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"Welcome to Avalon! Here is your puppy."

So I was hanging out with a new friend and I started telling him about fanfiction, 'cos I'm tyring to shrug off the yoke of the fandom/RL divide. He wants to read my fic! omg what should I send him?! and sometimes you can hear the silence speak is one of my favorites that I've written, but I fear it's too much subtextual incest for a first date. Does The Light of a Different Sun make my butt look big? I'd go with Static Noise or even Salva Veritate but I don't have any shoes that maaaaatch.

For

narniaexchange,

westingturtle wrote me The Winter King, an AU in which Susan discovers Narnia first and Jadis is male. omg. <333! Thank you very much,

zempasuchil and I were having a conversation about what Arthur would (OR SHOULD) do in Avalon all day, and I think the answer is pretty obvious: cuddle some puppies. 'Cos man, if I were convalescing on a magical isle for an indefinite period, I could definitely use some puppies to cuddle. In honor of this - and also of the beginning of the American football season (I think?) - you get not just a picture, but a picspam. Of the Puppy Bowl.

"What is the Puppy Bowl?" asked Z.

This is what I told her.

OMG THE PUPPY BOWL IS THIS WONDROUS THING ON ANIMAL PLANET THAT SHOWS WHENEVER THE SUPERBOWL IS ON AND IT IS PUPPIES PLAYING FOOTBALL. SORT OF. WELL OKAY SO YOU MAY HAVE A STADIUM, AS SUCH:

AND YOU MAY HAVE A STARTING LINEUP, LIKE SO:

PLAYER PROFILES:

AND GOALPOSTS:

THERE IS EVEN A REFEREE

AND A TV CREW TO BROADCAST IT TO A NATION OF SPORTS FANS:

But let's face it, puppies are dumb, so what usually ends up happening is THE PUPPIES CHASE EACH OTHER AROUND THE STADIUM AND POUNCE ON EACH OTHER AND FIGHT OVER CHEW TOYS AND ARE BASICALY MORE INTERESTING THAN THE SUPERBOWL CAN EVER BE. EVER.

EVER.

everrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

BUT SOMETIMES THEY JUST GET SO TIRED FROM SCORING TOUCHDOWNS/GNAWING SQUEAK TOYS THAT THEY FEEL COMPELLED TO TAKE A NAP ON THE 50-YARD LINE.

AND SOMEHOW THEY STILL MANAGE TO BE MORE INTERESTING THAN THE SUPERBOWL.

NEEDZ MOAR PUPPIES

This kitten is lost maybe. OR MAYBE IT'S JUST PART OF THE KITTEN HALF-TIME SHOW.

Quoth the Wiki: "A spinoff of the Puppy Bowl, the 2008 Puppy Games, was aired opposite NBC's primetime airing of the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Summer Olympics on August 8, 2008. The games included swimming, gymnastics, boxing and soccer, and kittens were used for the "opening ceremony". WHAT. HOW DID I MISS THIS. WHY WERE NONE OF US CAPSLOCKING ABOUT THIS AT THE TIME.

i typed 'puppy bowl' into youtube and this link leads to the search results

Every comment to this post must have a picture of a puppy. Okay fine, just your first comment then.

ETA: A CROSSOVER FIC EXCHANGE?!

xover_exchange is taking fandom nominations. Exciting!

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AWWWWWWWWW PUPPIES!! :D

i knooooooooooooooow \o/

I freaking love the Puppy Bowl, freaking LOVE IT. It's like ten times better than any half-time show they attempt since after the Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake fiasco.

Yes, football started this week. I am really sad that we missed this puppy Olympics however, that's horrifying.

You KNOW. I keep wanting to read about the Merlin characters cuddling small animals that are actually animals, but I feel like a dork for wanting it. An eternal reward of CUDDLING PUPPIES would be awesome. Unless you were like allergic or something.

It is like "Football: The Puppy AU"!

For serious, I cannot believe something like PUPPY GAMES did not pop up within my radar. It is so relevant to my interests! At least the ones that go "omg puppiez!!" and all of them do that at least a little bit.

