet, and it’s always a disappointment to me when an game’s official EU is relegated to glammed up fanfic.

May Week Three - REPOST

  • May. 18th, 2013 at 9:15 AM

bogwitch
sb_fag_ends
Due to LJ's problems this week, the prompts post doesn't seem to show up on the community, but can only be seen on Friend's Lists. Therefore, I post again:



What Might Have Been, oh if only for these pesky emotions...

1. Separation

2. Longing

3. Jealousy

4. Fury

5. Minor Irritation

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Friday May 17, 2013

  • May. 17th, 2013 at 11:50 PM

audela
su_herald

DOYLE: So there was never any contract on detective Lockley?
ANGEL: No, Little Tony was planning all along just to kill her himself. *Poor* guy.
CORDY: Poor guy?
ANGEL: Well, he's got issues.
DOYLE: Angel, man, you've got to snap out of this!
CORDY: Right now. It's time for you to get all vampy - grr! - Kate needs you.
ANGEL: (shakes his head) I don't want to. You both withdraw when I go vamp. I feel you judge me.

~~Sense and Sensitivity~~

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Thursday May 16

  • May. 17th, 2013 at 1:26 AM

lynnylou
su_herald

BUFFY: Wow. That was boring.
XANDER: I don't feel that boring covers it.
BUFFY: No, boring falls short.
WILLOW: Even I was bored. And I'm a science nerd.
BUFFY: Don't say that.
WILLOW: I'm not ashamed. It's the computer age. Nerds are in. They're still in, right?

~~Prophecy Girl ~~




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Strategic Planning Update #9

  • May. 16th, 2013 at 8:32 PM

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Statement of Purpose

The Strategic Planning Committee is continuing to work on helping the OTW develop a strategic plan for the next 3 - 5 years. As a quick refresher, the first stage of this plan is to survey internal stakeholders. We are in the process of interviewing all committees in turn and creating a report on each committee. The reports only include information that is gathered from the committees themselves, and all the conclusions and recommendations come from aggregating the data of those surveyed. ( Read more...Collapse )

Protection for rapists.

  • May. 16th, 2013 at 11:47 AM

math_mommy
ontd_feminism
http://europeanprochoicenetwork.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/usa-republican-paul-ryan-protects-rapists-rights-in-new-fetus-bill/
 

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Wednesday, May 15

  • May. 15th, 2013 at 9:19 PM

oni_9
su_herald

XANDER: So, is this the part where we say, what can we do to help?
(cut to later)
CORDELIA: You had to ask that, didn't you?
XANDER: Pft! It'll be cake. Just gotta figure out what killed this little girl Tina, we'll be out. Five minutes tops.
CORDELIA: This is what happens when you're compassionate towards sick people. They take advantage of you.
XANDER: Uh-huh. Buffy almost died just to put you out.
CORDELIA: I didn't wanna be the first one to say it.

~~Killed by Death~~

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Tuesday May 14, 2013

  • May. 14th, 2013 at 9:47 PM

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OTW Fannews: Separate by intention?

  • May. 14th, 2013 at 4:59 PM

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  • Given media representations apparently a lot of people continue to think that female fandom projects are rare, although this may have to do with how gender segregated fandom projects often are. In a feature on the "Hello Sweetie" podcast, its founder discusses why it came into being. "She and others were listening...to 'Geek Show Podcast,' the popular online show started by X96’s 'Radio From Hell' host Kerry Jackson, local movie critics Jeff Vice and Jimmy Martin, and Tribune TV critic Scott D. Pierce. "'They never have any female panelists, rarely had female guests, and a lot of people were complaining about that,'"...On one episode of 'Geek Show Podcast,' one of the hosts said, 'If you [women] want to have a podcast, you should start one.'"
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May. 13th, 2013

  • 8:26 PM

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Saturday 11th May - Sunday 12th May

  • May. 13th, 2013 at 2:39 AM

gillo
su_herald

BUFFY: Better keep out of my way, Spike. I'm not gonna take this much longer.

SPIKE: And I should do what in my spare time? Sit at home knitting cunning sweater sets?

BUFFY: Would it keep you out of my way?

RILEY: She's right. You shouldn't be out here when she's patrolling.

