Maybe I just think too much...smells like wood burning.

[vulgarweed]

OK, the next long GO historical fic is definitely starting to coalesce in a big way. (About time too, some of its weirder ideas have been around for almost a year.)


But I think sideways so...I was thinking this "morning" of a conversation use_theforce_em and I had a little while ago about how it'd be fun to have a GO fanworks fest where people are encouraged to really let their freak flags fly. Bizarre never-done pairings, outré kinks, utter crack.

See, looking at HP fandom, one of its greatest strengths in the Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations department, is that, no matter how weird your fic is, you can always find something to point to that's far freakier and say, "now, THAT person who wrote THAT is SICK. I'm just...adventurous." It's just like the way someone with pink hair and a nose ring would get stared at and maybe threatened in my 200-person Appalachian home town...but in the East Village of NYC, not so much. But there, the seven-foot-tall drag queen with the prosthetic horns and the diamond teeth wearing nothing but sequins, a gigantic peacock tail, and a python might draw a comment or two (not necessarily negative, just a certain awe). It's a matter of where the frontiers are placed. It's relative.

So more than once I've found myself getting nervous about a GO fic and twittering, "Is this too out-there"? over something that's, frankly, pretty damn tame in the grand scheme of things. The idea of the fest (which I think I'd name with some reference to St John of Patmos and his magic mushrooms) would be, well, first and foremost, to have BIG FUN, and second, to move the goalposts.

Comments

[apricot-tree.livejournal.com]

Based on my experience of small midwestern towns, my guess is that the "the seven-foot-tall drag queen with the prosthetic horns and the diamond teeth wearing nothing but sequins, a gigantic peacock tail, and a python" would clear the whole 200 person town out in about 30 seconds screaming about alien invasion.

It's all relative.

I think it's great that people can write whatever they want. How boring would it be if we all had the same viewpoint?

[stained_glass]

Hoorah for IDIC, in Infinite forms! :D

(but especially in teh pr0n, precious) :p

[sanomi.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a truly wonderful idea. I'm totally there! I mean, it'd be a place where I could post my Aziraphale/Hastur-- which is somewhat out there according to the usual way the fandom works, but in the grand scheme of things is terribly tame. X3

The fun thing about crack!fests is that, on the whole, some things really aren't all that much crack. It's all relative, like you said.

[waxbean.livejournal.com]

yikes! a new long historical fic from you? and you think you might be pushing the limits?????

well, count me in (sorry to be so presumptuous, V- perhaps I should say: if there's anything you need in the way of brainstorming or beta-ing or general story-talking, feel free to call on me!).


I like the idea of a fanworks fest -
I think when I read one of your latest posts... yes, the one about giving pairings and prompts and then having them shuffled... I was thinking that a comment-fic one for GO might be fun... perhaps a party over on L-T sometime? That could give folks a chance to wet their whistles for all fun-on fest.

I'm game.

xoxoxM

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear ... John and his mushrooms ....! Perfect.

Really-really-really-really looking forward to your next GO historical -- as REO Speedwagon said, "You take me to the places that alone I'd never find."

[celandineb.livejournal.com]

Hey, as a fangirl of yours, I like the out-there stuff you write (yay, promise of new long fic one of these days). And it's not really all that out there, usually... okay, there are some exceptions. *veg* So go for it! Have a fest and challenge other folks that way!

[shadowvalkyrie.livejournal.com]

Oooohhh!!! New fic!!! *looks forward to it*

About the orgy you're planning...
Hmmmm....
I don't think there has been somthing so very /out there/ in the GO fandom, yet, but then I'm not so sure I'd want to read anything really absurd. It's exactly what I never read in the HP fandom, except if I have one of those days I need a) a good laugh, b) to be weirded out thoroughly so I can concentrate on something other than porn. Even if something as ...adventurous as Mr Filch/his cat or Legolas/Gollum (believe me, I've seen both and ran screaming!) was standard in the GO fandom (which is rather unlikely with the limited number of cast members), I doubt I'd manage to read that, especially not if the author expects something like a straight face and honest feedback. (And this is the diky woman who gets odd looks in her home village talking.) I mean it'd certainly make for an amusing parody to write, say, Crowley/potted plant, but as soon as someone tries to make something sad and angsty out of it, I doubt I could wrap my mind around it. I have always thought that pairings have to make /some/ sense.
Aziraphale/Crowley, that much is clear, has a shipload of subtext and is a nice thought as well, with lots of reasonable angst and cute religious symbolism (and I can read kinky things /there/ and enjoy them lots, just so you know).
Az/Crowley/Adam works as well (at least in what you've written so far, it does perfectly), especially since the book ends sort of openly and it's easily imaginable that an older Adam would be more curious where his less normal acquaintances are concerned (and I don't say that only because I'm writing some right now *ggg*).
However, as soon as someone came around with surreal things like Aziraphale/R.P. Tyler's poodle (which would make my eyes water -in a bad way- even as a parody), and took them seriously, I'd first scream, then fall unconscious, wake up, scream more, fall unconscious again and then go bleach my brain with something rather acidic.
Maybe I've got weak nerves, but no, I don't want GO to end like HP.

Still, I'd of course be glad to have another chance to read a lot of GO fic, but please don't be offended if I leave out the weirder things and only read those I can find remotely plausible.

[use-theforce-em.livejournal.com]

Fic! *bounces* Oooo, what era? Clue? Pwease? *is cute*

I think that sounds like a fabulous idea. :D Of course, my stuff would probably be less porny, seeing as crack for me nearly always consists of combining fandoms in a weird way.... (well, there was actually that 'robot porn' discussion I had with allthisnonsense when we were making Star Wars connections in GO, and I realized that CrowleyandAziraphaleareR2-D2andC3PO. *coughs* Yeah, that one really should be written. XD) But you never know. Someone could bunny me with something crazy, and I'd probably write it to appease my curiousity. I'm far too easy. ;D

[malicehaughton.livejournal.com]

If one is already writing a rather cracky fic can it go in? Features such pairings as Pepper/Crowley, Pepper/Wensleydale (and by the end Crowley/Aziraphale of course). A bit of wank will be thrown in (of both the male and female variety)

Also includes a rather loud conversation (one-sided) between Crowley and God about Forgiveness, and it isn't Crowley begging for it, (or even asking for it)

Not really porn worthy, but definitely goes in with the crack.

I am a slow writer/typer (and not the best either) who is suddenly loving () :/