... was my actual first fandom, when I was in high school and just finding out what fandom was. I would go to Creation Cons back in the 80s, and sometimes there would be some zines for sale under the table in the dealers' room. Oh, the epic Mary Sue romances, and novel-length stories about the fall of Anakin Skywalker! The plotty fics about that ( Read more... )

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Hello LJ (or Dreamwidth)! Long time no see! Or write, at least. I do read here, honest. But then so long goes past without posting that I feel overwhelmed by having too many things to say ( Read more... )

I see the list of "ten signs I wrote this story" meme is going around again, and cannot resist navel-gazing. I did this meme back in January of 2006, which is not all that long ago except in fandom terms. Here it is, with additions in parentheses. Bold parentheses!

10 signs a story is by Vanzetti:1. Shameless overuse of the "then + verb" ( Read more... )

There's a very interesting discussion of het and slash over here in rydra_wong's journal, which has so far managed to avoid degenerating into "my pairings are better than your pairings," perhaps because the discussion has remained focused on the question of what works for individual readers and writers. So if you go over there, don't stir up shit ( Read more... )

So tomorrow I leave for the post-holiday migration, back to Halifax and work. Alas. And earlier today there was a computer-related scare, in which I lost about ten open tabs of Yuletide stories I meant to read, but I'm sure I can find them again later ( Read more... )

twinkledru was thinking about Mary Sue, and loligo asked about original character romances. I've said what I have to say about both of these issues more than once, but I did start thinking a bit about writing. In fact I started thinking about putting my money where my mouth is and writing a story with a main character OC ( Read more... )

Seen everywhere! Of course, by posting this Saturday morning I can be relatively sure that no one will read this.

Ten Signs the Story You're Reading Is by Vanzetti1. Shameless overuse of the "then + verb" construction. Must break this habit ( Read more... )

I wasn't going to update today, but here I am. I hope that everyone else is off doing more interesting things with their Saturday nights.

I followed a link to this rather interesting post about self-insertion fantasies and the use of Mary Sue as a shaming term in fannish discourse (for the record, I have elaborate gen fantasies involving a Mary ( Read more... )

I really like the "five crushes you had as a child/teenager" meme, if only as an excuse to dredge up some fond yet embarrassing memories.

1. Aragorn. I've had this crush since I was seven. It comes and goes, but I see no reason to give it up.
2. Dr. McCoy. Even then, I liked the secondary characters. McCoy had some interesting stuff going on.
3. Luke ( Read more... )