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2010 fanfic trend predictions

Jan. 23rd, 2010 at 1:31 PM

Here are some hot new trends I'm expecting to see a lot of this year:

Aliens Made Them Stop Doing It: Vulcan couples counselors, Wraith as anti-yenta, time travellers show them glimpses of their bleak, bitter future together

Mary Shoe fic: authorial inserts of their own lovingly-described footwear adorning TV characters

xpreg: genetic testing reveals that the baby will grow up to be a mutant

Big Sang: exchanges for epic-length songfic

RCS: following the U.S. Supreme Court's logic, Real Corporation Slash takes off

What's your prediction?

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princessofgeeks wrote:

Jan. 23rd, 2010 07:07 pm (UTC)

lol!

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crypto wrote:

Jan. 23rd, 2010 07:39 pm (UTC)

Cheers!

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stealthily: kim pine from scott pilgrim in a yellow bikini, her arms folded and side-eyeing someone (Default)

stealthily wrote:

Jan. 23rd, 2010 07:17 pm (UTC)

Ahahahaha!

I kind of like the Big Sang idea. Not the kind of songfic where somebody inserts the lyrics to Evanescence into their fanfic and it's generally terrible, but IDK, I've read fics that say they were based on a song and they've actually been really good, in some cases expanding on the world created in the song. It usually depends on the quality of the song though- typical pop songs about love aren't going to work. I kind of wanted to write meta about this and how it relates to bandom.

Would epic length songfics be more like album fics? Like Scooby Road in fic form?

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crypto wrote:

Jan. 23rd, 2010 07:48 pm (UTC)

I've seen Yuletide fic for Rihanna's Disturbia & Janelle Monáe's Metropolis, plus

norah wrote All These Things That I've Done, which is something like a fic version of Scooby Road for an album by The Killers.

Does bandom have many fics exploring how/why someone wrote a particular song?

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stealthily: cartoon frank iero holding a sacred heart (patron saint of sacrifice)

stealthily wrote:

Jan. 23rd, 2010 11:09 pm (UTC)

Yeah, I loved the Janelle Monae one. There's also a Beatles one for Revolver by

bossymarmalade.

I can't think of any fics like that off the cuff, but that doesn't mean there isn't any. There is some fic set in the universe of The Black Parade though.

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executrix wrote:

Jan. 23rd, 2010 07:45 pm (UTC)

Big Sang sounds like corporate villains in True Blood.

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crypto wrote:

Jan. 23rd, 2010 07:49 pm (UTC)

Yes! "No oil for blood!", the protestors chanted.

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vehemently wrote:

Jan. 23rd, 2010 07:50 pm (UTC)

Combine two of those and you could have songfic about corporate jingles. Your bologna has a first name, you know.

(I am still waiting for hostile takeovers to be declared cannibalism.)

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crypto wrote:

Jan. 23rd, 2010 08:00 pm (UTC)

Combine a different two and you have product placement in your Converse/Nike fic.

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sara wrote:

Jan. 23rd, 2010 10:20 pm (UTC)

If I wrote Nike fic, I'd have to warn for Major Character Death....

(No, I'm not surly about fucking Nike doing their best to take money away from my kid's school. Not at all. Why do you ask?)

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crypto wrote:

Jan. 23rd, 2010 10:25 pm (UTC)

Yeah, that's not really the fun, sexy kind of evil that makes for fanfic fodder.

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