(Untitled)

[karneol_vision]

My liking of a story is never driven by the plot. If the characters do not appeal to me then reading will get very tedious after a while no matter how beautiful the writing or whether the story is good or 'valuable

Comments

[nevermind68]

i understand you. It`s hard to make yourself to read something where the heroes arouse no enthusiasm, no sympathy...

[karneol_vision]

Hm, it's not exactly that... If this was not fanfiction but the characters were chracters I don't know instead of actual already existing people, like football players here in the fandom, maybe I'd feel diffrently.

You know, those are good characters actually, but they're none that I am interested in. It's like I said so many times, I am not interested in most footballersin the footie fandom...and even if the stry is pretty good I can't keep up an interest and the sympathy for the characters... or find them hot if I just don't... :(

No true enthusiasm indeed... nothing that goes to the core...

[nevermind68]

Oh, I see.
i don`t think that it`s only with you. I doubt that there are many people, in our fandom for example, could read not everything, but the most part of pairings, because they are more interested in their own OTP.

[karneol_vision]

Yes, but it's not the fault of those who are reading. I mean you can't expect a reader to be interested in exactly thsoe players that you write, no? Of course that's neither a fault of the writers, they usually simply write about those players that they are interested in.

I just find it sad because there are so many long stories with lots of characters or pairings and I'd be tempted to read them, but I won't because - despite the author obviously using about every existing player in the world - there are no characters for me in the story, and I know exactly where this is going so I don't even start *shrugs*

[karneol_vision]

Yes, very much so.

And it is rare. And there are those moments when I decide to read a story without my characters or pairings.
But my interest usually fades at some point. The enthusiam of the writer for their characters and often for very certain characters whom they obviously love beyond anything... it gets trough too hugely most of the time. (For me.) That would be not at all a bad thing per se, BUT I am not keen on the character in person and in the way he usually is described in the fandom. (The original picture as you say.) I must, and want to, get to know and get to like them in the story as the character he is in the story, for I'm not interested in him in any other way.

[karneol_vision]

That is true. I enoy AU for the same reason, but for AU apply the same rules. We start either from scratch or froma common place. And with most writers I just don't share any common place, and the 'from scratch' is not always as from scratch as it's supposed to be.
I can't feel anything just because I'm expected to do so, just because others do. I read those comments and I just can't feel the same because I don't start squeeing only because the thought and the image 'Bojan' crosses my mind, or something like that, lol.

It's a pity to hear that. I hope you're still being creative in some interesting way though.

... I have found that non-slash tends to bore me most of the time. If it's not some great literature or something really weird that appeals to me greatly.
And also I avoid anything that has love-story lines of the heterosexual persuasion, haha.
It's sad.

[sophiamoon]

I've seen it more often in the fanfiction community. Though some have it very strongly, and some hardly at all.

Despite me reading anything that moves on legs and has slash in it (all the rest I actively avoid), I still consider myself a writer first, middle and last. And I don't even have to care about whom I write, I'll start doing that when I write them almost by default. Though there are graduations of love, of course.

I love writing requests for you, btw, because you feel so strongly about it. Makes it extra special.

[karneol_vision]

:) Thank you.

Yes, I get that :)
Heh, you know, I so often keep thinking how I wish it was always so easy to become interested in characters as it was with your Ravages, but then it wouldn't be anything special anymore of course.
I can't say I cared about Daniel Agger or Finns as football slash characters before that, even though I had read a couple of fics with Daniel; it was not my cup of tea really. But when I read Ravages those were truly new and original characters. It didn't matter what I thought about them before I started reading, because I could feel them the way they were in your story and that was stronger than the feelings from before or any indifference.

[sophiamoon]

I guess ravages is the weird one, the odd one out, the thing that's just there and you have no idea how it ever got into your head.