Monday, April 14, 2008

At the risk of embarrassing myself...

...I have to ask. Does anyone else read fan fiction?

I do. I started last fall when one of my students wrote an article for the school newspaper about fanfic and roleplay (RPG) sites. I don't do the RPG sites, but I do like reading the fan fiction. It's what kind of tides me over in between re-reading the books.

I started reading true fanfics, like Alphie's The Lion and the Lamb (basically Midnight Sun done by one of the founders of the Lexicon), which are pretty good, but I don't like these speculations on what happened/might happen because then I get confused between what really happened in the books, and what just happened online...

But what I do love are the "alternate universe" fanfics. I've read lots of them, but here are the ones I love the most:

Boycotts and Barflies by vgjm (on fanfiction.net)

(there's also a sequel in the works to Boycotts and Barflies called We're Going Where!)

Stranger than Fiction by psymommy (on the TM fanfic forum and Psymommy's LiveJournal account)

Passion Fish by qjmom (on fanfiction.net)

Some of them are kind of smutty, but they are all fun and angsty and romance-y. Boycotts and Barflies AND Passion Fish are about Edward and Bella when everyone is human, but Stranger than Fiction is about the fictional romance going on between Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. Mmm.

Anyway. Thought I'd share! :)

12 enjoyed the bouquet.:

alison said...

Thanks, Erin. I am going to have to check these out later... I haven't looked at any of this stuff. although to be honest, I haven't looked at much of anything. I guess I'm more of a laissez-faire type of fan.

I'm ready to be on y'all's bandwagon, but not pull it...

alison said...

Um... I'm reading the passion fish one and I am pretty sure I will be sent to hell for reading it.. not that I mind, of course ;)

yeah. rosalie and emmett... dirrrrty...

Erin said...

Oh, God, if you think that's bad, wait until you read Stranger Than Fiction. That's the dirtiest of the dirrty. Smutastic. Going to hell indeed.

(I did say "at the risk of embarrassing myself...") :-/

Erin said...

Yeah, now that I think about it, maybe I should have met you guys first before admitting that I read this crap (albeit addicting crap). Hmm.

So there's my late disclaimer...

Kari said...

I haven't read any yet -- I keep waiting to get sick of reading the actual books.

But I've been thinking about it. Hard.

Erin said...

Yeah. They don't compare in any way to the books, they just fill time.

I have to relinquish the computer to Matt, now, so I'm off to read the hitch me baby one more time scene in Eclipse. YAY!

(By the way - when I reread them, I skip all around, I don't read in order, really. I do plan on reading all three word-for-word in order this summer before BD comes out.)

alison said...

its no big deal. I was going to hell anyway. Might as well read some smut along the way!

alison said...

I am really liking the boycotts and barflys one... way cute and waaay less pornographic...

Erin said...

Exactly.

The Stranger than Fiction one is total porn. I'm embarrassed that I included that one...

I don't mind the Passion Fish one, though - and they keep posting new chapters for it.

alison said...

don't be embarrassed. it was fun to read. well, skim, actually. A little... different... than what I usually read ;)

Erin said...

Very different! (Especially since I'm always reading YA fiction.)

And definitely skim - these are really long! (And it's hard to read on the computer for long periods of time.)

alison said...

oh! its getting steamy!