Come! Play with me!

[secretsolitaire]

It is raining outside! We are in quite a drought here -- my parents are worrying about their well running dry -- so the pattering of the rain is a beautiful sound indeed.

The HP folks on my flist have probably already seen this, but just in case: cluegirl recently asked an incredibly evil question. You have a prophetic dream that in twenty four hours,

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[rinsbane]

So why QAF? You said the other day that mostly you seek out QAF. I watched all the episodes and enjoyed the show, but to me it's the quintessential show that doesn't need fic. Because the show took care of all that. (Also, as I was saying on Lee's post about RPS, I'm not really attracted to fandoms that are just set on plain old normal Earth - I need something magic or fantastic or sci-fi to hook me - otherwise it's just too vanilla.) But aside from that as that's clearly personal taste, why do you want fic for QAF? Is it about making sure B and J do end up together? Something less romantic? Tying up loose ends? AUs? Am I totally off? Maybe the fic urge is unexplainable because it's just love and you can't really explain the whys of that, no matter how many reasons you label.

[xie_xie_xie]

It's interesting to me, because I have been watching sci fi and fantasy, and reading it, literally all my life. My dad was a huge sci fi fan, and I practically cut my teeth on it. I was a huge Star Trek fan, and a fan of Xena, and of lots of books and shows that have huge, active fandoms that write tons and tons of fanfic.

And yet, never, ever in my life, not once, despite the fact that I'm 48 and a professional writer, have I ever wanted to write in someone else's world until QAF.

It had nothing to do with "fixing" the ending -- if any ending ever needed "fixing" it was the ending of Xena, and it never crossed my mind to write a story doing that. I just never felt obsessed and inspired and like I simply HAD TO write until this show.

Weird how different people are, eh?

I almost didn't post this because I'm having an unbelievable sulking fit that I didn't make secretsolitaire's fic list. It's possible I won't be able to keep writing, and then I'll have to blame her. ;)

[secretsolitaire]

I almost didn't post this because I'm having an unbelievable sulking fit that I didn't make secretsolitaire's fic list. It's possible I won't be able to keep writing, and then I'll have to blame her. ;)

Aack! *prostrates self at your feet* Please don't stop writing! The fandom will lynch me! And I'll never get to see how Families turns out! D-:

In all seriousness, the Plans universe (yes, it counts as one fic for my purposes, lalalala) is my #11. Whenever I feel wibbly over 513, it's one of the first places I turn for comfort. I angsted quite a bit over this list, and yours was one of several fics I felt dreadful about leaving out. Forgive me? :-/

[xie_xie_xie]

Pffft, I was just joking! Virtually my entire top ten is bigboobedcanuck so I'm in good company. ;)

Xie

[secretsolitaire]

Oh, she's wonderful. She's one of those writers where you can just go splash around in her memories for an entire afternoon because just about everything she's written is good. ragingpixie is another one; I picked my favorite of hers above, but really I'd keep her entire collection if I could.

[rinsbane]

This is funny because I think you're onto something here about fanfic and the fic impulse. I didn't see it until you said that you were a sci fi fan generally but didn't have the fic impulse. Because I'm not a sci fi reader/watcher, nor a fantasy one, and yet they seem to be the only things I want to fic. I never read or watch such things, normally. And when I get into shows like my current one, SGA, it's because of the fic, not the other way around. So maybe that's something, and something to do with impulse.

I get the thing about not feeling the need to fix anything - I think that's a common explanation for fic, esp slash - or at least to lay out more fully things we think we see/want to see - but I wrote in HP for three years and never felt the need to fix something. Even after Deathly Hallows, I still don't. Like you, I just HAVE to write sometimes.

Hee. I should check and see if I made secretsolitaire's HP list. *g* I'll come sulk with you if I didn't. *pokes you both*

[secretsolitaire]

*whispers* You made the list.

*runs away*

[rinsbane]

Hee. *double poke* I'll have to look, but if I had to hazard a guess, I'd say Mustard Seed because I think you said you liked that best of all mine when I posted it. Or maybe it's just one of my own favorites.

[secretsolitaire]

You're right, of course. Though I adore the Bill/Charlie one as well. (More word porn, plus it's my guilty pleasure pairing.) And the Minerva-Millicent one. Oh, and the Snarry Christmas one that pretty much sent me into convulsions last December!

*pokes back and loves*

[xie_xie_xie]

I'll confess to you that before QAF, I not only didn't write fan fic, I didn't read it, and I thought it was the stupidest thing I'd ever heard of. EVERYONE knows that fan fic sucks, right? And of course, I knew that because I had never read any

[rinsbane]

Heh. I was reading fanfic before I knew what it was. About eight years ago, I was doing a search for something Highlander related and came across slash. I didn't even know that people wrote fanfic. I fell in love in about 45 seconds and never looked back. It took another four or so years before I began to write, though

[secretsolitaire]

Ahh, giving me a taste of my own medicine, eh? ;-) Well, let's see if I can explain the love at all. For me, it's all about the characters. HP is actually an anomaly for me because I'm not really that into fantasy or scifi. I love the HP books for the magical world and the page-turning plot, but I don't think I would have gotten into the fandom at all if I hadn't cared so much about certain characters and how they fit together. The magical stuff is just kind of a cool bonus. When I think back on other fandoms I've dabbled in -- Newsies, The Outsiders, Brokeback Mountain, Grey's Anatomy, The Charioteer and obviously Queer as Folk -- they're all based firmly in reality. (Well, I suppose you could quibble about just how realistic Newsies and Grey's Anatomy are, but you know what I mean. *g

[rinsbane]

Ahh, giving me a taste of my own medicine. Hee. I hadn't thought of that until I posted the question, and then I laughed at what I'd done. I never was into sci fi or fantasy, either - I don't read it in novel form - but it appears to be to me what attracts me to fandom. Even when I read orig slash fic, I'm only interested in fantasy-based fic. I don't like orig fic that's just modern gay fic, even slash (as opposed to gay fiction). But omg - can I just tell you in utter panic about BSG? I really can't take another fandom right now, not in the way that I fear BSG might pull me in if I gave it so much as an inch. I'm barely over my feelings of betrayal of HP; there's no way I can betray SGA like that so soon. *panic* I can have one primary fandom and several secondary easily, but HP wants to be primary and SGA does too (and is at the moment), and I feel in my gut that BSG could easily be too. In-fighting among my crushes! I'm just goig to back away from BSG now.I loved Brian too. Justin took a while to grow on me - he needed

[secretsolitaire]

I never was into sci fi or fantasy, either - I don't read it in novel form - but it appears to be to me what attracts me to fandom. Even when I read orig slash fic, I'm only interested in fantasy-based fic.Hunh, interesting! Wonder why that is. I guess it's like wondering why you like certain foods, or musical artists, or sexual kinks...we are what we are

[rinsbane]

Battlestar Galactica. It's a space opera-drama. But where SGA is mostly light and happy and has a lot of comedy (and not enough character development), BSG is a drama. It's a much better show than SGA, honestly (which is my big gay space opera, yay!). DOn't get me wrong - I LOVE SGA (duh!), but it's all about the fanon, not the canon. Okay, and the pretty John Sheppard and the adorkable Rodney. But it was the fic that made me love SGA. I watch the canon 1) to see the boys snark at each other, and 2) to get the canon to be able to play with the fanon. Which is amazing

[xie_xie_xie]

I love... love... love BSG. It's the best show on television today. But I would never in a million years write in it.

I adore Michael and I adore Ted. I'm a big huge cheeseball and I just love QAF.