Yuletide Stories
Dec. 25th, 2011 10:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wickedwordsIn the infinitely cool things list, I received not one but TWO adventure time stories. And if you guys aren't watching adventure time, then you do not know one of the cleverest shows on the air right now, next to venture brothers. The show itself is fast paced and smart, with bad puns and witty hijinx. It's set in a post-apolocypic earth, with Finn the Human and his best friend Jake the magical dog. There's a crazed, sweeny todd-like Princess Wildberry who, as a fruit, makes meat pies and uses meat to decorate her castle; the Candy people created by Princess Bubblegum, and some scary, evil pool toys. Seriously! If you are looking for light and clever PG rated cartoon fare, this is the place.
I, of course, fell for the genderswapped version of the main characters, Fionna and her best friend, the magical cat Cake.
So the first story I got Chop 'Til You Drop is a pure tale of adventure, much like the show episodes. With added zombies. I even forced my son to read it as he's a big adventure time fan, and he gave it a thumbs up too. It can be read by people who aren't fans of the show, and it'll give you a taste of what its all about.
The second story I got An Unfinished Manuscript deals with the meta aspect of the Adventure Time show, and the way that fans discover stuff about themselves when they start writing stories. It does require more indepth series knowledge than the first story, so I'm gonna put it in the paragraph below this though I am too lazy to cut it or white it out.
The Fionna and Cake episode had a tag that revealed that the Ice King, the nefarious antagonist to Finn and Jake, had trapped the two leads and forced them to listen to the genderswapped fanfic that he'd written about them. Which had some odd mary sue moments in it what with the Ice Queen and the slashy overtones, along with breaking down into terrible writing there at the end. It's a mashup of fandom, show, and fanfic tropes, and is fascinating -- as well as oddly thinky -- because of it.
Tomorrow I have set aside time to read my long SGA Santa story. I feel so bad for the author but I will be able to finish it tomorrow. I just have to crash tonight.
I, of course, fell for the genderswapped version of the main characters, Fionna and her best friend, the magical cat Cake.
So the first story I got Chop 'Til You Drop is a pure tale of adventure, much like the show episodes. With added zombies. I even forced my son to read it as he's a big adventure time fan, and he gave it a thumbs up too. It can be read by people who aren't fans of the show, and it'll give you a taste of what its all about.
The second story I got An Unfinished Manuscript deals with the meta aspect of the Adventure Time show, and the way that fans discover stuff about themselves when they start writing stories. It does require more indepth series knowledge than the first story, so I'm gonna put it in the paragraph below this though I am too lazy to cut it or white it out.
The Fionna and Cake episode had a tag that revealed that the Ice King, the nefarious antagonist to Finn and Jake, had trapped the two leads and forced them to listen to the genderswapped fanfic that he'd written about them. Which had some odd mary sue moments in it what with the Ice Queen and the slashy overtones, along with breaking down into terrible writing there at the end. It's a mashup of fandom, show, and fanfic tropes, and is fascinating -- as well as oddly thinky -- because of it.
Tomorrow I have set aside time to read my long SGA Santa story. I feel so bad for the author but I will be able to finish it tomorrow. I just have to crash tonight.
