Gud Summries phor Phriday!

[stoney321]

This concept was originated by mctabby for the Harry Potter Fandom, which is STILL kicking Jossverse's ass with the wank and weirdness, which shames me. WE SHOULD BE WANKIER! I mean, it's not like there isn't magic in BtVS and AtS - one of the main things to get the crazy juices flowing. *sighs*

General Disclaimer (although, as I'm a Mean Girl who Doesn't Love Everything Produced in the Name of Fandom, I should skip this part. But I won't. Because I am an ENIGMA.):
This is a compilation of terrifically entertaining summaries from various fanfiction websites. This is NOT about mocking authors, and I don't condone name calling. I have not read the fics in question, they could be works of art. Ahem. This is about coming across a story and how the author tries to entice you to read it. Or scroll by quickly. Summaries should MAKE YOU WANT TO READ. Okay, some of these TOTALLY make me want to read, but probably not in the way the author intended. All italics are my commentary.

Previous Gud Summries can be found here: 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5

• Warning: MarySue AU


• Buffy learns how to NOT be bitchy


• A little poem I wrote for British literature class as part of a class project to create our own individual Canterbury Tales, set at a McDonald's birthday party.


• Spoilers for like... the season premiere. I think.


• I have changed this stroy a bit. I hope you like this new verison... (it's subtle... but it pleases me.)


• Buffy has suspicions!


• Buffy is married to Riley who is an abusive husband. Spike finds out and helps her out. COMPLEAT now with a 100% less errors!


• PERMANENT WIP


• It's very very sad!!!


• I become Buffy. What happened to the real Buffy? A story of redemption. My redemption.


• DON'T GO AWAY! It has a plot now!


• Buffy's pregnant who's the father?


• no punctuation but easy to follow


• Spike's alone with his thoughts. Genre: Romance (told you he had chemistry with anything.)


• Sometimes Humpty Dumpty isn't an egg at all it could be a person, or an animal, or something.


• actually i am making stuff up as i go along


• Jason Vorhees is sent on a mission to Sunnydale as he's the messenger from hell. As Buffy has to stop him ,teaming up with michael myers. Rated PG-13 for violence seawring.


• buffy's a skater, Angel's a skater and Riley turned into a dip despite my best efforts to the contrary.


• Xander develops allergies.


• On August the 23, in the Year of Our Lord 1339, the crown prince of Loria was born. Born not as a child, but as a man, he led the Knights of the White against the demon Hoarde, and vanguished them on the fields of Moridian. (Xander fic)


• Spike tries to honor 911


• Just small stories about stupid every day stuff with Xander doing them


• Spike will have a happy ending in another version


• stuff ensues (I love this because "wackiness/hilarity ensues was evidently the description du jour in 2002 for EVERY fic.)


• uuh, dru makes a bunch of rats into vamps


• rated for descriptive content


• Angels gets cozy with Xander's feet and ankles


• Buffy dies... and my friend Vicki becomes the New Slayer


• Dawn wants the oblivion (I love how zen this is - ommm)


• The whiney bitca gets slapped down, Spike returns and someone who *thinks* she's on acid turns up


• Riley finally gets a clue


• an exploration in random drama


• am I the only girl in the world who found pink Spike sexy? i think i am!!


• it's easy to tell with some people (again: ommmmm)


• Oz brakes up with Willow and someone notices


• Pretty much Spike and Buffy have some pain and some strife


• Xander finds out where all the toilet paper went


• AU - Buffy summers had worked hard to reach the top of the Worthington Pharmaceutical - until a corporate merger turned her ordered world upside down, To make matters worse the merging companies hired a savvy consulvant, Willian Ediston to smooth out things.


• Spike muses about butterflies.


• A song fic. Buffy dies. Angel's with her. It's sad.


• Buffy thinks.


• After the brutal murder of his parents, Alexander Harris has prepared his whole life to avenge them. The arrival of the Slayer and grinning terror will be his first, and perhaps last test as The Batman.

And now!! I've been threatening to do this since December... It's time to have a FUN FICATHON! The "Gud Summries" ficathon.

WHAT: pick a gud summrie from one of the posts. Write your version of the story, based on the gud summrie as presented.
WHEN: Sign ups are April 7 - April 20. Fics will be DUE: July 4. Plenty of time to get one done!
WHY: because we need to have fun around here, dammit!
RULES: No person bashing (as in, other authors). No word limit, any genre or style is acceptable, the world's your oyster!
HOW: Comment to this post with your LJ Name, the gud summrie you've selected, and the style you wish to write it in (humor, parody, angst, tentacles...)

WHEEEEE! Let's have some fun!

[ETA]: Let's add the addition of FANART - fully realizing the gud summrie, of course, or FanVids - again, expressing through song and/or interpretive dance the deep meaning of the summrie. Um... these really should be parodies. You get that, right? Sure you do. HUMOR! makes the world go round. IT IS NOT GRAVITY OR MAGNETIC FORCES. Your teacher lied to you.

