cygnia
2011-10-02 03:22 pm UTC (link)

I'm assuming you know about Archive of Our Own (currently down for maintenance) and fanfiction.net already, but I'll mention them just in case. :)

I'm not sure where's a good place to post/promote fanfiction of LJ or DW. I'm pretty curious about that myself. Unfortunately, the fanfiction I'm currently writing involves original characters set in the world of an obscure roleplaying game (7th Sea).

But if no one minds the blatant plug, here's where my current work can be found. :)

http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1959610/Cygnia

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	beejium 2011-10-02 03:37 pm UTC (link)
	The only places I've really seen fic for Doctor Who on LJ is in ship-specific communities, unfortunately. A few people will post at http://doctorwho.livejournal.com/, but it doesn't seem to be very well received. Outside of LJ and apart from ff.net, you might want to check out A Teaspoon and an Open Mind. (Reply to this)

aurussteelsword
2011-10-02 03:51 pm UTC (link)

If you search relevant interests in LJ/DW, you can sometimes find communities on those topics. I know there are Marvel fanfic communities out there, since a friend of mine writes some (also movieverse, as far as I've seen) and shares it via LJ. At least in terms of Marvel, I can try and find out from her which ones would be best suited for your fic. In general, though, I'd just suggest searching for interests (such as characters in the fic, or just the name of the work) and looking at the most active communities that are returned by the search to see if people do post fic to them.

I've been working so much that I've barely gotten anything done in the last month, but my most recent projects have been a script for a Star Trek spin-off and a fairly epic Dragon Age fic (co-written by my friend mentioned above). None of this exists online yet, unfortunately. If you want a new author to read, though, my friend is sakuratsukikage on LJ and she's excellent. She writes in a ton of fandoms, with Marvel, Doctor Who, and DC among them.

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	keleri 2011-10-02 03:56 pm UTC (link)
	I've mostly fallen out of fanfic these days, but I just wanted to say that "Professor McGonagall from Harry Potter taking tea with Judi Dench's M from James Bond" sounds excellent and you should feel good. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	kumquat_of_doom 2011-10-03 08:23 pm UTC (link)
	:D! It's here if you want to read it. And if you like it, this is my journal's fanfic tag. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	come_love_sleep 2011-10-02 04:46 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, god, NaNo is next month. (Reply to this)

the__ivorytower
2011-10-02 04:49 pm UTC (link)

'Five Find-Outers' books by Enid Blyton with the kids as adults in the 1950s.

Are those the Famous Five books? Because I read the hell out of the Famous Five and the Secret Seven when I was younger.

I'm working on two things: a fic for the Blizzard fanfiction contest and something that's come up after spending too long reviewing Twilight of the Aspects. The former is coming along, but I need to get it done soon so it can be appropriately beta read and the latter needs to be beta read too, but it doesn't have a deadline.

As for excerpts...

Fic 1: Not Enough Minutes

It was not that Thrall had passed on the mantle of Warchief. No king lived forever. It was who Thrall had given it to. It was that Thrall had ignored Cairne's warnings -- the story of what Garrosh had done during his departure from Northrend was chilling, both from the sole survivor who had lived through the chill temperatures of the Frozen Sea and from Baine, who had told Jaina his father's story -- and that he had not once consulted his allies. It was that Thrall had agonized over Varian's declaration after the Battle of Undercity, then trusted Garrosh -- someone who actively called for the blood of humans to be spilled -- to repair the fragile peace between the Horde and the Alliance.

Your judgement was better once, Thrall, Jaina thought bitterly. What happened to you?

Fic 2: Shedding One's Skin

(From description, he's talking to Darion Mograine)

"Do you… know me?"

"Yes." The human turned, and began to walk. Thrall hurried after him.

"Did I know you?"

"Yes."

"WIll you tell me who you are?"

"No." The human stopped, and gave Thrall a stare that froze him to the bone. "I didn't want you here. We don't need someone like you."

Those words felt familiar to Thrall and he frowned. "You hate me because I'm an orc, but--"

"Let's get something clear," the human snarled, and one finger stabbed him in the chest, and it felt like ice. "That's not the reason I hate you. If you can't be bothered to remember, if you can't be bothered to hold onto the precious memories you have, then you can just go the hell back to Nagrand, you--"

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	hydriotaphia 2011-10-03 05:24 am UTC (link)
	The Five Find-Outers was a different series with Fatty and Buster, the dog. They were pretty fun! Here's the wiki. (Reply to this)(Parent)

zellieh
2011-10-02 05:47 pm UTC (link)

I find the NewbieGuide community on LJ can be a good place to start whenever I go into a new fandom; they have fandom pages which list all sorts of different LJ comms and websites. Some of the links will be out of date, mind you, but there's a lot of links to comms to choose from, so you should be able to find something.

