Fandom round-up
Jan. 22nd, 2015 09:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
In 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?
