Fandom round-up
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scripsiIn the Snowflake Challenge someone on Dreamwidth (that I don’t have, though perhaps I should make a mirror account, but, well…) challenged people to do a fandom round up. I promptly forgot who it was, but I like the idea, so here it is.
Peter Pan
This was my first fandom and I used it largely to work out some issues so they are generally dark and deals with a lot of subjects that can be very triggering. Well, I mostly write such stuff, but the really dark fics are all here. It is all a bit claustrophobic with only two settings in the canon and only three main characters. As a result there is also a rather limited number of plot lines and many of my fics from this fandom are quite alike. But at the time, in 2004/2005 I wrote rather feverishly. I read through them all recently and still like some, have re-written a few that I really gelled for me before and find many of them rather problematic. Most of those are f-locked, but I think I will pull some completely sooner or later. I haven’t posted any of the re-writes here, but they are/will be posted on An Archive of Our Own. I still have a story rattling around my brain which I may write down, but that one, I feel, will be my last Peter Pan-fic.
Doctor Who
If Peter Pan was my very first fandom, Doctor Who is my last (for now). As a long-time fan of the show, both the classic series and the new one, I’m a little surprised over myself that I have never read or written fanfiction from the fandom before the autumn and it is largely behind my newfound love for fandom in general, even if I never stopped writing completely. If Peter Pan is limited, Doctor Who is the complete opposite. With a show were a regular change of the major lead is built into the history there are, for now, fourteen different Doctors to write about, a huge number of companions and villains and the possibility to set the scene anywhere, future or past, Earth or somewhere in space. Love it!
The Historian
I got bitten by the vampire bug when I was eleven, or so, when I saw In Search of Dracula on TV. It’s a documentary about both the real Vlad Tepes and the fictional Dracula and both were played by Christopher Lee. Throughout my teens I read and watched everything vampire related and I still have a deep love for the genre, even if vampires are a bit inflated now and I dislike the vampire as a hero, which seems to be rather a rule nowadays. I want my vampires evil, thank you very much. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova is a wonderful book, but Dracula have been written by so many that I feel that my fanfics here are the closest I have ever written to an original story and I think they can be read by anyone who enjoys a vampire story.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
A bit of an one-hit, all right, four-hit, wonder for me. The book scared me as a child and I found Johnny Depp’s portrayal extremely creepy, which sparked my few stories, but I doubt I will write more.
Sleepy Hollow
I love the movie. As a Swede I had never heard about The Legend of Sleepy Hollow before and I also thought it was a kind of 18th century detective story, so I was quite shocked when it turned out that the Headless Hosesman was a real ghost. I haven’t written many Sleepy-Hollow stories, but one of my favourite fics are here, Mary’s Tale. It is still a work in progress and I just realised that I haven’t updated it in four years, but I have the whole story mapped out and I will finish it.
Harry Potter and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
In theory these two fandoms ought to be ideal for me. A large cast, plenty of characters who have an ambivalent attitude to good and evil and fluid settings and I love the books/movies/TV-shows with a passion. But for some reason they just don’t spark my imagination more than every now and then.
Pirates of the Caribeean, The Mummy and Penny Dreadful
All one-hit wonders and I doubt I will write more from the first two. When it comes to PotC and The Mummy I only like the first movies anyway and I don’t feel I have anything more to add. Penny Dreadful, on the other hand, may very well have more coming. I love the TV-show! Watch it! Vampires and werewolfs and Timothy Dalton, oh my. Plus a good sprinkle of Frankenstein and his monster and Dorian Grey and a completely outstanding Eva Green. Can’t it be April soon?
Peter Pan
This was my first fandom and I used it largely to work out some issues so they are generally dark and deals with a lot of subjects that can be very triggering. Well, I mostly write such stuff, but the really dark fics are all here. It is all a bit claustrophobic with only two settings in the canon and only three main characters. As a result there is also a rather limited number of plot lines and many of my fics from this fandom are quite alike. But at the time, in 2004/2005 I wrote rather feverishly. I read through them all recently and still like some, have re-written a few that I really gelled for me before and find many of them rather problematic. Most of those are f-locked, but I think I will pull some completely sooner or later. I haven’t posted any of the re-writes here, but they are/will be posted on An Archive of Our Own. I still have a story rattling around my brain which I may write down, but that one, I feel, will be my last Peter Pan-fic.