(Buffy turns to Riley in exasperation as if she's going to say something, but she doesn't.) SPIKE: Oh! I saw that. Looks like neither boy's entirely welcome. You should take him home, Slayer. Make him stay there. I've got knitting needles he can borrow.

BUFFY: Spike ... I just saw you taste your own nose blood, you know what? I'm too grossed out to hear anything you have to say. Go home.

(She stalks off. Riley gives Spike a dirty look, then follows. Spike looks injured.)

SPIKE: (yelling after them) It's blood! It's what I do!

~~Out of My Mind~~



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Media References to Fanfic, the week ending 5/11/13

  • May. 12th, 2013 at 8:38 PM

wneleh
fanthropology
The ref of the week comes from TIME, which included Archive of Our Own among the “50 Best Websites 2013”. Lev Grossman wrote Fan fiction is one of the great unsung popular literary movements of the past 50 years, but finding what you’re looking for online can involve sorting through mountains of inadequately tagged and frequently dodgy text. Archive of Our Own makes it easy: it’s the most carefully curated, sanely organized, easily browsable and searchable nonprofit collection of fan fiction on the Web, and it serves all fandoms equally, from The A-Team to Zachary Quinto and beyond. Observed Daily Dot’s Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, Fifty Shades of Grey may be the mainstream face of fanfiction, but it hasn’t done much to dispel the image of fanfic as being “mommy porn”, or just poorly-written in general. Which isn’t to say that lots of fanfiction isn’t erotica -- just that you could easily do a lot better than the strangely banal antics of Anastasia Steele and her amoral sugar-daddy. And that’s where Archive of our Own comes in. (Thanks go to tehomet for first giving me the initial heads-up!)

Dr. Brooke Magnanti, writing on women and erotica for The Telegraph: Who writes the slashfic (slash fiction) and fanfic (fan fiction) online that takes sexually fantasising about well-known television and film characters to a whole new level? Women do. Early studies even suggested as many as 90 per cent of fanfic writers were female.

In the Orlando Sentinel, Patrick C. Fleming, who teaches composition at Rollins College, observed that today’s Frosh haven't gone to book-release parties, or written fan fiction, or had Wizard-themed birthday parties. They are quite ready to abandon their attachment to Rowling's books, unwilling to follow that attachment into new arenas.

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On The Atlantic Wire, Richard Lawson wrote TNT has just ordered to series a Bay-produced action drama show called The Last Ship. It's about the Internet collectively deciding to no longer write slash fiction. No, no, of course not. Would that it were. Well, hrumph.

On Huffington Post, Faith Erin Hicks wrote I was a pretty repressed geek during my younger years. I probably would have been a full blown Star Trek: The Next Generation obsessed, X-Files fanfic writing, comic consuming geek if I'd actually felt like that was something appropriate to be, but I was kind of snobby as a teenager, viewing myself as someone who read Serious Books and had Serious Thoughts, when I secretly just wanted to moon over Data on TNG.

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Author Ridley Pearson told St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Jane Henderson I post chapters and plot outlines on kingdomkeepersinsider.com and they vote on things and send fan fiction. I might ask, “In this scene do you want it to be this Kingdom Keeper or that one?”

Gothamist’s Jen Chung wrote Last year, former City Council member Melinda Katz announced that she was marrying Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa. She also added that he was the sperm donor for her two sons. While some felt it was like "nyc fan fiction," Sliwa's second ex-wife thought otherwise and is now suing Sliwa and Katz for $1.4 million, claiming that the couple scammed her out of $400,000.

Finally, writing in Salon, Aja Romano presented a run-down of Orson Scott Card’s views on fanfic (and other topics – oh, OSC, why are you so difficult?) and in honor of Card’s recent asserting that “Every piece of fan fiction is an ad for my book. What kind of idiot would I be to want that to disappear?”, invited readers to Enjoy the gay, gay [Ender’s Game] slash fanfiction—or write some of your own.

45 Multifandom including Jossverse

  • May. 12th, 2013 at 6:52 PM

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Here at nonewsteps.
01-05 Angel, 6-15 Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 16-26 Hannibal, 27-28 Vikings, 29-37 Teen Wolf, 38 Firefly, 39 Pushing Daisies, 40 Community, 41 New Girl, 42 Smash, 43 Wolf Lake, 44 Hitchcock, 45 Looper.

