Small-towny fandom woes.

[vulgarweed]

Those of you who've fandom-known me for a long time might know that mctabby was the one who badgered (and lioned and eagled and snaked) me to get an LJ in the first place, and that I've been an admirer of her Summary Executions for as long as she's been doing them, which is several years now.

So I was feeling a little MEAN GIRLZ this evening and went to see if Good Omens fandom could ever have such a wonderful thing.



Alas, the answer's probably no. For one thing, there are only 28 pages of fics at the Pit, and half of them are by people I know. While there are quite a few summaries that I wouldn't click on a bet, there's just very little that even comes close to the inspired WTFery of "HPLotR Xover. Flames not accepted. COMPLETE! Harry is Gandalf, Hermione is Sauron. Gandalf loves Sauron, but does Sauron love him back? Obviously not slash. Those who have been begging me to finish it, your dreams have come true! RR pwease!" or subtle trainwrecks like "Brianne, Dawn, Lily and the Mauraders have become a tight nit group." or unintentional metacommentary brought on by punctuation accidents like "Hermione and Ginny love almost nothing to do with HBP" or "Harry thinks about Christmas Mpreg." There IS a little bit of tone-deaf wangst poetry, like the sort that is the source of my icon, but...meh. I'd have to lower standards to amass enough for a proper SE: GO Edition post.

I did find this minimalist gem, though:

Crowely/Aziralphe

Yup, that's the whole summary. And it did indeed tell me everything I needed to know about the fic.

Aziralphe! It kind of has a ring to it. I like it a lot better than 'Aziraphael.' I'll keep it in mind for that AU where they're American sitcom characters.



You like me better when I shut up and write porn, don't you?

ETA: isiscolo has a proposal worthy of the Tempter himself!

Comments

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Wait a minute, you're complaining that there isn't enough badfic in your fandom? Here, you can have some of ours. We're happy to share the misery.

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Aziralphe, but we call him Ralph for short.

Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!!!!

[furius.livejournal.com]

I literally cannot stop laughing over the HPLotR Xover summary..

Gandalf loves Sauron, but does Sauron love him back?

This is hysterical!

[semyaza.livejournal.com]

I don't suppose you could provide a link to the 'Gandalf loves Sauron' fic?

Just kidding.

Running into the writers by accident is always a problem in a small fandom. Sigh.

[celandineb.livejournal.com]

ROTFLMAO! Well, you may not have provided summary executions, but you gave me a good belly laugh anyway. *g*

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I have an idea for you. Last year, ds_flashfiction did a Badfic Summary-a-thon somewhat reminiscent of mctabby's Blame Someone Else fest: participants commented to the sign-up post with an invented summary worthy of execution, and then the mods mixed them up and assigned them out, and we all had two weeks, I think, to write something. There were some truly inspired stories, some purported excerpts of larger ones, some ficlets, some imitation badfic, some total crackfic - it was a lot of fun.

You can see the setup, prompts and stories: http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=ds_flashfiction&keyword=Badfic+Challenge&filter=all

Maybe you should run one of these for GO?

[bea-sirius.livejournal.com]

Now I am thinking about Aziraphale wearing his latex rubber gloves.......and nothing but the suspender socks and an elegant waistcoat...and poor Crowley tied to a bed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*wipes kyeboard full of fangirl drool*

love Bea xxx

[dreya-uberwald.livejournal.com]

Harry is Gandalf, Hermione is Sauron. Gandalf loves Sauron, but does Sauron love him back?

Hmmm, for all I know this could be a heart-wrenching and cautionary tale of one young wizard's descent into hardcore hallucingen abuse (after all I can't think of anything else that would cause Harry to look at Hermione and see a big giant flaming eye - though I'm sure that the symbolism would cause 9 out of 10 psychoanalysts to raise an eyebrow).

[quantum-witch.livejournal.com]

I don't even know what Summary Executions are about. From what I could read through, it was utterly confusing. Is this supposed to be quoted summaries from fics, as the writer actually wrote them? If so... wow, bad stuff.

I've seen some really old GO fics somewhere, written long before I got involved, but I'm afraid to go looking for them again. I think they might have been on a Yahoo Group or something.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Aziralphe! One of the lesser-known angels, he's responsible for lawn-mowing and spilling pie on his shirt.