When I was younger, I always used to wonder what happened to the characters after. With fanfiction, I find that I can write those stories. It completely blindsided me, at first, when I saw Narnia fiction. But I love the notion now. Narnia, The Dark is Rising, the Murray family from Madeleine L'Engle--all those stories I loved as children I'm re-exploring as an adult, and now I realize I want to write stories about them too.

I always did this as a kid. With TV shows, too. I didn't know it was proto-fic; just that I liked the storied so much I didn't want them to end. I just wanted to climb in through the lines of text and walk around in that world for a while.

Now I get a chance to, with fanfiction, yo. I love fandom.

Litfic is really it's own literary genre. Foe is a retelling of Robinson Crusoe from Friday's POV. Ditto Wide Sargosso Sea as a retelling of Jane Eyre from the story of the madwoman in the attic. It's gotten kind of rampant in the last several years, but it's fairly commonplace now. Updike even redid The Scarlet Letter.

I remember reading and really enjoying a retelling of Robinson Crusoe when I was young. I'm not sure if it was Foe, though. Does it end with Crusoe killing himself?

I've got a fevrent rec that's only a little biased.

Reema wrote this kind-of-Alias-fic kind-of-original-fiction story that's so gorgeous and controlled my toes curl when I read it. (She's going to do another four things that aren't, etc, for Sydney.)

Who else reads Alias here? I can't remember. Dana...? It's kind of a small fandom, isn't it.

I read it! Almost wrote zombiefic for it.

edit: um, deleted because the question disappeared.

But you did make me look, and hrrrrm.

I think I figured it out so I deleted.

I also think I shall never complain about popslash kerfluffles ever again.

I love fandom kerfuffles, because I'm not invested in any of them, you know?

Okay, I love many.