#scooby apocalypse 36

[au-roulette]

Happy June!

To celebrate the fact that we are now officially one month away from the start of AU Roulette, have a post detailing the 36 AUs included in this year's challenge -- or don't, if you'd rather be surprised.

This year's AUs have been curated to be intentionally broad, in the hopes that they will encourage unique takes on each prompt and the creativity of the authors participating. You are welcome to write anything that falls under the umbrella of your assigned AUs, whether it's an original universe, a fusion inspired by another fandom, or something else entirely.

(What's AU Roulette, some of you might be asking? An explanation can be found here, along with the link to sign-up!)

Without further ado -- the AU list, under a cut:

Roleswap - Maybe you want to switch two characters' places, do a class-swap for a D&D fandom, try your hand at an age-swap fic, or you have another idea.

Superhero -- Invent an original universe or do a fusion with one of the many popular big-screen superhero stories. Play it straight and give your favorite characters cool powers, or try a deconstruction of the genre. With great AUs comes great responsibility

Gothic Horror -- Castles. Ghosts. Vampires. Drama. Love that conquers Death. Take your inspiration from classic literature or a newer entry in the genre, like The Locked Tomb books. But be sure to make things spooky.

Post-Apocalypse -- Will the world end in fire or in ice? Or maybe economic collapse, war, zombies, or one of many other options? You write what happens next!

Fairy-Tale -- Pick a classic tale from the Grimms, Hans Christian Andersen, Asbjørnsen & Moe, Charles Perrault, or another favorite author to inspire your AU, try out a more modern re-telling, or use fairy-tale elements to craft your own story.

High Seas -- Including but not limited to Pirate AUs and other Age of Sail adventures. Try out something more historical, or throw in as many fantasy elements as you'd like -- or a bit of both.

Time Travel -- For fixing mistakes, making things worse, or time loops. Or maybe you want to write a fusion inspired by a piece of popular time travel media, like Doctor Who.

Western -- Another AU where writers are free to do their history research or to lean into more outlandish genre conventions. Cowboys, cowgirls, and cowpokes all welcome, of course.

Mythology -- Write a story inspired by your favorite myths and legends, from a whole host of different cultures. Or maybe you'd like to try your hand at writing some epic poetry?

Coffee Shop -- A classic everyone knows and has strong feelings about. Play it straight or add a twist, whichever suits your fancy! After all, no one said where the coffee shop has to be...

College/Academia -- Are the characters in your AU students? Professors? Weary adjuncts? Throwing hands at a conference? Some mix of the above?

Theater -- Put those characters on Broadway or cast them in a disaster of a community theater production. Or a school play! All that really matters is the show must go on.

Ghost/Cryptid Hunters -- Maybe you want to write a story starring the next Scooby-Doo crew, or maybe there really is something strange in the neighborhood. Or maybe it'll never be clear what really happened -- it's your choice!

Secret Agent -- Code words, code names, you name it. Write a story about spies, cryptographers, or any other clandestine operators. Take inspiration from history or from James Bond. Just don't spill your secrets too soon.

Detective -- Whether you're writing the world's greatest detective or someone who just can't get a clue, play up the mystery! Use a classic locale like 221B Baker Street or invent your own.

Cyberpunk -- Time to write cyborg identity crises and fight the machine (literally)! Take inspiration from classic media like Neuromancer or Blade Runner or make a totally new cyberpunk universe of your own creation.

High Fantasy -- Elves and dwarves and gnomes, oh my! This AU could encompass everything from Middle Earth to D&D AUs to your favorite high fantasy books you read over and over as a kid. Or maybe you have your own spell to weave.

Band/Musicians -- Whether you decide to make the characters in your AU famous pop stars, part of an orchestra, students at a conservatory, jamming together in their garage, or otherwise musically-inclined, have fun with it!

Reporter/Journalist -- For everything from local anchors and newspaper staff to big-league investigative reporters. Write characters who'll do anything to get a scoop or with a strong sense of justice -- it's your call!

Cosmic Horror -- You don't have to love Lovecraft to get creative with this AU. Make characters comprehend the incomprehensible, send them messages from beyond the stars, and get a little creepy.

Heist -- Will you write a story about master thieves? Vigilantes righting some wrong? What's being stolen and why? Try a Leverage AU or a caper of your own making.

Space Opera -- The genre encompassing works like The Expanse, Imperial Radch, Mass Effect, and Star Wars, brimming with galactic empires, alien species, and chivalric adventures. Write a fusion set in the universe of your favorite work in the genre, or invent a new one!

Sports/Athletics -- Pick a sport, any sport -- whether a team game like hockey, an individual one like archery, a paired one like figure skating, or something a little unconventional, like roller derby or HEMA. Then it's ready, set, write!

Historical Era -- An AU type absolutely bursting with potential, from medieval romances to 1920s Prohibition AUs, to ones inspired by historical fiction like Les Miserables. Whatever era of history strikes your fancy, you can write it.

Road Trip -- Pack your favorite characters in a car and don't forget the snacks. Or maybe the spaceship, or something else if you're feeling adventurous. Where are they headed and why? Only you know the answer!

Space Exploration -- Whether you want to write modern-day astronauts, a futuristic Star Trek AU, or something inspired by the space race, the sky isn't even the limit with this AU.

