labingi

Via andraste. I don't know if I'll manage a 30-day commitment, but here's question 1 anyway:

1 – How did you first get into writing fanfic, and what was the first fandom you wrote for? What do you think it was about that fandom that pulled you in?

The very first stab I took at fan fic (before I ever heard the term) was, I think, Star Wars, where I made a very abortive attempt at some fic the purport of which I don't remember. It quickly got rewritten as "originalized" in my own universe (not that it's ever been completed). Ditto my first foray into B7: it started out "originalized" in a very transparent way. This was all based on natural literary drive, quite apart from any knowledge of fan culture (c. 1996 or so).

My first explicit "fan fic"/earliest posted fic was in Buffy (2003). I remember its being newly written and my pattering heart as I showed a copy to my hotel roommate at the Buffy Conference in Nashville. By the time, I was reading fic somewhat regularly, and Buffy was a well-archived, active fandom. I was, at the time, deeply into Buffy (viewing, doing scholarship, reading fic, thinking, etc.), so fic was a natural outgrowth of that love. I never wrote much for Buffy though. Mainly I needed to exorcise my sense that Spike and Dru never got a satisfactory ending.

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Slash in the Jeremiah-verse

This installment of my Jeremiad is on its slash fandom and my own perspectives on slashing the series. The impulse is understandable. In "Fathers and Sons", Aaron Severson describes the female characters as "comparatively colorless," and with the exception of Theo, he's not kidding. They're not bad, mind. They're just not very present. So you focus on the men, but getting them together is trickier than it sounds (and trickier, I think, than most of Jeremiah's slash writers give it credit for).

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