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Blue Waltz (Absolut Remix) (2796 words) by Alixtii
Fandom: Push (2009)
Rating: Not Rated
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Nick Gant/Cassie Holmes/Kira Hudson, Nick Gant/Cassie Holmes, Nick Gant & Cassie Holmes, Nick Gant/Kira Hudson
Characters: Nick Gant, Cassie Holmes, Kira Hudson
Summary: Whether Cassie needs the alcohol to help her to see more clearly or to erase the pain of what she's already seen, she's not quite sure. Both. Neither.
A/N: Remix of Blue Waltz by aphrodite_mine.

Indigo Waltz (A Study in Denim Remix) (750 words) by Alixtii
Fandom: Push (2009)
Rating: Not Rated
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Nick Gant/Cassie Holmes, Nick Gant/Kira Hudson, Nick Gant/Cassie Holmes/Kira Hudson
Characters: Nick Gant, Cassie Holmes, Kira Hudson
Summary: Cassie begins to draw, the rough outline of a woman in a blue dress, the caption above her, KIRA. "Today's the day."
A/N: Remix of Blue Waltz by aphrodite_mine; sequel to Blue Waltz (Absolut Remix).

Violet Waltz (Here Comes the Wedding March) (2376 words) by Alixtii
Fandom: Push (2009)
Rating: Not Rated
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Cassie Holmes/Kira Hudson, Nick Gant/Cassie Holmes/Kira Hudson
Characters: Cassie Holmes, Kira Hudson, Original Characters, Nick Gant
Summary: High-school freshman Kathy Housermann receives a recorded phone call from herself, and she finds out that nothing is as it seems--not even herself.
A/N: Sequel to Blue Waltz (Absolut Remix) and Indigo Waltz (A Study in Denim Remix).

The Logic of Ritual (Inversion Inverted Remix) (1484 words) by Alixtii
Fandom: Stargate SG-1
Rating: Not Rated
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Sam Carter/Daniel Jackson/Jack O'Neill, Sam Carter/Dani Jackson/Jackie O'Neill, Daniel Jackson/Sha're
Characters: girl!daniel jackson, girl!Jack O'Neill, boy!Sam Carter, Teal'c (SG-1), George Hammond, Hank Landry
Summary: Brig. Gen. Jacqueline O'Neill, Dr. Danielle Jackson, and Lt. Col. Samuel Carter get married on an alien planet which practices polygyny.
A/N: Remix of The Inverted Logic of Ritual by wisdomeagle.

Love for the Ages (I Will Return for You Remix) (570 words) by Alixtii
Fandom: Doctor Who, Torchwood
Rating: Not Rated
Warning: Author Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Myfanwy/TARDIS
Characters: TARDIS, Myfanwy (Torchwood's Pterodactyl), Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond, Rory Williams, Harry Sullivan, Sarah Jane Smith, Fourth Doctor
Summary: During "Children of Earth," the TARDIS comes back for Myfanwy.
A/N: Remix of A Love for the Ages by settiai.

dirty_diana: I'm not a Merlin person, but I checked out merlinrpf and it has 222 entries since creation last October. As RPF fandoms generally go, that seems pretty big to me. Edit: Not huge, but they probably won't qualify for Yuletide again.

musesfool: I guess the question is, then, are they interested in doing remix? And they need to come here and tell me that, if they are.

A gauntlet has been thrown down. Go here to rise to the challenge.

My RPF doesn't fall into any category that has any chance at all of becoming a qualifying fandom ("Jossverse RPF" is totally a yuletide fandom), but the idea that someone remixing one of my stories will have the option of remixing one of the RPF fics just fills me with squee. Because my RPF is pretty meta to begin with, so remixing it, retelling the story in a way that comments somehow on the original fic, would bring it to just truly insane levels of meta-ness, on par with The "All You Zombies" Remix of Incurable.

So, remixredux08 is live, and I've read the remix that was written for me: Where the River Meets the Dawn (The Strobe Lights and the Disco Remix) is a remix of my River/Dawn femslash_minis piece Where the River Meets the Dawn. There are several significant changes my remixer made to my story.