Urban Fantasy -- For all your modern-with-magic settings. Write an AU inspired by something like Teen Wolf, Artemis Fowl, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or much of Neil Gaiman's oeuvre, or invent your own world where witches and websites coexist.

Museum/Archives -- Have the characters in your AU working in the exhibits or behind the scenes, down in the collections or even as archaeologists or paleontologists. What secrets are waiting to be unearthed there?

Hospital -- A surprisingly flexible AU option -- are the characters working there, or the victims of some unfortunate accident? Or maybe it's a bit of both. Take it wherever you feel like.

Camping/Wilderness Survival -- Could be anything from a fun summer camp or camping trip to a nightmare survival scenario. Write everyone having s'mores around the campfire or something inspired by media like Yellowjackets, where they might be having... something else.

Steampunk -- A fantastic opportunity to get creative with your worldbuilding. Try your hand at some alternate history, or invent a world of airships and other flying machines of your very own.

Shapeshifter -- Can the characters in this AU turn into anything they want? Or maybe they're more limited, like selkies -- even unable to control their shapeshifting at all (can I get an "awoo" from the werewolf fans?)

Classic Literature -- An AU somewhat more dependent on fusion ideas, but still very flexible! Pick a favorite classic book or play and let it inspire your writing!

Dystopian -- Create your own awful society or let a favorite piece of media guide you, like writing a Hunger Games AU. Will the characters break the cycle, or end up trapped in it?

Renaissance Faire -- A recipe for chaos. Write a bunch or faire-goers or have the characters in your AU working at the faire! Adventures await.

Scientist/Mad Science -- Write characters as normal biologists, physicists, and chemists, the next Frankenstein, or as hapless experiments themselves!

[evilhorse]

Scooby Apocalypse #36

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Monday, June 10

JONATHAN: (incredulous) You're checking for implants? ANDREW: (defensive) Lex Luthor had a false epidermis escape kit in "Superman Versus the Amazing Spider-Man" Treasury edition- JONATHAN: Okay, first of all, those were sonic disrupters. And second of all ... you are sadness personified. Waiting for Warren? Yeah, maybe he'll come bust us out of here on Santa's magic sleigh. ANDREW: (stands up angrily) I'm telling him you said that. JONATHAN: Why wait? I'll tell him right now. Jonathan grabs Andrew's elbow and holds it up to his own face. JONATHAN: Hey, Warren, do you read me, your girlfriend's pathetic, over.

~~Two to Go~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Escape From Mosaic (gen, not rated) by eevol76vamp

Girls Night Out (gen, not rated) by eevol76vamp

Lindsey's Last Song (gen, not rated) by eevol76vamp

Old Enough (Buffy/Spike, G) by sandy_s

Finding a Sense of Direction (Drusilla/Faith, not rated) by rhodrymavelyne

Night Swimming (Buffy/Spike, R) by Geliot99

[Chaptered Fiction]

Incarnate Chapter 6 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Sigyn

Rebehold the Stars (Love from the Other Side of the Apocalypse) Chapter 15 (Buffy/Spike, R) by Asokatanos

East of Nevada Chapter 3 (Buffy/Spike, R) by Blissymbolics

Morning Stretches Chapter 3 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by CheekyKitten

The Boyfriend Swap Chapter 16 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Maxine Eden

The Devil's Trill Chapter 8 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Murray

The Witch's Gift Chapter 36 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by RavenLove12

Blood and Fame Chapter 1 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Desicat

Bruises Chapter 17 (Buffy/Spike, adult only) by hulettwyo

Love Lives Here Chapter 74 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17) by Passion4Spike

[Images, Audio & Video]

Podcast:Pride, Prejudice and Buffy (Buffy and the Art of Story Podcast) by lisalilly

Podcast:Episode 31 - Fly Kids and Eye Stalks (Killed by Death) by thesunnydalediaries

Art:Who’s this billy idol looking loser by bugaboooooooooo

[Reviews]

war and peaches' buffyverse compendium by war and peaches

[Fandom Discussions]

Spike wasn’t a Good Vampire by virtue of just being that way by buffy-targaryen

One of the funniest jokes in the Buffy episode “Once More With Feeling” by jq37

Why Spike picked Sunnydale by nicnacsnonsense

Angel's most heroic act by The Whirlwind

Rewatch thoughts and questions continued by multiple posters

Is Riley more misogynistic than other characters? continued by multiple posters

What If: Buffy lived with Hank instead? by nightshade

Were the slayers a good idea? by TheXandyman

In what stances was a character screwed by the narrative? by brwitch

On your first time watching The Zeppo did you think they would do something with Xander and Faith? by LightBlueSky55

Thoughts on Willow's character during her recovery from abusing magics in the mid half of season six by jdpm1991

Which Scooby gang member had the best levels in "Chaos Bleeds"? by jdpm1991

Spike and Andrew were both integrated into the Scooby Gang the same way by rednax2009

the ascension by brian5mbv

Watching Angel for the first time, this scene made me shocked by brwitch

I think killing Angel influenced Buffy's decision to sacrifice herself in "The Gift" by Whedonite144

The Mayor and his bs by Pookienini

"Come in here, take everything that I have... You did it before. Did you tell them that?" by jogaforacont

Am I wrong for thinking Angel hooking up with Darla was hot in 2x15? by rites0fpassage

What are some moments that you were incredibly frustrated or disappointed with Cordelia? by PristineSituation498

Which if any characters grew on you the most when you revisited the series? by Whedonite144

What is everyone’s funniest episode? by queenrosybee

Unexplainable vibes? by mymacaronibirthmark

Although Faith was always jealous she did seem to like Buffy a lot in season 3 by IntelligentPumpkin74

Is BTVS Angel a little overhated? by debujandobirds

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[daintyduck99]

Three Sentence AUs

I know this post already exists, but I wanted to make my own with examples because AUs can be hard to come up with. Send me an AU and a pairing and I'll write a three sentence fic about it! For broader examples, specifics can go in parenthesis (ie. Disney (The Little Mermaid) or Song Based (Red by Taylor Swift).

