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fictional ficathon
Jan. 23rd, 2014 11:27 amThis is a cool thing: The Invisible Ficathon: Fan Fiction From Stories That Never Were. Eligible fandoms include books, TV shows, movies, etc. that canonically exist within a source text but don't exist in real life.
I don't know if I'll actually write for this, but I definitely want to nominate some things in the hopes that other people will write them. Some possibilities:
The Conscience of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, which is from the Library of Dreams in The Sandman. Or maybe Raymond Chandler's Love Can Be Murder, from the same source. Or P. G. Wodehouse's Psmith and Jeeves.
The Aja'ib, a Thousand and One Nights-ish book of adventure stories from Paul Magrs's Eighth Doctor novels. The Aja'ib may be a mythic retelling of the Doctor's life, but there are things in it that the Doctor insists never happened; plus when Fitz reads it in The Blue Angel the stories seem to change every time.
Inspector Spacetime from Community, maybe, although apparently it's become practically a real fandom at this point.
The Library, the fictional TV show from Kelly Link's "Magic for Beginners." Except there are actually two of them--the story is itself supposed to be a TV show, and then the people in the story which is a TV show are fans of a TV show called The Library. I'm interested in the most nested one, the one with Fox who is never played by the same actor twice, and which has an entire episode set inside a drawer of the card catalog of the eponymous library. Complicated to nominate, but so so cool.
Probably one of the fictional squid-related books in Jeff Vandermeer's City of Saints and Madmen. There's a whole bibliography of them!
I don't know if I'll actually write for this, but I definitely want to nominate some things in the hopes that other people will write them. Some possibilities:
The Conscience of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, which is from the Library of Dreams in The Sandman. Or maybe Raymond Chandler's Love Can Be Murder, from the same source. Or P. G. Wodehouse's Psmith and Jeeves.
The Aja'ib, a Thousand and One Nights-ish book of adventure stories from Paul Magrs's Eighth Doctor novels. The Aja'ib may be a mythic retelling of the Doctor's life, but there are things in it that the Doctor insists never happened; plus when Fitz reads it in The Blue Angel the stories seem to change every time.
Inspector Spacetime from Community, maybe, although apparently it's become practically a real fandom at this point.
The Library, the fictional TV show from Kelly Link's "Magic for Beginners." Except there are actually two of them--the story is itself supposed to be a TV show, and then the people in the story which is a TV show are fans of a TV show called The Library. I'm interested in the most nested one, the one with Fox who is never played by the same actor twice, and which has an entire episode set inside a drawer of the card catalog of the eponymous library. Complicated to nominate, but so so cool.
Probably one of the fictional squid-related books in Jeff Vandermeer's City of Saints and Madmen. There's a whole bibliography of them!
