I have a confession to make, y'all.
I read fan fiction.
Glee fanfic, to be precise. I actually haven't read fanfic since
Buffy, and I could sit here and analyze the hell out of why I feel that
Glee lends itself better to fanfiction than
Buffy did, and why I can't read
Doctor Who fanfic at all, but that is not the post I want to make today. (Or, actually, wanted to make yesterday, but ran out of time to do.)
Okay. So. There I was, sometime in ... 2011? ... bumming around looking at
Glee blogs, and I happened upon what was, quite possibly, the perfect storm of a story in terms of my television interests: a
Lost/Glee crossover fanfic. I mean, Arnzt is Karofsky's dad, like, for real (they're the same actor)? That was good enough for me, y'all. Deal me in for the crack.
(I remember emailing
jkason about this, actually.)
It was really good. I mean, I expected it to be fun, but it was really, really good. Like, writing-wise, but also in all sorts of little details: the tone, the characters' voices, and the
story.
Okay, so the basic premise: Sixteen years ago, the Frenchwoman had a boy, not a girl. So Ben Linus has a son named Blaine. And ten years ago, Ben took his son and left the Island; they've been running ever since. Until they came to Lima, Ohio.
We got to the end of Part 1 of the story, and the author went on hiatus to get ahead on writing Part 2 before starting to post it. Then stuff intervened, and I silently yearned to find out what the heck happened next ... but such are the vagaries of fanfic, right? And
lookninjas had plenty of back catalogue to read through, and wrote a lot of other stories that were also really good. It was cool.
Flash-forward (with attendant
Lost sound effects) to earlier this year, and I'm scrolling through my Tumblr, and the author of the
Lost/Glee crossover is thinking of writing the next chunk of it and needs beta readers, and
are you kidding?!--I totally raised my (virtual) hand! So I have spent a good portion of the past few months beta-reading the second part of this thing, and Tuesday chapter 1 of Part 2 posted, and I am incredibly excited because
I freaking love this story, all right?! And there are so many cool things coming up in it! Gah!
And I thought, well, there may be a few people on my LJ who might share my narrative kink for this sort of thing, whether it be odd crossovers or crossing over these two shows specifically. (It's set during season 2 of
Glee, for those of you who gave up on the show anytime after that. If you gave up on
Lost, I actually don't think you'll have too much trouble figuring things out--it's an alternate universe, and it's
Lost, I mean, come on, you got used to not knowing exactly what the hell is going on by the end of the third episode.)
So here are the links:
Because You Left, Part 1, the masterpost of all the chapters.
Because You Left, Part 2, Chapter 1.
So, yeah, go take a look at it, if you are so inclined.
(If you're wondering, Seldnei is me, and my Tumblr is all reblogging gif sets because I'm still not sure what I want to do over there. Really, I have an entire post's worth of thinking about my various social media sites and what the bloody hell I'm doing with them, and I ought to put that on my list of blog topics ...)