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suki_blue

GIP and a fanfic question.

May 02, 2006 20:33

I was having a look through some of the old files on my laptop and I came across a few caps that I'd done of the first season of 21 Jumpstreet - my original obsession and the series that kicked off a Johnny Depp fixation that spanned 14 years ( Read more... )

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velvetwhip May 2 2006, 13:10:55 UTC

You and I have something in common. We both stopped writing at fourteen. I started again at thirty six.

Had I known of fanfiction when I was younger, I think I would have searched for something based on classic films. And I would definitely have wanted Jeff/Johnny slash from Johnny Eager. I also would have wanted anything based on A Woman's Face where Torsten doesn't die and he Anna kill that meddling doctor!

Gabrielle

suki_blue May 2 2006, 13:32:40 UTC

How weird! It must be something about the ago of 14! I started again almost two years ago, which would have made me 28.

I'm not too up on classic films, but that sounds really cool! I hadn't even thought about going back that far, era wise. I wonder how many people wrote their own version of fanfic back then.

velvetwhip May 2 2006, 13:45:00 UTC

OMG! It's almost my two year anniversary as a fic writer, too! EEEK! The parallells are becoming rather freaky!

Actually, writing Jeff/Johnny (Johnny Eager) slash would be quite appropriate. Most people agree that when Van Heflin won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for playing Jeff, he was the first actor portraying a gay character to do so. While, since this movie was made in the 40's, no one comes out and refers to Jeff as being gay in the film, it's pretty obvious that his devotion to Johnny (the title character) is something other than platonic. I, like you, wonder if gay viewers wrote, or at least dreamed up, fanfic of their own after seeing this movie. I'm sure they all saw what modern viewers do. And I'm pretty sure the director put it there on purpose!

Gabrielle

suki_blue May 2 2006, 14:38:32 UTC

Wow! This is getting freaky. Seperated at birth!!!!

Oooh, that is interesting. I need to catch this film. The viewers must have at least dreamed up some stuff in their heads, even if they didn't dare put it down on paper.

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batmanvinnie May 2 2006, 13:43:59 UTC

I'm a nerd, so yeah, totally upons the Star Trek. Of course, ten years ago, I didn't hate Tom Cruise, so maybe some Top Gun or Speed. Cuz thats what I watched when I was 14. But thinking about it, I find the T/N pairing hot.

suki_blue May 2 2006, 14:11:31 UTC

Oh, yeah, I wonder how much Top Gun was written. It's so very interesting!!

woman_of_ May 2 2006, 14:53:57 UTC

Well through the ages! Maybe Doyle and Brodie...I think they would have made a great slash couple. The Painted Dragon, but cant think of anyone good enough for him.

The problem being I had to read slash to learn how to write it. Bit slow on the uptake. I think I would have been het at the time, and probably a Mary Sue as well.

suki_blue May 3 2006, 03:40:22 UTC

You know, I think I would have written some Het too. Although ym slashy tendancies were showing way back before I even hit teenage status!

Cool!

writan_bur May 2 2006, 21:25:47 UTC

I'd probably written A-Team and Dukes of Hazzard.

I never really wrote anything fictional until I had a creative writing class in Grade 12, and then not until I had another at uni in 2003. I was usually too busy either mentally writing (aka daydreaming) Mary Sues or reading.

suki_blue May 3 2006, 03:41:45 UTC

Oh, yeah!! I think I would have written A-Team, too!! I had a major crush on Face for a long time.

And yes for the DoH, too!!

leprechaundance May 2 2006, 22:37:36 UTC

hmm, it would have probably been anime/graphic novel slash (or het, depending on if we're talking before the slash epiphany or after). And by graphic novel I pretty much just mean The Sandman series; I didn't really branch out into other graphic novels until fairly recently.

suki_blue May 3 2006, 03:45:05 UTC

Wow. Yeah, I can totally see that. Talking of anime type stuff, I had quite a Crush on Cloud from Final Fantasy 7. And you know, it was only recently, thanks to Kitty, that I discovered Yaoi. If only we'd had that ten years ago!

What type of graphic novels do you read now?

leprechaundance May 3 2006, 23:25:51 UTC

What type of graphic novels do you read now?

I've been really into Crimson. It's a vampire epic-battle-between-good-and-evil kind of story. haha, my favorite kind XD

suki_blue May 4 2006, 02:01:07 UTC

Hee! Sounds like my type of thing too!