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How long have you been creating fan art or writing fan fiction?
I’ve been writing fanfic consciously since about summer 2003. Before that, I wrote stuff that was more or less fic, but I didn’t recognize it as such, because I’d never heard of fanfic at all. A lot of it was terrible self-insert fantasy and/or attempts to hook Ayeka and Ryoko up, but I’m fine with that.
What drew you into fandom in the first place?
I’ve always been a big nerd and I’ve always had really nerdy friends, but it wasn’t until the internet that I realized that there was a whole larger nerd world out there. I wouldn’t know the word fandom until years later, but pretty much from the start I was doing fannish things on the internet. Allow me to date myself: my very first fannish endeavour was running a message board on AOL Kids Only for The Secret World of Alex Mack.
That was, uh, sixteen years ago now. Damn.
And then somewhere in there I discovered anime and Monty Python, and it’s been downhill ever since.
Best thing about SGA fandom: go!
The fans! It is, in my experience, a fandom that is smarter than the average bear. And the fanworks are so intriguing and sprawling and awesome.
Are you a fandom monogamist or do you participate in other fandoms? Which ones?
I usually tend to be a fandom bigamist, actually. Currently, I seem to have stumbled into the Mythbusters RPF fandom. Who knows.
Best thing about McKay/Sheppard: go!
Oh, boys. Here they are, these daring space explorers on the edge of nowhere, and they are both complete weirdo fuck-ups. Like, one minute they’re killing space monsters, and the next they’re all, “DUDE, STORM WOULD SO KICK CATWOMAN’S ASS.” And they shouldn’t be anything alike at all, but they totally go together, and I have faith that, despite their best efforts, they could have a happy ending. There’s a reason that In Spite of Ourselves (starts around 1:30) is their theme song.
Why did you decide to participate in McShep Match?
I had a lot of fun with it last year, and also kisa_hawklin promised me a pony.
And how did you choose Team Work?
Because I, once again, am not a hippy.
Best thing about your contribution to this year's Match: go! (Remember to keep your answer vague, please!)
I’ve kind of done everything in it before, but all the pieces add up together to something that’s really not like anything I’ve done. Or something.
Where can interested readers/viewers find more of your work?
Like, everywhere. I update my lj, my DW, and my AO3 account pretty regularly.
A word to our sponsors?
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anatsuno writes: how are you so awesome?
It's very difficult. One must take lessons.
mashimero writes: I love your always-a-girl Meredith fics. What is it that you find so appealing about genderswap/genderswitch? while reddwarfer asks: Will you write more Mer/John? PLEASE?
It's hard to say, really. Part of it is that I just really love AUs; I'm fascinated by coin-flips and their consequences, how deep one seemingly little change can go. Also, I'm just fascinated by gender. It's constantly being performed by us and around us; we've been taught from birth that it's totally natural and determined, when it isn't, not at all. Always-a-[blank] genderswap is particularly fulfilling for me, because I'm fascinated by how somebody could end up being somebody else, having started from the same place, by virtue of the societal forces that they're subjected to.
I also often find myself writing about the myriad excuses that people find to keep themselves sorted and cut off from each other, all the things that people build up in their minds to be The Reason they can't be with or understand somebody. Gender's a big one, both directions- people of the same gender face societal retribution, but people of different genders think that they can't possibly grok each other- and both of them end up working out to the same thing.
And yes, I do plan to write more Mer and John. I have, like, a ridiculous number of scraps of things left to finish. Possibly McKay and Mrs. Miller is next.
Any more questions? Hit me!