A post about fandom.
I'm putting together all my stuff for my site (re-doing it, remaking one, whatever) so I'm reading over a lot of old fic. It's the same as going through old boxes of stuff really, it takes me a long time, cause I always have to stop and read the scraps of paper and old notebooks.
I've realised that writing any pairing is freeing. Not tying myself down to a particular pairing is freeing. In any fandom I mean, not just in Stargate, which is the fic I was looking over when I had this epiphany of sorts.
Don't get me wrong, I love certain pairings more than others, but I am more than a little bit open to other pairings, but I do have my favourites.
But not when it comes to writing. I'll write anything and everything pretty much, anyone/anyone. That's my remit, motto, fandom raison d'etre. Or something like that.
It means that the ideas aren't cooped up, means that ideas that would make for awful fics for Sam/Jack, would actually work really well in a Sam/McKay fic. And so on. It means the thoughts in my head get to go somewhere and do something, instead of just sit in my head and whisper to me and taunt me, going "pssst, Rhi, what about this idea? You know you want to, forget about Weir, McKay would rather fuck a ZPM and you know it..."
Etc.
Not being too involved in fandom is great too. Not getting involved in the politics of pairings and the frenzy over fanfiction is very liberating. There's something about writing and not caring about 90% of the audience that has done me very good. The 10%, I call them my friends, the f-list of joy, you matter, even if you're reading or not. Even if you may not agree over everything.
Every time million_moments sees the word 'incest' she groans and next time she goes to church prays to God to get me to stop. I've purposely written fic for people, purposely not used the word 'nipples' not to freak someone out (that someone I just mentioned, lol).
I miss ficathons mind. I haven't done one in ages, I stopped doing them cause I'm unreliable, or I can be. And if I work better without pairing constraints surely I work better without time constraints? But I miss getting mad prompts and writing madder fics that work for them. That's why I'm always asking people if they want fic. I think.
Anyway.
Life is good.
Well, fandom life is good.
I've realised that writing any pairing is freeing. Not tying myself down to a particular pairing is freeing. In any fandom I mean, not just in Stargate, which is the fic I was looking over when I had this epiphany of sorts.
Don't get me wrong, I love certain pairings more than others, but I am more than a little bit open to other pairings, but I do have my favourites.
But not when it comes to writing. I'll write anything and everything pretty much, anyone/anyone. That's my remit, motto, fandom raison d'etre. Or something like that.
It means that the ideas aren't cooped up, means that ideas that would make for awful fics for Sam/Jack, would actually work really well in a Sam/McKay fic. And so on. It means the thoughts in my head get to go somewhere and do something, instead of just sit in my head and whisper to me and taunt me, going "pssst, Rhi, what about this idea? You know you want to, forget about Weir, McKay would rather fuck a ZPM and you know it..."
Etc.
Not being too involved in fandom is great too. Not getting involved in the politics of pairings and the frenzy over fanfiction is very liberating. There's something about writing and not caring about 90% of the audience that has done me very good. The 10%, I call them my friends, the f-list of joy, you matter, even if you're reading or not. Even if you may not agree over everything.
Every time million_moments sees the word 'incest' she groans and next time she goes to church prays to God to get me to stop. I've purposely written fic for people, purposely not used the word 'nipples' not to freak someone out (that someone I just mentioned, lol).
I miss ficathons mind. I haven't done one in ages, I stopped doing them cause I'm unreliable, or I can be. And if I work better without pairing constraints surely I work better without time constraints? But I miss getting mad prompts and writing madder fics that work for them. That's why I'm always asking people if they want fic. I think.
Anyway.
Life is good.
Well, fandom life is good.