Subject: Um.
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Posted on: 2014-08-17 17:10:00 UTC
I'm not sure if this is it, but...this might be it.
Admittedly, I wrote that for the Badfic Game, but...
No, wait, you know what's even stranger? My first attempt at a shipfic. Which, um, didn't actually get finished in time to post for the last one, but let's just say it involves a Silmarillion AU and some very odd resultant pairings. And hopefully it'll get posted somewhere around the next shipfic fest...
~DF
In my case, it only sounds strange when I describe it. I once combined an AU with a... don't know what it's called. Basically when you take the dialogue and fill in thoughts and motivations.
I'd be hard-pressed to choose what actually turned out the strangest because I liked to take stupid-sounding ideas and actually try to make them work. My abandoned stories have catalyst-Sues, which is Mary Sues that set up the improbable situation and get out of the way.
I'm not sure if this is it, but...this might be it.
Admittedly, I wrote that for the Badfic Game, but...
No, wait, you know what's even stranger? My first attempt at a shipfic. Which, um, didn't actually get finished in time to post for the last one, but let's just say it involves a Silmarillion AU and some very odd resultant pairings. And hopefully it'll get posted somewhere around the next shipfic fest...
~DF
Which was a Redwall fanfiction featuring time travel, which was basically a big complicated way to get Rose alive again. It didn't make much sense, though it was written well enough. The few excerpts I had of the sequel to it, though... now that was weird. The time travel stopped making much sense even to me, paradox clones happened, "paradox bubbles" occurred, and I never did manage to get the bad guys out of the way, because every time I inserted another time loop to get them out of a fix, by my own time travel logic we ended up with more clones of them. Eventually I gave up, and it was probably for the best. But it was fun.
Of those attempts, one's main character was basically fem!sane!Sue!Gaara (film), two others were blatant ripoffs of popular movies, and the only remotely promising one centered around anime!Lyra inviting May, Dawn and every other anime character representing a game PC ever to her house for a sleepover party. (Or possibly a "let's celebrate Black/White!" party.)
Anyone wanna play Fill the Plothole? (Not really.)
It started out as an AVATAR fix-fic, but before too long it ended up wandering through the Iraq War and feminism and robots and Battlestar Galactica and a whole bunch of other random topics. It can be found at http://admiralsakai.deviantart.com/gallery/35840256/They-Chose-To-Remain , but I wouldn't necessarily recommend it- the writing is mediocre and it drags on for far too long.
I've written things that dealt with stranger topics, including a sourcebook for playing Men-In-Black-style campaigns in Call of Cthulhu that was basically a crossover with the SCP Foundation in everything but name, but those can't compare to TCTR in terms of sheer "Why did I decide to make this?" factor.