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I've noticed that some of our writers are posting Superman Returns fanfic here lately. I've only seen a couple, but where there are 1 or 2, there are sure to be more. Would it be possible to get another section added so those of us who want to post SR fanfic can post it without confusing those of us (like myself) who aren't expecting SR fanfic here?

I don't want anyone thinking I'm trying to stop any of our wonderful writers from writing anything their muse nudges them to write, because I'm not. I just think the movies don't have much in common with the Lois and Clark from the series that first brought us here. I'd be suggesting the same thing if Smallville fanfics were being posted here smile


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I've thought about this before, but I never said anything because I'm torn about it. I do enjoy movieverse stories - there are a few at ff.net that I am following. On the other hand, I love the contained little universe we have here, and having a section for non-L&C Superman fics might eventually turn the whole forum in a direction we don't want. So I'm completely on the fence.

If the admins do decide to create a new section, I suggest that instead of "Superman Returns", it should be "Superman in other media", like on Zoom's boards. That could cover the movieverse, Smallville, the comics, etc.


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Yeah, if they did it, I would go with just a forum for the Superman movies. Adding Smallville would be too much of a change, and somehow it doesn't really fit with LnC or the movieverse, so I think creating a forum like the Original Fanfiction forum for Superman fic from the movies would be okay with me.


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That would probably work better than just a SR section, I agree.

Now all we have to do is get someone in power to pay attention to us, right? help

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How about simply 'Other Superman'? for Superman fiction based on canon other than L&CtNAoS? Although I grant that I work pretty fast and loose at combining Comics with L&C and L&C with Movieverse and comics. dance


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Sending a PM to Labbie or one of the other admins would do it.

In fact, I'll do that.


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The moderators and admins have been reading this thread, never fear! And we've been discussing your points and the question of an Other Media forum.

Our position hasn't changed from what it was when these boards were established:

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The Lois & Clark Fanfic Message Board (MB) is specifically for fanfic about the series /Lois & Clark: the New Adventures of Superman/, starring Teri Hatcher and Dean Cain, which originally ran on ABC from 1993 to 1997. Stories about any of the characters from the show, or their associated universe, are welcome.

Fanfic about other shows, with no L&C crossover component, is not hosted here. There are other sites, e.g. FanFiction.Net, where such stories are welcome.
We didn't add a Superman in other media section when Smallville became popular, and we see no reason to do it now because there's a new movie out. There are plenty of general fanfic sites around, plus sites and LiveJournal communities, dedicated to the other-media incarnations of Superman.

As the title of the boards suggests, we're the Lois and Clark Fanfic MBs, and so we'll stay smile

Here ends this public information bulletin. wink Thank you for listening!

ETA: Anyone is welcome to use the OT forum to post a link to fic they've written about other-media Superman, as some have already done with their Smallville fic.


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Well as one that routinely gets all my suggestions shot down by the powers that be it’s not that surprising that they stay consistently conservative. laugh
Anyway, I think it’s bad idea to broaden the scope. L&C is a dead series with a unique take on the superman mythos, adding the more popular ones would likely dilute and swallow its identity in the long run.

Dandello, I’m just curious, why do you want to post SR fanfiction on an L&C board? There seems to be a legion of fanfic sites dedicated SR and I assume a much greater interest?

BTW Wendy, I have a suggestion wink , the general L&C board is pretty much just games, I think it would better to turn into a board for everything superman related.(You know those subject that turns up in off topic forum now) because interesting discussions tend to stray over the entire spectrum and it’s seems unnecessary, to me, to have a moderator step in when it not directly L&C related. Of course in practice it likely wouldn’t make much difference, but perhaps the board could get a little more traffic.


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Oh, I wouldn't say that we're conservative, Arawn. goofy But we do have to take into account the views of the majority of our members here. And, rest assured, the moderators and admins have discussed both suggestions made on this thread very thoroughly.

