Not really an update, so not sure if this is okay, but oh, look, I’m posting on this forum again!
Anyway: Hopelessly lost has been a comfort food fic for me for almost a decade when I first discovered BGC fanfiction, its balls-to-the-wall supertech adventures in the first three parts and more personal fourth part are just unabashedly fun. Gryph has a remarkable talent for writing pseudo-SIs that are at once drawing on his own life but don’t feel like the most powerful dude in the fic entirely. He knows how to ground this character as separate from himself. Iron Age is really clever too in its blending of Marvel and Crisis.
Actually, side anecdote: I was at ACEN in liiiiike 2023, at an anime fanfic panel where PJ Moyer was at, and asked one question about AO3 and AI - and one to Moyer about if Gryph has plans to keep on writing TIA. I did not know about Gryph’s health problems. I felt like a dope.
But main point is that I just speedread Warrior’s Legacy and it’s so goddamn good, and in the same ways. That same establishment of a fast-paced, swashbuckling globetrotting tone mixed with a really solid ability to make its two protags - and the Worcester these fics often return to with a caring specificity - barely feel like self-inserts at all. The massive world of Undocumented Features is so big I fear venturing beyond the four core volumes but there’s this spirit to these three non-main stories that I keep coming back to - that I wish I knew how to write too. God Dayum.
Seriously, though. I’ve tried countless times to do a great big Unregulated Wish Fulfillment Adventure, but I get too self-conscious too fast. My massive praiseposting aside, I wish I knew how to do that sort of thing. Any thoughts?
Anyway: Hopelessly lost has been a comfort food fic for me for almost a decade when I first discovered BGC fanfiction, its balls-to-the-wall supertech adventures in the first three parts and more personal fourth part are just unabashedly fun. Gryph has a remarkable talent for writing pseudo-SIs that are at once drawing on his own life but don’t feel like the most powerful dude in the fic entirely. He knows how to ground this character as separate from himself. Iron Age is really clever too in its blending of Marvel and Crisis.
Actually, side anecdote: I was at ACEN in liiiiike 2023, at an anime fanfic panel where PJ Moyer was at, and asked one question about AO3 and AI - and one to Moyer about if Gryph has plans to keep on writing TIA. I did not know about Gryph’s health problems. I felt like a dope.
But main point is that I just speedread Warrior’s Legacy and it’s so goddamn good, and in the same ways. That same establishment of a fast-paced, swashbuckling globetrotting tone mixed with a really solid ability to make its two protags - and the Worcester these fics often return to with a caring specificity - barely feel like self-inserts at all. The massive world of Undocumented Features is so big I fear venturing beyond the four core volumes but there’s this spirit to these three non-main stories that I keep coming back to - that I wish I knew how to write too. God Dayum.
Seriously, though. I’ve tried countless times to do a great big Unregulated Wish Fulfillment Adventure, but I get too self-conscious too fast. My massive praiseposting aside, I wish I knew how to do that sort of thing. Any thoughts?