Getting some kudos and a few small comments on my old X-Files fic led to me reading some of them, and I'm wondering if the lusher, somewhat more florid writing there, also with more metaphors and similes, is because I read more published fiction back then while these days read a lot of fanfic and Chinese danmei (which has some similarities to ( Read more... )

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I've been getting kudos on some old fics of mine involving Gambit, especially the one Gambit/Wolverine fic, recently and wondering if it's because X-Men '97 has been playing.

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I've been going through some old fic of mine and sometimes finding typos. (Over 20 years later. How....) In one 1999 X-Files fic, the characters have a conversation ( Read more... )

I got news Thursday that a college friend in Pittsburgh has only weeks to live. The tumor they'd removed came back quickly with a vengeance. She's the person who got me into internet slash fic because in college in the early 90s I'd loan her so many slashy books. Longtime fen in The X-Files or who were aware of my Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place ( Read more... )

I have mixed feelings. On the one hand, yay, TER/MA is migrating their collection to AO3 and included my works. Boo, they never e-mailed me even though my e-mail is the same so now I have to delete 8 newly made copies of my fic and contact Open Doors to redirect 11 of my already existing fics to the TER/MA collection, manually including each title ( Read more... )

As part of the December posting meme,
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Today BBC America aired a clutch of great old X-Files episodes today--"Folie à Deux," "Drive," "Monday," and "Bad Blood" (I wasn't as enthused by "How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" and "The Post-Modern Prometheus," the last of which I always thought was overrated)--reminding me how good the show, my first fandom, could be. Though apparently Mulder ( Read more... )

I didn't expect to get a paid year of Dreamwidth from
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The twentieth anniversary of me finding online fanfiction passed recently; I know this because I remember very clearly going to my mother's home in Pennsylvania for Christmas and being upset that I wouldn't have any internet there and couldn't continue devouring the Mulder/Krycek Romantics Association site's fics ( Read more... )