Today is the 20th anniversary of the release of The Phantom Menace, which means it's my 20th anniversary as a fanfic writer. 20 years ago roughly on this date, I posted my first slash fic - it was this one, all 466 words of it. It wasn't very good. But I got better. I worked very hard at it, actually; I wanted to be able to tell stories as I saw ( Read more... )

ariadnes_string asked: what are your favorite tropes in fic and why? (Exemplary recs welcome!)Another question that's both easy and tough. Easy because I love ALL the tropes and cliches, pretty much (and the ones I don't love, I still embrace fondly because I'm sure others love them); hard because I never think about why. This comes back to what I said in a ( Read more... )