45 Multifandom including Jossverse

  • May. 12th, 2013 at 6:51 PM

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Here at nonewsteps.
01-05 Angel, 6-15 Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 16-26 Hannibal, 27-28 Vikings, 29-37 Teen Wolf, 38 Firefly, 39 Pushing Daisies, 40 Community, 41 New Girl, 42 Smash, 43 Wolf Lake, 44 Hitchcock, 45 Looper.

45 Multifandom including Jossverse

  • May. 12th, 2013 at 6:51 PM

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Here at nonewsteps.
01-05 Angel, 6-15 Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 16-26 Hannibal, 27-28 Vikings, 29-37 Teen Wolf, 38 Firefly, 39 Pushing Daisies, 40 Community, 41 New Girl, 42 Smash, 43 Wolf Lake, 44 Hitchcock, 45 Looper.

852 Prospect - AO3 Supports our Sentinel*

  • May. 12th, 2013 at 3:23 PM

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The OTW is delighted to welcome 852 Prospect -- the Sentinel Adult Fiction Archive -- to its new home within the Archive of Our Own. The Archivists of 852 Prospect (most recently alicettlg) have worked hard in conjunction with ADT and Open Doors to make this move a reality.

There's some special history associated with this move. 852 Prospect was the first automated fiction archive on the web. Back in 1997, astolat wrote the first version of the Automated Archive software for 852 Prospect, which made it possible for authors to post their stories simultaneously to a mailing list and to an archive, and which also made it possible for archivists to maintain fic archives without hand-coding every post. The automated archive software is now old and creaky and no longer maintained; we're delighted to be able to offer 852 Prospect a new home as an integrated collection within the AO3.
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Demons (Fic) PG

  • May. 12th, 2013 at 8:47 PM

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Title:  Demons
Creator: Waddiwasiwitch
Rating: PG
Setting: S6
Word count: 942
Prompt:  Spike throws Xander a Bachelor party.
I actually wrote a longer fic than this but it went over the limit, so if you want to check that out I will put it on the ashtray.

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OTW Fannews: Cultural Triggers

  • May. 11th, 2013 at 8:19 PM

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  • While in some places fanfic writers are getting arrested, in others the concern is instead about how fans could be ruining pop culture. "Mr. Rushfield laments that fan culture is set in its ways and does not want to be challenged. I think this is an oversimplification...Yes of course, some fans will never be happy. Some fans say and do things I find shocking and disrespectful, but I think that this is a very small minority...To think that this subset of fans is the driving force behind any artistic decisions, is not giving enough credit to writers and producers in entertainment."
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May. 11th, 2013

  • 1:26 PM

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subjects: buffy & legend of the seeker for theiconquest

view H E R E @ trashylust

Posting Dates

  • May. 11th, 2013 at 8:19 PM

gillo
seasonal_spuffy
Hot on the heels of the banner competition (what do you mean you haven't voted yet? Go on, go on, go on!) here are the posting dates.

I've tried very hard to fit people with what they asked for - PM me if there's a problem with what I've given you. There weren't quite enough signups for the full period, so we're starting near the end of window A - so any volunteers for next week would be happily welcomed. We have two Free For All days - and ANYONE is welcome to post then, whether you signed up or not.

Sunday May 19 comlodge
Monday May 20
Tuesday May 21 ruuger
Wednesday May 22 coalitiongirl
Thursday May 23 gillo
Friday May 24 brutti_ma_buoni
Saturday May 25 algoazul
Sunday May 26 FREE FOR ALL
Monday May 27 tiny_white_hats
Tuesday May 28 cherrytargaryen
Wednesday May 29 this_caia / thisficklemob
Thursday May 30 eilowyn
Friday May 31 drizzlydaze
Saturday June 1 maryperk73703
Sunday June 2 sintonia
Monday June 3 waddiwasiwitch
Tuesday June 4 cherrytargaryen
Wednesday June 5 slaymesoftly
Thursday June 6 spuffy_noelle
Friday June 7 rebcake
Saturday June 8 rahirah
Sunday June 9 FREE FOR ALL

OK, folks, let's go!

All posting to be at the Dreamwidth site, please. If you have problems, PM me or one of the mods.

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Round Sixteen Banner Contest

  • May. 11th, 2013 at 11:30 AM

slaymesoftly
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Quick turn-around this time. Please vote by midnight May 12th.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 12345

Vote only once, please!

