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.
She's not just a blob of energy, she's also a 14-year-old hormone bomb.
Spike ,'The Killer In Me'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
DavidS - Aug 02, 2003 7:44:06 pm PDT #6041 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
§ ita § - Aug 02, 2003 8:11:45 pm PDT #6042 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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?
Rebecca Lizard - Aug 03, 2003 12:52:42 am PDT #6043 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
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.
Holli - Aug 03, 2003 1:50:12 pm PDT #6044 of 10000
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
I read it! Almost wrote zombiefic for it.
Kristen - Aug 03, 2003 3:37:22 pm PDT #6045 of 10000
§ ita § - Aug 03, 2003 3:48:14 pm PDT #6046 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
edit: um, deleted because the question disappeared.
But you did make me look, and hrrrrm.
Kristen - Aug 03, 2003 3:50:57 pm PDT #6047 of 10000
I think I figured it out so I deleted.
I also think I shall never complain about popslash kerfluffles ever again.
§ ita § - Aug 03, 2003 3:52:54 pm PDT #6048 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I love fandom kerfuffles, because I'm not invested in any of them, you know?
Okay, I love many.
Dana - Aug 03, 2003 3:55:11 pm PDT #6049 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Hey, speaking of kerfuffles, I just found out I'm hated by a whole group of Nikita people.
Fandom is fun, ain't it?
Elena - Aug 03, 2003 3:58:52 pm PDT #6050 of 10000
Thanks for all the fish.
They hate you? Because of a television show? That's craxy.
Well, okay, I hate Fox executive weasels because of a television show - actually, because of at least 4 television shows - but it's only logical to hate them.