Comments

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

I am laughing helplessly here. Oh, my, oh, my.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

HA! *pokes you to sign up* You KNOW you want to write a drabble about Xander having allergies.

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

Buffy dies... and my friend Vicki becomes the New Slayer
*

I am so very much not going to do this ficathon, but I have an old acquaintance named Vicki who, with her identically dressed {daughter/half-sister or perhaps niece} haunts my life. My husband calls them Patti and Selma, which has made it impossible to see them without laughing hysterically.

Julia, one of those circmstances which means I'll never write a memoire to be published in my lifetime

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

...

But! You could take the "Mary Sue AU" one and go to TOWN!

[sweptawaybayou.livejournal.com]

*rolls around*

And this? Is why I do NOT do summries. Evah.

But for you ... anything.

My choice: Spike loves the Slayer, Agle's back to claim her, Riley just adimmted to his love

And it will be angst. Oh yes. Anytime Agle's around and Riley is adimmteding and Spike is loving ... it will be a sad, sad thing.

:)

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

YES!!!!!!!!!

Awesome. you have the honor of being the FIRST TO SIGN UP. You, my dear, ROCK. Oh! I need to be official, too!

*posts*

[sdwolfpup.livejournal.com]

I don't believe these are real!

*disbelieves*

A story of redemption. My redemption.

Best summary ever. EVER.

*is crying from laughing so hard*

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

DUDE. I just stared at the screen with that one. I love how HONEST it is. MY redemption. This is the GREATEST MARY SUE FIC EVAH.

*pokes you to sign - or make a vid mocking it all*

Signing up Officially!

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

* stoney321 zomg, dun forget it.
* After the brutal murder of his parents, Alexander Harris has prepared his whole life to avenge them. The arrival of the Slayer and grinning terror will be his first, and perhaps last test as The Batman
* cutting/emo fic. Hahahaha!!

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Dude, ewe r lame.

No cuttings, that isn't funny. My friend totally almost died when she used her Gilette razr on her ankel. Her boyrfriend tolalty dumped her because of her scars? And those wires over the blades fucked it up so she didn't die. Her mom wuz pissed.

Life's hard.

[crazydiamondsue.livejournal.com]

If I do one, it'll be this one:

buffy's a skater, Angel's a skater and Riley turned into a dip despite my best efforts to the contrary.

More words to come on that.

However this: Spike tries to honor 911 - has got to be the best thing I've ever read in this fandom. EVER.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

HEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

oh GOD I howled at 911. Oh, the difference a "slash" makes. I can just see Spike, a fresh kill at his feet, a phone in his hand.

Camera cuts to a clock ticking. To Spike, looking intently at the phone. To the body, seeping blood on the floor. To the clock. To the phone...

EXTREME CLOSE-UP of his finger hovering over the 9. Then EXTREME close-up of a bead of sweat running down Spike's face...

Finally, the "EEH EEH EEH EEH" of the phone left off the hook too long.

THE END.

[marlo.livejournal.com]

I kind of love the Dru vamping the rats one, but I will not commit to it yet, so if someone else wants to do it, I'm down with that.

I love that someone noticed that Oz broke up with Willow. And Spike honouring 911. WHAT THE FUCK.

Angels gets cozy with Xander's feet and ankles AHAHHAHAHAAHHAHAHA It sounds so damn CUTE!

I am still laughing. I love you.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

LOVE YOU!!! And the 911 fic has been summed up juuust above this post. DUDE. I love it.

(Oooh, I hope you commit!! I'd love to read one of yours.)

[midnightsjane.livejournal.com]

Oh, please, all you writer types, DO THIS!
We readers need some fun too!
OMG. Are these for real? You didn't make them up did you? Fanfic can be a very strange world.
*chortle*

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

I do not make up ANY of these. Nor anything in the bad!(great)fic posts, either. All c&p'd from the original. Which gives me endless joy.

*pokes you* Sign up! This is a FUN ficathon. Come on!

[southernbangel.livejournal.com]

*dies of laughter* Oh good LORD. This one? actually i am making stuff up as i go along *dies again*

I'm so in. I would like:

Buffy learns how to NOT be bitchy. (humor)

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

AWESOME!! Done!

(heeeeee!!)

[pernickety.livejournal.com]

PERMANENT WIP Sisyphus/rock = OTP!!!1!

Spike muses about butterflies. Bzuh? Hum? Bah? Haha!

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

EVERY SERIAL KILLER I'VE KNOWN muses about butterflies. It's how they learn which person to get next.

Heh. (Sisyphus/Rock - HOLY SHIT that's hilarious!!)

[elisi]

So, so, so wonderful... and I'm *thisclose* to signing up. Give me some time to choose!

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Plenty of time! And there will be reminders over the next two weeks - feel free to pimp, if you know someone that can do one of them justice!

[wolfshark]

*Dies*

I couldn't bring myself to sign up, but I have to thank you for doing this. They're just so painful that they hurt in a good way! (Or should that be gud weigh?)

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Oh noes! but.. but... but... Not until JULY! *criez*

Although making people laugh and have good days is also a gud theeng.