1. Coffee Shop

2. Neighbors 

3. University 

4. Sports

5. Ballet 

6. Book Shop

7. Flower Shop 

8. Tattoo Artist

9. Animal Shelter 

10. Hospital 

11. Mechanic

12. Fashion Designer 

13. Camp Counselors 

14. Holiday 

15. Luggage Swap

16. Canon Role Swap 

17. Gender Swap 

18. Body Swap

19. Bodyguard 

20. Road Trip 

21. Fake Dating

22. Arranged Marriage 

23. Speed Dating

24. Wrong Number

25. Past Relationship 

26. Second Love 

27. Forbidden Love 

28. Childhood Friends 

29. Amnesia 

30. Pirate 

31. Mythology 

32. Reincarnation

33. Time Travel 

34. Space 

35. Spies 

36. Superhero

37. Soulmates

38. Royalty 

39. Apocalypse 

40. Monsters

41. Spirit Medium 

42. Detectives 

43. Disney 

44. Avatar The Last Airbender 

45. Scooby-Doo

46. Stranger Things 

47. Song Based 

48. One of My AUs

49. One of Your AUs 

50. Other/Asker's Choice 

[xsage1113]

So while everyone is looking at the "what if" mature Scooby-Doo shows, I wanted to take a look back at previous version to find something interesting in the past. I found two fun things I wanted to share. The first is the number of crossover series they have had with IRL people. Not just the movies like the WWE or Kiss crossovers, I'm talking about tv shows. Keep in mind I haven't completetly seen these series. But I have done some research on them. This was originally gonna be a deep dive into scooby doo history, and now it turned into Scooby Doo stuff I thought was cool after reading the Wikipedia First up, The New Scooby Doo Movies

Don't let the title trick you, this is the follow-up tv show from the original Scooby-Doo Where Are You. This show was a hour long broadcast every episode, and each featured a guest character, with some repeats in its 2 season run with a total of 24 episodes (16 and 8 if you're curious) and the listings are wild. Some makes sense, The Addams Family (which is the only episode not to get a home release due to disputes with the Addams Family) dealing with a missing Wednesday Addams and an evil vulture. Other make some less sense, like when they worked with the Three Stooges. But some are outright bizarre, like the THREE 40 MINUTE EPISODES WITH THE HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS. None of which involved basketball, but two that involved being on ships. Not to mention the Batman and Robin episodes.

A similar series was made rather from 2019 to 2021 recently which I didn't know about before watching. Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?

Same concept as before, but in a modern days with new characters. I think the reason I didn't hear about this was cause it jumped from Cartoon Network, to Boomerang, to finally finishing its second season on HBO max. With twice as many episodes across its run it has some gems of insanity. More DC characters, like Flash, Wonder Woman, as well as Alex Trebek, Macklemore, their voice actors Joey Chestnut, Morgan Freeman Jeff Foxworthy, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Bill Nye just to name a few.

Now for the darkest story in any scooby doo property. It completely reimagined all of the characters as adults. Featured dark themes and was the first comic series to receive a teen rating. It was so crazy, that Warner Brothers got mad at DC comics for the reimagining. It ran for 36 issues and is everything you'd want in an insane, mature, reimagining of the scooby doo franchise that follows a different formula. It is...

Scooby Doo Apocalypse ran from 2016 to 2019. It featured a horrifying monster apocalypses which the team work together to survive and solve the mysteries of it. Daphne and Fred are both a Journalist and her Cameraman respectively. Velma is a scientist who was trying to expose the nanites that caused people to mutate into monsters, Shaggy was a dog handler for the same corporation, handling a different project training smart dogs, such as Scooby. It also is the most recent appearance of Scrappy Doo I believe, and it takes his character in an interesting new direction. Its intense, people die, and its something I highly recommend. I may expand on it in another post. It may not be for everyone but I think there is something worth seeing in it.

It was a dark storying line for a more mature audience, with different version of the characters we are familiar with, in a non-traditional format and formula. Something that some shows can learn from. Even though it was canceled, it received just enough time to get a proper ending to the story.

Feel free to reblog with other cool and interesting scooby doo shows movies, or series that might be lesser known but still are interesting and different from the traditional.

