thelinesoflearning | Fans of Practical Magic, fanfiction, and/or crossovers, come here.

Sooo, does anyone know the movie Practical Magic? Witches and curses and utterly fantastic women being sisters and aunts and family with all the closeness and issues that implies?

Would anyone be interested in a ficfest that is "cross over all the things and make all the awesome women in any and every fandom Owens witches"? I'm thinking either commentfest style or ficathon style.

Feel free to suggest ways it should be done, spread the word, or anything else. I want to see what kind of audience might exist for this, but even if it's a small one it might still happen. Because OWENS.

EDIT: It looks like this is happening, so please feel free to spread the word far and wide. Also please feel free to come in here and offer opinions: I'm still not sure what kind of fic fest to do, and whether it should be exclusively female-centric, or whether focus on male characters should be allowed. If you have suggestions for either of those things, I'd love to hear them.
(Note on format: Exchange-style is out because I haven't got the mental capability to deal with working that out. Pretty much anything else is fair game.)

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That would be interesting, mostly because the movie itself has a lot of parts where the magic is just sort of there and doesn't require special effects or anything else.

My guess is that it would work better with a series like Gilmore Girls than with something like Charmed, but I see potential everywhere.

I think the way the movie handles magic, and the way it's a part of the girl's lives and their families, could make for some interesting fanfiction. Crossing over with already-magical series admittedly may be hard, but there's still potential, I think. For example, you could always have Sally and Gilly discovering that Melinda Warren was a great-great-great-however-many-greats-grandmother and they're related to the Charmed Ones and need The Power Of Five to defeat some Really Great Evil, if you really wanted to do a Charmed crossover.

True. Charmed isn't my thing, and I foresee explosive hilarity for the brave soul willing to cross over with Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

I don't know. Liked the movie and all, not sure I've got any sort of time our chops to deal with crossover fic, no matter how much I might enjoy it.

I love Charmed in a ridiculous nostalgic kind of way; it was one of the first TV shows I really got into, as I was getting into fandom. Buffy, I'm afraid I've never seen.

Understandable! Crossovers are not everyone's thing and I totally get not having the time to write. You'd be welcome to come offer ideas even if you don't have time to write, whether it's a commentfest or a prompt/inspiration drop-off at a ficathon. At this point I just want to know if there's enough interest to be plausible, or if I should just sit in my own little fic corner and do it myself.

I think you'll have plenty of interest if you post on it. It will hopefully make the rounds and be nice and bug with lots of fic.

Oooh!

The idea just makes me glee. :D I've hit five bites, maybe one or two more, I'm not sure I'm counting right. So this may actually be more plausible than I thought at first.

You know I am totally up for this. :3 I need to think of who I would do but I would od it in a heartbeat.

*glees*

Other things I'd need to figure out, and I am listing them at you to have them down:

> Whether it's going to be female-centric or not by rules and, if male-centric stories are allowed, if we're gonna stick with the implied rule in the movie that only the Owens women are witches.
> If it is female-centric, if genderswap or non-canon trans characters are allowed.
> If it's all going to be fic or not (probably not for sheerly selfish reasons, I'd love to do Owens family graphics. >> I'd do a little bang honestly, with writers and artists, if I thought there'd be enough interest, but I don't, soooo).
> If it's commentfest, if there's a deadline. If it's ficathon, the kind of timeline I'm looking at. Also, length minimums.

While I am totally in love with the Movie (and, to a lesser degree, the book), I am not sure I know it well enough to do anything.

However, the innate magic aspect is one I prefer to use in much of my original writing... with greater effects being the ones that have greater costs. But simple manipulations? It's just will and application.

You can always take the magic rules and run with it, if you were more comfortable with the world structure than the specific characters? And it's going to take a little while before I get everything together, so if you get a chance to watch it again before then, I'd love to see you jump in. And if not, well, it's there to watch. (As a side note, I really always meant to read the book, but the last time I was going to the library regularly and had a chance too, my mother told me I was too young. I need to try and find it sometime.)

Innate magic, especially through willpower, is one of my favorite ways to go about it. And I think Practical Magic, with its little applications of raw power, is possibly my second-favorite movie for it. The first being Halloweentown, for outright stating that "Magic is very simple, all you need to do is want something and let yourself have it". :D

It honestly reminds me more of what I was taught about real-world magic than most media forms: That most of it is will and believing and energy, and that the bells and whistles and chants are there to help you focus your mind and your own, internal energy; they don't do anything without your energy behind it.

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sharpeningthebones's intro-everyone-to-everyone post* I don't think I could write for such a fest but I would read the hell out of it. Also I need a copy of that movie.

Reading and, depending on the form it takes, possibly prompting are awesome too. :D And if you have Netflix, I'm pretty sure it used to be on there, if I remember right? I don't know if it is anymore.

I do not have Netflix and I like physical copies of media anyway. On the wishlist it goes!

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