When these boards were established, the members decided very clearly that we wanted these MBs to focus exclusively on Lois and Clark: TNAOS. There are plenty of fora out there for discussing Superman in other media: the comics, the Chris Reeve movies, Smallville, the new Brandon Routh movie franchise. In the years since the boards were set up, we haven't seen any reason to change this decision - and nor, to be honest, has there been any real clamour from members to broaden the scope of the boards. On the contrary: what members tell us is that they like the focus on Lois and Clark, and not having to wade through fic and discussions encompassing other-media versions of Superman.

Which brings me back to fic: crossovers between L&C and other-media Superman are fine, but there must be something that very clearly identifies the fic as being set within our Lois and Clark universe. For example, a fic a few years ago called Just One Bad Day Away had a Clark who was very clearly from the comics universe, and comics villains were present, but Lois, Perry and Henderson, as well as some other characters, were obviously from our L&C universe. So we would ask that members be aware of these criteria and observe them when posting their fanfic.

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Dandello, I’m just curious, why do you want to post SR fanfiction on an L&C board? There seems to be a legion of fanfic sites dedicated SR and I assume a much greater interest?

BTW Wendy, I have a suggestion wink , the general L&C board is pretty much just games, I think it would better to turn into a board for everything superman related.(You know those subject that turns up in off topic forum now) because interesting discussions tend to stray over the entire spectrum and it’s seems unnecessary, to me, to have a moderator step in when it not directly L&C related. Of course in practice it likely wouldn’t make much difference, but perhaps the board could get a little more traffic.
First, I find the L&C universe so absolutely rich in characters and characterization that I find it impossible not to add major L&C elements into the SR setting. I find the response on the general SR writing boards to be on the order of 'oh I like it - when's the next section coming, did you hear what Brandon Routh did to Imp? Oh, where is New Troy...'

Second - I really appreciate the professionalism of the writing here. Believe me 'I cant bare to se it reigning' gets awfully tiring. This has to be to most polished writing board out there in any genre. And this is BEFORE it gets to the GEs.

That said, I'll try to behave myself. blush


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Ironically, I think I side with the fandom's narrow focus at the moment. That may be part of what's keeping the goods here at such a high quality.

Consider: If you go to a dedicated, un-diluted Trek site, you can expect to find fans who are well versed in science and pseudo-science.

If you go to a fandom based on a videogame, you find kids and H4ck3rs. wink

Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman was aimed at adults, and especially women. The result is fans who come knowing to expect maturity and sensitivity on some levels, and the fact that they stay demonstrates that they're okay with that.

IMHO. *g*

Perhaps what we should do is colonize the internet....

We can load a server with memory and goods, and sail out for some small corner of wild, untamed cyberspace where we can set up an SR-only fandom, or a Smallville only fandom. Any natives already present can easily be converted or mowed down, of course, and we shall harvest many exotic fics very cheaply! Aside from the many wonderful new fics we import, we can also impose a tarriff on FoLCs in the other fandom, to help support LCFicMbs.

This may eventually cause ill feelings, of course, which left unchecked could result in a major dumping of files out of spite, and then an all-out flame war with the other fandom eventually petitioning fans of some French show for an alliance. The end result would be a complete break, with the SR/Smallville fandom writing its own new rules and ellecting its own moderator. This shocking turn of events would of course inspire members of other fandoms (Buffy, StarTrek, Monk..,) to join them, and so they'd place on their home page a little figure of a woman holding a laptop, bearing the inscription
"Give me your carpal-tunnelled, your N00bs, your huddled shippers yearning to type free..."
And things might be rocky for a while, but then we would eventually be on friendly terms again.
Except they would be somewhat obnoxious, and have little-to-no sense of culture.

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There's that wonderful sense of humor. Mary, you truly crack me up. How about sending some fandoms to finishing school, as in finish your thoughts and sentences.


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lol Woody, Mary, the two of you should write stories together. Especially your dialogues would be interesting to read, I guess.


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If only I could keep up with her wit...


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There does seem to be support for that position. The checkmated site that is dedicated to Ron/Hermione Harry Potter stories and has required betas achieves a overall high level of quality also.

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Look, I agree with the GE's
This is an L&C dedicated site, and should stay that way...

