reading through a really good post-series fic that hits you just so makes you get insecure and start rethinking your own work...
Hoo boy. I'm totally there. Reading some of the current WIPs by people on my flist leaves me curled up in a little ball of self-loathing. You, Fer and dutchbuffy (and others, of course) create these wonderful worlds and use such beautiful language that I'm left with my mouth hanging open.
But you're right about the almost infinite possibilities. One of the things I like best about the Jossverse is that he left it so open, with so many different ways it could go after the cameras stopped. And the creativity he invested in the series means that alt-season or alt-universe fics have amazing backstories and characterization to work from.
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Date: 2005-01-23 02:09 pm (UTC)Hoo boy. I'm totally there. Reading some of the current WIPs by people on my flist leaves me curled up in a little ball of self-loathing. You, Fer and dutchbuffy (and others, of course) create these wonderful worlds and use such beautiful language that I'm left with my mouth hanging open.
But you're right about the almost infinite possibilities. One of the things I like best about the Jossverse is that he left it so open, with so many different ways it could go after the cameras stopped. And the creativity he invested in the series means that alt-season or alt-universe fics have amazing backstories and characterization to work from.