This has been bugging me.

[bktheirregular]

A while back, someone sent feedback on "Scarab", asking if I was planning a sequel. Actually, it was more like "please say you're doing a sequel please please please please!"

I wrote back, saying that I certainly wasn't going to write more of that any time soon, especially because I didn't know how the season finales of Buffy and Stargate would turn out.

So I got an IM out of the blue from this person, saying: "the beauty of fanfiction is that you can make your own endings."

I replied that it mattered to me, as I was a slave of canon, and doing a crossover story already was asking for lots of suspension of disbelief even if you didn't veer away from the canon.

The response?

"Nonsense. As soon as you write a Crossover it [is] AUTOMATICALLY A/U."

I don't know. Isn't that one of the challenges of fanfiction? Write a story that could be a part of the larger story, sometimes?

I can understand A/U, but still ... to say that something is AUTOMATICALLY A/U?

Maybe I just don't get it.

Close entry.

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[weirdweb.livejournal.com]

Being as much a canon slave as Tara and you, I didn't see the point in writing something that had already been shown on one show and proven wrong on another, so I put the ideas for a follow-up in storage.

Out of curiosity, what got Jossed? I assumed something like that had happened when there was no follow-up, and I didn't want to be a nag. Just curious. :)