User blog comment:NinjaIzzy/Hello :o/@comment-1874924-20120306203057

Hi, NinjaIzzy, nice to "meet" you. While you've made a few edits since I came to the wiki about two years ago, you were mostly before my time (as an editor, anyway) so I don't think our paths have crossed. I'm known around here as "the Wiki Elder" because, at 50+ years of age, I'm probably the world's oldest writer of Total Drama fanfiction.

For story recommendations, two of my favorites are Rhonda's story, Total Drama What The Heck? (8 chapters posted) and Lilac's story, Total Drama Island: For Your Entertainment (15 chapters posted, 2 chapters per episode). Rhonda's story is unabashedly cartoonish and features a mix of canon and OC contestants, whereas Lilac's story is more dramatic and has an all-new slate of contestants. Both are on the "Current Favorites" dropdown menu at the top of the page.

Also, if I don't want to sleep on the couch, I have to recommend my DW's collection, The Beasts of Wawanakwa, which was inspired by The Canterbury Tales and gives backstories to the animals that appeared on TDI. BoW currently includes "The Seagull's Tale" (with the eponymous Gull being this month's Featured Character), "The Buck's Tale", "The Loon's Tale" and part 1 of "The Cockroach's Tale".

Finally, since you undoubtedly expect people to use this opportunity to advertise their own stories, I submit my own small but well-regarded oeuvre for your consideration, seeing as I was the first author to have two noncompetition stories Featured. I'm giving you links here per your request, but you can also find links and additional information on my User page.
 * 1) My first story, Legacy (10K words, 22 pages equivalent, Featured Story June 2010) is what put me on the map around here. It's a "for want of a nail" story where Chris and the others arrive a few seconds later than in the canon to warn Gwen about the serial killer, and the consequences reverberate for years. In addition to the link here, you can also access it from the "Modern Classics" dropdown menu and the wiki's home-page sampler.
 * 2) Courtney and the Violin of Despair, commonly abbreviated CatVoD (5500 words, 11 pages equivalent, Featured Story March 2011) was my answer to the "Courtney bashing" sub-genre. I wrote this story to demonstrate that you can put your favorite punching bag through a lot of grief without being mean and without neglecting little things like story development, and Courtney fans like the story as well as Courtney haters do. The premise is that Courtney (pre-TDI) acquires a violin bearing an ancient curse, and suffers a series of misfortunes thereby.
 * 3) I have written two chapters for the Fake Souls anthology, one featuring Heather and the other featuring Izzy. My Izzy chapter is unusual in that it depicts Izzy as a tragic character, even a pitiable one, and your good friend IzzyK told me that it made her cry her eyes out.
 * 4) My crossover, Total Drama Island, by Gilbert and Sullivan (bloody huge, Featured Story June 2011) is what I really joined the wiki to promote. More a work of scholarship than a story, TDI-G&S (pronounced "Tiddigus") may be the most unusual work in the entire fandom. Its premise, as the title implies, is "What if Gilbert & Sullivan had written TDI?" TDI-G&S uses 8300 lines of verse from the G&S operettas (including the three that nobody remembers anymore) to retell the canon TDI story arc in a way that nobody else probably ever dreamed of. Until recently, it was the wiki's longest page. It is heavily illustrated with screenshots from the TDI episodes, and includes a number of G&S song videos. TDI-G&S was originally written for a general-interest website.
 * 5) My competition story, The Legend of Total Drama Island (4 chapters posted, plus a short prologue) is a TDI reimagining told by a former camper to her son in the style of The 1,001 Nights. LTDI is also on the "Current Favorites" menu.