Fanfic Writer's Meme
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starvinbohemian, so here we go. Ahem:
1. Which is your favorite fic?
Something from Gangs of New York, and not even a slashy one: "Only Children", in which I get to explain Bill the Butcher my way, from age maybe-ten to age maybe-47. It evolved quickly and painlessly, and continues to give me much pleasurable satisfaction. Or, on the reaaaally obscure side of things: "What the Fire Said", which as far as I know may still be the world's only existent piece of Lord of Illusions slash (or, possibly, fanfic).
2. Which is your best-received fic?
Why, that would be either "Detente" or "Unbound", both OZ--though I think I eventually pissed enough people off by refusing to return to "Unbound", which languishes yet unfinished to this very day, that it may have dropped off the radar. In the popularity stakes, it helps a lot that both are (fairly) straightforward Beecher/Keller, as opposed to (say) Beecher/Schillinger, Beecher/Schillinger/Keller, or incredibly long and convoluted narratives full of original characters; it also helps that OZ is still my most "mainstream" fandom. Creepily.
3. Which is your worst-received fic?
...I don't really know. I've gotten at least a few pieces of feedback on almost anything I've posted, so...
4. Which is your angsty-est fic?
Ha! "My Wife and My Dead Wife" (OZ), hands down. Rocks fall, everybody fucks, and yes, some people die. It's a lot like a real show arc, that way.;)
5. Which is your funniest fic?
A surprising amount of them have some fairly funny passages. But that would probably be "In a Dark Wood", my Bartleby/Loki post mortem-sex-in-Hell fic (Dogma). Blame Kevin Smith's influence.
6. Smuttiest?
Geez. Uh...maybe "The Hot Country II: Negotiations", which literally exists to enlarge on the whole "and then, you know, they went upstairs and had hot angry monkey sex" implication at the end of "The Hot Country". But God knows, "Collision" (OZ, B/K, set before the show itself) is porny as Hell, particularly after I souped it up even further for publication.
7. Fluffiest?
None of my stuff is "fluffy", exactly. Though there are some ill stabs at domesticity of a type, here and there--scary ones, usually. When you factor in that one of the "happiest" ones involves two guys stuck in Valhalla, I think you'll understand where I'm coming from.;)
8. Have you ever made someone cry with a fic?
Dunno. Have I? Chime in, people.
9. Which fic frustrates you the most?
It's frustrating when a fandom love dies on you unexpectedly. I'd've liked to have written far more X-Men: The Movie, for example, or L.A. Confidential--particularly the latter. There are also a bunch of fragments on my hard drive that I torment myself intermittently by looking at, knowing they're going nowhere. Of course, one of them is a piece of The Postman slash, so maybe just as well.
10. Which fic was the most fun to write?
I'm enjoying the Hell out of Yuma, since both Ben and Charlie are gorgeous freaks. If I tried Dan's POV, though, I might get disabused of the notion pretty quick...he's a little too moral for me.;))
11. Who is your favorite OC you've ever created?
Rachel Renton Schillinger, the Dead Wife herself. Skirting Mary Sue-dom by maybe inches, or possibly not even by that much--yet I truly do like her. I did some of my best OC work in OZ, actually.
12. Are you better at one-shot or multi-part?
One-shots all the way, bay-bee. ALL the way.
13. What character do you think you're the best at portraying?
It changes from fandom to fandom, and eventually, my ability to do so at all goes away (possibly forever)--often around the same time I start patterning original characters in my own work after whoever I'm currently obsessed with, strangely enough. Evolution, I suppose. But again, let's take a poll: Is it Vern Schillinger from OZ, Bill the Butcher from Gangs, Danica Talos from Blade: Trinity? Who?
14. What character(s) is the most difficult to portray?
Beecher's a grind, frankly--but he's ten thousand times easier than Keller, because Keller's the Rorschach blot which walks like a well-endowed man. I'll take either of them over anybody naturally well-adjusted and happy, though.
Et c'est la. Tomorrow I may actually write a real entry. 'Til then...
starvinbohemian, so here we go. Ahem:1. Which is your favorite fic?
Something from Gangs of New York, and not even a slashy one: "Only Children", in which I get to explain Bill the Butcher my way, from age maybe-ten to age maybe-47. It evolved quickly and painlessly, and continues to give me much pleasurable satisfaction. Or, on the reaaaally obscure side of things: "What the Fire Said", which as far as I know may still be the world's only existent piece of Lord of Illusions slash (or, possibly, fanfic).
2. Which is your best-received fic?
Why, that would be either "Detente" or "Unbound", both OZ--though I think I eventually pissed enough people off by refusing to return to "Unbound", which languishes yet unfinished to this very day, that it may have dropped off the radar. In the popularity stakes, it helps a lot that both are (fairly) straightforward Beecher/Keller, as opposed to (say) Beecher/Schillinger, Beecher/Schillinger/Keller, or incredibly long and convoluted narratives full of original characters; it also helps that OZ is still my most "mainstream" fandom. Creepily.
3. Which is your worst-received fic?
...I don't really know. I've gotten at least a few pieces of feedback on almost anything I've posted, so...
4. Which is your angsty-est fic?
Ha! "My Wife and My Dead Wife" (OZ), hands down. Rocks fall, everybody fucks, and yes, some people die. It's a lot like a real show arc, that way.;)
5. Which is your funniest fic?
A surprising amount of them have some fairly funny passages. But that would probably be "In a Dark Wood", my Bartleby/Loki post mortem-sex-in-Hell fic (Dogma). Blame Kevin Smith's influence.
