The Fic of a Snick

The Buffyverse Crackficathon is still going strong. There are plenty of excellent prompts to choose from, and fics are still coming in. Since it is relevant to my interests, I must point out that brutti_ma_buoni has just written an alpha/beta/omega fic with knitting. That is not a typo. (Because a/b/o wasn't cracky enough by itself.)

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For the second year, the Crackficathon is here to bring more silliness to the Buffyverse. Fanlore defines crack as "fiction with a fundamentally ludicrous premise, or otherwise including a plethora of unbelievable, incredible, or just plain silly elements - that is, implying the author/artist must have been on drugs to produce something so insane."

So what cracky thing have you been pining for? What about some werecreatures, or maybe that shiny new alpha/beta/omega trope, which was barely a twinkle in fandom's eye last year? Wingfic? Tentacles? The cowgirl!Buffy AU?

THINGS TO KNOW:
* Prompt fills can be one sentence, three sentences, a drabble, a ficlet, or any other length you feel moved to write. Fills can also be art! Usually there's tons of visual appeal in this prompts.

* If your fill is too long for one comment, you're welcome to post it to your own journal and just post a link here.

* Prompts can be filled multiple times by different people.

* Crack often tends towards the fluffy, light-hearted side of things, but it totally doesn't have to. Angst that puppy! Giggles and grief are both welcome here.

* I've turned comment notifications off on this entry, so if you have questions, please reply to the question thread below.

PROMPTING:
* Prompt format: [characters / ship] - [type of crack requested] - [OPTIONAL - additional prompt (word, phrase, song lyric, etc)]

FILLS:
* In the subject line of the comment of your fill, please put FILLED, and include [title, characters, type of crack, rating]. This makes it easier for me to make the masterlist. :)

MASTERLIST
* Fish Friday (PG), by griphynne916 - Xander/Cordy - Xander really does turn into a fish monster.

* Stays in Vegas. And Also in Pylea. (PG-13) by brutti_ma_buoni - Xander/Lorne - Vegas Crossover (in which two characters in different fandoms wake up married in Vegas)

* Hitting Things And A Whole Lotta Jack D (Among Other Things) (PG-13), by beer_good_foamy - Giles/Faith - it takes a while for that band candy to wear off.

* Spike and Buffy bodyswap, by athenniel

* Buffy, Willow and Gabby Douglas, Olympic crack, G, by eilowyn

* Entanglement, by brutti_ma_buoni - ensemble, G - alpha/beta/omega, in which Xander is a beta and there is knitting

* Disneyland Law, by beer_good_foamy - Prince John, W&H - Angel/Disney's Robin Hood crossover

* It Must Be Bunnies, by jacyevans - Anya, Buffy - This time, it was bunnies.

* If Wishes Were Kittens, by athenniel - S6 ensemble - All but one of the Scoobies turn into something fluffy, scaly, or otherwise meant to be a pet.

* Unknotted (PG-13), by brutti_ma_buoni - Willow/Oz, alpha/beta/omega stuff

* Flying, Not Falling, by brutt_ma_buoni - Buffy, ensemble - Buffy is resurrected with wings



SO WHAT COUNTS AS 'CRACK' ANYWAY?
Below is a quick-and-dirty list (partially culled from the list of fic cliches over at fanbingo) to help get you thinking in the right direction. Really, though, if you think something is cracky? We probably ain't going to disagree with you. Go wild!

A LIST TO GET YOU STARTED

Genderswap	Bodyswap / Bodyshare	Age Regression	Fusion with Another Fandom	Cracky Crossovers	Crack Pairings
Physical / Animal Transformation	Time Loops	Time Travel	Mpreg	Wingfic	Mary Sue / Marty Stu
Author Self-Insertion	Tentacles	Sex Pollen / Aliens Made Us Do It / etc	Truth Serum / Spells	Androids and Robots	Slavefic
Alpha/Beta/Omega dynamics	Historical AU	Sci-fi / Space AU	Animal AU	Doppelgangers / Clones

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The people have spoken! We will indeed have a crackficathon again this year. Unless there are objections, I'm thinking to open it up on Thursday, which'll let both weekday people and weekend people get a crack (heh) at it.

Question: would anyone like to make a banner or two, with some suitably cracky cap from the show and the words "BtVS / Ats Crackficathon" (or similar) appearing somewhere on it? If someone would, that'd be nifty; if not, we still have the ones blueteainfusion made last year, which I'm pretty fond of anyway.

Original entry posted at Dreamwidth. Feel free to reply here or there. ( DW replies)

Hey, all. Last year around this time we had the Crackficathon, the Buffyverse commentfic meme of CRACK. Do y'all want to do that again? I'd be happy to host it again; it's not like it's a lot of work. I'd just like to gauge interest.