It is the characterisation within L&C that separates it from the movies so distinctly, and generally the authors on this site manage to maintain these beautiful characters 99%, often with improvements...


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I think this is my first post ever to these boards, but I have been reading the L&C archive obsessively for the last several months, and now that I have mostly run out of stories there, I am reading those in progress here. This is the first category of fanfic I have ever bothered to read, all due to the high quality of the writing here. (Higher than the quality of the actual show.)

The tone of this thread has seemed almost anti-crossover, so I had to chime in. Although I am firmly a L&C fan, I am really enjoying Dandello's SR crossover stories, and several of the other crossover stories I have read lately. I also appreciate my favorite authors including links to their other work on other boards. So if you like to write crossovers, please don't be discouraged from posting them here. You have to help me feed my addiction! Thank you for all those that have been posted so far. clap

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As a self-admitted offender - The issue is not cross-overs per se, but stories that do not have the primary characters (and primary emphasis of the story line) being closely related to the L&C TV universe. This is the LnCtNAoS board, after all.
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The tone of this thread has seemed almost anti-crossover,
I'm really not sure how you've come to this conclusion after reading the thread. The subject isn't crossovers - it's stories using characters from other Superman incarnations which have zero LNC content. These are not allowed on this forum because we are here purely for LNC fanfic.

There is absolutely no problem with crossovers, however - so long as LNC is one of the elements of the story - and there is no aversion to crossovers among the forum's members that I'm aware of.

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Oh, I wouldn't say that we're conservative, Arawn.
I would. Before you changed the member titles I didn’t think anything actually could change. Still, think copyboy and gossip columnist should have been titles. laugh

Dandello thank you for explaining. I find fanfic a fascinating phenomena and the fact that people can create such extraordinary work in their spare time amaze and humble me. And finding people that share your own appreciation for things aren’t easy.

Personally, I’m a rabid L&C fanatic.(I even prefer Cain’s Superman portrayal. laugh ) I read some superman comics as a kid but he never really got my interest. He was just all powerful and good and no explanation to why was really forthcoming, not even him being a product of a superior civilization, since plenty of kryptonians are self serving as well .
L&C and it’s fanfic community changed this. (I guess Byrne had a part in this too, but I didn’t know it then).
This earnest guy that really struggles with his gifts and hungers to immerse himself into humanity to slake the emptiness of a life domineered by godlike power. And Lois, that pretty much become the incarnation of this desire, just clicked for me.

But I also like the L&C Superman because, while he has feelings and emotions he doesn’t go emo, which is extremely popular in current Superhero culture. And Superman gravitates towards this as you can see in both Smallville and SR(and in those fics that builds on them.)
The thing is though, that this brooding angst doesn’t fit so well with the lawful goodness and selflessness that is Superman’s hallmark IMO. Superman never gives up, is always in control, meets the world with a smile and takes responsibility for everything. He is always ready to listen and help others but never allows the world to see his concerns. He only shares his fears with his parents, and later, very much later, with Lois. (this is one reason I love “when friends become lovers” Here Lois realizes that Clark lives in a world of his own despite seeming so accessible. He doesn’t comes to her and cries, she has to coax it out of him.)

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There is absolutely no problem with crossovers, however - so long as LNC is one of the elements of the story - and there is no aversion to crossovers among the forum's members that I'm aware of.
I very rarely read cross-overs and even less often enjoy them, so perhaps that qualifies as an aversion. But that’s my preference and I would never want to impose it on someone else, or stop people from writing what they want.
(I seldom care to read alt-world stories either.)
I think cross-pollination is good, because it expand boundaries, and many of those that break the mold tends to be better written then those that just do go through the undiluted L&C concept for the umpteenth time.
But that it’s wellwritten, doesn’t necessarily mean that I will enjoy it. laugh


One thing I prefer with crossover writers is that they tend to take superman more seriously, they give depths to that character while for many, if not most, pure L&C writers he is little more then window-dressing, the latter turns me off.
If there is one crossover I’d like to see is that with the animated series. It managed to incorporate the Byrne mythos in a more classic mold, still leaving him feeling real to me. The thing is making Brainiac believable.