[safeashousespdf]

JUST READ THE FINALE OF SCOOBY APOCALYPSE AND CAN I FUCKIN SAY WHOA NELLY BITCH SPOILERS BELOW THE CUT

1) because we’re all thinking it - HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU KILL OFF FRED AND NOT DAISY???? HOW THE FUCK CAN YOU KILL OFF FRED PERIOD????? HES REALLY FUCKIN GONA THIS TIME BC HE WAS HUMAN WHEN HE DIED??? HE WAS SO GOOD AND WE DIDNT EVEN GET MONSTERFUCKER DAPHNE I’M FUCKING ROITTING IN TBE STREETS WHAT THE FUCCCCCC

2) no shelma kiss???? iS THIS A JOKE??? WE GOT A FUCKIN BABY BUT NEVER SAW THEM KISS???? THATS AN INJUSTICE??????

anyway now onto my favorite moments

damn shaggy really said

and speaking of which

also shaggy really saved the fuckin world in his polkadot pajamas so fuck yeah i guess

and WHO COULD FORGET

THE WORLD’S UGLIEST BABY. (and his name is fred. imagine looking a baby in its fat baby face and calling it fred) and, bY THE WAY,,, why is SCOOBY the godfather??? a DOG??? why not QUENTIN???

but let’s also talk about the fuckin FRAPHNE?????? because

i’m a little mad??? all i wanted was for daphne to :) fuck :) a :) zombie :) and i didn’t get it???? instead she just made out with a fucking year old corpse???? kinda unsexy if u ask me. also this “my sweet daphne” shit can STOP who talks like that tf

not to mention that the ending was cute af?? good for you guys for saving the world?? i’m a proud parent.

but ANYWAY THE ART WAS SHIT AND I DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT BUT THE ART IS SO BAD AND I HATE IT SO MUCH @ PATRICK OLIFFE WHAT ARE YOU DOING MAN

anyway, i feel like scooby apocalypse ended too soon, and could have lasted longer if they’d kept on keith giffen and dale eaglesham but i guess they needed them on more mainstream stuff

[scoobydoofashion]

Scooby Apocalypse #36

[juniperpomegranate]

1, 36!

Which of your fics would you keep the basic plot of but rewrite completely?

Ooof, WIP or finished? I'm mostly content with my finished stuff, even though most of it is kind of old (>10 years for everything except due South and But A Walking Shadow). Of my finished fics I would keep the basic plot of Held in Hand, a BtVS AU where the Scoobies die via demon attack while their souls/spirits are off making Super Buffy, and I'd rewrite the fallout from that.

Of my WIPs, well, I still have a fic I call Watanuki Jones hanging around from when I was deeply into xxxHolic, but then the authors were very rude and jossed the hell out of it. I'd like to finish it, but since it's been, uh, a long time I'm going to have to rewrite almost all of it.

36 How do you come up with fic titles? What’s the one you’re most proud of?

Plagiarism.

Okay not really, but all my good titles are swiped from song lyrics or blatantly stolen from Shakespeare. I am absolute crap at coming up with titles. That said, I am happy with "Not Another Apocalypse, or: The Hummus Offensive" which is a BtVS ficlet.

[shirlleycoyle]

How 9/11 Became Fan Fiction Canon

Every fictional character you can think of has experienced 9/11 in fanfiction.

A Clone Wars veteran with two lightsabers is on United Airlines Flight 93 and prevents it from crashing. Ron and Hermione get caught up in the chaos as the towers fall. Buffy the Vampire Slayer and her friends watch the attacks unfold on TV from Sunnydale. We have spent 20 years trying to process what happened on 9/11 and its fallout, and that messy process can be tracked through the countless, sad, disturbing, and sometimes very funny fanfiction left across the internet.

Many of the fanfics written in the weeks and months following the 9/11 attacks seemed to directly respond to the news as it happened, processing the tragedy in real-time through the eyes of characters they loved. In the absence of a canon episode where Daria Morgendorffer paid respects to those lost, writing fanfic about these characters also experiencing trauma helped fans cope.

One YuGiOh fanfic published on fanfiction.net in May 2002 could have been ripped exactly from what this writer experienced that Tuesday morning. “It started as a normal day,” user Gijinka Renamon wrote. Yugi and his friends were in school, where their teacher informed them of the attacks and sent everyone home from school.

“After reading people’s 9/11 fics, I decided to write my own, and put a certain character in it. And Yugi and his pals were my first choice,” the author's note reads, explaining the connection they felt to United flight 93 and the World Trade Center attacks. Given that they lived in Pennsylvania, and “it’s close to New York, I felt really sad about it.”

Stitch, a fandom journalist for Teen Vogue, told Motherboard that this reaction to 9/11 is not at all uncommon in fandom.

"Fandom has always been a place that positions nothing as 'off limits,'" she said. "Historical tragedies like the Titanic sinking and atrocities like… all of World War 2 show up regularly across the past 30 years of people creating stories and art about the characters they love. So, on some level, it makes sense that 9/11 and the following 20-year military installation in the Middle East has joined the ranks of things people in different fandoms turn into settings for their fan fiction."

Reactions depicted in a handful of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanfics published in the weeks after the attacks ring a little truer to the characters. “Tuesday, 11th September 2001,” written by Anna K, almost echoes the lyrics from “I’ve Got a Theory,” one of the songs in the musical episode that aired in November 2001. “We have seen the apocalypse. We have prevented it. Actually, we’ve prevented quite a few. So we know what they look like,” they write, before taking a darker turn. “They look a lot like…New York today.”

Killing demons and vampires doesn’t phase the Scooby Gang, but when preventable human death is brought into the picture, it’s gut wrenching.

“What am I supposed to do…When I can’t do anything to save the world?” Buffy cries  into Spike’s chest, watching the attacks unfold on TV in a fanfic the author described as being “about feeling numb and helpless.”

