Public embarrassment meme

[vilakins]

Publicly embarrass yourself too!
Post your first fan fiction ever. C'mon, I showed you mine, now show me yours!

I've been writing since I started school, but fanfic? My very first fanfic was Vila Restal's Emails (first under "Humour" on this page), which I started writing while I was watching Blake's 7 reruns in 2001. Wow, 9 years ago! :-P They

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[samantha_vimes]

Hmm. That would be the Leela's TARDIS series, but what I have of it is in little newsletters in storage.

[vilakins]

So DW was your first fandom?

[samantha_vimes]

Pretty much. I mean, I was keen on some SF and fantasy works before then, but it was my first opportunity to geek out with others in a recurring fashion, and deeply influential on me.

[ultrapsychobrat]

My first story was before there were computers--actually, I think it was a poem. I'll see if I can dig it up.

[vilakins]

I wrote a series of stories called The Adventures of Naughty Amelia when I was 6. They were what it says on the box: a very naughty girl who got away with doing a lot of mischief without there being any moral to the stories whatsoever. They were very popular with the other kids at school. I wrote a lot of other stories after that, including two novel-length ones complete with illustrations s at high school, but none of them were fanfic. That came with B7.

[azdak]

I adored Vila Restal's Emails. I thought they were among the funniest things I'd ever read. They were a real eye-opener to me - up till then I'd thought fanfic was a poor substitute for the show. I'd had no idea that it could be so clever and so witty and so satisfying.

[vilakins]

Awwww, thank you! [huge grin] I wrote those to cheer myself up during bleak season 4 and thought that maybe a handful of friends might eventually read them. They were so easy to write too, being all basically dialogue.

[sallymn]

I remember them all, and they're lovely.

And I so know who you mean... I can't believe she's still going...

[vilakins]

Thanks! They were fun to write, even though I didn't realise I was encouraging her. You'd think she'd have given up by now. I occasionally see her messages when someone replies to one, and they're the same sort of thing. :-P

[hafren]

Well, the mailing-list person may have been a pain but at least now and hten, she did inspire something like this! I loved the way your fics redressed, for me, a lack of realisation, among many fans, that Vila was always the star...:)

[vilakins]

[laughs with pure delight] Why else was he in every episode?