ETA: It looks like the clicky boxes didn't come out on this site. If you can go DW and vote there, it would be great; if you can't, don't worry. We'll pick up your answer from the comments here. The link to DW is here> and you don't need a DW account to vote there.

EETA: Tried to fix ticky boxes - if they're there, please use them; if not, see above link to DW. Thanks!

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Forgotten

  • May. 11th, 2013 at 1:53 AM

foxstarreh
sb_fag_ends
Title: Forgotten
Creator:TheFoxinator
Rating: K+
Setting: Shortly after 6.08 "Tabula Rasa"
Summary/Prompt: A spell makes the Scoobies lose their memory of Dawn.
Word Count: 965

Forgotten

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Friday May 10, 2013

  • May. 11th, 2013 at 12:20 AM

audela
su_herald

CORDELIA: I’m sorry.
MAUDE: You better be sorry, you stupid little bitch.
CORDELIA: I’m a bitch.
MAUDE: Take off the bed sheets, make a noose. Go on. It’ll all be over soon.
CORDELIA: I’m not a sniveling whiny little Cry-Buffy. I’m the nastiest girl in Sunnydale history. I take crap from no one.
MAUDE: You're going to make yourself a noose and put it around--
CORDELIA: Back off! Polygrip. You think *you’re* bad? All mean and haunty? Picking on poor pathetic Cordy? Well, get ready to haul your wrinkly translucent ass out of this place, because lady, the bitch is back.
MAUDE: Do you think I’m going to take that from trash like you?
CORDELIA: I tell you what I think. I think you’re gonna pack your little ghost bags and get the HELL OUT OF MY HOUSE!

~~Rm w/a Vu~~

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NOT a fic request, fic banner request

  • May. 10th, 2013 at 10:48 PM

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Does anyone have the original photos from Kari Mouke's stories or know where to find them? Her old email address is now defunct though I have spoken to her once a couple of years ago. I think I have all her stories, I'd just like the banners and/or fanart to add to my collection.

Thursday May 9 2013

  • May. 9th, 2013 at 9:52 PM

lynnylou
su_herald

WESLEY: And you say this demon wanted cash? That's very unusual.
GILES: Demons after money. Whatever happened to the still beating heart of a virgin? No one has any standards anymore.

~~Some Assembly Required~~


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Time travel

  • May. 10th, 2013 at 1:34 AM

Jelena Rađenović
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Hi!:)
I'm looking for a fic where girl suddenly shows up ( i thing in Magic Box) from the future. She hates Buffy but loves Spike. Later it turns out she is her daughter, and that she hates Buffy because she left her when she was baby (thinking she is evil) and because Spike died protecting her.

OTW Fannews: The places fanfiction goes

  • May. 9th, 2013 at 9:56 PM

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  • NYU's student newspaper decided to feature fanfiction with a particularly local angle -- fanfiction set on its campus. "Remember when you were waiting for your acceptance letter? Whether NYU was your dream school or just your safety, you’d catch yourself longing for the city, dreaming of the day when you’d leave your home for the magic of New York...You weren’t the only one dreaming. In fact, some would-be students have dedicated hundreds of pages to their NYU-centric fantasies. So focused are these writers’ efforts that NYU Fanfiction has swelled into its own thriving—if slightly inaccurate—genre."
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Doyle fix fic

  • May. 9th, 2013 at 1:41 PM
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I'm searching for a fic that I can't seem to remember the title of. What I remember is Cordy and Angel are acting all lovey dovey when Lorne rushes is in and does a spell that snaps them out of it. They were under a spell to make them seem like they were in love so that hopefully Angel would lose his soul. Then Doyle gets dropped in Buffy's living room. He became a higher power after his death but because he was interfereing with Angel's life they kicked him out. I remember Buffy driving Doyle to LA, but I don't remember what happens next. It's a B/A fic, obviously, with a little C/D on the side. Anyone know what fic I'm talking about?

Wednesday, May 8

  • May. 8th, 2013 at 8:43 PM

oni_9
su_herald

ANGEL: Giles said she left Sunnydale about a week ago. Described her mental state as borderline psychotic.
CORDELIA: That explains her outfit.
WESLEY: This isn't right.
CORDELIA: When a whacked out Slayer tries to kill your boss, it's very wrong.
WESLEY: I meant Giles. Why didn't he give me the heads-up? I was Faith's Watcher! When she came out of her coma Giles should've contacted me immediately.

