Finish-a-thon 2009 Post of Squee

[kerravonsen]

One thing I am missing about this year's sign-ups is the squee that people would do when they saw what people have signed up with. So, in the name of "Take Back The Glee" Year, I hereby open the Post of Squee.

Take a look (and come back to) the Full Author List, and post here about the story ideas that you are squeeful about.

ETA2: I have added links back to this post, so you can click on a link at the individual author page and it will post it here! (I love it when a plan comes together)

Comments

Re: melannen

[kerravonsen]

And thanks for the HL primer
You're very welcome.

part of my hesitation with this story is it takes a lot of canon from both fandoms, and so few people are likely to know both
That's tricky, yes. As a reader, I get annoyed by authors who feel they have to do an info-dump or pre-story notes detailing every crossover in the story; I mean, if it doesn't make sense without reading Cliffs-notes, why would it make sense in the first place? And yet, I can understand that an author would want to do what they can to make the story accessible to a wider audience.

I think the most creative approach I saw to this was one crossover (Babylon 5/Highlander) which did a "dramatis personae" list at the start, with a sentence or two about each character in the story. Each mini-bio had only just enough information in it, just enough to help make sense of the plot without having spoilers. For example:

JOHN SHERIDAN, the second Commander of Babylon 5. One of his hobbies is collecting secrets. Another is orange juice.

The "collecting secrets" thing was important to the plot, since there was a part in the story where it turns out that one of the secrets he'd collected was about the Watchers. But the the "another is orange juice" was more of a red herring, since I don't recall that orange juice was important to the plot. But it sort of helped prevent story-spoilers, since the reader doesn't know how important either fact is. And also kind of amusing.

An abdal is someone who has a direct channel to the power of the One in order to be a pillar of good, helping to hold the universe stable through the sheer power of moral rightness.... Abdals are extremely rare, and rarely know about wizardry, because if they ever realize what they are, they stop being abdals.
What an awesome fit! That makes perfect sense.