That Latest 'Meme' Thing

[randy_o]

I don't usually do this, but it  looks kind of fun . . .

First TV show I had self-insertion fantasies about:
Bonanza -- if it counts that I used to fantasize myself as Little Joe Cartwright.  First time I self-inserted as my own original character was Gunsmoke -- in the Burt Reynolds years.

First fandom in which I interacted (online and in person)

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[heartofoshun]

I did do book and movie self-insertion occasionally in the form of plays at home with my sisters and cousins. I can relate to little Joe Cartwright. I remember liking him.

LeRouret's Pottymouth--I remember thinking Legolas was adorable. It could almost make one ship Eowyn/Legolas. She made them seem so well-matched--it got so romantic as it went on also--impending tragedy finally given a happy ending. She was Meeeeen to Faramir though and I like Faramir (and more than a tad homophobic), but she wrote a sequel where she fixed that somewhat. She is a passionate writer. I like that.

You are a role-play virgin also.

[randy_o]

My media related fantasies were always private, but I began them young. I wonder if this is something writers have in common -- the desire to insert ourselves into the tale somehow?

I was kind of blown away by the explicit erotica in Pottymouth to begin with, since this was a huge no-no back in my LucasFilm days. But then it was the sheer outrageous difference of it. This wasn't just some random person along on the Ring Quest, retelling the same old story from a fresh point of view. And then I went back to the source and realized the scope of Tolkien's world and saw all the possibilities where the story hadn't been fleshed out.

[heartofoshun]

I read it early in my Tolkien fandom days and it was so in-the-face of all of the pressure that was being put on me at that moment in time--explicit sex, the profanity, the humanity of it all. And the way of throwing it all in the air and letting it land where it may. I read it in almost one sitting--racing through it.

[randy_o]

Same here. All 22(?) chapters in one day. As for the pressure, I had run across the PPC at that point, but I saw nothing un-canonical about that story. It all 'could have happened' given the scenario she set up. Because underneath the cycle-leathers and the F-word every other sentence, that was the Legolas we all knew. He'd just changed a bit over the millennia.

I do remember the pressure to write a certain way, though.

[randy_o]

Cool! I think kids have been writing fanfiction in their heads forever. I just never grew up.

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