Doctor Who
If Peter Pan was my very first fandom, Doctor Who is my last (for now). As a long-time fan of the show, both the classic series and the new one, I’m a little surprised over myself that I have never read or written fanfiction from the fandom before the autumn and it is largely behind my newfound love for fandom in general, even if I never stopped writing completely. If Peter Pan is limited, Doctor Who is the complete opposite. With a show were a regular change of the major lead is built into the history there are, for now, fourteen different Doctors to write about, a huge number of companions and villains and the possibility to set the scene anywhere, future or past, Earth or somewhere in space. Love it!
The Historian
I got bitten by the vampire bug when I was eleven, or so, when I saw In Search of Dracula on TV. It’s a documentary about both the real Vlad Tepes and the fictional Dracula and both were played by Christopher Lee. Throughout my teens I read and watched everything vampire related and I still have a deep love for the genre, even if vampires are a bit inflated now and I dislike the vampire as a hero, which seems to be rather a rule nowadays. I want my vampires evil, thank you very much. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova is a wonderful book, but Dracula have been written by so many that I feel that my fanfics here are the closest I have ever written to an original story and I think they can be read by anyone who enjoys a vampire story.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
A bit of an one-hit, all right, four-hit, wonder for me. The book scared me as a child and I found Johnny Depp’s portrayal extremely creepy, which sparked my few stories, but I doubt I will write more.
Sleepy Hollow
I love the movie. As a Swede I had never heard about The Legend of Sleepy Hollow before and I also thought it was a kind of 18th century detective story, so I was quite shocked when it turned out that the Headless Hosesman was a real ghost. I haven’t written many Sleepy-Hollow stories, but one of my favourite fics are here, Mary’s Tale. It is still a work in progress and I just realised that I haven’t updated it in four years, but I have the whole story mapped out and I will finish it.
Harry Potter and Buffy the Vampire Slayer
In theory these two fandoms ought to be ideal for me. A large cast, plenty of characters who have an ambivalent attitude to good and evil and fluid settings and I love the books/movies/TV-shows with a passion. But for some reason they just don’t spark my imagination more than every now and then.
Pirates of the Caribeean, The Mummy and Penny Dreadful
All one-hit wonders and I doubt I will write more from the first two. When it comes to PotC and The Mummy I only like the first movies anyway and I don’t feel I have anything more to add. Penny Dreadful, on the other hand, may very well have more coming. I love the TV-show! Watch it! Vampires and werewolfs and Timothy Dalton, oh my. Plus a good sprinkle of Frankenstein and his monster and Dorian Grey and a completely outstanding Eva Green. Can’t it be April soon?
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Date: 2015-01-22 02:43 pm (UTC)Gabrielle
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Date: 2015-01-23 08:38 am (UTC)At least, that is the only reason I can find. :)
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Date: 2015-01-22 04:10 pm (UTC)Obviously, the decision to pull some of the Peter Pan fics is completely up to you and your level of comfort. I just wanted to let you know that some people, like me, are still reading them. My personal working through these issues led me to realize that I will most likely always have these fantasies. My recognition of the differences between a purely sexual fantasy and a relationship model described in fiction is what allows me to be at peace with it. To me, nothing about these fantasies is transferable to real life, unlike novels such as Twilight and 50 Shades of Gray, where people could try to emulate the relationship models described.
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Date: 2015-01-23 08:57 am (UTC)The fics I feel ambivalent against are not the non-con stories per ce, I still write those, after all but the ones that mix it with underage characters. It’s not part of my fantasies at all, but a metaphor for how extremely vulnerable you feel when someone do something to you that you don’t want and can’t stop. I don’t feel the need to write those stories anymore and I do know that many people find it extremely triggering and icky. But for now I will satisfy myself with friends-locking them.