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arwan, you just about perfectly captured my love of L&C, which is also due to Cain's portrayal of Supes in comparison to any of his predecessors and even those who came after him (SR and smallville)

I never actually saw SR because it was based on the Reeves version of SM, which I saw as too frigid...

and I guess this is the main reason I do not like SR-based fic on these boards. I find it harder to relate to Clark, as his character in Reeves' films is so different to Cain's


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I must say I have an aversion to cross-over stories. I find in this series and other fanfic series I've read that the cross-over characters are to important to the story. If it is based on a show you don't watch then the story has very little meaning for you. At least for me.

Although I saw the Chris R movies when they came out and have all the tapes I am not really a fan after seeing LnC. I always thought the Margot Kidder was miscast. Even though I always believed that Lois was a strong female, take no prisoners character I also felt she should be attractive and feminine. She also should have a vulnerable side. None of which I saw in Margo Kidder as Lois. And don't get me started on

Chris R. as Clark. I know it was the writing and not his idea of how to play the character but a bigger clumsy dork I've never seen. I understand that Clark doesn't want to seem strong and capable as Superman but they took the dork to far in the movies. Even SR. To have someone who looked so buff and ATHLETIC being so clumsy and dorky as in the movies doesn't work. To me it called more attention to Clark than he should want. I would find myself watching to try and figure what the act was for. Not Good for Clark.

LnC and Dean's take was of a regular guy who could get distracted and bump into a desk because he wasn't paying attention, and maybe even a little cowardly because he thought one should be careful. Dean's Clark was more "Regular Joe" who was kind of laid back and maybe a little distracted at times. For me it was a more believable and desirable Clark. The Clark from the movies just wouldn't really attract Lois at all.

Of course this is all just my opinion basic on what works for me in the Clark/Superman mythos or world.

Oh I don't mind the Altnerate Universe stories based on LnC but I especially like them when they include both sets of Lois and Clark.

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Putting my two cents in...

I'd give my right arm to have a Smallville forum as awesome as this one. I've looked high and low for good quality Smallville fanfic and have found next to nothing out there. I've always thought that it would be great to have a Smallville community like this one.

So, as much as I wish to find some good Smallville fic to read, I have to agree that adding Superman in other media probably wouldn't be the best thing to do.

Now, if only someone would start up a fandom like this one for Smallville...

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Putting my 2 cents worth in, too - I like things like they are. I do enjoy reading crossovers at times, but I don't want to see strictly Smallville or SR stories here.


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There's only one cure for poor quality Smallville fic/forums.....


even though I myself am not a huge fan of S'Vle,
just because I have never had the time to watch it mainly, more than anything else...

but as I said, even though I am not a fan, does not mean you are not alone (and I would put money on there being plenty of other wannabe writers who would also love to have a quality SVLE fanfic site...)


the problem is, as I and the board moderators feel, that this is an L&C fandom, and not superman in general. even Alt-Universe is sort of relevant and L&C related, because it was actually from the show itself... by writing what-if stories using character basis' from L&C, despite enormous consequences in whatever universes, the characters do not change, while if you took any other Lois/Clark characterisation (or even Lana from SMVLLE as opposed to L&C's Lana) it is questionable as to whether or not it is L&C...
(though I speak more from reading the above posts than actually asking them myself),


as for cross-overs, I see no harm, so long as the authors do not take to much for granted in their use of these add-ins
I have found that some are better than others in this respect, there are especially some really good spider-man/bat-man one's out there, but some x-overs are a bit obscure... maybe I am being harsh, but as I have never seen a Buffy, Sliders, Star-gate...etc., I found a few of these hard to digest... and I think maybe if the writers took more care in presenting the back-ground histories, and some background to the characters/situations that we are presented with, well maybe it would be a little better

Please, do not take offence at any of the above diatribe into x-overs, I mean no disrespect, and have actually found a couple of Buffy ones out there that are fantastic in their character histories, however in general if I see a x-over I do not read them, as sometimes when the plot itself is too involved with stories from the other show it can get a little confusing, in particular Sliders, and Buffy ones