In heaven, there are no allergies! There is no dander. Only looooooooove. Likewise I would looooove to read about Merlin characters cuddling all sorts of animals. ON THAT NOTE, here is commentfic AU (http://allothi.livejournal.com/29595.html?thread=343195#t343195) (based on the fic in the actual post) where this kind of happens. I... I kind of adore it.

changing the fandom/RL divide! I wish you luck on your endeavor. that idea usually kind of freaks me out but it sounds lovely :D as for fic I totally love The Light of a Different Sun, even if it is, read from outside fandom, pretty original. The Susan/Edmund/Jadis Calormen (gosh lass your title is so long, I am too lazy to type it out!) one never struck me as particularly inappropriate/incestuous, but maybe I'm inured to it.

kitten halftime? AWWWWW THIS SHOW IS FOR EVERYONE. I think Avalon has kitten halftime too. Morgana is such a cat person.

OMG THAT PUPPY IS WAVING HI TO ME. HI PUPPY. HI. <3333333333

Yeah, I understand the apprehension, I still kind of have it, but in the end I started wondering what's so embarrassing about fic? It's textual commentary, it's intellectually stimulating, and fandom is so vibrant and thoughtful and ready to overanalyze or capslock frantically, depending on the situation. Also it's kind of a big way of how I think about things, so let's nip that in the bud, is what I'm thinking.

Haha, the title IS pretty long. You may be right about the appropriateness. And even if he does detect incest, I think he might Get It. I like it a lot, but then again The Light of a Different Sun is shorter, which might be better for a first share.

Past the slash and incest, I don't think I'm that embarrassed about fic. It would only be, "why don't you spend your time writing something original that could get published," which, once I think about it, is a silly way to think about writing, only doing it if it could get published. too few people ever get published. write for yourself! and friends :) I LOVE fandom to death. I don't know what I'd do without you guys.

Short is good for a first share. Maybe show him that and then in a sort of PS mention this other thing that is a lot longer but is your favorite favorite.

XD me toooo. I love writing for friends. And hey, fic gets published too! There was an anthology released a few years ago of what is basically Sandman fanfic written by professional authors. Neil Gaiman wrote Matrix fanfic. And what is the difference between, say, Bible fic and short stories about Biblical characters? What is the difference between historical fiction and social theorist RPF? What about that horrible sequel to The Secret Garden, and that reworking of Pride and Prejudice now with more zombies?

Good call, good call. But how do you reckon Light of Diff Sun compare to Salva Veritate?

Hey you're right! Lol, Neil Gaiman can write anything and he'll have fans all over it XD after all he did write Narnia fic didn't he, with The Problem of Susan. Perhaps I will cash in on this zombie/vampire/whatever renaissance and adapt an entire book like that.

OOOOOHHHHH Salva Veritate, that one that one. For some unimaginable reason I never finished reading it until just now, though I do remember starting it, and afslkjfssdfl yeah it is a perfect sample of fic and a beautiful piece of yours. It's quite fannish, too, rather than Light of a Different Sun (which acronyms to LDS XD oh mormons) which is more of a speculative offshoot of canon (but I DO LOVE IT) rather than a weird twining and theme-twisting exercise. which is really what fic is about, at least it seems to me.

Tom Sawyer: the werewolf AU

The Problem of Susan, man, I wanted to finish all seven books before reading that story but I got bored. So I read the story and it turns out you don't need to know the books after all. Dreams of bastardized Mary Poppins ftw!

Hmm, after consideration I think I'll go for the Calormen fic after all hahaha

Werewolves is the key. They need to get their sexy back, if they ever had it, which they should because yes they are sexy.

I rather liked it! unless I'm mixing it up with the His Dark Materials/Narnia crossover? the part I remember being kind of grossed out by was the Aslan/Jadis. because 1) it was a little graphic for me, and 2) okay we get it you're trying to break our brains and question "good" and "evil", way to be anvilicious Gaiman.

That crossover is excellent, but is a Yuletide fic I think.

okay we get it you're trying to break our brains and question "good" and "evil", way to be anvilicious Gaiman.
LOL SO TRUE. Oh Gaiman, I guess you aren't perfect after all. Seriously, as far as Narnia fanfics go, I have seen so many better ones on LJ.

Yes, that's what I thought. They both have that "Susan is old now and her identity is sort of a mystery" theme going on, right? which I liked.

I wonder if it's inevitable that the first fic of any fandom is going to be kind of "no, duh". But that can't be true. Also I bet his was not the first, I mean those books are *old* and part of may a childhood.

Ya that theme, and Narnia fanfic has to have been around before Gaiman published that. In 2004, says google-fu, so, definitely.

I totally did not mean to make that a link! How odd. I wasn't even on that website!

bzuh?

