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fabrisseSince I missed yesterday, today I'm covering two authors. Although I started in the Buffy fandom and occasionally dip into other ones (Starsky and Hutch, Teen Titans, X-Men...), for the past couple of years I've been reading primarily in the Smallville and SG-1 fandoms.
Alternate Universes aren't really my thing. SG-1 has something called a quantum mirror that allows people to wander into alternate timelines (with some weird consequences if the person already exists there and doesn't leave quickly). I accept them in that fandom in a way that I just don't/can't in other fandoms. Having said that, I still generally avoid alternate universes.
Very early on in Smallville slash, I read a story by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
serafina20. It wasn't an AU at that point, and the fandom was still so new that any new story was worth reading. The ideas were good; the woman can plot. But as occasionally happens, certain grammar issues just popped me right out of the story. For the first time ever, I volunteered to beta for an unknown writer. With one major exception and a couple of flubs on my part, I've betaed most of the series since. I'm proud to have done so.
Her stories are always grounded in the actual episodes. The events that we see on screen take place in her stories too, but always with her particular spin. From the beginning, she saw a bond between Clark and Lex -- all right, it's a slash heavy fandom, most of us did. But she posited some very specific parameters for the bond. Essentially, Clark imprinted on Lex as his first human relationship immediately after the meteor shower.
The bond is now sexual and has always been telepathic. Somewhere in season two or three, there was a "revisit the meteor shower episode" of Smallville. Toddler Clark reaches out and touches the cheek of the unconscious child Lex who immediately opens his eyes. They share a smile. Huge swathes of fanfiction readers cried out, "The Smallville writers read Serafina."
Her world has become very rich and a little scary. Unlike the actual series, the characters have major consequences for their actions, good or bad. Serafina's original characters are people I look forward to seeing again. The AU she has created is more internally consistent than the TV series.
Back to SG-1 now. There's an author out there who doesn't write the characters I see on the screen every week. Her internal consistency is good, but it's not the Jack and Daniel that I watch the show for.
Having said that, she has a very definite idea of what ultimate happiness is and she has done her damnedest to provide it for these two characters she loves. In her world, Jack and Daniel have retired. They have a business, eight kids, two dogs, and a kitten while still occasionally consulting for the SGC.
Orrymain's very prolific and very focussed on her universe. Love her or hate her (and most people do one or the other -- no one I know feels neutral about her), she is, in many ways, the ultimate fan writer.
Alternate Universes aren't really my thing. SG-1 has something called a quantum mirror that allows people to wander into alternate timelines (with some weird consequences if the person already exists there and doesn't leave quickly). I accept them in that fandom in a way that I just don't/can't in other fandoms. Having said that, I still generally avoid alternate universes.
Very early on in Smallville slash, I read a story by
serafina20. It wasn't an AU at that point, and the fandom was still so new that any new story was worth reading. The ideas were good; the woman can plot. But as occasionally happens, certain grammar issues just popped me right out of the story. For the first time ever, I volunteered to beta for an unknown writer. With one major exception and a couple of flubs on my part, I've betaed most of the series since. I'm proud to have done so.Her stories are always grounded in the actual episodes. The events that we see on screen take place in her stories too, but always with her particular spin. From the beginning, she saw a bond between Clark and Lex -- all right, it's a slash heavy fandom, most of us did. But she posited some very specific parameters for the bond. Essentially, Clark imprinted on Lex as his first human relationship immediately after the meteor shower.
The bond is now sexual and has always been telepathic. Somewhere in season two or three, there was a "revisit the meteor shower episode" of Smallville. Toddler Clark reaches out and touches the cheek of the unconscious child Lex who immediately opens his eyes. They share a smile. Huge swathes of fanfiction readers cried out, "The Smallville writers read Serafina."
Her world has become very rich and a little scary. Unlike the actual series, the characters have major consequences for their actions, good or bad. Serafina's original characters are people I look forward to seeing again. The AU she has created is more internally consistent than the TV series.
Back to SG-1 now. There's an author out there who doesn't write the characters I see on the screen every week. Her internal consistency is good, but it's not the Jack and Daniel that I watch the show for.
Having said that, she has a very definite idea of what ultimate happiness is and she has done her damnedest to provide it for these two characters she loves. In her world, Jack and Daniel have retired. They have a business, eight kids, two dogs, and a kitten while still occasionally consulting for the SGC.
Orrymain's very prolific and very focussed on her universe. Love her or hate her (and most people do one or the other -- no one I know feels neutral about her), she is, in many ways, the ultimate fan writer.