• It fits into, and makes references to, comics canon.
• Mal, Zoe, and Jayne are all still alive, so nobody calls Kaylee "Captain."
• It's Inara's shuttle, rather than Serenity herself, which crash lands into Earth.
• Zoe is among the crew who appears on Earth, and Saffron is not. Mal and Jayne still don't appear in the story (even though in this 'verse it's because they're still on Serenity and not because they're dead).
• It extends the story to cover the return of the Serenity crew to their own universe--which means, sadly, that River and Dawn are broken up in it.
• It's told from Caridad's POV. (The original alternates between River's and Dawn's.)

That last bullet point is certainly the most interesting--it makes the story down to earth in a way my original really isn't. There's a lot of little details that Caridad notices and associations that she makes, and when I say a lot, I mean a lot, so that it gives the story a fascinating texture, where she's much more interested in all of that than in the soi-disant main action.

. . .

Anyone who guesses which remix I wrote gets a ficlet. Comments are screened.

This post on person and tense made me think about how I used these in my own writings. I know that I've written several fics in the much-dreaded second person, and I feel like I use past and present tenses about equally. But I decided to go back to my index and make a list.

( 1st person )

( 2nd person )

Third Person (POV character is "she," "he," etc.)
Everything else . . . my fic index is here. [ETA: 38% of my third-person fic is written in present tense; the other 62% is written in past tense. The longer a fic is, the more likely it is written in past tense; the shorter it is, the more likely it is written in present tense.]

[. . .]

( Figure 1 ) The interesting thing here is that whenever there is a "you," regardless of whether "I" or "you" are the POV character, in every case but one the story is in present tense. In "Permutations" the shift from 3rd/1st person to 2nd person even happens to exactly coincide with the shift from past tense to present tense. When I stop and think about it, this makes sense. Having a "you" foregrounds the act of telling, even if it is only a character's internal monologue as she addresses herself during the story's events, so the story by necessity takes place as it is being told, whether it be Moriarty and Holmes plummeting to their deaths at Reichenbach Falls in "Requiem at Reichenbach" or Dawn preparing Beatrice for the Cruciamentum in "Watcher's Burden." Indeed, in "Dear My Ideal Audience," the telling of the story is completely inseparable from the events it described (a dynamic which is integral to metafiction, as we'll see below).

In the one instance in which a story with a "you" in it is not in the present tense, it is still not written in the past tense, but rather in the future tense. Since we know that it is Lilah who is speaking and Wesley who is being spoken to, though, we are also privy to an implied "now" in which the act of narration is taking place, one in which Lilah is imagining for Wes' benefit one possible future. What we end up with is a series of concentric circles.


The difference between "On Her Knees" and "Requiem at Reichenbach" is simply that the inner ring--the 'verse in which the diegetic act of naration is taking place--in "Requiem" is more fully fleshed out, whereas we have no idea where Lilah and Wes are or what they are doing as Lilah narrates the story to Wes. This difference is enough for me to refer to "Requiem" as being present tense; it's simply that the bulk of the narrative takes place in flashbacks. Even more bluntly, "On Her Knees" contains no present-tense verbs, while "Requiem" does. Compare, say, Poe's "A Tell-Tale Heart."

Metafiction operates by blurring the division between the innermost sphere and the ring which surrounds it, as in both "Dear My Ideal Audience" and "Incurable (The 'All You Zombies' Remix)."

As Ari says in the comments to "Incurable (The 'All You Zombies' Remix)," "Clearly where [one] need[s] a flowchart to understand the construction of [a] fic, something is right."

Yes, I have received my remix assignment.

*totally flails*

Note to remixer: Whichever story you chose, I have presumably written it the way I wanted to, time and ability and laziness being the only constraints.

Now go make it yours.

Title: Best Friends Forever (Devon Days Remix)
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Rating: PG
Pairing: Willow/Xander
Timeline/Spoilers: Takes between in an AU summer between seasons 6 and 7. Spoilers up to "Grave."
Summary: There is a wisdom hidden in the innocence of the young.
A/N: Remix of "Brick by Brick" by Sarafu (obsessivemuch). Part of the Remix Redux IV.

( Best Friends Forever )