I can relate to soooo much of what you're talking about here, though when I was 5 it was Emergency! and Baa Baa Black Sheep, and I was making up stories for myself and whoa yeah, hurt/comfort, two decades before I would ever encounter that term.
I've always been way more reticent than you were, about sharing any of the things that go on in my brain. I had tried writing fanfic (for old-school Doctor Who) a few times, not even knowing it was a thing, but I failed miserably. I hated my OCs and I couldn't plot a cemetery, let alone a story, so my solitary efforts never got past about three pages. That didn't change until I was 32 and I accidentally Doctor Who fandom online, while merely looking to see what kind of information was out there. And I stayed in that fandom until 1. it left my non-cable-having self in the dust in late 2005 with the new series and 2. by accident I didn't change the channel on that awful-looking House show before the credits started, and it said HUGH LAURIE WAIT WHAT?!!? and here we are.
Your willingness to write and then post your Mary Sue stuff is something I kind of envy (and, yeah, I like those stories). I can't imagine I'll ever be un-repressed enough to do the same; that space AU thing of mine is the closest I'll likely get to it.
I've always been way more reticent than you were, about sharing any of the things that go on in my brain. I had tried writing fanfic (for old-school Doctor Who) a few times, not even knowing it was a thing, but I failed miserably. I hated my OCs and I couldn't plot a cemetery, let alone a story, so my solitary efforts never got past about three pages. That didn't change until I was 32 and I accidentally Doctor Who fandom online, while merely looking to see what kind of information was out there. And I stayed in that fandom until 1. it left my non-cable-having self in the dust in late 2005 with the new series and 2. by accident I didn't change the channel on that awful-looking House show before the credits started, and it said HUGH LAURIE WAIT WHAT?!!? and here we are.
Your willingness to write and then post your Mary Sue stuff is something I kind of envy (and, yeah, I like those stories). I can't imagine I'll ever be un-repressed enough to do the same; that space AU thing of mine is the closest I'll likely get to it.
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