In “Blood Drive,” Kirayoshi writes about Buffy and her friends saving a van full of donated blood meant for victims of the attacks from a group of thirsty vampires. One Buffy the Vampire Slayer fic even takes a blindly patriotic turn, where noted lesbian witch Tara McClay helps Xander hang an American flag from the window of the magic shop to make Anya feel better.

Experiencing 9/11 as a young teenager was overwhelming not just because of the loss of life. Almost immediately after the event itself, it was as if the entirety of American culture re-oriented itself towards an overtly jingoistic stance. As we get distance from the attacks, seeing the tone of television and movies from the early 2000s is jarring, and some have gone viral on Twitter. In the world of pop music, mainstream musicians like the Chicks, formerly known as the Dixie Chicks, were blacklisted from the radio while Toby Keith sang about putting a boot up the ass of terrorists. On the Disney Channel, a young Shia Labeouf reading a poem he supposedly wrote about the events. The poem concludes with the line, "it's awesome to be an American citizen."

In a world so completely saturated with this messaging, it is not surprising that fanfic authors started including 9/11 in their work so soon after the event. Even The West Wing had a strange, out of continuity, fanfic-esque episode where the characters reacted to 9/11. In some cases, it made sense that the characters in the stories would be close to or a part of the events themselves.

"For characters like John Watson or Captain America, the idea works to an extent," Stitch told Motherboard. "In the original Sherlock Holmes works and the 2011 BBC series, Watson had just returned from Afghanistan. For Captain America and other Marvel heroes, 9/11 was something that was addressed in-universe in The Amazing Spider-Man volume 2 #36. Technically, 9/11 is 'canon' to the Marvel universe."

In “Early Warning: Terrorism,” a fanfiction for the TV show Early Edition in which a man who mysteriously receives tomorrow's newspaper, predicting the future, avoids jingoism, but tries to precent 9/11 from happening. This fanfic remains unfinished; it’s unclear if the characters successfully prevent 9/11 in this retelling.

Largely in fanfic from the era just after 9/11, when many young authors were trying to emotionally grapple with it, the characters don't re-write or undo the events themselves. It's this emphasis on the reaction to tragedy that colors the fanfiction that features 9/11 going forward.

Although fanfiction authors have been writing about 9/11 consistently since soon after the event, whenever that fanfiction reaches outside of its intended audience, it looks bizarre.

A screenshot of a Naruto 9/11 fanfic on the Tumblr subreddit comes without any context, or even more than two lines and an author's note. It’s impossible to suss out if this falls into the category of sincere fanfic without the rest of the piece or a publication date, but modern-day commenters on the Reddit thread see it as classic Tumblr trash.

Screenshot from r/Tumblr

“Bin Laden/Dick Cheney, enemies to lovers, 10k words, slow burn,” one user joked in the replies, underscoring the weirdness of Naruto being in the Twin Towers by comparing it to a What If story about Cheney and Bin Laden slowly falling deeply in love.

It’s hard to tell how much of the 9/11 fanfic and fanart starting a few years after the attacks is sincere, and how much of it is ironic, and trying to make fun of the very concept of writing fanfiction about 9/11.

A 2007 anime music video (in which various clips, usually from anime, are cut together to music) that combines scenes from The Lion King with Linkin Park’s “Crawling” and clips from George Bush’s speeches immediately after the attacks feels like the perfect example of this. Even the commenters can’t seem to suss out if this person is a troll or not.

There’s no way that My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic 9/11 fanart could be serious, right? Especially if the description pays tribute to “some of the nation's most memorable buildings,” and features five of the main characters as child versions of themselves. The comments again are split between users thanking the artist for a thoughtful remembrance post, and people making their own headcanon for why Twilight Sparkle is surreptitiously absent from the scene.

Screengrab via DeviantArt

There’s Phineas and Ferb fanfic that combines a 9/11 tribute concert with flashbacks to Ferb being rescued from the towers as a baby, written on the 10th anniversary of the attacks. It jumps from introspection to lines like, “‘Quiet Perry the Platypus. I’m trying to listen to these kids singing a 9/11 tribute.’”

The author's notes make it more likely that they meant for this to be a tribute piece, but it doesn’t quite make sense until watching a YouTube dramatic reading of it from 2020, fully embracing the absurdity of it all.

“For me, 9/11 is synonymous with war. It completely changed the course of my life," Dreadnought, the author of a Captain America fanfic Baghdad Waltz that sees Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes fall in love over the course of the war on terror, told Motherboard. "It’s the reason I joined the military, and I developed deep connections with people who would go on to deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq. These very much felt like my generation’s wars, perhaps because people I graduated high school with were the youngest folks eligible to serve at the time.”

Dreadnought told Motherboard that although they didn't deploy, their career has kept 9/11 and the trauma from it in their mind. After seeing that people who fantasize about Steve and Bucky getting together seemed particularly interested in reading fanfiction that related to 9/11, they decided to try their hand at it.

"I had to do something with all of that emotionally, and I’m admittedly a bit emotionally avoidant. So I learned through fic that it’s easier for me to process those feelings and the knowledge of all the awful stuff that can happen in war if I can turn it into something creative," Dreadnought said. "Give the feelings to fake people and then have those fake people give the feelings to readers!"

To Dreadnought, who is a queer man, the experience of researching and writing this was more cathartic than they first expected, especially as a way to navigate feelings about masculinity, military culture, and queer identity. But they said the research they did, which included watching footage of first responders at ground zero, was what helped them finally process the event itself.

