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Anni · 19th August 2003, 09:24 PM

Hi guys

Sorry I've taken so long to reply to any of you, so firstly for those who answered thank you very much. I also posted this query on Gateworld and Our Stargate and got very much the same sort of replies from everyone. I have got everything together and have started writing a piece entitled The Official Fanfic University of Stargate or OFUS. Camilla Sandman was the first to do this and hers was about Lord of the Rings and is called The Official Fanfic University of Middle Earth.

This premise is not the same as the Stargate University which already exists and which is a more serious (so to speak) Stargate venture. This piece of writing is aimed at fanfic writers outlining all of the worst aspects of bad fanfics. It's meant to gently poke fun at the writers and hopefully those who read it might find something there that they recognise in themselves.

The students are all 'made up' characters from my imagination, however the staff of the university and the teachers in the piece are the actual Stargate characters themselves, including all races and species and definitely including the Goa'uld. The idea is that the students are condemned to attending the university/boot camp on the grounds that they have committed various fanfic 'crimes'. Not everybody's crimes are the same and they find that they have to attend remedial courses such as Anatomy 101: Physical impossibilities, sexual and otherwise, or "The One dimensional enemy: How to create baddies that don't suck". In the 'essay' they have to pass the university courses in order to be allowed to write fanfics. If they fail, they are bound under threat of torture to never write Stargate fanfics ever again.

One of the real life people I have involved is Annette, who I know won't mind me putting her in as Mrs Short - In charge of Manning and Records. I can't ask her because I think she might not be back from holiday yet (I got a postcard from her the other day). If she is back and reads this, then I have immortalised her in a sort of parody.

I can post the first couple of parts if you want to see what it's all about, just let me know and I will, but ultimately it will be uploaded to Fanfiction.net along with the Official Buffy and Angel Fanfic University and OFUM.

Thanks again to those who did bother to reply. I am so busy trying to create a second home in Canada it's taken up all my available time. I fly out there on 1st October and will be pond hopping for a period of about six months, perhaps longer. However I will still be online and able to access the forums.

PS Edit Note:

You might not believe this, but I just tried to say university/c*um bootcamp meaning University c*um Bootcamp using the Latin word for with which is c*um, and the automatic bad language blaster replaced it with asterisks. I know what meaning of that word is being objected to, but it makes me wonder about language today. Are we really so sad that we can't tell the Latin word for 'with' and the word for something that a man produces? ROTFLMAO.

19th August 2003, 09:24 PM	#5 (permalink)
Anni Chronos' Love Slave Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Third star on the left and straight on till morning! Posts: 1,371	Hi guys Sorry I've taken so long to reply to any of you, so firstly for those who answered thank you very much. I also posted this query on Gateworld and Our Stargate and got very much the same sort of replies from everyone. I have got everything together and have started writing a piece entitled The Official Fanfic University of Stargate or OFUS. Camilla Sandman was the first to do this and hers was about Lord of the Rings and is called The Official Fanfic University of Middle Earth. This premise is not the same as the Stargate University which already exists and which is a more serious (so to speak) Stargate venture. This piece of writing is aimed at fanfic writers outlining all of the worst aspects of bad fanfics. It's meant to gently poke fun at the writers and hopefully those who read it might find something there that they recognise in themselves. The students are all 'made up' characters from my imagination, however the staff of the university and the teachers in the piece are the actual Stargate characters themselves, including all races and species and definitely including the Goa'uld. The idea is that the students are condemned to attending the university/boot camp on the grounds that they have committed various fanfic 'crimes'. Not everybody's crimes are the same and they find that they have to attend remedial courses such as Anatomy 101: Physical impossibilities, sexual and otherwise, or "The One dimensional enemy: How to create baddies that don't suck". In the 'essay' they have to pass the university courses in order to be allowed to write fanfics. If they fail, they are bound under threat of torture to never write Stargate fanfics ever again. One of the real life people I have involved is Annette, who I know won't mind me putting her in as Mrs Short - In charge of Manning and Records. I can't ask her because I think she might not be back from holiday yet (I got a postcard from her the other day). If she is back and reads this, then I have immortalised her in a sort of parody. I can post the first couple of parts if you want to see what it's all about, just let me know and I will, but ultimately it will be uploaded to Fanfiction.net along with the Official Buffy and Angel Fanfic University and OFUM. Thanks again to those who did bother to reply. I am so busy trying to create a second home in Canada it's taken up all my available time. I fly out there on 1st October and will be pond hopping for a period of about six months, perhaps longer. However I will still be online and able to access the forums. PS Edit Note: You might not believe this, but I just tried to say university/cum bootcamp meaning University cum Bootcamp using the Latin word for with which is c*um, and the automatic bad language blaster replaced it with asterisks. I know what meaning of that word is being objected to, but it makes me wonder about language today. Are we really so sad that we can't tell the Latin word for 'with' and the word for something that a man produces? ROTFLMAO.