Here's their HP page: http://newbieguide.livejournal.com/1327.html

And their masterlist of fandoms: http://newbieguide.livejournal.com/6259.html That has Marvel and DC listed, but not James Bond, sadly.

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	zellieh 2011-10-02 05:51 pm UTC (link)
	Also, if you want to search LJ by interests, you can go here: http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml It's also a quick way to find comms in new fandoms. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kumquat_of_doom 2011-10-03 09:03 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	queencallipygos 2011-10-02 06:04 pm UTC (link)
	....I'm in exactly the same boat as you, but only have one fic -- a Doctor Who/X-Files crossover. Will be watching this with interest. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	kumquat_of_doom 2011-10-03 09:00 pm UTC (link)
	Well, I can help you out somewhat there myself - try crossing_who and crossoverfanfic on LJ. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	queencallipygos 2011-10-03 09:43 pm UTC (link)
	!.... It's still in the beta-reading stage; and it's also really rather long. (By certain definitions, it's a novella.) Would that be....okay? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kumquat_of_doom 2011-10-03 10:12 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, neither of the comms are mine, I'm afraid, but I don't see why not; they've always seemed fairly easy-going about things. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sistercoyote 2011-10-02 06:12 pm UTC (link)
	There's always Fandom_women which is a small, quiet community that loves loves loves female-centric fic. (disclaimer: I know the owner, but she's drama-free and so's the community so far.) (Reply to this)(Thread)

	anarchicq 2011-10-02 08:02 pm UTC (link)
	Ohhh! Joins (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kumquat_of_doom 2011-10-03 08:24 pm UTC (link)
	:O I AM SO IN. joins like it's hot (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sistercoyote 2011-10-03 09:02 pm UTC (link)
	I mentioned this to yeomanrand over there, and she said: Oh. It never would have occurred to me to advertise the comm on fandom_lounge. Tell them it's very small but we like newcomers and only bite if invited. So far. :) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	dracobolt 2011-10-02 07:00 pm UTC (link)
	I'm not really involved in any of those fandoms, so I can't help you there. Right now I'm mainly working on some Golden Sun fics (first two games only; Dark Dawn? What Dark Dawn?), as well as plotting a rather weird My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic idea. For NaNo, I have an idea, but I'm forcing myself not to think about it, lest I get bored with it before I start writing. (Reply to this)

rosehiptea
2011-10-02 07:28 pm UTC (link)

If you're writing fic about the older ladies of Harry Potter, you might try hp_oldladysb. It's a small community though. (The "sb" stands for Smut Brigade but you don't have to write smut.)

As for me, I just sent an original off to the beta. Here's an excerpt. (I found a mistake in it too... I don't know what the beta is going to do to this...)

Helen wasn't sure Augusta was talking to her, but she shook her head anyway. "I thought she was just sick today," she said. But they didn't call in sick too often; the bosses could report you to the Bureau for that.

"Wouldn't she have told you?" Augusta persisted. "I thought she was your friend."

"I know her," said Helen, carefully keeping her eyes on the molten metal. Didn't these women know any better than to talk?

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	kumquat_of_doom 2011-10-03 08:55 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, Harry Potter fandom, you truly do have everything. I might have guessed there'd be a fan comm for the older ladies. Thank you! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	la_fono 2011-10-02 07:54 pm UTC (link)
	Quinquatrus (a Minerva McGonagall comm on LJ) might do for the M/McG fic (which I would read the hell out of, incidentally). There's always M-centric comms as well. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	kumquat_of_doom 2011-10-03 08:27 pm UTC (link)
	OMG, there's a McGonagall comm? SO HAPPY TO KNOW THIS. The M-McG fic is gen, alas, this time (although I did write Peggy Carter-youngMcG that was possibly slashy if you squinted; I would totally ship it, anyway), but it's here if you want to check it out. The rest of my writing is here and includes a couple of other McGonagall-centric fics as well. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	anarchicq 2011-10-02 08:00 pm UTC (link)
	For Marvel there's http://xfiction.livejournal.com/ http://xmmff.livejournal.com/profile and http://marvel-fic.livejournal.com/profile all on LJ Fanlore has a list of fanfiction archives that use eFiction software. You might find something useful there http://fanlore.org/wiki/EFiction/Archives (Reply to this)(Thread)

	kumquat_of_doom 2011-10-03 08:52 pm UTC (link)
	Ooh, that Marvel fic comm should do nicely when I get the Yinsen-Erskine compare/contrast fic done. Thank you! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	quantumreality 2011-10-02 08:02 pm UTC (link)
	There's always the Pit of Voles itself ( http://www.fanfiction.net ) but if you do not want to post there, there's FicWad ( http://www.ficwad.com ). (Reply to this)

sepiamagpie
2011-10-03 03:25 am UTC (link)

I'll second Archive of Our Own. Its tag system solves your category problem tidiily.