"It was like a delayed horror, and it was more powerful than I expected it would be." Dreadnought said. "When I was eighteen, I was pretty emotionally divorced from 9/11; I just knew I wanted to do something about it. So coming back to it in my 30s while writing this fic, it was a very different experience. Even the research for this story ended up being an extraordinarily valuable exercise in cognitively and emotionally processing 9/11 and all of its second and third order effects."

Fanfiction that features 9/11 provides an outlet for people who still grapple with the trauma from that day. But Stitch warns that the dynamics of fandom and how it relates to politics can also create fiction that's less respectful and more grotesque.

"With years of distance between the stories written and the original events of 9/11, there seems to be some sort of cushion for fans who choose to use those events as a catalyst for relationships—and Iraq and Afghanistan for settings," Stitch said. "The cushion allows them room to fictionalize real world events that changed the shape of the world as we know it, but it also insulates them from having to think about what they may be putting into the world."

The tendency of turning these events into settings or backgrounds for mostly white, male characters to fall in love has the unintended effect of displacing the effects that the war on terror has had on the world over. Steve and Bucky might fall in love during the war on terror, but they would also be acting as a part of the American military in a war that has been criticized since it started. Fanfic writers in other fandoms have come under fire for using real world tragedy as settings for fic before. In the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake Supernatural fanfiction about the actors Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki going to the island to do aid became controversial within the fandom. There have also been fics where characters grapple with the death of George Floyd that is written in a way that displaces the event from the broader cultural context of race in America.

"A Captain America story where Steve Rogers is a 'regular' man who joins the US Army and 'fights for our freedom' post-9/11 is unlikely to deal with the war’s effect on locals who are subject to US military intervention," Stitch said. "It’s unlikely to sit with what Captain America has always meant and what a writer is doing by dropping Steve Rogers into a then-ongoing conflict in any capacity."

After enough time, “never forget” can even morph into “but what if it never happened?” A 19k+ word Star Wars alternate universe fanfic asks this question, wondering what would have unfolded if someone with two lightsabers was on United Flight 93. This fic, part of a larger fanfic series with its own Wikia, considers what would have happened if Earth was a military front in the Clone Wars.

In this version of events, a decorated general who served in the Clone Wars is able to take back control of Flight 93 before it crashes, landing safely and preventing even more tragedy from happening that day. In the end, all of the passengers who made harrowing last calls to their loved ones before perishing in a Pennsylvania field survive thanks to the power of the Force, and are awarded medals of honor by President Bush.

Twenty years after the attacks, it’s painful to think about what would have happened if people got to work 15 minutes later, or missed their trains that morning. There weren’t Jedi masters deployed to save people in real life, but for some of the fanfic writers working today, the world of Star Wars might feel just as removed as the world before September 11, 2001.

Fiction serves as a powerful playground for processing cultural events, especially generational trauma. The act isn't neutral though; a decade's worth of fanfiction that takes place on or around 9/11 shows how our own understanding of a traumatic event can shift with time.

How 9/11 Became Fan Fiction Canon syndicated from https://triviaqaweb.wordpress.com/feed/

[backtothe-stars]

Películas 2020 - 2

JULIO

1. En pata de guerra

2. Las crónicas de Narnia: el príncipe Caspian

3. Mis tardes con Margueritte

4. El super canguro

5. Otra vez tú

6. Asalto al poder

7. Memorias de una geisha

8. Soul Surfer

9. Kung Fu Panda

10. Príncipe de Persia

11. El pasajero

12. Tenías que ser tú

13. A propósito de Henry

14. Apocalypse Now

15. Sin salida

16. Un lugar para soñar

17. [Rec]

