Yuletide FIC: Arm's Reach (Galaxy Rangers)
So yuletide reveals have happened and I can now talk about the fic I wrote:
Arm's Reach (2666 words) by Wolfling
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Zachary Foxx, Shane Gooseman, Niko (Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers), Walter Hartford
Additional Tags: episode coda
Summary:
Zachary's arm may be as good as new, but that doesn't mean there aren't after effects. A coda for the episode Rogue Arm.
I was obsessed with Galaxy Rangers back when the show first aired in this area (1987, yes I am old, shut up). I wrote copious amount of fic for it, most of which was a weird amalgamation of bad melodrama of the soap opera type and fluff, a good deal of that self-insert, and pretty much all of which was horrible. The kind of thing that leaves me very thankful that this was all before the internet was a thing so there's no lasting evidence of this point in my development as a writer.
Rewatching the series (and seeing some eps that I have no memory of having seen before) with an eye to writing fic for it was interesting. To my relief I still enjoyed the show, (rewatching things that I'd loved when I was significantly younger has not always turned out that way) and had a few ideas right off the bat. What was interesting to me though was that most of these ideas either focused on Zachary Fox or were in his pov. Back when I watched the show before Zach had been my least favorite character and I wrote him in as little as possible so to find him the focal point of my ideas now was bemusing.
When it came to the actual writing, I think the past experience I had writing the characters helped, even if it was over 25 years ago. All the voices came easily, it felt like I was getting the characters right and then it was just a matter of making sure the plot made some sort of sense.
I got a flaily Kermit gif as a comment from my recepient so I'm taking that to mean I succeeded.
Also the first kudos on the fic was from
james which I found hilarious because we've written so much together though never anything Galaxy Rangers. Which, considering how easy it would've been to turn Goose into a centaur...
All in all it was a really positive experience (and I got a Star Wars Rebels fic as my gift which made me squee!) so I'll probably try and do Yuletide again next year.
Star Wars and Dragon Age are doing a good job of monopolizing my muse right now, but I might even go back and write one of the other Galaxy Ranger ideas I had eventually. Hopefully before another 25 years goes by.
Arm's Reach (2666 words) by Wolfling
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Zachary Foxx, Shane Gooseman, Niko (Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers), Walter Hartford
Additional Tags: episode coda
Summary:
Zachary's arm may be as good as new, but that doesn't mean there aren't after effects. A coda for the episode Rogue Arm.
I was obsessed with Galaxy Rangers back when the show first aired in this area (1987, yes I am old, shut up). I wrote copious amount of fic for it, most of which was a weird amalgamation of bad melodrama of the soap opera type and fluff, a good deal of that self-insert, and pretty much all of which was horrible. The kind of thing that leaves me very thankful that this was all before the internet was a thing so there's no lasting evidence of this point in my development as a writer.
Rewatching the series (and seeing some eps that I have no memory of having seen before) with an eye to writing fic for it was interesting. To my relief I still enjoyed the show, (rewatching things that I'd loved when I was significantly younger has not always turned out that way) and had a few ideas right off the bat. What was interesting to me though was that most of these ideas either focused on Zachary Fox or were in his pov. Back when I watched the show before Zach had been my least favorite character and I wrote him in as little as possible so to find him the focal point of my ideas now was bemusing.
When it came to the actual writing, I think the past experience I had writing the characters helped, even if it was over 25 years ago. All the voices came easily, it felt like I was getting the characters right and then it was just a matter of making sure the plot made some sort of sense.
I got a flaily Kermit gif as a comment from my recepient so I'm taking that to mean I succeeded.
Also the first kudos on the fic was from
james which I found hilarious because we've written so much together though never anything Galaxy Rangers. Which, considering how easy it would've been to turn Goose into a centaur...
All in all it was a really positive experience (and I got a Star Wars Rebels fic as my gift which made me squee!) so I'll probably try and do Yuletide again next year.
Star Wars and Dragon Age are doing a good job of monopolizing my muse right now, but I might even go back and write one of the other Galaxy Ranger ideas I had eventually. Hopefully before another 25 years goes by.