~~Five by Five~~

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Shame the Devil (PG13)

  • May. 8th, 2013 at 9:21 PM

brutti_ma_buoni
sb_fag_ends
Title Shame the Devil
Author Brutti ma buoni
Rating PG13
Words 975
Setting an alternative ending to Entropy and kind of a replacement for parts of Seeing Red, I suppose
Prompt If only Willow had found the Magic Box cameras before Spike and Anya did anything
A/N This is an AU in which the Magic Box cameras were the ones that were spotted first, and investigated, instead of the creepy garden dwarf. (There's still background Spike/Anya as per canon.) It's *significantly* less dramatic...

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May Week Two

  • May. 8th, 2013 at 8:11 PM

quinara
sb_fag_ends
Hello again! This week in What Might Have Been, we're going back in time to the heady days of 2001-2002, when any and every spoiler you could imagine was roaming wild around the internets, wreaking havoc on a fannish population who had no downloads or YouTube clips to check the facts from con panels, but still a voracious appetite for juicy hints about what might have been to come. These rumoured (but ultimately false) spoilers for Season 6 inspired both fic and staunch discussion, so in the spirit of Buffy's resurrection (and, gang, was anyone quite sure how that was going to come off?) they're back with a vengeance!

1. Spike throws Xander a bachelor party.
2. Willow blackmails Spike about his malfunctioning chip.
3. A spell makes the Scoobies lose their memory of Dawn.
4. Tara gets darker.
5. Buffy will be able to teleport in S6.

(All right, so I'm not sure anyone believed the last one. But some of the twists that developed from what was presumably the hint that Buffy would come back altered by her experience were pretty hilarious.)

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Fic: Meanwhile

  • May. 8th, 2013 at 5:29 PM

drizzlydaze
sb_fag_ends
Title: Meanwhile
Creator: drizzlydaze
Rating: PG
Setting: S5
Word count: 986
Prompt: 3. If only Buffy had said 'I love you' earlier...
A/N: In which Buffy says ‘I love you’ earlier.



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Tuesday May 7, 2013

  • May. 7th, 2013 at 10:54 PM

secondalto
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Archive of Our Own among TIME's '50 Best Websites 2013'

  • May. 7th, 2013 at 7:02 PM

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The Organization for Transformative Works was pleased to learn that one of our projects, the Archive of Our Own, has been named among the '50 Best Websites 2013' by TIME magazine staff. We are excited to be included in this list and in the company of a number of other great websites.

We would like to extend a thank you to OTW members whose generosity has helped to support the continued development of the AO3 and to AO3 users who provide the content that helps make it one of the 'Best Websites'. We look forward to continuing to build the AO3 to make it even better in the years to come.

Mirrored from an original post on the OTW blog. Find related news by viewing our tag cloud.

Monday, May 7

  • May. 7th, 2013 at 7:07 AM

rahirah
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Sorry for the late post. Stuff came up. Important stuff. Vital. Totally not seeing Iron Man 3. :shifty eyes:

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Angel/Angelus Split

  • May. 6th, 2013 at 12:26 PM

selenitycosmos
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I'm looking for a particular Buffy/Angel parring fic. Angel and Angelus are split into separate bodies. Angelus ends up in the human body and Angel in the demon body. This would be an older fic from when the show was still on. I had copied it into a word doc, but it got lost in the move to a new computer, so I really appreciate any help you all can give.

Important information

  • May. 6th, 2013 at 8:37 AM

slaymesoftly
riters_r_us
For anyone and everyone struggling to break into print (digital print or otherwise), this is important reading. I think I'd be fooled....

http://davidgaughran.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/the-author-exploitation-business/

If You're Passing Back This Way

  • May. 6th, 2013 at 12:50 AM

foxstarreh
sb_fag_ends
Title: If You're Passing Back This Way
Creator:TheFoxinator
Rating: K
Setting: Early/just before season eight
Summary/Prompt: “If only Spike had got to Buffy before Twangel"
Word Count: 621

If You're Passing Back This Way

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Saturday 4th May - Sunday 5th May

  • May. 6th, 2013 at 2:09 AM

gillo
su_herald

ANGEL: This may come out a little pretentious, but... one of you will betray me. (Spike raises his hands eagerly)

ANGEL: Wes.

