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A space to chat fandom! Anon!

Got a WIP you're excited about? Want to rave about your fave? Or is your fandom absolutely in love with a character who detracts from every scene they bumble into, and you need somewhere to vent? You're in the right place!

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From: (Anonymous)

I have been at fandom loose ends for a couple of years. I mostly do Yuletide and hope for something to catch my attention full time again. (My past is littered with fandoms, from Buffy to Superwholock to the MCU, though.)

From: (Anonymous)

Ooh, ages back I drafted a Buffy/Good Omens comedy crossover fic. It was a bit shit so I never posted it, but I'd like to come back to Buffy sometime.

From: (Anonymous)

Buffy is such a good fandom. There are a million and one problematic elements, but that just makes it more fun to discuss, not less. That fic sounds like an interesting idea.

(I also think the show's age helps. Tons of fandom scolds will give ships or characters from Buffy a pass because it was part of their sexual awakening.)

From: (Anonymous)

yeah, tbh I'm not all that into good omens and thought it was overhyped, but it was on at the time and everyone was losing their minds over it and posting everywhere, so I was vaguely wondering if there was any fic for it I'd ever write, and liked the idea of the mythologies bashing up against each other (tho only the *mythologies*, so I'd already diverged from the fandom). I like Buffy much better but I think I'd struggle with the character voices, there's a lot of pop-culture-referencing and I live in a cave.

From: (Anonymous)

Buffy dialogue was so stylized that I found the voices pretty easy to capture, FWIW. (It was the only fandom where I was ever close to BNF-dom, so I am going to at least slightly trust the judgment of those who kept telling me I nailed the voices.)

From: (Anonymous)

:D Nice! Yeah, I haven't watched it in years so I don't have them in my ear. Though I can picture the rough cadence, and my natural speaking style can be a lot like buffyspeak, just... the references, man. They mention TV shows and I'm like 'oh yeah, tv is a thing that exists' (buffy being one of very few tv shows I've actually seen all the way through :P) So I'd probably end up writing a thing with a very different style in the same universe. Crossovers don't normally appeal to me, but that's part of why that one did.

(belatedly tagging the fandom in the subheading so can find this thread!)

From: (Anonymous)

NA barging in here to say that I DO like Good Omens and was an old-school book fan who thought the show was great! And enjoyed the active fandom even if some of the characterizations were...off! Until even other fucking Crowley/Aziraphale fic became slash in name only, because AZIRAPHALE ALWAYS HAD A FUCKING VAGINA. JUST WRITE HET IF YOU WANT PIV THAT BADLY, YOU FUCKERS, JFC.

Ahem. Anyway, it pissed me off and I had to be EXTREMELY careful when complaining about it on FFA because you know why. But it pretty much ruined the fandom for me.

From: (Anonymous)

ayrt

Aw, I'm glad you got to experience your fandom getting massive like that! :D I didn't hate it or anything, I liked the book and liked much of the show, just couldn't match everyone else's level of enthusiasm.

I suppose you could write comedy pining meta about aziraphale and crowley both secretly searching for sexy slashfic featuring themselves and getting mad at the same thing.

"And I assure you," said Aziraphale, unbuttoning his waistcoat. "I do not have a fucking vagina."

ah, it writes itself

From: (Anonymous)

It was such a weird fandom because Neil Gaiman was always so...odd about accepting the slash fandom. Like I understood why he didn't want to say YES THEY ARE GAY MEN because PTerry died and the characters were kinda based on them, but I felt he went too far the other way, into gender woowoo land. And regardless if they're sexless angels, presenting as men for thousands of years...IDK, man, the whole vagina characterization didn't work for me. xD

From: (Anonymous)

I apparently need to sleep because when I saw 'vagina characterization', I pictured the vagina as having its own, distinct character. Aziraphale, Crowley, and... a vagina voiced by Gilbert Gottfried? I don't know