revisiting old fics
Aug. 19th, 2018 09:04 pmnot related to the book meme (i know - i should get on that, but seriously. we are close to the finish line), but instead related to My Own Fic.
unlike other stories about My Own Fic, this one begins with me reading Someone Else's Fic. which is something i do from time to time. sometimes i even enjoy it, although not always. (i'm not sure whether the simon snow fandom doesn't do rec lists, or whether tumblr doesn't do rec lists because it's so ephemeral, or if FANDOM doesn't do rec lists any more for reasons of its own. or whether there are rec lists and i just can't find them because i still dont really know how to use tumblr.) (the point is, i might well make a rec list that i can keep updating. i dont know whether people will be able to find it, becuase of course they don't know that dreamwidth exists! but nevertheless, i may make one. )
anyway- the other day i was reading a fic that i did enjoy - which was Stay up with Me by sharkmartini, who is a writer i like. (unlike the rest of the fandom it's possible she's not more than a decade younger than me).
the fic is good, and i'd recommend it (if i had a rec list, which maybe i will, soon). it's about a version of simon who ended the war by killing baz, rather than doing what he does in the book - who travels without his consent to the universe we know from the book, where he is married to baz.
most relevantly for this conversation, it also reminded me a lot of mah own fic, 'The Sleepwalker' and the sequel, Meanwhile. (where, if you weren't with me in that fandom, dear reader, the same thing happens - although for me, the canonverse was obviously the one where the doctor killed the master, rather than the other way round).
( read on if you love to read someone else's naval gazing )
unlike other stories about My Own Fic, this one begins with me reading Someone Else's Fic. which is something i do from time to time. sometimes i even enjoy it, although not always. (i'm not sure whether the simon snow fandom doesn't do rec lists, or whether tumblr doesn't do rec lists because it's so ephemeral, or if FANDOM doesn't do rec lists any more for reasons of its own. or whether there are rec lists and i just can't find them because i still dont really know how to use tumblr.) (the point is, i might well make a rec list that i can keep updating. i dont know whether people will be able to find it, becuase of course they don't know that dreamwidth exists! but nevertheless, i may make one. )
anyway- the other day i was reading a fic that i did enjoy - which was Stay up with Me by sharkmartini, who is a writer i like. (unlike the rest of the fandom it's possible she's not more than a decade younger than me).
the fic is good, and i'd recommend it (if i had a rec list, which maybe i will, soon). it's about a version of simon who ended the war by killing baz, rather than doing what he does in the book - who travels without his consent to the universe we know from the book, where he is married to baz.
most relevantly for this conversation, it also reminded me a lot of mah own fic, 'The Sleepwalker' and the sequel, Meanwhile. (where, if you weren't with me in that fandom, dear reader, the same thing happens - although for me, the canonverse was obviously the one where the doctor killed the master, rather than the other way round).
( read on if you love to read someone else's naval gazing )
