When the War is Over

by **hazel** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 11:43 am

Amusing and downright irreverent parody by A.A.Pessimal on FanFiction.Net:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5504060/1/W ... ar_is_Over

by **Clya Brown** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 9:13 pm

I enjoyed this! Especially the bit about Captains Gold and Silberman from MOSSAD and their Spectrum in-house tailoring shop, to say nothing of Boyzone Angel and her friend Westlife. He knows his canon too: I don't imagine there are all that many people out there who are familiar with the OCS captains' real names and histories. Perhaps he's one of us writing under a pseudo-pseudonym!

by **hazel** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 11:31 pm

Not me, alas. A.A.Pessimal: if you're reading this - come clean! Even if only by PM...

He's also really into Discworld. Until I looked at the other stories he's written, I was wracking my brain trying to remember where I recognised his penname from. Then the penny dropped. It's from one of Terry Pratchett's books. A fan of Scarlet AND of Discworld. This Pessimal is obviously a bloke of learning and refinement.

by **chrisbishop** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 12:13 am

I had found this a few days ago, but totally forgot to put a link here so our members would read it. Thanks for correcting that, Hazel.

Do you still have your FanFiction.net account? Maybe we can approach the author and ask him if he would like to add this splendidly irreverent story to our list?

by **hazel** » Tue Nov 24, 2009 10:40 am

Yes I do. I'll contact him.

by **Carrie** » Thu Nov 26, 2009 3:12 pm

He/she is a fan of several British Sci-fi institutions, with clever references to 'Dr Who' and 'Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'.

Witty, clever and hilarious. There is some gold amongst the dross on FanFiction.net after all.

by **AgProv (AA Pessimal)** » Fri Feb 12, 2010 9:42 pm

WhyI thank you all! I'm glad you liked it...

Also, thank you for the compliment about knowing my stuff concerning the Captain Scarlet canon. That was partly long-ago childhood memories, augmented by digging around and researching - the most excellent timeline on this site was practically all I needed to get dates, times, names right, as well as adding incidental detail. also, if you're going to do Fanfiction anything like successfully, you have to know the canon and make the known "facts" as accurate as possible - winging it simply won't do. It's a hard fact, but you have to be 100% accurate within the fictional world before branching off and making the characters do new things - but new things which are within character.

Most recently, I've been playing with Roman mythology:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbpointsofview/F15100275?thread=7230712

I think could get to like it here...

by **Carrie** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 11:16 pm

if you're going to do Fanfiction anything like successfully, you have to know the canon and make the known "facts" as accurate as possible - winging it simply won't do. It's a hard fact, but you have to be 100% accurate within the fictional world before branching off and making the characters do new things - but new things which are within character.

That is an very sensible post, Pessimal! Nicely put!