Subject: Obscure continua
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Posted on: 2014-09-09 12:40:00 UTC
You'd think Sues would go after the [I]Lensman[/I] series, "The Only Woman Mentor Will Give A Lens To" being more speshul than "Tenth Walker". (Yes, I know about Clarissa, but she's putting herself down as a second-class Lensman most of the time she's got the darn thing.) But the novels are old enough that you have to look to find copies.
I hope not to be tempting the Ironic Overpower too much by posing this question but here we go...
The Mission Write Guide states that are some lucky continua that have virtually no badfics. Can you guys actually name any such thing ?
For myself I guess I could name Kana: Little Sister. This visual novel, at least here in the west, has a small but dedicated community. There only a handful of fanfics out there, and all of them seem to be good or at every least were the result of challenges like write-by-post that were obviously not meant to be taken too seriously.
The best example in the fandom are over here at Kana Little Fanfics by darkling, Kana Flash Fanfic which is a flash version of My Sister, My Strenght from the previous link and Kana: Eternity , a project completely developed in the flash format. It is probably here that I should mention that of these stories contain spoilers for the entire VN and specially for Ending 1.
The last dragon chronicles. The plot is too complicated for the fangirls to follow.
A very little known -wonderful- book... Only has about 30 fanfics on the Pit. It's really awesome, cyborg Cinderella.... But, I think there might be some 'Sueauthors getting on the bandwagon when Winter comes out....
It is up to 731 fics on AO3, most of the ones on FFnet are crossposts by the same authors. It's a small fandom (though I've been seeing a lot of new names on fics lately). There are some 'meh' fics, a few that needed a beta for SPaG, but no really badfics on either FFnet or AO3. The actors are all in their 30's and while not bad looking, are not exactly hawt either, particularly by the standards of the typical fanbrat.
The fun thing about Haven is that the canon itself is so out there that you can justify pretty much anything happening in a story. That also means that defining something as fully badfic is going to be rare.
I just wrote one where the whole town was compelled to take on roles from Greek myths. The town itself was labeled Troy and most of the citizens spent the day building fortifications for the impending attack by the Greeks. The two guys the story was focused on were outside that zone and got caught in the Theseus and the Minotaur story with one being Theseus and the other briefly being King Minos and then being free of the story since Minos wasn't in it anymore.
Which is all completely off the wall and still doesn't even surpass some of the stuff that actually happens in canon.
I have found one badfic for it. On Quotev. My Haven Or My Trouble
The four seasons on Netflix, anyway; is there a fifth on the air at the moment?
*peeks at badfic* ... Huh. I'm not surprised if Duke has Sues. He's definitely my favorite character, and a lot more approachable to the average fanbrat than Nathan and most of the others.
I'm okay with Nathan and Audrey, but they suffer from that thing where the writers think they have to string out their drama as long as possible, to the point where it starts getting silly and the characters start coming off as kind of thick. {= P I was actually kind of annoyed when *spoilers*Lexie turned out to still be Audrey; I thought her struggle to get back in touch with Audrey would be a nice story arc, but no. Also, the thing with Duke losing his Trouble and then getting it right back again was predictable--but at least it turns out not to have been totally pointless, what with him being a ticking time bomb of doom now.*/spoilers*
~Neshomeh
Renewed for a 26 episode season, split into two separate sections like they used to do with Eureka. I am afraid this means it will be the last season. I feel like Syfy has a record of canceling shows after one last extra big season. I just hope if it is going to be canceled that the writer's know about that far enough in advance to write a satisfactory ending.
Have you checked out the fanfic on AO3 yet? I highly recommend anything written by Roseveare11, in particular. One of her stories is what finally got me to start writing fanfic after being a reader only for 10 years. There is a ton of shipping in the fandom, but some good gen stuff, too, if shipping isn't your thing at all.
...the cosmere fandom is small enough, and frequented enough by the right sort of people, that the only extant badfic was created deliberately by otherwise fantastic writers, for the purpose of laughing at it.
(But really, if you're going to get through The Stormlight Archive, you're gonna probably need some reason beyond the objective hawttness attribute of various characters. It's long. Amazing, but long. And unfinished.)
-Aila
I've bought the Mistborn trilogy in the last book fair and practically devoured it. It's awesome. Now I should get off my lazy ass and get my hands on The Alloy of Law.
I just had this weird plotbunny: a Myst x Mistborn crossover. It will be called "Mystborn".
Spoilers below, for those who haven't read the trilogy. Though you really should. Fantastic doesn't even begin to describe it.
Vin is amazing, isn't Vin amazing? That scene in Hero of Ages, where she launches herself up out of the mists... I want art. And then the subsequent trouncing of the Inquisitors, all of whom are basically the Lord Ruler by now? So. Badass. But honestly, my favourite character has got to be TenSoon, because TenSoon, that's why.
Have you read Stormlight yet? I would say readitreaditreadit if you haven't, but then, I completely missed some references to other cosmere books because I read it before them, which made me sad, so read it last, I guess?
Also, have you read The Emperor's Soul? I think it's my favourite cosmere story. Shai is fantastic.
