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A Series of Improbable Events (The West Wing)
On this day, we’ve sworn in a new President. President Lyman won the White House after a very tight and, often bitter, contest. Inauguration Day, January 2023. A series of stories featuring Donna and Josh. Genre: Post-show, drama, romance, politics Rating: M / R Read A Series of Improbable Events @ Global Domination Enterprises (my fanfic site) Read A Series of Improbable Events @ Archive of Our Own
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Warning!!!
I just found (in the depths of my hard drive) a piece of fanfic (not mine) sent to an X Files newsgroup (and dated 6 June 1997) that mildly amused me. Not the fic itself, but the header. These days there are big debates in the fandom meta world about whether you should post content warnings for character death and violence, stuff like that. Well, in the olden days… “CONTENT WARNING: ROMANCE WARNING!!! THIS FIC IS FOR SHIPPERS!!” This is absolutely genuine, and folks, it’s not intended ironically. You used to have to warn explicitly if there was any even vaguely romantic content or the fanboys and the anti MSR…
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Fanfic and re-mixing
Note: To any authors who would care enough to be bothered to remix my fanfic or write sequels or anything like that. Please, let me know about it. Even if I disliked your work or your take on my take of someone else’s world, I’d probably still be interested to see what you came up with. In fact, I’d probably want to link to your work from my site (although I’ll reserve the right to make snarky comments along with the link if I don’t agree with your vision of my vision. *wink*). I also reserve the right not to like your re-mix/sequel. I reserve the right to hate it…
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On Fanfic
The next time someone asks you what you are doing wasting your time with this crap fanfiction, point out that you are part of the bardic tradition and suggest they STFU. From the masterful epic… A Brief History of Fandom Wankage – Older than you think
