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poisontaster: all that drawerfic I wrote in November
Dec. 13th, 2013 01:45 amhealingmirthIt's rolled over to the 13th (Friday the 13th, mwa-ha-ha-whatever) here, but I'm still awake, so there! And it's appropriate, I guess, that I'm blogging, post-midnight, about writing, most of which I did post-midnight last month.
(also: this is the last of the questions I've got, and I am nowhere near motivated enough to do that other meme, so if you've thought of something you'd like to ask, the big empty list of dates is thataway)
This entry has way too many parentheses in it. I'm sorry.
As previously mentioned, a lot of what I wrote in November was drawerfic. I've got a fairly low shame threshold for the pure ridiculousness that I'm willing to attach my pseud to, so for me, drawerfic is something that I'm generally conflicted about putting out to the world. In this case, it was RPF.
(also, part 2: appropriate that this waspoisontaster's question, because A Kept Boy was among the first bits of RPF that I remember reading. *waves*)
So, I think, with absolutely no data to back this up, that I have a pretty middle-of-the-road interaction with RPF for fandom?
I've read, commented on, and possibly recced fic in most genres of RPF, and in most of the larger fandoms. I like the idea of playing "what if" with real life people and events about on par with fictional ones. The most recent thing I have posted is Hockey RPF for the ~5th most popular pairing. It's also the longest thing I've written (should probably be shorter, but I write it WIP style on the anon meme) and most popular (despite being the only one of my stories locked to AO3). So why am I drawering possibly perfectly good words?
Transgressive tinhats freak me out, y'all. That's it. That's the drawerfic explanation in a nutshell.
I am so viscerally uncomfortable with the corner of real person fandom that gets all up in people's faces with their ship, that I just can't face the thought of putting anything else out there that might make the subjects uncomfortable. Not so uncomfortable that I can't write it, though. ~Tah-dah~
Of the stuff that I wrote last month, one story was fairly straightforward canon futurefic, and the other was canon-ish with supernatural elements, both of them in fandoms where at least once a day, despite my best efforts, I will see someone make a comment on twitter that makes me want to quarantine them from the internet for five or ten years.
I've got a few old bandom-ish stories languishing in my WIP folder, unfinished because I got bored of them rather than because I was wary about posting. Every once in a while I think about going back and doing some character work on them to see if I can reboot them into original fic in a slightly more involved way than filing the serial numbers off.
That will probably be the fate of the stuff I wrote last month, and in fact that many, many words I've written on an entirely different drawerfic this month when I get stuck on Yuletide.
I've got one other story that I sort of like, currently drawered as well, that's FPF about a character who piqued my interest, and I haven't yet been able to get over the hurdle of being the one and only fanwork for the title. Part of that is that it was going to be for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
kink_bingo amnesty, and that was one of several ways in which I felt I was doing more corrupting the original work than transforming or interrogating it. My sense is that the source deserves better than my treatment of it. Which sounds really implicitly judgey of other people who've been braver than I have. Sorry.
I'd be in less-conflicted shape about all this if there was any fictional stuff that I was currently fannish about. WTB a fandom to bandwagon. I really need to catch up on Justified.
(also: this is the last of the questions I've got, and I am nowhere near motivated enough to do that other meme, so if you've thought of something you'd like to ask, the big empty list of dates is thataway)
This entry has way too many parentheses in it. I'm sorry.
As previously mentioned, a lot of what I wrote in November was drawerfic. I've got a fairly low shame threshold for the pure ridiculousness that I'm willing to attach my pseud to, so for me, drawerfic is something that I'm generally conflicted about putting out to the world. In this case, it was RPF.
(also, part 2: appropriate that this was
poisontaster's question, because A Kept Boy was among the first bits of RPF that I remember reading. *waves*)So, I think, with absolutely no data to back this up, that I have a pretty middle-of-the-road interaction with RPF for fandom?
I've read, commented on, and possibly recced fic in most genres of RPF, and in most of the larger fandoms. I like the idea of playing "what if" with real life people and events about on par with fictional ones. The most recent thing I have posted is Hockey RPF for the ~5th most popular pairing. It's also the longest thing I've written (should probably be shorter, but I write it WIP style on the anon meme) and most popular (despite being the only one of my stories locked to AO3). So why am I drawering possibly perfectly good words?
Transgressive tinhats freak me out, y'all. That's it. That's the drawerfic explanation in a nutshell.
I am so viscerally uncomfortable with the corner of real person fandom that gets all up in people's faces with their ship, that I just can't face the thought of putting anything else out there that might make the subjects uncomfortable. Not so uncomfortable that I can't write it, though. ~Tah-dah~
Of the stuff that I wrote last month, one story was fairly straightforward canon futurefic, and the other was canon-ish with supernatural elements, both of them in fandoms where at least once a day, despite my best efforts, I will see someone make a comment on twitter that makes me want to quarantine them from the internet for five or ten years.
I've got a few old bandom-ish stories languishing in my WIP folder, unfinished because I got bored of them rather than because I was wary about posting. Every once in a while I think about going back and doing some character work on them to see if I can reboot them into original fic in a slightly more involved way than filing the serial numbers off.
That will probably be the fate of the stuff I wrote last month, and in fact that many, many words I've written on an entirely different drawerfic this month when I get stuck on Yuletide.
I've got one other story that I sort of like, currently drawered as well, that's FPF about a character who piqued my interest, and I haven't yet been able to get over the hurdle of being the one and only fanwork for the title. Part of that is that it was going to be for
kink_bingo amnesty, and that was one of several ways in which I felt I was doing more corrupting the original work than transforming or interrogating it. My sense is that the source deserves better than my treatment of it. Which sounds really implicitly judgey of other people who've been braver than I have. Sorry.I'd be in less-conflicted shape about all this if there was any fictional stuff that I was currently fannish about. WTB a fandom to bandwagon. I really need to catch up on Justified.
