FayJay

FayJay, aka Fay, aka Pandarus, is a well-known fan author in multiple fandoms since 2000. Her major fandoms include Buffyverse, Firefly, Harry Potter, Smallville and Supernatural, but she has also written widely recommended stories in a huge range of others. FayJay is also known for her popular podfic recordings (available at the Audiofic Archive), of which she has made over a hundred.
In fanfiction, she mainly writes gen and m/m slash, with occasional het and femslash. With a knack for writing crack premises and making them completely plausible, she's particularly praised for her ingenious crossovers. Espresso Addict writes that "Hell Money" was "the story that first made me realise that crossovers can be made to work."Espresso Recommendations: Crossovers (accessed 11 October 2011) 
==History==
FayJay got into the Buffyverse in 1999, and her first fanfiction, which she describes as "gay vampire snuff porn", dates from around 2000. She was associated with the Bugger This group, an influential collection of Buffyverse authors which also includes Chase, Herself, Kalima, NWHepcat and Salieri. FayJay then got sucked into Smallville -- surely the trashiest, slashiest show ever airedBugger This: About the Authors (accessed 11 October 2011) -- and wrote a number of popular crossovers between the two 'verses.
==Interview==
* Ask the Author: FayJay (Pandarus) (2009)
==In Her Own Words==
In 2006 Pandarus wrote about her first experiences in fandom:
 
Also, see a 2009 interview with FayJay at Ask the Author: FayJay (Pandarus). In 2010 she wrote Girls who are boys who like boys to be girls...: My Thoughts About (Yaoi) Slash, a post discussing gender identity, fic and labels, yaoi, manga, and other issues.
==Podfic==
FayJay has recorded over a hundred podfics, including her own stories and those by other authors. She describes her motivations: "I podfic for completely selfish reasons, not out of some sense of service-to-the-community or whatever. I actively enjoy reading aloud, and getting to play different roles. It's fun."The ethics of multiple recordings and calling dibs (accessed 11 October 2011) 
She supports recording multiple versions of the same work: "I do subscribe to the multiple-performances philosophy, as both a listener and a performer. Because different styles appeal to different listeners, so it seems a shame to say that, no, This Is The One True Version. ... People want to play Hamlet because it's a brilliant role and exhilarating to perform, not because they think that all previous versions fucked it up, you know? And with covers of songs, it's because they think that they have something fresh to bring to it - or even just because it's a lovely song to sing, whether they're doing anything innovative or not?"
Her most recently uploaded podfic on the Audiofic Archive is from 2010, but mentioned making a new podfic in August 2012.pandarus. Teen Wolf blathering & podfic. Dreamwidth post 7 August 2012. (Accessed 18 September 2013) The podfic itself was unavailable due to Mediafire tagging it for copyright infringement.
===Podfic Reviews===
rhea314:
cellardoorpodfic:
maskedfangirl, asking for non-FayJay recs:
yourrighteye:
Fire Juggler:
katikat:
==Notable Works==
===Fanfic===
*The Case of the Unwelcome Owl -- Sherlock (BBC)/Harry Potter, also podficced by FayJay
*Hell Money -- one of the earliest Angel/Smallville crossovers 
*Invisible to See -- Harry/Draco novel, written pre-The Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter)
*Shaken, Not Stirred -- Wesley Wyndam-Pryce character piece (Angel)
*The Student Prince -- College AU for Merlin, at one time the second most popular work on AO3; the podfic by FayJay has the most page views of her works on the Audiofic ArchiveAs of 18 September 2013: "3460 reads" for the mp3 version and "7183 reads" for the m4b version. Number of actual downloads unknown.
* (To Die Will Be) An Awfully Big Adventure -- a novel-length Bandom fic in which Gerard Way is turned into a vampire and discovers that people he knew were also supernatural beings.
*The Consequences of Falling -- Dean/Cas Sam/Ruby (Supernatural)
===Podfic===
* An Act of Charity and other podfics by FayJay for wordstrings' The Paradox Series -- very popular podfics for a very popular Sherlock fanfic
* Tissue of Silver -- an 8-hour Harry Potter podfic (link), which FayJay states was probably her first podfic.Locked post to personal livejournal dated 7 August 2009 It is also available as a audiobook.
* The Beltane Cycle -- Merlin fic written by astolat
*The Crown of the Summer Court -- Merlin fic written by astolat. The podfic is 2 1/2 hours long and is available at the Audiofic Archive as MP3, M4a and in audiobook format.pandarus. audiofic: 'The Crown of The Summer Court', 06 August 2009. (Accessed 18 February 2010) 
* In Time Of Trial -- Merlin novel written by Shine. The podfic is 4 1/2 hours long and is available at the Audiofic Archive as MP3, M4a and as audiobook. pandarus. Podfic - 'In Time of Trial', 18 February 2010. (Accessed 18 February 2010) "In which Uther is deceived by an old friend, and Arthur is declared a traitor."
==References==
Category: Podficcers
Category:Fanwriters