yes, the picture's changing every moment
Sometimes I think of baking as my latest fandom, and never more so than yesterday, where at least two other people baked focaccia after I made my post. *g*
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Whenever some kind of fannish meme goes around, I save a copy for when I have run out of things to post about or when I want more than the usual level of interaction or because the questions strike me as really interesting, but I've come to the conclusion that those head canon/personal fanon memes are really not for me, mostly because... I don't have a lot of things that I carry from story to story? Like, there are a couple of minor details that I always use - Dean is a Cubs fan, Sirius likes his coffee black, but like, backstory-wise or in terms of the usual questions on those lists, I feel like the answer depends on so much context that isn't given. What story am I writing? Who is in the relationship? When is it happening in their timeline? Because someone's favorite sex act or sleeping position or whatever will probably change, depending on who they're having sex or sleeping with, or whatever. So much depends on what the story requires. There's a lot of different ways to arrive at a specific characterization, and the nuances of it can vary, once again, depending on the story being told.
This is one of those areas where I feel like I must be doing it wrong, compared to other people, but to me, being too married to too many specific details really closes off what I can or can't write. And I do feel like this happens to me anyway, once I'm in a fandom for a while, that I start to forget interesting areas that could be explored or different angles to take on things. And while I like some of the constraints that writing fanfic puts on me (there's a reason I don't enjoy writing original fiction), I already feel hamstrung by my own inability to write so many things I would like to write (mostly so I would have them to read), and I feel like adding more constraints in the form of hard-and-fast head canon is counterproductive for me.
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Speaking of stories I don't have the ability to write, I am trying to convince
fox1013 to write me the story of Natasha Romanoff's boarding school for young lady crimefighters, where Kate and Cassie and Rikki and Anya and Nico and Karolina and Molly and Gert etc. would all be students. I am even trying to convince her to import some DCU ladies currently being ignored or badly handled in their own canon (you know you want Oracle on your faculty).
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This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/597279.html.
people have commented there.
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Whenever some kind of fannish meme goes around, I save a copy for when I have run out of things to post about or when I want more than the usual level of interaction or because the questions strike me as really interesting, but I've come to the conclusion that those head canon/personal fanon memes are really not for me, mostly because... I don't have a lot of things that I carry from story to story? Like, there are a couple of minor details that I always use - Dean is a Cubs fan, Sirius likes his coffee black, but like, backstory-wise or in terms of the usual questions on those lists, I feel like the answer depends on so much context that isn't given. What story am I writing? Who is in the relationship? When is it happening in their timeline? Because someone's favorite sex act or sleeping position or whatever will probably change, depending on who they're having sex or sleeping with, or whatever. So much depends on what the story requires. There's a lot of different ways to arrive at a specific characterization, and the nuances of it can vary, once again, depending on the story being told.
This is one of those areas where I feel like I must be doing it wrong, compared to other people, but to me, being too married to too many specific details really closes off what I can or can't write. And I do feel like this happens to me anyway, once I'm in a fandom for a while, that I start to forget interesting areas that could be explored or different angles to take on things. And while I like some of the constraints that writing fanfic puts on me (there's a reason I don't enjoy writing original fiction), I already feel hamstrung by my own inability to write so many things I would like to write (mostly so I would have them to read), and I feel like adding more constraints in the form of hard-and-fast head canon is counterproductive for me.
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Speaking of stories I don't have the ability to write, I am trying to convince
fox1013 to write me the story of Natasha Romanoff's boarding school for young lady crimefighters, where Kate and Cassie and Rikki and Anya and Nico and Karolina and Molly and Gert etc. would all be students. I am even trying to convince her to import some DCU ladies currently being ignored or badly handled in their own canon (you know you want Oracle on your faculty).
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This entry at DW: http://musesfool.dreamwidth.org/597279.html.
people have commented there.