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seekingferretLong Live the Groovy Sixties (2677 words) by seekingferret
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Schooled- Gordon Korman
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Hugh Winkleman, Zach Powers, Capricorn Anderson
Summary:
That's what I wrote for the![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fic_corner exchange for children's fandoms. Gordon Korman's comic novels were an important part of my childhood, though Schooled is a relatively recent work which I read as an adult. The premise of the book is that Capricorn Anderson grew up on a '60s-style hippie commune with no awareness of the outside world of the 2000s, until an injury to his grandmother forced him to suddenly confront life as a teenager in the modern world.
A string of stereotype jokes follows, in which Cap does a bunch of stereotypical 1960s things that shock the students of his new school, until ultimately he wins them over. Basically my brainstorming for this fic was to think of stereotypical 1960s things that Korman hadn't made any jokes about, and I tumbled to marijuana, since Korman virtually never involves sex or drugs in his kid-oriented stories. The thought of Cap in some way exposing the other kids to marijuana struck me as amusing, since Cap embodies a wholesome version of 1960s commune culture without any of the self-destructive behavior that also was a part of it. It also gave me a different window into the coolness vs. dorkiness interrogations that are a fundamental part of Korman's story. Korman suggests that coolness is about social power, amassing it and then wielding it, and the consequences of the shift in that power structure fomented by Cap's appearance is what I was most interested in within a futurefic: how does Cap's return continue the change in power dynamics, and how do those who were most harmed by the shift respond to their delegitimization?
In turn, I received this:
A Tale of the Tape (2477 words) by Missy
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Kid-TV series - Barbara Adams
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Billy Wells/Minnie O'Reilly
Characters: Minnie O'Reilly, Jamie Burns, Billy Wells, Kathy Nelligan, Dave Madison, Principal Balkan, Willow Eichenberry
Additional Tags: High School, First Relationship, Humor, Food Fight, School Dances, Mischief, Miscommunication
Summary:
Kid TV is a series of 1980s books about high school kids attempting to run a television station. Hijinks ensue. Oh, so many hijinks ensue. I love it when hijinks ensue.
This story gets the series's madcap sense of humor spot on, particularly in the chocolate fountain finale. It is a delightful story that does a great job of aging up Minnie without ruining her.
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Schooled- Gordon Korman
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Hugh Winkleman, Zach Powers, Capricorn Anderson
Summary:
There were positive aspects of the '60s, Zach realized.
That's what I wrote for the
fic_corner exchange for children's fandoms. Gordon Korman's comic novels were an important part of my childhood, though Schooled is a relatively recent work which I read as an adult. The premise of the book is that Capricorn Anderson grew up on a '60s-style hippie commune with no awareness of the outside world of the 2000s, until an injury to his grandmother forced him to suddenly confront life as a teenager in the modern world.A string of stereotype jokes follows, in which Cap does a bunch of stereotypical 1960s things that shock the students of his new school, until ultimately he wins them over. Basically my brainstorming for this fic was to think of stereotypical 1960s things that Korman hadn't made any jokes about, and I tumbled to marijuana, since Korman virtually never involves sex or drugs in his kid-oriented stories. The thought of Cap in some way exposing the other kids to marijuana struck me as amusing, since Cap embodies a wholesome version of 1960s commune culture without any of the self-destructive behavior that also was a part of it. It also gave me a different window into the coolness vs. dorkiness interrogations that are a fundamental part of Korman's story. Korman suggests that coolness is about social power, amassing it and then wielding it, and the consequences of the shift in that power structure fomented by Cap's appearance is what I was most interested in within a futurefic: how does Cap's return continue the change in power dynamics, and how do those who were most harmed by the shift respond to their delegitimization?
In turn, I received this:
A Tale of the Tape (2477 words) by Missy
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Kid-TV series - Barbara Adams
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Billy Wells/Minnie O'Reilly
Characters: Minnie O'Reilly, Jamie Burns, Billy Wells, Kathy Nelligan, Dave Madison, Principal Balkan, Willow Eichenberry
Additional Tags: High School, First Relationship, Humor, Food Fight, School Dances, Mischief, Miscommunication
Summary:
Minnie's finally a junior at Wellsburg High! Along with the rest of Kid-TV's original staff, she's still on the air - but will she stay there when she gets blamed for a segment that pits the girls and guys of Wellsburg against each other just in time for the big Valentine's Day dance?
Kid TV is a series of 1980s books about high school kids attempting to run a television station. Hijinks ensue. Oh, so many hijinks ensue. I love it when hijinks ensue.
This story gets the series's madcap sense of humor spot on, particularly in the chocolate fountain finale. It is a delightful story that does a great job of aging up Minnie without ruining her.