The Avengers International Fan Forum

Captain Crusoe · Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 2:43 am Post subject:

I hadn't read R. L. Wilson's The Mind of a Heart before, but I did last night and I thought it was very good. Thank you for recommending it. I haven't read anyone else except Margaret Warren who goes so deep into the characters' thoughts and feelings. I also liked the strange and ingenious plot.

I think Margaret Warren's Rough Magic is the best fanfic I've read. It captures the spirit, humour and surrealism of the show very well. It surpasses the original in that, as Brian Clemens said, they were cardboard characters. She breathes life into Emma Peel's character and makes her like a real person. It's amazing.

I loved the early part of The Quick and the Dead, but I thought the latter part was far too sentimental.

I read quite a bit of a fanfic a couple of years ago. I'd read a couple of Mia McCroskey's early stories, but I didn't like them. I read the first of her reunion stories a few days ago and it's a lot better, but I still didn't like it much because of the lack of humour or surrealism.

I love Sula Bassana's short stories. I find them hilarious. The FOLLI in Avengerland website they were on is no longer there, but they can still be found courtesy of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, which is good for finding stories that have disappeared http://www.archive.org/index.php. Sula Bassana's stories are at: http://web.archive.org/web/20070819180837/http://www.geocities.com/sula_bassana/. The most popular one is 'Just Desserts', but I think they're all very good.

I also adore BitShifter's stories. Like Sula Bassana's, they may not be to your taste because they're not love stories, but I really enjoy them because I think they have the spirit, humour and surrealism of the original series.

ikbtops · Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2009 5:39 pm Post subject:

There is an app for iPhone called "speak it".The British Male accent sounds remarkably like Patrick MacNee at times. Just type in the text and he says it. It's fun to make him say off colour things about his co-stars...
"Peter Cushing? a Right Tosser!" etc.

Mrs. Peel · Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 5:05 am Post subject:

I have read this two pages about the fan fictions, but I don't know where I can find good storys about emma/steed with an happy end Very Happy

there are so many links and it's difficult for me to read/understand everything. Wink

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Mona · Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2010 7:19 am Post subject:

Hello, Miska_cz,

I've written a few fanfics from The Avengers, and they got pretty good reviews. I have a few from the Steed/Emma era. If you wish me to send them to you--although I realize this was written over a year ago (I'm still catching up on the Forum)--please email me privately.

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ischtar · Winged Avenger Joined: 06 Jun 2010 Posts: 678

I found a new story with Steed and Emma on livejournal:

http://tresmechantefic.livejournal.com/37117.html

Cariheart · Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 3:15 am Post subject:

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Cariheart · Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 6:03 pm Post subject:

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ischtar · Winged Avenger Joined: 06 Jun 2010 Posts: 678

I like fanfiction very much, especially the stories from the Avengers Liberary. It's good too see that there are so many talented writers amongst the Avengers fans.

I tried something new myself , I call it a photo fanfiction about a thing mentioned by Steed in the episode The man with two shadows -
he is telling Mrs. Gale, that he was caught once by "the other side" and obviously he is afraid that could happen again one day...

http://s772.photobucket.com/albums/yy8/bobbyischtar/photo%20fiction/

Mona · Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2011 9:14 am Post subject:

Holy COW, Ischtar! You have got to continue that photo story right away!

It's very well done. You are one of the real artists on the list, like Mousemeat and Dandy.

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ischtar · Winged Avenger Joined: 06 Jun 2010 Posts: 678

Thank you very much Mona - this was a lot of work, because the pictures are from so many different episodes.
The sequel of the story will be online on saturday, maybe a little earlier...
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ischtar · Winged Avenger Joined: 06 Jun 2010 Posts: 678

"The man with two shadows"

It's done and online now. I hope you enjoy the story.
http://s772.photobucket.com/albums/yy8/bobbyischtar/photo%20fiction/

oneknightsteed · Little Wonder Joined: 03 Jun 2010 Posts: 168

Bravo, Ischtar! Most enjoyable! I do hope there will be more to come.
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Mona · Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 5:54 am Post subject:

Nicely done, Ischtar! That was an interesting mixture of many little story snippets from the show and the artwork was really excellently matched to your narrative. I like your art style; your use of using a technique to create old-looking photos/pictures is cool.

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ischtar · Winged Avenger Joined: 06 Jun 2010 Posts: 678

Does anyone know what has happened to the http://www.pattypatwebdesign.net/library/av_library.html site?
All Avengers stories are gone Crying or Very sad

, but fictions from other series are still online.

ischtar · Winged Avenger Joined: 06 Jun 2010 Posts: 678

A lot of the Avenger stories which could be earlier found on http://www.pattypatwebdesign.net survived due to a enthusiastic (seddi) fan on this livejournal site:

http://avengerland.livejournal.com/

For the fans of Emma Peel and Severus Snape (Rick would have been a great diabolic mastermind) . there is another cool page from Mrsemmapeel07 on tumblr Avengerland:
http://mrsemmapeel07.tumblr.com/

Mona · Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2011 4:58 am Post subject:

That's great news, Ischtar! Thanks for tracking that down!

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