I think some of the best x-overs out there are X-file ones, they have been great with providing background especially if dealing with Moulder+ Scully's complex relationship issues (I was a fan many years ago, but not as much as I loved L&C)


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Well, I'm really enjoying the crossovers that have been posted recently both with Buffy, Highlander and SR. I guess I have trouble seeing how a L&C/Smallville crossover would work at all unless it involved time travel.
I should point out that I've been enjoying Dandello's stories with the SR Lois and Clark, but the supporting characters of L&C:TNAOS such as Henderson, the Church's and Annoying Ralph. By my own definition, I consider that a crossover. However, if I have to go elsewhere to read them, I will.
And, like others, I enjoy the mature writing and correct English in evidence here.
So I vote for the status quo.
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I went on about cross-overs and I find I must adjust what I said. I was a beta-reader for a Batman crossover. I find the cross-overs from Batman, Spiderman and The Flash fun to read. That is because I'm familiar with the "guest" characters. When you get into Buffy etc. I never watched those shows so I know nothing about them. As a result the stories do nothing for me or are just confusing. So I skip them.

So I guess on these boards I feel that LnC should be the main focus of the stories with "guest stars". It should not be the other characters with "Lois, Clark et al." being the "guest stars". After all this is an LnC site.

So since I can't write stories I do give my praise to all those that can and do whatever you write. clap

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It should not be the other characters with "Lois, Clark et al." being the "guest stars". After all this is an LnC site.
But that would leave out all the great potential of 'Stranger in a Strange Land' stories - Where Lois and Clark are elsewhere or elsewhen and have to figure things out using their native skills while bantering all the way home. goofy


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I guess I have trouble seeing how a L&C/Smallville crossover would work at all unless it involved time travel.
I can agree with your point but travel to an altVerse where things happen at a different time works well for me.

I don't see why People are troubled by the Smallville L&C not looking like Dean & Teri's L&C. Just assume that they DO look alike. Compare the Star Trek:TOS characters with the same characters at
New Voyages

I'd live to see a story where some of L&C kids end up in Smallville at the end of 4th season when Lois when to prom as Clark's date.

I can just picture some of the kids from Nan\'s stories looking at a copy of the torch with Lois & Clark on the cover.


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So I guess on these boards I feel that LnC should be the main focus of the stories with "guest stars". It should not be the other characters with "Lois, Clark et al." being the "guest stars". After all this is an LnC site.
Actually, the opposite is true. It somewhat depends on who's included in that et al. A story which featured only Cat, for example, would certainly be within the forum's remit. We've had vignettes where the sole character involved was Clark's coffee mug laugh and we certainly consider that to be an LNC fanfic. A quirky one, but one all the same. Stories told from Perry's POV, from Luthor's, from Tempus's...stories about Martha and Jonathan, from one of LNC's children in the future...all of these are LNC fanfic as far as this forum is concerned. And Lois and Clark barely feature or don't feature at all in many of them.

We've had stories told from the pov of an author's original character - a new villain for example - and those are LNC fanfic, too, so long as they're set in the recognisable world of LNC:TNAOS.

We accept fanfic based on the TV series and characters of LNC: TNAOS. That's including all characters, not just LNC. We're not solely a site for fanfic about Lois and Clark of LNC:TNAOS only.

So it's not at all necessary for fanfic posted here to include Lois and Clark at all. They could be entirely absent and it would still be a LNC:TNAOS fanfic if it adhered to the rules above.


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I don't see why People are troubled by the Smallville L&C not looking like Dean & Teri's L&C. Just assume that they DO look alike.
Sorry if I missed it, but who said that was the problem? If we can deal with two different Jimmys in the same series, I think we can handle different actors playing the same roles on different series.

Personally, my main problem with Smallville is that I can't imagine the Clark Kent I saw on that show (the eps I did see, anyway, and reviews I've seen of other eps written by various people) ever growing up to be Superman, the paragon of virtue we know and love. He doesn't have the morality or the conviction. His father isn't going to help with that, either. And his mother seems to spend most her her time offscreen, probably tilling the kryptonite in the back yard or dealing with giant mutated kryptonite-powered carnivorous plants who insist on being called "Seymour."

