Re: Re:: OT: The Challenge of a Thousand Fics

[The Sorcerer Bard <thesorcererbard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm, that sounds like a great idea Dan, and we might
not have long to wait, coz in between Dan writing his
post and me writing this one we seem to have picked up
member #999

Next member's a charm :D

Cheers from The Sorcerer Bard

--- danspector@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> [btw, we picked up #998 while this discussion was
> going on.]
> 
> Okay, some good ideas here, so let me formalize the
> challenge:
> 
> In honor of our impending crossing of the
> 1000-member threshhold, write
> a fic that centers on either fanfiction or the
> number 1000. 
> 
> This neatly incorporates Kirayoshi's songfic
> challenge, Stef's
> Buffy-as-the-thousandth-Slayer idea (I can believe
> the First Slayer was
> from 5000 years ago, and 5 years seems like an
> acceptable average Slayer
> term, despite the difficulties Buffy's had along the
> way), and Aeris's
> fanfic idea.
> 
> However, if you do the fanfic thing, please avoid
> fourth-wall,
> quasi-archive-fic stuff where B/W know they're on a
> TV show or
> something. It is, however, perfectly okay for
> Willow to discover
> Xander's interest in T'Pol/Hoshi fics and write
> something similar about
> her and Buffy, disguising them as characters on some
> TV show, or
> something like that. Also, if you want to do a
> Sarah/Aly fic, then you
> could have them be brought together by BtVS fic, or
> a similar concept.
> I just would like to steer clear of something so
> self-referential as
> "Hey, Buffy, look at the fics people are writing
> about us!"
> 
> So there we have it. Let's do something nice, in
> honor of member #1000,
> whomever he or she may be?
> 
> Dan
> 
> (still stat-obsessed, even if he can't balance his
> checkbook)
> 
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