Early Exit Polls (the Remix II remix)

[sab]

First off, some fine individual remixed my Mandy vignette December 1997, aka, the 500 words I excised from the Great Unfinished Mandy Story, the one with pilates and the half-joint tucked behind a refrigerator magnet. I could not have asked for a better one of mine to remix if I'd been able to use mind-control on the author. And she does a damned good job of it, cutting back and forth from my New Year's Eve 1997 to Mandy's New Year's some years later, with all the regret and baggage and that comes along with it.

I give you Same Old Lang Syne (the Back and Forth remix) by ??? (some lovely person).

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Then, for my Memories and so forth, some of the good stuff I've come across so far.

Edited to add additional recs.

Clean (Live, Acoustic), a H:LotS sort of Kellerman/Lewis and a really elegant example of how a remix works best. The remix author took the theme of the original fic and re-crafted it to give it new punch, in a slightly different version of the same story, set the night Mikey goes back to the boat to off himself. Really marvelous, especially the last line.

Means of Expression (Go Thy Way remix) is a kickass Firefly story with Zoe both strong and fragile, and Mal and Inara, separate but equally helping keep her on her feet.

Left the Runners Behind (The Killer in Me Remix) is future-Farscape that kicks such serious ass I don't even know where to start. John is so jaded and toughened and Scorpy's just another guy on the ship and Jack is old and innocent. Really good stuff.

Lady Come Down (Amnesia Remix) is category: Humor, and also funny! It's an Enterprise story about diplomacy and first-contact procedure gone wacky, with a groping Emperor with secret arms on a planet with a "no pointing" rule. Plus, Hoshi has three husbands.

Ready or Not (the Don't Be Alarmed Now Remix) has Giles in a dream that's funny and fucked-up and frightening. Here's the Giles that remembers being Ripper and doesn't always hate himself for it, and the Giles who understands that Buffy is both fragile and tough as nails. The original story's a Buffy/Faith piece, and the remix takes advantage of the Buffy/Faith sexitude in a twisted, skilful, Giles-POVvy way. This is a bitter and whip-smart little story, fiercely written. I love it.

The Quickening (Got No Soul to Sell) purports to contain both Character Death and Character Assassination. Maybe it does, but I thought it was damned good, myself. This is a Highlander AUish futurefic, and this is the Richie I know, the Richie who plays the game to win.

A Few Things Anya Knows (the Billy Pilgrim remix) is just that, and moreso. This is Anya, AU Anya, anyway, pre- and post-"The Gift," clinging to that stupidly human concept of hope in her inimitable ex-demonesque manner. And at the end of the day, she's the one with the most hope of 'em all.

The Wizard From Outer Space (Meta Remix). Hal wrote a 100 word HP drabble where Arthur Weasley bumped into some fanboys in London. The remixer picks up in fanboy POV and tells the unabashed lovestory story of the strangest, most wonderful, most in-character wizard he's ever met.

Punk read an SV story about mutants that was, in her words "fucking awesome." I haven't read it yet, but I trust Punk when it comes to things that are fucking awesome. And so: Huitlacoche (Corn Smut), a 2nd POV story about mutants and Lex clones and sexy sex.

I will read some more stories now.

Comments

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Kismet! I just read your BJ story for the Yuletide New Year's unfulfilled requests thingy, which for some reason I hadn't come across before. Beautiful stuff, loss of innocence and all that. Poor BJ, with his perpetual smile.

[gamesiplay.livejournal.com]

Thank you! That was a rough story to write, because most of the time BJ's not much of a talker. He just sits around and smiles at me.