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velvetglove.livejournal.com) wrote in crack_van2003-10-22 12:23 am
SV Recs Week 3: Bizarro Worlds: Futurefic and AU
Yeah, Week 3. Shut up. I'll have Week 4 in by the end of the week and be out of the way of November's Special Guest Host in plenty of time, I promise.
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With SV, it's often difficult to tell whether a story is merely futurefic or full-blown AU. Because the audience is (painfully!) aware of how things are supposed to end up--and TPTB have made it very clear they have no intention of flouting that particular piece of Superman mythology--any story about the future where Clark and Lex don't end up enemies is, technically, an AU even though we're nowhere near the end of the friendship in the series. If we didn't have that foreknowledge, a couple of these wouldn't be AU yet ;)
I love reading versions of characters who are tethered to canon, but by a really long leash. If Clark and Lex behave as I imagine they would if things (sometimes everything) were different, then I consider it a successful AU. There is a lot of SV futurefic that is very action-packed, but since I usually drift off or become confused in heavy action sequences (there are too many guns to keep track of!), my preference is for character-focused stories that are definitely still about Superman (or a Clark who'll become Super).
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Gotham Underground - Shaggirl
Switch: A Comedy of Terrors - Rivka T
Blue Series - Rhiannonhero
Interstitial - Punk
The Road Not Taken - Joyfulgirl
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With SV, it's often difficult to tell whether a story is merely futurefic or full-blown AU. Because the audience is (painfully!) aware of how things are supposed to end up--and TPTB have made it very clear they have no intention of flouting that particular piece of Superman mythology--any story about the future where Clark and Lex don't end up enemies is, technically, an AU even though we're nowhere near the end of the friendship in the series. If we didn't have that foreknowledge, a couple of these wouldn't be AU yet ;)
I love reading versions of characters who are tethered to canon, but by a really long leash. If Clark and Lex behave as I imagine they would if things (sometimes everything) were different, then I consider it a successful AU. There is a lot of SV futurefic that is very action-packed, but since I usually drift off or become confused in heavy action sequences (there are too many guns to keep track of!), my preference is for character-focused stories that are definitely still about Superman (or a Clark who'll become Super).
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Gotham Underground - Shaggirl
Switch: A Comedy of Terrors - Rivka T
Blue Series - Rhiannonhero
Interstitial - Punk
The Road Not Taken - Joyfulgirl