DW Meme: Remixes

[graycardinal]

Although I've been playing in the fanfic sandbox for a scarily long time now, it's only been quite recently that I've come across the corner of it that is remixing -- taking someone else's fic and turning it inside out or sideways or going off in a different direction from the same beginning or ending.  There is, it turns out, a good-sized Remix Challenge concerned with just this; more informally, icepixie and aria have been circulating a meme for those of us who've either not yet succumbed to the organized challenge or are simply curious about what might happen if our own works were respun by other hands.  It goes like this:

Here's a link to my AO3 page, wherein most of my extant fic is posted.  If you're so minded, take a look around and see which -- if any -- of my stories you'd be most likely to remix, then post here as to what story you'd choose and how you might spin it.  [No actual obligation to write; this is an exercise in speculation.]  If you do comment here, you're also welcome (but not required)to post a link to your own fic-index -- either in the comments or in your own journal -- in which case I'll have a look and tell you which of your works I might remix, and what approach I might take.

Comments

[graycardinal]

As I understand it, the "fandoms" list that's appeared on your AO3 dashboard/home page is auto-generated, and consists of all the fandoms in which you've posted works to the archive. So the answer is that one can't add fandoms to that list -- OTOH, normally one doesn't need to.

In your case, the "Fandoms" list is not picking up the "Doctor Who" and "NCIS" fandoms because of the way you tagged the story. The tag system is comma-delimited, so one enters crossovers as "Doctor Who, NCIS" (see my Career Day), rather than "Doctor Who & NCIS" -- which, since it won't have been in the database previously, would take some time to propagate itself into the database anyway.

[twilight2000.livejournal.com]

Ah - that makes more sense! Thanks :>.