I've been toying with the idea of writing at least one ficlet in direct response to the television I watch each week for a while, as a sort of experiment in fan fiction as canon reaction rather than fan fiction as a genre in and of itself. I haven't done it before because it seemed like a lot to commit to, and of course it isn't directly tied to my ( Read more... )

Note: Vague spoilers for Teen Wolf follow, though I'm only talking about the first two seasons because that's the point a lot of the fandom refuses to look beyond.

So a while back I got into the Teen Wolf fandom in my usual ass-backwards way. I wanted a new fandom to read fic in and Teen Wolf is massive so I gave it a try, figuring out the canon ( Read more... )

Spoilers for eps. 2x20 "In Extremis," 3x08 "Endgame," 3x09 "The Crossing," and 3x10 "The Devil's Share," plus general spoilers for the series as a whole.

I watched the first four or five episodes of CBS's Person of Interest back when they first aired in the fall of 2011, but quickly gave up because I could not suspend my disbelief over the frankly ( Read more... )

Background info on the characters and relationships involved in my specific fandoms is found here:
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Previous posts in this series:
RaceThere is a *lot* to talk about in terms of fandom and gender, given that it's a female-dominated art form but the art itself is dominated by depictions of male/male romantic and sexual ( Read more... )

WARNING: Spoilers for pretty much every iteration of Sherlock Holmes.

I have previously talked about getting into fan fiction through the fandom for BBC's show Sherlock, and the fact that I read pretty much all of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories as a teenager. I don't know if I've mentioned it or not, but I have also seen both of Robert Downey, ( Read more... )

Background info on the characters and relationships involved in my specific fandoms are found here:
Characters
RelationshipsOne of the few things I had heard about fandom and fan fiction prior to getting involved myself was that it was generally pretty racist. That fangirls only cared about the white characters, and that on kink memes people often ( Read more... )

When I say "fandom" I'm generally referring to fan fiction, though I have some passing awareness of other fan activities (art and fanvids, mostly). And fan fiction (at least all that I've read) is overwhelming devoted to depicting canon characters in non-canon romantic and/or sexual relationships. There is a LOT of fan fiction on the internet, ( Read more... )

So as I've mentioned a couple times, I've spent the last almost-year delving into fan fiction and fandom at large. At first I was only reading it; now I am both an active participant in a kink meme and a fan fiction writer. And while I first entered this world because I was drowning and needed idfic, my critical faculties have now recovered to the ( Read more... )

Day 06: Your hobbies

I suppose my first and foremost hobby has always been and will always be reading. I'm on pace to read over a hundred books this year, and while I am unemployed and that's bumping up my total, I'm sure that there hasn't been a year since elementary school when I read less than 50 books. I blame my parents. They got concerned at ( Read more... )

Or perhaps, feminist issues ( Read more... )