30DoF: Day 1
Nov. 21st, 2010 12:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
zosimosSo, new 30 Day meme. Told y'all I'd do another one, and what better one to work on in November than a writing 30 Day meme.
Day 1: How did you first get into writing fanfic, and what as the first fandom you wrote for? What do you think it was about that fandom that pulled you in?
Ooh, multi-part questions that allow me to ramble at length, A+. I have been writing fanfic for as long as I can remember. Just this past summer my mother unearthed writings scrawled in the first and second grade, my epic chronicles of a Great Pony War where I wrote about my My Little Ponies and magic adventures with them. So I guess, technically then the first fandom I wrote for would be My Little Pony, hahaha.
In reality, though, I would say the first fandom I wrote fic for, specifically and understanding what fanfic was, was for Batman: The Animated Series. Way back in the day, in the late 90's I wrote an incredibly detailed universe set in the animated DCU, with lots of original characters and even fully integrated with the Batman Beyond universe. I was so, so proud of it. It was before I had a LJ, before FF.N so I had nowhere to post it. (Something I'm grateful for now.) Batman: TAS had something that drew me to anime - darker storylines, adult without being gratuitous. I was the age of the characters I wrote about, I felt a fierce sort of camaraderie with them - I never really liked the "adult" characters because as a young teenager there was a full realization of the "us versus them" that the age bracket seems firmly mired in. I wanted nothing more than to race along the rooftops with Robin and Nightwing, kicking bad guys' ass and taking names. It was an imperfect outlet, sure, and my original characters started out as Sues with some basic window dressing. Looking back at them now I can see the wish fulfillment built into the characters, but I did a lot with them that most people who write Sues don't bother with, I thought. The characters grew and changed. Some of them learned from their experiences, dropped out of the game. Others were stupid and paid the price. My favorite "Sue" was cocky and abrasive and no one liked her. She became friends with some of the other characters as she learned to dial it back and grow up.
I sought through fic the friendships I couldn't have in real life - and it became a theme in my fanfiction until I got out of the town I was born in and grew up myself.
Now, it's time to pack it in and work on that NaNo - I have a lot to get through.
Day 1: How did you first get into writing fanfic, and what as the first fandom you wrote for? What do you think it was about that fandom that pulled you in?
Ooh, multi-part questions that allow me to ramble at length, A+. I have been writing fanfic for as long as I can remember. Just this past summer my mother unearthed writings scrawled in the first and second grade, my epic chronicles of a Great Pony War where I wrote about my My Little Ponies and magic adventures with them. So I guess, technically then the first fandom I wrote for would be My Little Pony, hahaha.
In reality, though, I would say the first fandom I wrote fic for, specifically and understanding what fanfic was, was for Batman: The Animated Series. Way back in the day, in the late 90's I wrote an incredibly detailed universe set in the animated DCU, with lots of original characters and even fully integrated with the Batman Beyond universe. I was so, so proud of it. It was before I had a LJ, before FF.N so I had nowhere to post it. (Something I'm grateful for now.) Batman: TAS had something that drew me to anime - darker storylines, adult without being gratuitous. I was the age of the characters I wrote about, I felt a fierce sort of camaraderie with them - I never really liked the "adult" characters because as a young teenager there was a full realization of the "us versus them" that the age bracket seems firmly mired in. I wanted nothing more than to race along the rooftops with Robin and Nightwing, kicking bad guys' ass and taking names. It was an imperfect outlet, sure, and my original characters started out as Sues with some basic window dressing. Looking back at them now I can see the wish fulfillment built into the characters, but I did a lot with them that most people who write Sues don't bother with, I thought. The characters grew and changed. Some of them learned from their experiences, dropped out of the game. Others were stupid and paid the price. My favorite "Sue" was cocky and abrasive and no one liked her. She became friends with some of the other characters as she learned to dial it back and grow up.
I sought through fic the friendships I couldn't have in real life - and it became a theme in my fanfiction until I got out of the town I was born in and grew up myself.
Now, it's time to pack it in and work on that NaNo - I have a lot to get through.