SPIKE: Oh.

(puts his hand down dejectedly, then perks up) SPIKE: (hopefully) Can I deny you 3 times?

ANGEL: (to Wes) Vail is the sorcerer of the bunch. You know that game. You've seen his place. He believes you'd make a play for my spot.

WESLEY: That's not very flattering.

ANGEL: It'll get you in the door. Illyria... Izzerial the Devil and 3 other members of the circle dine together almost every night.

ILLYRIA: I'll make trophies of their spines.

ANGEL: Good to have you on the team.

~~Not Fade Away~~




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Volunteer Recruiting: AO3 Support & Tag Wrangling

  • May. 5th, 2013 at 3:27 PM

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We would like to thank everyone who responded to our initial call for Tag Wranglers, AO3 Documentation Volunteers, and Communications Staff. The AO3 Documentation Lead and Communications Chairs are reviewing applications and should be contacting people within the next two weeks.

Today, we're excited to announce the opening of applications for:

  • Support Staff - Applications due May 12
  • Tag Wrangler Volunteer (reopening) - Applications accepted on an ongoing basis (role may be temporarily closed based on level of interest)


We have included more information on each role below. Open roles and applications will always be available at the volunteering page. If you don't see a role that fits with your skills and interests now, keep an eye on the listings. We plan to put up new applications every few weeks, and we will also publicize new roles as they become available.

All applications generate a confirmation page and an auto-reply to your e-mail address. We encourage you to read the confirmation page and to whitelist volunteers@transformativeworks.org in your e-mail client. If you do not receive the auto-reply within 24 hours, please check your spam filters and then contact us.

Note: We are working on a set of Volunteering Frequently Asked Questions that we hope to have posted within the next few weeks. If you have any questions about volunteering for the OTW, please let us know.

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Media References to Fanfic, the week ending 5/4/13

  • May. 5th, 2013 at 5:41 PM

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In a Telegraph piece on the continued popularity of Enid Blyton, Nicolette Jones wrote Blogs and websites now teem with collectors’ comments, enthusiasm from young readers, and fan fiction, including, for instance, only this month: “The Famous Five go to Hogwarts”.

Joe Hill told Vulture’s Zach Dionne Michael Chabon says all fiction is fan fiction — that every writer, when they set out to write a book, sort of has these other books in their head that they adore, and they want their book to make people feel that way.

NPR’s Lydia Zuraw wrote Apparently, fan fiction and fan art aren't the only options for expressing your love of Sherlock, Doctor Who and The Hunger Games. There's also tea. If you visit the online tea store of Adagio Teas, you'll find a collection of "Fandom Blends." They're the teas that customers have mixed and named after characters in favorite TV shows, books, movies and comics.

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In a humorous piece for Stamford Advocate, Kevin McKeever wrote that, when the babysitter’s in charge, one kid hides upstairs writing One Direction fan fiction in her diary while the other hides in the basement creating Minecraft robots that look like SpongeBob SquarePants.

In Boise Weekly, Harrison Berry noted that William Norrett’s The Vanilla Gigolo Prescription is a novel with a title that sounds like Jason Bourne slash fiction. And the book's plot gives the title a run for its money.

( Resident Evil 6, Benedict Cumberbatch, bright young things, LL Cool J, 50 Shades! The Musical, Dallas, Anne FrankCollapse )

Your Ottawa Region’s Page Taylor wrote that According to the internet, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are dating. The pairing, called a “ship”, which originated from the word “relationship”, is a fan creation that exists in fan fiction, fan art and many a Tumblr post. The proverbial battle cry to defend these alternate pairings ring out on YouTube and many a fan website: “This ship is unsinkable!”

Digital Spy shared 9 of the weirdest [Star Trek] fanfiction stories.

Finally, here’s a sentence and a half, courtesy of Laurie Penny in New Statesman: Big business finally woke up to fan fiction with Fifty Shades of Grey - but only in the most superficial of fashions, failing to really plumb the murky depths of Harry Potter porn forums and alternate-universe co-writing kink projects, where suspicious lumps of sexual and literary innovation float to the surface of an endless well of pixellated filth.

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