In the last few pages of the main PotC thread here, this discusison has turned to fanfiction, and it was agreed that we need our own damned thread for such a momentous topic.
So this is that thread. Post your fic recs and works-in-progress here. Natter on about your favorite pairings. Tired of reading about “rum-flavored kisses”? Pull up the corpse of a Mary Sue and tell us all about it.
Rules:
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[li]Don’t quote huge amounts of text–fic is intellectual property, too. Links are of the good.[/li][li]Clearly label links to NC-17 or R-rated fic. Some of us read at work, after all![/li][li]If the story contains a pairing, let us know what it is. You know, so no one wastes time on Norrington/Barbossa or something. :)[/li][/list]
This looks like an excellent thread to delurk in. I’ve got a couple of recs up at my PotC related webpage, one of which is the fantabulous Slashers of the Caribbean, a slash parody.
It’s my policy to stay the hell away from ff.net because of the Mary Sue overload and the generally badly-written stories. Sure, there are some gems on that site somewhere, but it’s not worth my time to go hunting for them.
Pirategasm is my favorite LJ community; it has quite a bit of good fanfiction and the occasional posting of good (and not-so-good) fanart.
Gladly. The term originated many moons ago in Star Trek circles. A Mary Sue is an original character in a piece of fanfiction who is clearly a better, stronger, faster, prettier, etc. version of the author. A better, stronger, faster definition is here. (That site is a great fandom resource for the uninitiated.)
Mary Sues are popping up like Whack-a-Moles in PotC fandom because, well, there isn’t a Livejournal community called “do_me_captjack” for nothing!
Junie,
Who once roleplayed Mary Sue the Vampire Slayer in an excellent gaming group.
racinchikki. have you read this yet? Long drabble about Pintel and Ragetti after the end of the movie. I saw another story somewhere, involving them shopping for a glass eye, but I can’t find it now.
There are, as far as I’m aware, three P/R fics out there at the moment - the one linked to, the one with the glass eye, and this sonnet, for which I owe the author (who’d been kidding) a drink, as she’d been joking about getting stuck writing it and I’d been horribly amused by the whole idea. I think Pintel and Ragetti are cute together. Of course, P/R SMUT would be horrible and I’d have to gouge out both my eyes.
Oh, well, I was thinking purely in terms of smut, racin, which explains my initial disgust. And which also speaks volumes about what’s going on in my head lately.
