Hi, my name is reynardo, and I write fanfic.

[reynardo]

And I can hear the collective gasp out there as all of you try to distance yourselves from me as quietly and unobtrusively as possible.

More seriously, I write Harry Potter fanfic, and one of the few sites that hosts good, well-written and carefully checked FanFiction is The Petulant Poetess. Anything that gets posted there gets run through a real-person editor before it hits the site, thus guaranteeing that you will not have to wade through great chunks of really badly written mis-spelled garbage to find a good story.

The Poetess is run by volunteers, but they still have to pay for their servers, and the bill is due. If, like me, you know it and love it, please consider reading this page about their current situation and throwing a little love their way. They're using Paypal, and you can give as little as $5. This money is only going to the server, not to the people.

After all, if the Poetess didn't exist, then all this fic would be on Livejournal and you would have to read it ALL! BWA-HA-HA-HA!

Comments

[droxy.livejournal.com]

if all the fic was on LJ we would never find it...

LJ is a blog. LOL.

Hugs you.

[karelia.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for both the donation and the signal boost! TPP will continue!

[delphipsmith]

GASP!! NO!!!! I must now shun thee, thoroughly and comprehensively...NOT :)

[moxie_man]

At one time or another, I'm sure just about everyone has written some sort of fanfic and/or filks. You're aware of the few (very few) I've done on the old alt.devilbunnies group: The parody of the Who Wants to be a Millionaire and Iron Chef along with references to Star Trek III and Lost in Space (these two at the request of my brother in a collab with him). And then the filks (with no apologies to ABBA or ELO), Draggin' Queen and Evil Authors™ among others.

However, there is one other piece I wrote that I'm not going to go digging for now. Written back in the days when I really had "no life" what-so-ever. At the time I was a member of the Starfleet International Fan Club (like I said, "no life" what-so-ever). Said fanfic was published in serial format by at least 4 local chapters (ships) of said club, two in New England, one in Texas and the final one in Australia. Who knows, maybe it made more rounds then that.

What was it? Star Trek TNG/MacGyver cross-over dubbed OverTrekked MacGyver, written as the MacGyver series was ending to give you an idea of how long ago this was.

MacGyver is on some set in Hollywood about to help produce some sort of PSA with Patrick Stewart. Something goes wrong. MacGyver pushes Patrick Stewart out of harms way, but Mac gets wacked over the head hard, knocking him out. He comes to on the TNG Enterprise. Cut to commercial.

I don't remember all of it of the top of my head. It's explained Mac is found frozen in suspended animation in a late 20th Century Space Shuttle that has somehow been jury-rigged to keep him alive. Mac remembers nothing of this of course. Yadda, yadda, yadda.

At some point, the Enterprise is under attack. Warp core breach. MacGyver is right there with a Hershey chocolate bar and a roll of duct-tape, both just produced by the ship's....can't think of the word this morning...but you get the idea. Saves the day patching the breach with said chocolate bar and duct tape.

And who is the villain? MacGyver's "unkillable" arch-nemesis, Murdock, of course, piloting an "antique" original-series Romulan Warbird, but decked-out with the latest weaponry.

Oh, and at some point Data informs MacGyver that Montgomery Scott is his (insert I don't recall how many) Great Grandson. :)

'nuf said.