Serial - adjective. Of, relating to, consisting of, or arranged in a series , rank, or row; appearing in successive parts or numbers; effecting a series of similar acts over a period of time, occurring in such a series; relating to or being a connection in a computer system in which the bits of a byte are transmitted sequentially over a single wire. [ Latin, from serere to join, link together; akin to Greek eirein to string together, hormos chain, necklace, and perhaps to Latin sort-, sors lot]
Fiction - noun. Something invented by the imagination or feigned; specifically : an invented story; fictitious literature; a work of fiction; especially :novel; a useful illusion or pretense; the action of feigning or of creating with the imagination. [Middle English ficcioun, from Middle French fiction, from Latin fiction-, fictio act of fashioning, fiction, from fingere to shape, fashion, feign; Greek teichos wall ]
You look at some serial fiction collected in novel form. The books are thick. From the covers and blurbs, it appears many of the characters must be homosexual.
>drop serials
Rangers Like Us (work in progress)
This is not in the strictest definition fanfiction, spec, slash, yaoi, etc., but it is not what one could morally call entirely original work either. It is a fusion of influences. The plot itself is based loosely on the movies Spies Like Us and Jurassic Park (more loser heroes than nature vs meddling in God's domain). The setting (time, culture, races and some terminology) is taken from Tolkien's work, mostly The Lord of the Rings. The main characters, on the other hand, are like very Alternative Universe versions of those from Shin Kidousenki Gundam Wing. However, though there are Orcs in Tolkien's work, all the particular Orc characters in this story are created by Seraph. And of course there are 'dark themes'. Seraph seems to like angst, so the characters have rather dark pasts.