"Welcome to Avalon! Here is your puppy."

[whynot]

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, westingturtle, and I promise I'll comment with a proper review soon.

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy

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!

Comments

[nothingtodowith.livejournal.com]

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.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

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.

[nothingtodowith.livejournal.com]

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.

[twoskeletons.livejournal.com]

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!