18. Dando la nota

19. Juntos y revueltos

20. Clueless

21. Esto es la guerra

22. Men in Black

23. Men in Black 2

24. Men in Black 3

25. My Palpitating Life

26. The Gentlemen

27. Desayuno con diamantes

28. 127 horas

29. The Holidays

30. Pozos de ambición

31. Eduardo manostijeras

32. Wilde

33. Memorias de un zombie adolescente

34. Belle

35. Stoker

36. Coco de la rebeldía a la leyenda de Chanel

37. Como casarse con un millonario

38. Shrek

AGOSTO

1. Ofrenda a la tormenta

2. Spirit: el corcel indomable

3. Scooby

4. Shrek 2

5. Las apariencias engañan

6. Madagascar

7. El viento que agita la cebada

8. Mary Shelley

9. En el nombre del padre

10. Shrek tercero

11. Only You

12. Luces de la ciudad

13. El maravilloso jardín secreto de Bella Brown

14. Vacaciones en Roma

15. Cartas de una desconocida

16. Madagascar 2

17. Notting Hill

18. Nicky la aprendiz de bruja

19. Monstruos vs alienígenas

20. El último virrey de la India

21. Legend

22. En el límite del amor

23. Pretty Woman

24. Lejos del mundanal ruido

25. Jack Reacher nunca vuelvas atrás

26. Greyhound Enemigos bajo el mar

27. Thor Ragnarok

28. El graduado

29. Kung Fu Panda 2

30. Magnolias de acero

31. El gato con botas

32. Historias de Filadelfia

33. No matarás... al vecino

34. Madagascar 3

35. Mientras dormías

36. El origen de los guardianes

37. El diario de Noa

38. Jack el caza gigantes

39. Los puentes de Madison

40. High School Musical

41. High School Musical 2

42. High School Musical 3

43. Mensaje en una botella

44. Un lugar donde refugiarse

45. Trainspotting

46. El hombre que conocía el infinito

47. El viaje más largo

48. Al cruzar el límite

49. Noche de venganza

50. Camp Rock

SEPTIEMBRE

1. Un, dos, tres... Splash

2. Cuando te encuentre

3. Lemonade Mouth

4. El club de los poetas muertos

5. Django

6. Slumdog Millonaire

7. Michael Collins

8. El exótico hotel Marigold

9. El nuevo exótico hotel Marigold

10. Por siempre jamás

11. The Last Princess

12. Mulan (2020)

13. Maurice

14. Perfume historia de un asesino

15. The Queen

16. Mulan

17. El hilo invisible

18. El médico

19. Colette

20. Con los ojos del corazón

21. Match Point

22. Chacal

23. La sombra del diablo

24. Lion

25. Aquel excitante curso

26. Desde el infierno

27. Los imprevistos del amor

28. El fantasma de la ópera

29. La joven Jane Austen

30. Retorno a Bridshead

31. Una razón para vivir

32. Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned 

33. Enola Holmes

OCTUBRE

1. Sweeney Todd

2. Sombras tenebrosas

3. Nunca fuimos ángeles

4. Cold Mountain

5. Que baje Dios y lo vea

6. Doctor sueño

7. Las normas de la casa de la sidra

8. Código abierto

9. Mi amor perdido

10. La llamada de lo salvaje

11. María reina de Escocia

12. Full Monty

13. Tu mejor amigo un nuevo viaje

14. Medianoche en el jardín del bien y del mal

15. El día del doctor

16. Sleepy Hollow

17. Los lirios del valle

18. Scarface

19. Pesadilla en Elm Street

20. Gangs of New York

21. Mi Chica

22. Air América

23. Rebeca (2020)

24. El secreto de Marrowbone

25. Feliz Día de tu muerte 2

26. Noche de bodas

27. La semilla del diablo

NOVIEMBRE

1. Un lugar en ninguna parte

2. Chantaje (2007)

3. Rey Arturo la leyenda de Excalibur

4. El buen hijo

5. Anastasia

6. Padre no hay más que uno 2

7. El retorno de las brujas

8. Crepúsculo

9. Luna Nueva

10. Eclipse

11. Amanecer parte I

12. Amanecer parte II

13. '71

14. La invención de Hugo

15. Solos con nuestro tío

16. Poli de guardería

17. El talento de Mr. Ripley

18. Huida a medianoche

19. Enredados

20. Vida de este chico

21. Beethoven

DICIEMBRE

1. Noche Real

2. Beethoven 2

3. 12 en casa

4. Al encuentro de Mr. Banks

5. Locuras de verano

6. Doctor Who: La película

7. 12 fuera de casa

8. Benny y Joon

9. La guerra de los Rose

10. Yo, Tú y Mamá

11. El jardín secreto

12. Cambio de princesa

13. La reina Victoria y Abdul

14. Love Actually

15. Tienes un email

16. Los fantasmas atacan al jefe

17. El caballero de la Navidad

18. La promesa

19. Megalodón

20. De repente el último verano

[biggoonie]

SCOOBY APOCALYPSE VOL. 6 TP

written by KEITH GIFFEN, J.M. DeMATTEIS, and HEATH CORSON art by PAT OLLIFFE, GUS VAZQUEZ, and others cover by DAN MORA It’s Scooby-Doo and the gang, but this time Fred is...one of the undead! While the resurrected Fred Jones unleashes his army of monsters on Scooby and the gang! Fortunately, the gang has another secret weapon: Scrappy-Doo and his mysterious mentor. Is this the end for the Scooby gang—and perhaps all of humanity—or will Daphne’s love for her resurrected boyfriend win out in the end? Plus, will Atom Ant measure up and become the latest member of the Justice League? Collects issues #31-36. ON SALE 01.15.20 $16.99 US | 160 PAGES FC | ISBN: 978-1-4012-9546-2

[cometcrystal]

w the scooby comics i'm simultaneously updating my scooby locations map + adding to the queue for my fashion blog so that adds an extra layer to it. and there are 159 issues in the og dc series i'm on rn, 50 issues in team up, 36 in apocalypse, and 108 issues so far of the current ongoing dc series. so you can imagine the kind of stress im under

[sunnydaleherald]

The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Wednesday, November 2

Giles: I thought I told you to leave town. Ethan: You did. I didn't.