Hence, a poll!

[Poll #1857305]

1. You remember that Faith wingfic prompt I made for the Crackficathon way back when? And how bruttimabuoni wrote happy fluffy Faith/Giles Pylea wingfic for it? And then verity wrote sparse meditative Catholic!Faith wingfic for it?

Well, it is apparently the prompt that keeps on giving, because now lettered has written Hope Has Wings (But Faith Has a Broadsword). I haven't read it yet, because it is long and I'm supposed to be writing this Samfic (hah), but I have no doubt that it is glorious. So you all should read it.

2. And in the vein of things you should read, ghostyouknow has just posted the first chapter of Jubilees, which is angsty Cas-centric mpreg with nephilim and pre-fic genderswap and impending death. Of course it is. So far it's very yummy angst indeed.

3. In less ficcish things, have an article on DW's ongoing updates on old LJ programming. Very interesting stuff. No, really. (via majorshipper)

Original entry posted at Dreamwidth. Feel free to reply here or there. ( DW replies)

Apparently this was the weekend for people writing me things. Because brutti_ma_buoni wrote me The Shady Side of the Hill, which is Wes/Illyria mpreg with just the right mixture of confusion and irony and humor. And then she wrote kidfic to follow!

Meanwhile, verity wrote The Sound of Her, which first of all is Faith wingfic, lovely and atmospheric, and second has Catholic!Faith, which I was begging her to write. And lo! it is also fabulous, and y'all should read.

It's worth nothing that both of these ideas grew out of prompts from the crackficathon, for which fics (or art!) are still happily accepted. There are still some nifty prompts over there. The masterlist of finished works is here.

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Title: The Cheese Man Cometh
Characters: Buffy, Xander, Willow, Giles, the Cheese Man
Spoilers: Through 4.22 Restless
Words / Rating: 1400 words / G

A/N. Written for the crackficathon, for the prompt "To prevent the apocalypse, one of the Scoobies must become the Cheese Man's replacement" from ffutures, with additional inspiration from doyle_sb4's gorgeous Dawn/Cheese Man fic A Girl Made From Sky.

I don't know whether this is the crackiest fic I've ever written, but it is almost certainly the strangest. Uh, enjoy?

( At first, it's just cheese. )

Original entry posted at Dreamwidth. Feel free to reply here or there. ( DW replies)

I've been calling this the crackficathon because I personally am ficcishly inclined as opposed to graphically inclined, but some of these prompts are just begging for art. So if you're feeling the urge to make art for, say, Cordelia Chase, Pirate Queen or winged!Faith, I'm pretty sure NO ONE WILL MIND.

The ficathon is there, and the masterlist is here! Organized by, ah, no algorithm in particular.

( THE LIST )

It seems to me we're due for some silliness in these our beloved BtVS/Ats fandoms. Crackfic to the rescue! Fanlore defines crack as "fiction with a fundamentally ludicrous premise, or otherwise including a plethora of unbelievable, incredible, or just plain silly elements - that is, implying the author/artist must have been on drugs to produce something so insane."

So what cracky thing have you been pining for? Wingfic? Genderswap? Or maybe it's time someone wrote the fic where it really is bunnies! Whatever your crack of choice, here's the chance to read and write glorious crack for the gloriously cracky shows we love.


THINGS TO KNOW:
* Prompt fills can be one sentence, three sentences, a drabble, a ficlet, or any other length you feel moved to write.

* If your fill is too long for one comment, you're welcome to post it to your own journal and just post a link here.

* Crack often tends towards the fluffy, light-hearted side of things, but it totally doesn't have to. You want to angst that bodyswap prompt 'til it can't angst no more? Be our guest! Giggles and grief are both welcome here.

* I've turned comment notifications off on this entry, so if you have questions, feel free to reply to the question thread below.

* ETA: I've been calling this the crackficathon because I personally am ficcishly as opposed to graphically inclined, but some of these prompts are just begging for art. So if you're feeling the urge to fill a prompt with art instead of fic? I'm pretty sure NO ONE WILL MIND.


PROMPTING:
* Prompt format: [characters] - [type of crack requested] - [OPTIONAL - additional prompt (word, phrase, song lyric, etc)]

* In the title line of your fic reply, indicate [title, characters, type of crack, rating]


MASTERLIST
The masterlist of completed works is here.


SO WHAT COUNTS AS 'CRACK' ANYWAY?
Below the cut is a quick-and-dirty list (partially culled from the list of fic cliches over at the DW fanbingo comm) to help get you thinking in the right direction. Really, though, if you think something is cracky? We probably ain't going to disagree with you. Go wild!

( A LIST TO GET YOU STARTED )

( BANNERS AND PROMOTION )