Creating the bunny hutch
May. 14th, 2009 11:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tsukinofaeriiObligatory spam. Part 11, yeah! Almost posted! :D
I just spent an hour desperately recovering files on my flash drive. D: Damn you delete key! (shakes fist) Luckily, nothing important was lost. Whew! That was horrifically close.
Today's post is a plot bunny and yet... not a plot bunny. Maybe a style bunny? IDK. I'm using SPN as an example because that was what spawned it and it would really be the most logical place for this type of story. I'm sure it could probably be done in damn near any fandom though.
First! We shall need an Author. We'll call this Author A. Author A is sweet, caring and also very very very good natured.
Author A writes a fic. In this example, it's a deliberate badfic. Any genre could do—drama, horror, schmoop. You name it. But this is a bad fic. It has all the classic signs of a bad fic: unbelievable lines, questionable plot, completely OOC, lack of consistency. Our Badfic Plot in this case goes something like this: John never died, and Sam and Dean have to find him in order to get Dean's birth certificate for applying to college. There are vampires of the Anita Blake "Suck My... Blood" sort. Werewolves! Curses! Sammy crossdresses believably! And at the end, they find John and live happily ever after. Well, after Dean becomes a vampire and Sam is his chew toy. We'll pretend this is a masterpiece of crack, just because I said so. :P
Author A puts the finishing touches on this... and gives it to Author B. Author B is evil, as evil as Author A is sweet.
Author B writes the story... as a curse. Or a spell. The Trickster would be classic. Whatever bit of phlebotinum happens to apply. Our boys—our IC, Angsty, Lovable boys—are finding themselves living this piece of crack out, entirely against their will. Lines such as "Sammy, I need—I need your blood" and "you'll always be my Big Brother *tear*" are delivered and immediately boggled at. Between-scene moments are rife with "what the hell is this crap?!". The impossible (which is always a subjective term in SPN) actually happens. In this particular B-story, the boys start researching and eventually find the exact story that's causing so much trouble. Just to rev up the melodrama, they also figure out how to stop the story before Dean starts gnawing on Sam's femoral artery.
But the story ends when they find John, alive and well. And John is dead. I'll leave the rest of it to our imaginary Author B. (waves away the plot)
See what I mean about it being a type? There's definitely a formula, but you could do it with almost any fic and drastically different results. Two genres for the price of one! PWP? Check, and could spawn a much longer work. Romance? Goes great with humor, but apply angst as needed. (A Dean/Castiel fic in a Dean/Sam 'verse, for example). Entirely AU? That's practically canon (What Is And Never Should Be). For more fun, J2 RPS living out a SPN fic. ("DEMONS?! Jared, there are DEMONS." "I know, I— just grab the salt, will you?")
For other series, I am positive that Marvel!Verse has fanfic writers. :D Probably so does anything where the characters are famous, and in some you could still tweak it so the story was written by a secret!fangirl. Naminé in Kingdom Hearts, for example, could shamelessly write the Organization into all sorts of things, and I can't think of a reason for her abilities with art not to carry over to words.
This spawned a few days ago on![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fandomsecrets while replying to an SPN secrets. I had a lovely idea for a fic where the boys are being forced to live out a Wincest fic, and they are our canon boys (which is to say, they're very D: about the matter). But then I started applying it to all sorts of things as the logical extension of "what would the characters think of this".
And then my head esplodeded.
Okay, I think I'm done with the random brain-spasms of wtf-ery. I hope, at least. I wish I knew how my mind is working these days. o.O;
ETA: I didn't realize this needed an lj-cut so badly! D: Sorry guys!
I just spent an hour desperately recovering files on my flash drive. D: Damn you delete key! (shakes fist) Luckily, nothing important was lost. Whew! That was horrifically close.
Today's post is a plot bunny and yet... not a plot bunny. Maybe a style bunny? IDK. I'm using SPN as an example because that was what spawned it and it would really be the most logical place for this type of story. I'm sure it could probably be done in damn near any fandom though.
First! We shall need an Author. We'll call this Author A. Author A is sweet, caring and also very very very good natured.
Author A writes a fic. In this example, it's a deliberate badfic. Any genre could do—drama, horror, schmoop. You name it. But this is a bad fic. It has all the classic signs of a bad fic: unbelievable lines, questionable plot, completely OOC, lack of consistency. Our Badfic Plot in this case goes something like this: John never died, and Sam and Dean have to find him in order to get Dean's birth certificate for applying to college. There are vampires of the Anita Blake "Suck My... Blood" sort. Werewolves! Curses! Sammy crossdresses believably! And at the end, they find John and live happily ever after. Well, after Dean becomes a vampire and Sam is his chew toy. We'll pretend this is a masterpiece of crack, just because I said so. :P
Author A puts the finishing touches on this... and gives it to Author B. Author B is evil, as evil as Author A is sweet.
Author B writes the story... as a curse. Or a spell. The Trickster would be classic. Whatever bit of phlebotinum happens to apply. Our boys—our IC, Angsty, Lovable boys—are finding themselves living this piece of crack out, entirely against their will. Lines such as "Sammy, I need—I need your blood" and "you'll always be my Big Brother *tear*" are delivered and immediately boggled at. Between-scene moments are rife with "what the hell is this crap?!". The impossible (which is always a subjective term in SPN) actually happens. In this particular B-story, the boys start researching and eventually find the exact story that's causing so much trouble. Just to rev up the melodrama, they also figure out how to stop the story before Dean starts gnawing on Sam's femoral artery.
But the story ends when they find John, alive and well. And John is dead. I'll leave the rest of it to our imaginary Author B. (waves away the plot)
See what I mean about it being a type? There's definitely a formula, but you could do it with almost any fic and drastically different results. Two genres for the price of one! PWP? Check, and could spawn a much longer work. Romance? Goes great with humor, but apply angst as needed. (A Dean/Castiel fic in a Dean/Sam 'verse, for example). Entirely AU? That's practically canon (What Is And Never Should Be). For more fun, J2 RPS living out a SPN fic. ("DEMONS?! Jared, there are DEMONS." "I know, I— just grab the salt, will you?")
For other series, I am positive that Marvel!Verse has fanfic writers. :D Probably so does anything where the characters are famous, and in some you could still tweak it so the story was written by a secret!fangirl. Naminé in Kingdom Hearts, for example, could shamelessly write the Organization into all sorts of things, and I can't think of a reason for her abilities with art not to carry over to words.
This spawned a few days ago on
fandomsecrets while replying to an SPN secrets. I had a lovely idea for a fic where the boys are being forced to live out a Wincest fic, and they are our canon boys (which is to say, they're very D: about the matter). But then I started applying it to all sorts of things as the logical extension of "what would the characters think of this". And then my head esplodeded.
Okay, I think I'm done with the random brain-spasms of wtf-ery. I hope, at least. I wish I knew how my mind is working these days. o.O;
ETA: I didn't realize this needed an lj-cut so badly! D: Sorry guys!
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