~~The Dark Age~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Pumpkin Temptation by badly_knitted (Buffy & Giles, PG)

Another Night with the Slayer by Apache Firecat (Buffy/Spike, PG-13/T)

Passion in Pisa by melodys_muse (Buffy/Angel, T)

Soul Purpose by Gabriel_Is_My_Guardian_Angel89 (Angel/Spike, T)

strays by The_Eclectic_Bookworm (Jenny & OCs, G)

Good Morning by jackieisgreat (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

In Your Chair by acekoomboom (Buffy/Spike, G)

"Spike" by MaggieLeFay (Buffy/Spike, Adult Only)

The Question by myrabeth (Buffy/Spike, T)

[Chaptered Fiction]

From That Dream's Apocalypse - Chapter 1 by OffYourBird (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Halloween: Treat - Chapter 1-3 by dwinchester ("Supernatural" crossover, Buffy, M)

Spikes Gift, Ch. 8 by Sweetie88 (Buffy/Spike, R)

Deeper than Blood, Ch. 23 by Blackmysteria (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Seven, Ch. 33 by Holly (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Bleeding Poetry, Ch. 47 by Dusty (Buffy/Spike, worksafe, collection rated NC-17)

A Night Without Day, Ch. 26 by HappyWhenItRains (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Ties to the World, Ch. 9 by The Danish Bird (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Her Mission, Ch. 15 by BewitchedXx (Buffy/Spike, R)

Learning To Be Love's Bitch, Ch. 11 by Desicat (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Seph, Ch. 3 by sweetprincipale (Buffy/Spike, R)

California Dreamin', Ch. 1 by LittleTayy (Buffy/Spike, R)

Odd Ducks, Ch. 1 by violettathepiratequeen (Buffy/Spike, G)

Even Ground, Ch. 1 by honeygirl51885 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Out of Time: 1942, Ch. 36 by Jonayla ("Harry Potter" crossover, Buffy, FR18)

The Nymph's Kiss by KyliaQuilor (Amy Madison/Various Female Characters, FR21)

A Night Without Day, Ch. 23 by HappyWhenItRains (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

The Road to Hell.... Ch. 17 by All4Spike (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Inhuman Behavior, Ch. 3 by violettathepiratequeen (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

The Divergent Initiative, part 5 by Cohen (Graham, Clem, not rated)

[Images, Audio & Video]

Buffy cosplay by francisabernvthy (worksafe)

Buffy by greyed-rabbit (worksafe)

s1 Spuffy as the Lilo and Stich meme by disco-tea, l0veisntbrains (worksafe)

Cosplay: Buffy and The Master by laikachi, j.b._buchanan, mz_killah (worksafe)

BTVS “Every Outfit” “Restless” part 1 by whatshisfaceblogs (Buffy, worksafe)

BTVS “Every Outfit” “Restless” part 2 by whatshisfaceblogs (Buffy, worksafe)

Spike and Dru in the 90s 5:30 am by isevery0nehereverystoned (worksafe)

If Spike was a pole dancing barista with a man bun by isevery0nehereverystoned (probably worksafe)

Faces and fingers study by isevery0nehereverystoned (Spike, worksafe)

Spike in crop tops by isevery0nehereverystoned (probably worksafe)

Vidlet: cocaine jesus /rainbow kitten surprise by spiclerparker (Buffy/Faith)

🖤 ATS 119. Sanctuary 🖤 by tmcarlee (Faith, Angel, worksafe)

A series poster by summerpinciotti4 (Scoobies, worksafe)

[Reviews & Recaps]

5.17 Forever by handsofabitterman

Fuffy actor appreciation post ("Who Are You?") by juanabaloo

Favorite vampire fiction without a doubt is Buffy The Vampire Slayer by constantly-tragic

31 Days of Buffy (cont'd) by Plasma

Allison Hannigan’s acting is so next level when she’s Dark Willow by katiejoquantico

Thoughts on Help (7x04) by Defvac2 and others

Anyone have an episode they cannot stand? by G00dG1rl69 and others

Thoughts on Conversations With Dead People by ComprehensiveYak8480 and others

How would you rank the season premieres? by summerpinciotti4

PODCAST: 5.02 Just Rewards | Angel on Top

PODCAST: Pop Culture Role Call: Seinfeld Demons - Angel S03E12 - Provider

[Fandom Discussions]

Honestly the issues with consent in this fucking show by girl4music, confusedguytoo

[Spike's attempts to turn "Fool for Love" into a date] by deadwivesclub

giles never lets go of jenny by dreadfulcalendarwoman

[If Faith was in "Earshot"] by girl4music

The thing about the “loser” line in Enemies by herinsectreflection

I need a Buffy season 6 AU where after his botched attempt at helping out with the social worker, Spike... by redbone135

Oz’s van by dragonsrawesomesauce and others

Thoughts about the bullies in Season 1 Episode 6 (The Pack) by Neptune_Fae

Bringing up old wounds by PunkEmmy

Were you surprised at all that Buffy decided to cure Angel herself? by Opening_Knowledge868 and others

What would Buffy post-season 6 say to Debbie in "Beauty and the Beasts" from season 3? hosted by jdpm1991

90s high school posters didn't mess around by 08george and others

Buffy Case Study [in "Normal Again" as a patient] by EccentricOtter307

Obsessed with Andrew by Bluekitty777

Buffy was so not comfortable with this conversation [Dead Things carpet scene] by sushibananawater and others

[Re: Tara's comment about Spuffy in Intervention] by sushibananawater and others

[Articles, Interviews, and Other News]

James Marsters Streamily Livestream Signing (Instagram) via jamiemarsters

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[thequeenxofhearts]

4 years ago today, DC Comics and Hanna-Barbara released this comic book; Scooby Apocalypse.

The series ran from May 25th 2016 to April 10th 2019, with 36 issues.

In my opinion it was a great series and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

[kurawastaken]

Don’t know if this count, but I absolutely love this screenshot from a panel in  Scooby-apocalypse #36. 

[why-i-love-comics]

Scooby Apocalypse #36 - "Awards Season" (2019)

written by Heath Corson art by Gus Vazquez & Hi-Fi