I absolutely love fanfic. Some of it is truly horrific, some of it is really good, and some of it is just plain HOT.
I get in to trouble with fanfic. I have a bit of an addiction for it, really. I've lost many a night to a good fanfic story, and many a dollar to hosting a fanfic site for a fandom I was TOTALLY obsessed with.
My biggest problem with the world of fanfic is that I get so involved in it that it starts taking away from RL. I've noticed a major inverse relationship between the amount of fanfic I read and my general happiness level with RL relationships (mainly my marriage). It's as if fanfic points out in great detail everything I don't have in RL and makes me want it all the more.
I think part of it for me is that my head is one giant fanfic, so, sort of like you, spending too much time in it, or reading other people's fanfic, takes away a lot of time from RL. And yeah, RL sucks big hairy monkey balls compared to that fanfic world in my head most days. Which is why I think I have such a high standard for any written fanfic. If it can't compete with what's already in my head, why am I reading it? Of course that's probably one of the (many) reasons my relationships with members of the other gender are so warped ;)
To start off, I absolutely love your statement, "I think part of it for me is that my head is one gigantic fanfic." I have rarely read anything, by anybody, that struck home the way that did. Yup, my head, too. Never thought of it that way before. Thanks for the words and image! :)
I enjoy a lot of fanfic. In early 1971, a present for a gay friend, I wrote him a slash story of Watson seducing Holmes, complete with Victorian language. I didn't even know there was a name for that kind of stuff!!!
I still read a few authors I really enjoy in my fandom of choice over at fanfiction.net. I've even started writing a little of it again. Frustrating that I have written two slash and three "whole gang" stories, and the slashes get all he favoriting and the reviews. Go figure.
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I get in to trouble with fanfic. I have a bit of an addiction for it, really. I've lost many a night to a good fanfic story, and many a dollar to hosting a fanfic site for a fandom I was TOTALLY obsessed with.
My biggest problem with the world of fanfic is that I get so involved in it that it starts taking away from RL. I've noticed a major inverse relationship between the amount of fanfic I read and my general happiness level with RL relationships (mainly my marriage). It's as if fanfic points out in great detail everything I don't have in RL and makes me want it all the more.
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Of course that's probably one of the (many) reasons my relationships with members of the other gender are so warped ;)
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I enjoy a lot of fanfic. In early 1971, a present for a gay friend, I wrote him a slash story of Watson seducing Holmes, complete with Victorian language. I didn't even know there was a name for that kind of stuff!!!
I still read a few authors I really enjoy in my fandom of choice over at fanfiction.net. I've even started writing a little of it again. Frustrating that I have written two slash and three "whole gang" stories, and the slashes get all he favoriting and the reviews. Go figure.
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I have found fanfiction.net to have some really good fic (really bad, too, but generally the quality is good).
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