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

You are evil. Eeeeeeevil. Cause now I've got about half a dozen snarky drabbles fighting for dominance, and I don't have time for ficathons. (Are you listening, sarcastic plot bunnies?)

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

Spike will have a happy ending in another version

Already wrote this. It's called "Glimpses" (yes, it has an actual alternate ending with 100% more added sex! ::snort::)

[othercat.livejournal.com]

*checks to make sure that not of the summaries are for stories she wrote*

Whee! These are scary.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

I'd say almost all of these were by people I've never heard of, AND they all date before 2002, so...

It's all good. And I KNOW! They are hilarious!

[shannon730.livejournal.com]

I so don't need something else to do but...

I'll do Just small stories about stupid every day stuff with Xander doing them

and it'll be humor or at the very least total fluff. :)

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

hooray!! Aw, come on. Nothing's due until JULY and these don't have to be perfect! They just haf 2 bee bettre than thu summreis!

[emma-daisy.livejournal.com]

Riley finally gets a clue

Mrs Peacock! In the library! With the candle stick!

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

HEEEEEEEEEE!!

(Don't even act like you don't have five ideas already.)

[crayonbreakygal.livejournal.com]

MarySue AU. Permanent WIP. Well, at least I've never done the first one. The second one? Pleading the fifth.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

HA! Oh, how I love "Mary Sue AU." THANK YOU for the heads up. Hee hee!

[lostakasha.livejournal.com]

Add me to the list.

this is from a past Gud Summries post:

Everyone commits suicide.

Genre: Humor, with a soupcon of angst....and felching.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

AWESOME!!!

And oh dear god.

[st_salieri.livejournal.com]

Ooh ooh! Can I join in? These are so deliciously awesome.

Buffy's pregnant who's the father?

Humor, parody, perhaps some tentacles.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

but of course! And feel free to spread the word!

WE CAN ALWAYS USE MORE TENTACLES.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

Spike tries to honor 911

It's 1990. Spike makes the mistake of feasting off an extremely stoned audience member at a Public Enemy concert. The drugs somehow cause him to reconnect with his inner Victorian-era Tory...

Resulting, in perhaps, one of the worst rap battles in history, wherein Spike rebuts Flavor Flav's performance of "911 is a Joke" with the unfortate "I Must Say, 911 is Very Much Not a Joke, I'll have you know".

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

HOLY SHIT DAVE WRITE THAT SUMMBITCH!!!

"No, now, get up - wait.

G-get down. 911 is most humorous in your village."

[nicole-anell.livejournal.com]

I become Buffy. What happened to the real Buffy? A story of redemption. My redemption.
Oh god... tears of laughter...

I have to make icons. I have to make icons NOW.

(Also I think I might sign up for the ficathon, but I can't choose a summary yet because I'm too busy cracking up at every other thing on the list.)

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

you have TWO WEEKS!!! 5 more posts to look through, also! Pick a bunch!

*bounces*

[tropnevad.livejournal.com]

A little poem I wrote for British literature class as part of a class project to create our own individual Canterbury Tales, set at a McDonald's birthday party.

Why indeed, let's all drag the Canterbury Tales through the mire of pseudo-philosophical tripe that is vampire folklore. And while we're at it, let's include a birthday party set in one of the world's largest and most ruthless corporations to contrast the happiness of a day of celebration with the decay of our own humanity.

Everything is fake.

The End.

[cruisn4alawsuit.livejournal.com]

JACK!

Say, Steve and I have been talking, and we're thinking of doing a homage to Buster Keaton and Fellini using your script idea here.

We'll give you 7% of the gross.

Signing up!

[thepiratequeen.livejournal.com]

The summary: On August the 23, in the Year of Our Lord 1339, the crown prince of Loria was born. Born not as a child, but as a man, he led the Knights of the White against the demon Hoarde, and vanguished them on the fields of Moridian. (Xander fic)

Genre: humour, parody, more historical inaccuracies then a trip to Medieval Times.

Re: Signing up!

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

DUDE I loved that one SO MUCH.

So freaking PERFECT for you!!!! JOY!

[amybnnyc.livejournal.com]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Things *hurt* now, damn you.

DON'T GO AWAY! It has a plot now!
That may well be a thing of beauty that can never be surpassed. Hee!

*resists temptation to take up ficathon challenge*

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

Do not resist! It is phor phun! And not due until JULY. OMG, I have changed the rules to include FANART and MANIPS. Or vids.

Do eeeet.

[globalfruitbat.livejournal.com]

Yay! I can take this one!: I become Buffy. What happened to the real Buffy? A story of redemption. My redemption

I'll have to make sure that the BUffy Watching Marathon with batmanties is far enough along by the time the fics are due that he can read it -- he knows me better than almost anyone and that would be sad, if he couldn't see HOW MUCH LIKE BUFFY I AM.

AND THEN I WILL BE REDEEMED.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

YAYNESS!!

(And you did see there were 5 other pages of these, yes? Because there are MANY MORE to pick from...)