Oh weird! It's not a link, but the <3333 was when it got posted, probably 'cos of the pointy bracket. I think maybe 'cos it was posted on a Mac or something. I've never encountered accidental links before.

that's really weird! never seen that before. I just dunno about macs, man :))

BRB DYING OF CUTE.

AAAAHHHH THEY ARE NAP BUDDIES! lovelovelovelove

and sometimes you can hear the silence speak is my favorite thing you've written. I think. You make it hard to choose. But I say throw him in the deep end! He'll figure out that swimming thing eventually...

I might judge you for your Puppy Bowl obsession if I hadn't watched The Boat That Rocked several times this weekend.

Don't have any puppies in my image folder, but I do have some kitties. This one makes me snorfle.

(The terrifying ginger cat in the background kind of looks like my childhood best friend. Or possibly Crookshanks. But more like my childhood best friend.)

:-O LOOK OUT BEHIND YOU, KITTEN! The cat in the background kinda looks like Jabba the Hutt.

THE PUPPY BOWL IS EPIC, LASS. ABSOLUTELY EPIC. ♥

SHIH-POOS ARE ADORABLE. ♥

THE INVERSE IS ALSO TRUE: THE PUPPY BOWL IS ADORABLE AND SHIH-POOS ARE EPIC

omg look at its faaaaaaaace

SO IN LOGIC, IT GOES BOTH WAYS ~~not like that~~.

Would you like another?

And another!

YES ON ALL COUNTS

I LOVE IT AAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLL

I LOVE MUSHROOM SOUP AND PUPPIIIIIIIIIIIIES

OMG PUPPY BOWL. OMG PUPPIES. OMGOMGOMG.

I think I would go with your Susan/Ed/Jadis in Calormen fic! Because it is gorgeously awesome and fantastic. Fic is weird to talk to people outside of fandom about it 'cause they are like "Whhhhhy do such a thing?" but I feel like if Vergil and Le Guin can do it then what's the harm?

And PUPPIES.

I think I will in the end go with the Calormen fic.

That's what I'd expect, and I've gotten a couple of those reactions, but there are also as many (if maybe not more) reactions that take in a stride or are intrigued by the concept, like this guy is.

HOW FUNNY YOU SHOULD MENTION TRYING TO CLOSE THE REAL LIFE/FANDOM DIVIDE: I just last night told my boyfriend of four years that I write fan fiction! And I just wrote a naval gazing post about it!

I will not let him read my stuff. Not yet. Maybe after some whiskey. Good whiskey, though. That he buys for me.

I was just reading that post and thought similar thoughts! I've been less reluctant to tell people in general. My boyfriend knew within the first year of dating me, and a handful of my friends know.

I don't know what it is. All of my friends are pretty dorky people, with their own strange obsessions. But I just feel like fan fic is crossing into the realm of unreliability. This might be a stigma I'm entirely making up, though.

Has your boy read any of your stuff? I just. I can't imagine letting him read my stuff. I don't think I'm particularly thin-skinned, but god, what if he hated it? I COULD NOT TAKE IT IF MY BOYFRIEND HATED MY FAN FICTION.

I guess, however, that I'm missing out on the potential for him to say, "Hey, you should write THIS." Because I can pretty easily picture that happening, actually.

I think it's mostly made-up. I think a lot of fandom people think that there's a stigma, especially if the fic they write is mostly porn or whatever, but I don't know if fic in general is any worse than like a housewife genuinely enjoying the Harry Potter books. It's not like I tell everyone I write fic, but I can usually gauge if the other person would at least not shun me. I dunno, fic is just another form of textual commentary and it can be fun and stimulating.

Hahaha he HAS. I actually threw him in the deep end and was like, "HAVE SOME INCESTUOUS SLASH!" He doesn't quite get it and he likes to tease me for it, but he is a good sport. I LOVE it when he suggests fic for me to write, even if it's just in jest, 'cos some of it is good, but a lot of them are just hilarious like, "Maybe you should write about Merlin and Arthur being gay seaweed farmers in the Philippines," and "What if zombies attacked Camelot?"

I had another friend whose reaction was, "Oh man, stories about Boondock Saints? Cool! ...Wait, it's INCESTUOUS stories? D:" So it seems like, more than the fact of writing fanfiction at all, it's the kind of fanfic you write. Your writing's lovely, dude, and your boy sounds cool. So, no fear!

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plz sir can i have some more

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eeee!

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HOORAY OMFG

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