Still, a crossover would be doable. I'd just want to see the author treat Smallville as some kind of strange alternate universe. Maybe one where Clark Kent is on the path to becoming Ultraman ...

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The thing about cross-overs, I think, is that they're very difficult to do well. Fanfic is full of insider references -- we can mention "the pheremone incident" or Nightfall, and everybody here knows what that means, but non-fans are likely to be confused. So one has to try to do a back-story that's comprehensive enough to help newbies figure out what's going on, while not being a boring re-hash for the established fans. And in a cross-over, you've got that problem doubled, especially the more detailed and complex the respective universes are.

Back before I became a Stargate fan, I happened to catch an episode that dealt with strong tensions between the Tok'ra and the Jaffa, with the Tauri thrown in the middle. See, the Jaffa are the ones with things on their foreheads, except for the guy who's part of the group from Earth, and the guys wearing boring brown are the *other* kind of alien, only one of the characters from Earth calls one of the aliens "Dad"... Huh????? eek Once I caught up with all the eps on DVD it made perfect sense, but at first glance it was mystifying.

So, um, it's hard to write for two difference audiences at once. It can be done, and of course there's often overlap, with people familiar with both sides, but it's just tricky.

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Oooh! Oooh! Thanks for the reminder, Pam - I get to use my [Linked Image] . (I never get tired of that. laugh )

I agree that crossovers can be difficult to pull off successfully. As a genre, it's never been my personal favourite, simply because over the years I've read very few that seemed to me to be equally balanced between the universes they used. They were always heavy on Star Trek and light on Buffy or whatever.

That said, I've read some very good ones and I certainly wouldn't pass on reading a story just because it was a crossover. When they do work, they can be very well done.

And when you succeed in producing a beautiful story which makes sense even to the reader not conversant with one or more of the universes you're exploring, and which avoids those knowledge problems which Pam points out (LOL!) that's rarer still. I've only really found that once with Becky Bain's LNC/Beauty & The Beast crossover, Timeless which remains, for me, one of the best and ultimately most satisfying examples of the genre that I've yet read.

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Cute Graemlin, LabRat. Yes, I agree crossovers are hard to do, especially with non similar series (i.e. Buffy & LnC). I think that's why I'm enjoying Dandello's stories so much, because SR and LnC are really similar universes and the melding seems very smooth. I like LnC villians mixing it up with 2 pairs of Clark/Lois!
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How about simply 'Other Superman'? for Superman fiction based on canon other than L&CtNAoS? Although I grant that I work pretty fast and loose at combining Comics with L&C and L&C with Movieverse and comics.
I can't help but agree with that idea.

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Well, I can understand that, but please explain one little thing to me: Why is there an 'Original Fiction' folder? There are still general fanfic sites around.

What I want to say here is simply this: You made an exception for 'Original Fiction'. So why is it so hard to make one for 'Other Superman Related Fiction'? That way, anybody not interested in a Superman from other media doesn't even 'accidentally' stumble upon fics that (s)he doesn't want to read. It seems like you're applying double standards here. But that's just my humble opinion.

And if you don't advertise the fact that there is something but LnC on this board, you don't have to worry about an instream of people from other fandoms, I'd say.


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Well, I can understand that, but please explain one little thing to me: Why is there an 'Original Fiction' folder? There are still general fanfic sites around.
Because Original Fiction is just that: fiction not based on any fandom at all. All original characters, original worlds, original ideas (if there any left in the world). Sure, there are general fiction sites on the 'net, but most fiction sites are based on one (or more) fandoms.

Original Fiction was created as an outlet for writers to showcase original work. We've had a few published authors come out of the fandom, and it's a nice and encouraging place for other authors to hone their work.


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I am one of those who use the Original Fiction folder. My characters, and the settings, and, of course, the stories themselves, are original to my sister and me. We didn't base them on any fandom or anything else.