I haven't played Myst, but love that title! :D
-Aila
The fandom is relatively small and mostly composed of intelligent people, so fic tends to be of average to very good quality. I've seen one or two stinkers, but they tend to be of the sort that's hard to spork because they're long and the SPaG is decent.
That said, there has been one badfic that was sporked by the PPC, and if anyone happens across any that are truly terrible, I demand to be informed, because I call all kinds of dibs on that. All the dibs.
~Neshomeh
Crichton 2 and 3 are especially good. Thanks for sharing! ^_^
~Neshomeh
My Haven beta drew those. She's got a ton of other drawings, cartoons, and gifs, and even a few videos out there, too.
Fanfic for Secret Six seems to be pretty good. I've read very little of it though.
...I've managed to come across a fandom that a) has virtually no badfic whatsoever, and b) is highly welcoming across the board. It's the Zombies, Run! fandom over on Tumblr. It's a wonderful little fandom, and one of the fanwriters has actually worked with the app creators to write a few storylines with them.
Listed on ff.net as "The Chronicles of Prydia." It has like three fanfics, I think? And more than half of them are in Bulgarian or something - been a while since I really looked. I wrote fanfic for it once, but I don't even remember what it was about, let alone have it anymore, so I don't actually know about the quality of any fanfic for it. But given that there are very few fanfics, there can't be too many badfics.
And most of the time when I mention it to people they sort of stare at me and go, "Chronicles of what," so there's that too.
I mean, the Black Cauldron is still Disney's redheaded stepchild, but one would think it'd at least give the series more attention, even if it wasn't a very faithful adaptation. The series got me hooked on Lloyd Alexander's work for a while. I love Gwydion so much.
I know! Eilonwy is a great character!
I have a friend who named her daughter something hard to remember that's similar to Eilonwy. I can't ever remember the poor kid's actual name. I call her Eilonwy. Poor kid.
Taran's character arc in particular was fantastic. I hated him so much at the beginning.
And yeah, a friend of mine adopted a baby called Amara right around the time I was reading Redwall, so I kind of spent a year calling her Mara. I guess it's a thing we fandom people do. *shrugs*
-Aila
I'm pretty sure I know lots; there are a lot of obscure sci-fi and fantasy continua that are simply too obscure for fanbrats to get their paws on or are aimed at an older audience. Frank Herbert's ConSentiency series is an example of the former while The Culture is an example of the latter.
You'd think Sues would go after the [I]Lensman[/I] series, "The Only Woman Mentor Will Give A Lens To" being more speshul than "Tenth Walker". (Yes, I know about Clarissa, but she's putting herself down as a second-class Lensman most of the time she's got the darn thing.) But the novels are old enough that you have to look to find copies.
Knightmare - mostly because it has so few fanfics in general, and similarly a small community. It took an interlude for my agents to get a visit in.
Isn't that a genre-busting game?I think I saw it on a Games You Might Have Not Tried video over at Extra Credits.
It was a kids' TV gameshow many years ago. It was a bit like D&D.
There is a website: http://www.knightmare.com/
So did you know they made an all-new episode of Knightmare last year for YouTube Geek Week? They did. I forced persuaded Kaitlyn to watch it with me last night.
Now, as far as I'm aware, I didn't watch much of Knightmare. I was only eight when it was cancelled, which means at least half its run took place before I was aware of... anything much. So I was assuming I wouldn't really remember anything. Oh boy, was I wrong.
-I recognised the theme music. The theme music! It took me back twenty years (good grief). That's really impressive.
-Oh, that helmet. That gloriously ridiculous helmet.
-The bluescreen is rather better these days, but still looks pretty strange.
-And yes, there's still endless 'sidestep right, sidestep right! Right!'. Because of course there is.
-I actually remember the 'look down and see what's on the table' thing, too - how strange.
-And I certainly recognise the 'bridge-like puzzle over a gigantic abyss'.
-And, finally, the incredibly abrupt death scenes. :D Knightmare!
It's always scary watching something from your childhood, particularly when it's a remake. The Thunderbirds movie was... pretty bad, though I'm glad to say the original puppet series still holds up surprisingly well - even if watching it as an adult gives the distinct impression that Scott Tracy is entirely useless (and his family are just humouring him - 'Sure, Scott, you set up Mobile Control... 'F.A.B.', Scott!'). And I'm sure you can insert your own examples. But Knightmare, to my mind, still works in the remake - and demonstrates that the concept is still very much workable today.
(So come on, BBC, ITV, anyone - give us a revival!)
hS
We've got internet speeds of, uh, 0.8 right now, and we managed to watch it without buffering. So you should definitely be able to.
hS
It is no surprise that I mistook for an other work in another genre in another entire medium * Laughs humourlessly *
It does look it was an awesome thing from I could see from the website though.
It was an awesome, enthralling, fascinating kids' TV gameshow... ;)
I'm amazed at that website. Most old TV shows end up with a website last updated three years ago (usually with a 'new content coming soon' or 'under construction!' notice that makes you cry). That is... something else.
hS
