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Post by quinkgirl on Sept 28, 2013 16:25:37 GMT
I love fanfiction, but I haven't tried Gunnerkrigg ones yet. I usually do fan fiction when I'm unhappy with something that's happened in a story and I set off to change it in my own way. For instance, I'm a big sucker for villains, so I write happy endings for them.
But for Gunnerkrigg... the characters I like are Coyote and Reynard, but I don't feel like I could write either of their POV's accurately. Besides, I really don't think there's anything I should change.
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Post by GK Sierra on Sept 28, 2013 17:53:10 GMT
I love fanfiction, but I haven't tried Gunnerkrigg ones yet. I usually do fan fiction when I'm unhappy with something that's happened in a story and I set off to change it in my own way. For instance, I'm a big sucker for villains, so I write happy endings for them. But for Gunnerkrigg... the characters I like are Coyote and Reynard, but I don't feel like I could write either of their POV's accurately. Besides, I really don't think there's anything I should change. I usually approach it from the opposite end, changing the main arc as little as possible. I like to use fanfiction to color inside the lines, create little stories within the plot that add depth. I've been working on a new one since June but I'm waiting till the end of this chapter to make sure there aren't any relevant happenings. |
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Post by quinkgirl on Sept 28, 2013 19:59:58 GMT
Well, okay, I don't change the main arch most of the time. It's usually a post story thing or I write it in a certain characters POV (usually the villain).
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Post by The Anarch on Sept 29, 2013 4:46:02 GMT
Gunnkrigg fanfiction? I might could get into sommadat. In fact, I think I might has an idear . . .
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Post by GK Sierra on Sept 29, 2013 4:55:41 GMT
Gunnkrigg fanfiction? I might could get into sommadat. In fact, I think I might has an idear . . . PM me if you ever decide you want a beta read. |
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Post by The Anarch on Sept 29, 2013 5:47:24 GMT
Gunnkrigg fanfiction? I might could get into sommadat. In fact, I think I might has an idear . . . PM me if you ever decide you want a beta read. My girlfriend usually betas for me, but I might still take you up on the offer. I'm sure a third set of eyes weeding out all my typos, grammatical errors, continuity issues, and just plain dumb ideas wouldn't hurt. Thankya kindly either way.  |
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Post by Daedalus on Sept 30, 2013 2:09:30 GMT
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Post by CoyoteReborn on Oct 2, 2013 0:06:05 GMT
I shamelessly suggest the fanfic MeXEveryone. Obviously, this is fictional. As far as you know. |
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Post by quinkgirl on Oct 2, 2013 1:06:46 GMT
You know, maybe they should make a thread for role playing... but then there would be many people wanting to be the same characters.
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Post by Daedalus on Oct 2, 2013 5:32:01 GMT
You know, maybe they should make a thread for role playing... but then there would be many people wanting to be the same characters. I kind of enjoy watching the perspective of 'Coyote' on the events in the comic. Still my favorite character, by far, even though he may be the main antagonist. |
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Post by quinkgirl on Oct 2, 2013 15:38:37 GMT
You know, maybe they should make a thread for role playing... but then there would be many people wanting to be the same characters. I kind of enjoy watching the perspective of 'Coyote' on the events in the comic. Still my favorite character, by far, even though he may be the main antagonist. Here we go again  Does he count as a main antagonist? |
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Post by GK Sierra on Oct 2, 2013 17:15:13 GMT
He's a lot more threatening than the headmaster, who is the other most likely candidate for prime antagonist.
There's probably an unnamed evil that hasn't been revealed yet though.
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Post by Daedalus on Oct 3, 2013 1:42:25 GMT
I'm still voting Anthony as the main antagonist, but that's another debate we've had before.
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Post by quinkgirl on Oct 3, 2013 3:13:35 GMT
I'm still voting Anthony as the main antagonist, but that's another debate we've had before. So are we directing the convo in a different direction? I think we've had this debate a fair amount of times already LAUGHING ON LINE |
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Post by wombat140 on Sept 20, 2015 20:57:32 GMT
I know this thread is old, but I wrote a thing and I can't find any more recent thread. (It's not related to what's currently going on in the comic.) Hope you like it. I'm still very much finding my feet with writing fiction.
In which a neck is stuck out.
You see what having fun gets you? - Caption of comic page 1399.
The school was quiet tonight, only the familiar sounds of one o'clock in the morning; wind whistling through cracks, the gurgle of ancient plumbing, the constant scritching of giant insects. Somewhere in another dimension there was a faint hoot. Zimmy listened, and identified it as that-one-with-the-long-beak, far away in that-boggy-place-it-lives-in, doing who-cares-what. She was bored.
Things hadn't been too bad lately; it had been a couple of weeks since she'd last needed to wake Gamma up in the night to deal with them. Which was good, but it meant Zimmy was stuck here with her until morning. Every flipping night.
A thought occurred to Zimmy here. What was to stop her going for a walk by herself? Nothing was happening. If anything started to get weird, she'd have time to go back and get Gamma then.
