The Vascillations of Fictional Desire

[tealin]

Does anyone have some recommendations for some good Snicket fanfic? I'm looking especially for something heavy on the VFD, with lots of intrigue and not so much kissing (though if the kissing is really important to the story I may be able to stomach it), and little things like plot structure, pacing, and keeping relatively close to canon in characters if not necessarily story points – so AU is cool, as long as it's true to the tone and characters.* In other words, anything goes plot-wise, but if they mess up Lemony or Jacques in any way, they're right out.

I would investigate on my own but I know the vast jungles of fanfic there are out there in cyberspace and I have neither the time nor the figurative stomach to hack through the bad stuff, so starting with something that comes highly recommended, I thought, would at least set me on my way ...

*Especially if it was written pre-Grim Grotto or by someone who wasn't too crazy about the last few books in the series. I am particular, aren't I?

11:39 pm
Having stumbled haltingly into the verges of the jungle, I realized that what I was looking for is basically VFD As Told By Joss Whedon. So, amending my parameters to include the possible: I would like something written by someone with a mental age over 18 that has a solid dramatic core and is not centred around a pairing. Does such a thing exist?

Comments

[raisegrate.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I can't help you on the fanfic front, but have you read Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography? That's the best thing I can think of if you're in an Unfortunate Event mood, but not for the 13 books.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I ... LOOOOOVE the Autobiography. It is so delightfully infuriating. And the random historical photos! [sigh] So good.

[raisegrate.livejournal.com]

Excellent Choice Madam. I was browsing thru the Australian version of said book (I have the softcover American, I think) and it has a reverse-able dust jacket, so you can pretend it's a bright and happy picnic adventure book. I was thoroughly impressed by that. When I do a hardback book with a dust jacket, it is indubitably going to have a reverse-able dust jacket.

May I ask why you're looking for SnicketFiction? Is this for another mysterious project, or are you just looking to further explore the SnicketVerse?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

The hardcover version of the U.A. comes with the reversible cover in the US and Canada, too. The Pony Party is hysterical.

I'm just in a Snickety mood and what I've most got a hankering for is what you catch glimpses of under the story of the Baudelaire orphans (or in the U.A.) ... I've read the books too many times to read them again just to get the bits in the cracks, I figured someone out there in the vast world of the internet would be similarly fascinated with the possibilities, and I know there are lots of good writers out there writing fanfic, so I thought perhaps someone in my acquaintance would point me towards a beautiful convergence of the three ... Shouldn't have posted on a Saturday night, though, that's just asking for obscurity.

[raisegrate.livejournal.com]

It's Saturday night? Y'know, I don't think I even realized... How sad is that?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I see you don't have rigourously enforced weekends! ;)

[moondog.livejournal.com]

I just want to chime in that I have a friend who will occasionally say, "Everybody loves ponies! Everybody loves parties!" The first time she did this I squealed with delight and we jumped around for a moment or two reveling in our geekery.

[crypticidentity.livejournal.com]

The mental image of that just made my day. Thank you so much.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

That is awesome. I have yet to meet someone who throws a geeky reference out there before they even know I'm into something. (Or if I did, I don't remember.)

[moondog.livejournal.com]

She also knit me a Jayne hat for my birthday, and I convinced her to steampunk-up her fashion show. We basically geeky soul mates.

[holli.livejournal.com]

Have you read The Gargantuan Garden (http://www.thechicagoloop.net/yahtzee/Otherfic/LemonyScissorhands.htm)?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Just did. It's not quite what I was looking for but it was fabulously well-written, cleverly integrated, and it sated the craving at least for tonight. Many thanks!

(especially appropriate as the Edward Scissorhands soundtrack has been my Snicket soundtrack for years... )

[ledygrey.livejournal.com]

I can't recommend any Lemony Snicket, but i can recommend some very good Harry Potter fanfic, if/when the mood strikes you...

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Nah ... it'll be a long time before I'm ready to delve back into the Potterverse. The last few drawn-out years of the series ground all interest out of me, sapping anything intriguing out of my favourite characters or backstories (specifically Marauders-era) that might have held my attention. Whyyyy.

The thing about Lemony Snicket is that even though he seems to have frittered away the last three books, he didn't undermine everything that was hinted at before, nor was most of it explained, so there's this whole world of past (and present) intrigue and drama that has yet to be explored.

Surely someone talented has turned their pen in that direction ...

Someone?

Anyone?

[ledygrey.livejournal.com]

The one specifically I was thinking of revolved around Teddy Lupin starting at hogwarts

.. and that was a really fast reply, but I suppose the fact that I'm replying at 2:30 in the morning is equally indicative of .. something..

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

That we are both looking for something to do? :)

Yeah, stories of The Offspring interest me even less ... It doesn't help that the last chapter had me picturing them all as Chibi versions of their parents. [shudder]

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I should add that I was an avid follower of copperbadge's Legion of Ghosts and sydpad's Trains before they both sort of wandered off. But ... meh. I take a lot of convincing.

[ledygrey.livejournal.com]

I'm trying and failing to imagine a chibi-potterverse. eew. Here it is if you're interested http://humongousbighead.homestead.com/shiftsverse.html, but maybe it seemed a lot more interesting when I first read it because my other choice of reading at the time was cash/flow analysis or history of slavery in the west. double eew.

*shrug*. The stuff I refuse to read is LOTR fanfic, because the first one I tried reading was Legolas/Gimli, and the images in my head made me want to gouge my eyes out with a cocktail fork

[noodledaddy.livejournal.com]

The peanuts just were lying there peacefully with the caramel under the blanket of milk chocolate. The bed of nougat was invitingly soft and sweet. Mr. Mars said . . .

What's that?

Oh, sorry, you said SNICKETT.

Never mind.

[maggielisette.livejournal.com]

"Does such a thing exist?"

On the series of tubes? Lol, no. Godspeed!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

DANGIIIIIT.

You'd think probability would have at least one decent fic out there to counter the reams and reams of WTF that I found in my brief search. [kicks the internet and its disproportionate...ness]

[hlange11.livejournal.com]

I can't help you with your fanfic predicament, but I LOVE the title of this entry!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Long live the thesaurus. :)

[maggielisette.livejournal.com]

It's almost as much fun as the atlas.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

It lends itself much more naturally to bathroom reading, though.

[thegina.livejournal.com]

Whoah, I didn't know anyone who still read fanfics. I personally haven't since Gundam Wing fanfiction in 00... <.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I usually don't touch them with a ten-foot pole, but I had a hankering, and if there was anything made for fanfic it's the vague suggestions of intrigue in the VFD. Unfortunately no one seems to have picked up on this and instead decide to write about Violet marrying Olaf after all or Klaus getting pregnant or who knows what nonsense. Internet: fail. :P