Excerpt from a giant CSI/SPN crossover that's taking forever to finish:

Getting the key to the room had been surprisingly easy. There was already a hotel attendant by the door when they arrived and the plan to break into the room was immediately scrapped.

"Thank you for your help, Ms. Sidle," said Dean putting his fake badge away.

She smiled and nodded at them. "Anything I can do to help the LVPD. You said you were CSI?"

"'course," said Dean. "Been on the force oh, six years now."

Sam started poking around the room, and Ms. Sidle looked a bit startled. "Shouldn't you use gloves before you touch anything?"

"Well, uh. It's already been gone over. It's fine, miss. Now, why don't you tell me about your thoughts on what happened here?" Dean put on his most charming smile.

Ms. Sidle kept giving Sam the hairy eyeball. "My thoughts? Well, someone was obviously murdered here."

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kumquat_of_doom
2011-10-03 09:13 pm UTC (link)

Re: AO3, is it for anyone to join or is there a codes system or anything? I don't know that much about it.

Oh, btw, Sep, I meant to say - I don't know if you remember us chatting on F_W about my fuzzkitty and his much-scratched nose, but I have achieved victory and he's now allowed to stay in at nights! He goes out for about an hour and then he's let back in again, and I have made him a bed out of a cardboard box and a big blanket so that he can snooze in the bathroom. ^_^

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	fourthage 2011-10-03 11:38 pm UTC (link)
	AO3 requires an invitation code to post stories (anyone can comment). I have one if you want it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kumquat_of_doom 2011-10-04 05:14 pm UTC (link)
	Please very much! I'm at splash.of.blue at gmail dot com if you need to email. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fourthage 2011-10-04 11:32 pm UTC (link)
	Sent! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kumquat_of_doom 2011-10-05 04:52 pm UTC (link)
	Received! I am now at splash_of_blue. Thanks very much. :D (Also, nice Good Omens icon.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fourthage 2011-10-06 01:13 am UTC (link)
	You're very welcome. :) And thanks. I made a blue and yellow bubble version too, for reasons unknown even to me, but I like this one better. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sepiamagpie 2011-10-04 05:36 am UTC (link)
	You do need a code, but they're easy to get. I remember getting one within the same day as asking for Phosfate! I just sent a request for some just to have them handy. You can also request for yourself, I think. And yay! That's so awesome! Congrats, Fuzzkitty :D (Reply to this)(Parent)

	supersyncspaz7 2011-10-03 04:03 am UTC (link)
	I want to read that McGonagall and M fic like, last week. For NaNo, I am going to write about two childhood friends who make it to high school and realize that the comic book world they created when they were kids is becoming their reality, and because of this, they have to become the superheroes that they made up way back when. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	kumquat_of_doom 2011-10-03 08:29 pm UTC (link)
	No need to wait until next week! Here it is, all ready for you. :D Oooh. I definitely want to read this. (Reply to this)(Parent)

Uuuuuugh, NaNoWriMo...

singe
2011-10-03 09:10 pm UTC (link)

I second the rec for A Teaspoon and an Open Mind and it's LJ rec-comm Calufrax. There's also dwfiction an LJ and DW based Doctor Who fic comm which welcomes all pairings and genres. (Also heavily affiliated with Teaspoon. Apparently Teaspoon's the Borg of DW fanfic which is fine by me. The quality is a shade higher than what you'd find on fanfic.net.)

As for NaNo, urgh, I wrote a ten chapter magnum opus for Doctor Who called Turn Your Back and I think I'll repeat its format (ten short chapters making one short novel's worth of original fic) for NaNo. I actually have time and energy this year! Will I finally finish something?!

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	Re: Uuuuuugh, NaNoWriMo... kumquat_of_doom 2011-10-03 09:16 pm UTC (link)
	ACE AND SEVEN ICON <333 (Sophie Alred/Ace made me realise I was bi. Ah, the BBC's Gay Agenda. <3) Also, on-topic: thank you! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ladyrogue 2011-10-05 10:36 pm UTC (link)
	I've just got started on one about Time Lady!Mary Poppins Um, omg have you finished it and where can I read it? Because that sounds like it's made of awesome and unicorns! AND RAINBOWS! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	kumquat_of_doom 2011-10-05 10:40 pm UTC (link)
	I'M WORKING ON IT I'M WORKING ON IT >.> When it does get done, though, it'll be on this tag on my LJ. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	brennalarose 2011-10-06 04:42 pm UTC (link)
	This. Because it makes perfect sense! (Reply to this)(Parent)