There is something kind of fantastically meta-fannish about sitting down to watch real Blackhawks who I have read porn about while wearing my Kowalski #67 Blackhawks jersey.

Duncs/Seabs recs? I already read the werewolf one and the high school AU.

Or Jeff Skinner/Eric Staal? But I think I've read possibly literally all of those that there ( Read more... )

18 - Where do you get the most inspiration for your fics (aka "bunnies") from?

Er. Seriously, we're doing the "where do your ideas come from?" question? Who wrote this meme?Ahem. Anyway. I get bunnies from everywhere. The whole long Aral/Jole saga came from me tin-hatting Aral and Jole in canon and then sitting down and trying to work out how ( Read more... )

8 - Do you write OCs? And if so, what do you do to make certain they're not Mary Sues, and if not, explain your thoughts on OCs.

FIRSTLY. YOU CAN STUFF YOUR MARY SUE WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE, a thoughtful and informative discussion of what a Mary Sue is and is not and how the term is used to police and punish prominent female characters for ( Read more... )

5 - If you have ever had a character try to push their way into a fic, whether your "muse" or not, what did you do about it?I haven't. In fact I'm honestly not even sure what that would be like or how it would work. Can anybody who has had that happen tell me about it? Is it as common an experience as the phrasing of this question seems to imply ( Read more... )

4 - Do you have a "muse" character, that speaks to you more than others, or that tries to push their way in, even when the fic isn't about them? Who are they, and why did that character became your muse?This is the question that actually made me want to do this meme, because it irritated me so much that I couldn't stop thinking about it. *g ( Read more... )

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So I was reading T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets today, like I do, because I had finished the book I was reading and didn't want to write on my lunch hour. And so the end of "East Coker" particularly struck me, like it does.

( Rambling thoughts about T. S. Eliot and writing fic versus writing original fiction with cameo appearance by my 592nd Existential Crisis As A Writer. )

So around January 2002 I went to see The Fellowship of the Ring with thelionforreal, who was at that point possibly already a part of the Popslash=>Lotrips migration. I had already been resisting seeing the movie for a month or more because--I realize this will not make any sense to anyone, okay, but there it is--I had come across a Theban Band manip of Aragorn ( Read more... )

Maybe both!

Every so often I expound my Theory of How/Why (Sibling) Incest Pairings Are the New Slash to someone. It's something I more or less worked out while writing Missing Persons, particularly the stage of writing MP during which I, uh, stopped shipping Don and Charlie and started wishing they would date other people because that would be ( Read more... )

Sometime in the last five years, in reference to some discussion of the way fanfic and slash are devalued and ghettoized and marginalized and dismissed by everyone but us--and sometimes even by us--someone somewhere mentioned Joanna Russ's book, How to Suppress Women's WritingThis weekend, I finally got around to reading it. I had already had the ( Read more... )