I, for one, appreciate greatly the Original Fiction folder, and also appreciate the generosity of the owners of this website for giving me the chance to showcase the series that my sister, Linda, and I wrote. I don't think that should have any bearing on whether this site hosts an "Other Superman" folder or not. The Original Fiction folder has been here just about since the site was started.

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Don't get me wrong, I didn't want to say that the Original Fiction folder should be deleted - far from it! But if there could be one exception... wink


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But if there could be one exception... [Wink]
I think where there's a difference of opinion here is that we don't see it as an exception, Olympe. We see it as a completely separate section from fanfic. In much the same way as FoLC Productions is a separate section to the fanfic.

As Karen has pointed out - there aren't that many websites out there which will host original fiction. Fanfic, you betcha. But not original stories. At least, that was the case when we set up the mbs and that was why we wanted to have a section for it. To encourage authors who wanted to showcase their original characters and ideas, not based on any fanfic, and to give them a place to do that, since there wasn't much out there to accommodate them.

Imo, that's not at all the same thing as a new section for another fanfic genre. We aren't set up to cater for other fanfic genres. Just one. LNC. We're happy with that, and we see no reason to start including others. Not least because there are plenty of other websites out there which will cater to those fanfic genres. It's not as though if you can't post them here, you can't post them anywhere. With Original Fiction though, you can just about say that. If it's not here...there aren't a lot of options elsewhere, that we're aware of.

So we have all the fanfic we need or want with LNC. And a separate section for original fiction to help out our talented authors, who otherwise might not get the chance to showcase their original imaginations.

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I'm not the one who makes decisions like that, Olympe. When this new message board was established, they put in the Original Fic folder.

There is only so much room on this board and it *is* a Lois and Clark board, after all, not a general Superman board. There are plenty of Superman Returns fanfiction boards, and plenty of Chris Reeve Superman boards around. There may, for all I know, be fanfiction boards for the George Reeves version.

I, for one, see nothing wrong with L&C/Superman Returns crossovers, or crossovers of any kind if someone wants to write them. I'm probably not going to make myself very popular saying this, but I don't want to see the board diluted with other versions of Superman. No one is stopping anyone from visiting Smallville or SR fanfiction boards, but I doubt they'll be able to convince the owners of those other boards to add L&C.

If anyone is counting votes, mine is to keep things as they are.

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PS: I see that Labrat got her reply in while I was running back and forth and trying to write this while doing a dozen other things.

Don't think I didn't like SR and some of the other Supermen down the years, but this one caught my interest like none of the others ever have. I'm glad that the board administrators see things the way they do.


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There are plenty of Superman Returns fanfiction boards, and plenty of Chris Reeve Superman boards around.
Anyone care to post some links?


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Fanfiction.net seems the most obvious choice if you want stories based on any of the other Superman versions. I think you'll find most of them there.


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Yes it's been awhile since anybody's posted to this thread BUT: I have a Superman Movieverse fanfiction forum in the beginning stages at

Big Apricot Fanfiction Forum

The two links list just above, metropolisfic and Blue Tights huh - well I've tried contacting the owners of the Metropolisfic.com to find out where the site has gone and haven't heard anything. (It's been over a week.) And Blue Tights is - well is TDK out now and I'm already tired of the Batboy fans and you don't want to hear my rant about spam and such. Let's just say it's very annoying to see a reply on your story thread only to find it's somebody replying to a comment somebody else made that's not related to the story at all.

Hope to see some people who were looking for a place to chat about their non-L&C Superman stuff.


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Yes it's been awhile since anybody's posted to this thread BUT: I have a Superman Movieverse fanfiction forum in the beginning stages at

Big Apricot Fanfiction Forum

The two links list just above, metropolisfic and Blue Tights huh - well I've tried contacting the owners of the Metropolisfic.com to find out where the site has gone and haven't heard anything. (It's been over a week.) And Blue Tights is - well is TDK out now and I'm already tired of the Batboy fans and you don't want to hear my rant about spam and such. Let's just say it's very annoying to see a reply on your story thread only to find it's somebody replying to a comment somebody else made that's not related to the story at [b]all
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Hope to see some people who were looking for a place to chat about their non-L&C Superman stuff. [/b]


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