Zimmy got up and very softly turned the handle of the door. Gamma didn't move. Zimmy slipped out into the corridor.
She giggled softly to herself. Heh, I sound insane. Am I insane? ...Nah. It's just stuff that's insane. Anyway, who cares if I am.
She turned a corner, and nearly collided with a kid with bright blue hair. They both froze. The kid's eyes were wide in alarm.
Zimmy was the first to recover. "What're YOU looking at?" she growled.
"I, I, nuffing. I couldn't sleep." It was a girl's voice. Zimmy hadn't been sure just by looking.
I'm talking to an actual person, said an excited 14-year-old voice at the back of Zimmy's mind. Least, I THINK it's an actual person.
Well, you shouldn't be. Get ridda her.
"You oughta get back. This ain't a place you should be hanging around. Believe me."
Coming from Zimmy, people normally took that seriously, but it seemed to whistle straight over the blue-haired girl's head. "I wasn't going much further. I know dis place just down thataway, where you can see dis huge secret lake! I just wanted to have a look at it... hey, come with me?"
I'm doing fine. Give me a chance!
"Oh, go on then."
The blue-haired girl led the way down a corridor, around the corner, and finally through a hatch marked "Maintenance only - no unauthorised persons". They came out onto a roof, overlooking a lake Zimmy remembered for all the wrong reasons. A few stars shone overhead.
"Innit awesome?" demanded the girl.
"Hmph."
"Stuff you, then."
The kid turned her back on Zimmy in a huff - and five seconds later seemed to have forgotten the whole thing. "D'you got a name?" she asked presently.
"Huh? What kind of stupid question is that, bogface?"
Blue-hair looked genuinely confused. "I was only asking."
"Zimmy. Chester ten. What's yours?"
"We don't got names, tootle-head. Not till we's older. I'm in year nine at Foley."
Impossible to tell whether Zimmy understood what that meant or not.
"Heh! Weird. Foley must be a bunch of weirdos." (said the girl who appeared on Chester House's files as "ΞΆ".)
"You sound like Red when you talk like that. Red was in my class you know!"
"Red sounds like a name to me."
"Yes but it was an accident! hehe, she'd never have passed her exams, not in a million billion years!" Pixie-features giggled happily.
I'm still talking to an actual person. Am I imagining it? ... Nah. My head doesn't do this kinda thing. Did, I'd be laughing. Then a light came on across the lake.
"Are you all right? You's looking awful."
"It's the ether station. It's running." Zimmy scrambled to her feet.
"That what it's called? Yeah, I hate it too. Smells like thunder, don't it?"
"You don't get it." Things were crackling. "My head is fulla stuff. If this goes on, the stuff in my head is gonna get out. You don't wanna be here when that happens. Go back to your house."
Zimmy wriggled back through the hatch. To her desperation, bat-ears followed her.
"What kinda stuff?"
"You don't want to know. I got to go find my friend. Can't deal with them on my own. Just-go-AWAY."
"What are THOSE?"
Zimmy looked over her shoulder. Whitelegs. Hundreds of them.
"Too late. Idiot. Run."
And they ran, but the spiders ran as fast as she did.
The corridor was the same corridor, but it was starting to look... different. Crumbling. As if the place had been dead a long time and they were the only people left in it alive...
"This ain't real," Zimmy repeated through gritted teeth. "This ain't real. None of it ain't real."
"Stupid spiders! I'm gonna chop you up in little spider bits!" screeched the girl, shaking a fist at them. Hissing in frustration, Zimmy grabbed a fistful of her pyjamas and yanked her forward. "Just run. They're real enough to hurt you, all right. We gotta get to Gamma... oh, Gamma's gonna kill me for this... Why'd I ever come out?"
The girl stopped altogeher, and whirled round to face the crowd of whitelegs. "Hey, bugs. Lookit dis!" She raised her arms over her head and shut her eyes tightly.
A torrent of water poured down from the ceiling.
Water! Zimmy put her head down and ran straight into the waterfall. Struggling spiders were carried past her. Zimmy was choking and spluttering, trying to get her head above the -
- dripping water across the -
- bone dry.
The water had vanished. So had the spiders. "Wow wow wow!" hooted pixie-features, dancing from foot to foot.
Pixie-features had noticed her trying to see where the water had gone. "The water wasn't real, dumb-bell, I made it up."
"But it worked."
"Well, if dem spiders were goin' real and they were only in ya head, then I s'pose it makes sense." (Bat-ears evidently had her own definition of "sense".) "You was some big jabroni to come out on ya own, if that was going to happen," she added impartially.
"How was I to know they'd go and do a stupid thing like that? In the middle of the flaming night?" demanded Zimmy. Then she added more quietly, "Yeah, you're right. Lucky you were there."
"Oh, they's always doing stupid things. They's nuts."
"I gotta go."
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Post by Daedalus on Sept 20, 2015 23:11:12 GMT
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Post by wombat140 on Sept 22, 2015 13:46:20 GMT
Daedalus: thanks very much, that's encouraging! Glad you liked it!
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Does he count as a main antagonist?