6. Smuttiest?
Geez. Uh...maybe "The Hot Country II: Negotiations", which literally exists to enlarge on the whole "and then, you know, they went upstairs and had hot angry monkey sex" implication at the end of "The Hot Country". But God knows, "Collision" (OZ, B/K, set before the show itself) is porny as Hell, particularly after I souped it up even further for publication.
7. Fluffiest?
None of my stuff is "fluffy", exactly. Though there are some ill stabs at domesticity of a type, here and there--scary ones, usually. When you factor in that one of the "happiest" ones involves two guys stuck in Valhalla, I think you'll understand where I'm coming from.;)
8. Have you ever made someone cry with a fic?
Dunno. Have I? Chime in, people.
9. Which fic frustrates you the most?
It's frustrating when a fandom love dies on you unexpectedly. I'd've liked to have written far more X-Men: The Movie, for example, or L.A. Confidential--particularly the latter. There are also a bunch of fragments on my hard drive that I torment myself intermittently by looking at, knowing they're going nowhere. Of course, one of them is a piece of The Postman slash, so maybe just as well.
10. Which fic was the most fun to write?
I'm enjoying the Hell out of Yuma, since both Ben and Charlie are gorgeous freaks. If I tried Dan's POV, though, I might get disabused of the notion pretty quick...he's a little too moral for me.;))
11. Who is your favorite OC you've ever created?
Rachel Renton Schillinger, the Dead Wife herself. Skirting Mary Sue-dom by maybe inches, or possibly not even by that much--yet I truly do like her. I did some of my best OC work in OZ, actually.
12. Are you better at one-shot or multi-part?
One-shots all the way, bay-bee. ALL the way.
13. What character do you think you're the best at portraying?
It changes from fandom to fandom, and eventually, my ability to do so at all goes away (possibly forever)--often around the same time I start patterning original characters in my own work after whoever I'm currently obsessed with, strangely enough. Evolution, I suppose. But again, let's take a poll: Is it Vern Schillinger from OZ, Bill the Butcher from Gangs, Danica Talos from Blade: Trinity? Who?
14. What character(s) is the most difficult to portray?
Beecher's a grind, frankly--but he's ten thousand times easier than Keller, because Keller's the Rorschach blot which walks like a well-endowed man. I'll take either of them over anybody naturally well-adjusted and happy, though.
Et c'est la. Tomorrow I may actually write a real entry. 'Til then...
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Date: 2008-02-26 01:45 pm (UTC)So revel in your old fandonmeness, I say.
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Date: 2008-02-27 12:11 pm (UTC)One of the oddest unfinished pieces, thpugh closer to being finished than many others, had to be "Five People Otis Driftwood Never Killed" (The Devil's Rejects). And man, THAT one I'm definitely going to have to get into postable shape, at some point.;)
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Date: 2008-02-27 03:21 pm (UTC)I'm not good at drabble either. Secret Weapon and Trouble at the Henhouse are my only short pieces.
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Date: 2008-02-28 12:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-27 05:38 am (UTC)I haven't read those other fandoms, but my vote still goes to Vern. You write Schillinger better than anyone. I still re-read my favorite parts of My Wife and My Dead Wife every few months obsessively.
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Date: 2008-02-27 12:08 pm (UTC)One of the things I occasionally look at in a yearning sort of way is "The Only Engine of Survival", which was supposed to star Vern's gay OC son Jan--boy, did that get Jossed by Season Three! I only wrote the Prologue, but I have notes up the wing-wang for that one, still hanging around. Might make a good novel, if I filed off the serial numbers...
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Date: 2008-02-27 09:39 pm (UTC)Eh. Pretty much everything that came close to sanity was Jossed by the end of Oz. XD
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Date: 2008-02-28 12:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-02-28 07:14 pm (UTC)Death row, you say? So is "Engine" a tie-in to "Wife"/"Liberation?"
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Date: 2008-02-29 12:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-28 08:58 pm (UTC)You are Gemma Files.I'm trying to hold back the fangirl squee. I always thought you were gone from fanfic writing (the internet) because you didn't update your Segregation page any longer. Let me just tell you how much I liked your work and how much it influenced my own writing. Or did it? I'm not sure.I loved "My wife and my dead wife". I read your OZ stories years before I actually had the possibility to watch the series. And I only bought Gangs of New York so I could understand your fics about it.
Thank you for writing all those wonderful stories.
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Date: 2009-01-28 10:44 pm (UTC)Yup, that's me. The reason Segregation hasn't been updated in a while is that my webmistress--I'm really bad at that stuff, unfortunately--has had a lot of stuff going on in her life. OTOH, I've had this LJ in the meantime, and most of the stuff I've done since then has been cross-posted here. I do actually tag my fic, so you might be able to find it that way; the most recent fandom I've operated in is 3:10 to Yuma, where I do mainly Charlie Prince/Ben Wade. Another obscure one, and not even the most popular pairing.;)
But anyhow...really, seriously? That's the coolest reason I've ever heard for someone buying a DVD--hope you ended up liking it, at least. And you're very welcome.
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Date: 2009-01-29 10:53 am (UTC)I loved Gangs of New York - especially the music.
I do this all the time. I'm getting sucked into a fandom and decide that I have to know what the fuzz is about.
I saw OZ only recently (the show never aired in Germany) and was a bit disappointed. I've lived so long in fandom world that I couldn't get used to the actual show.
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Date: 2009-01-30 04:58 am (UTC)Hope you do like 3:10 to Yuma, though, when you get around to it. As for the "fuss", well...there never was much of one, all told. But some pretty good stuff got written along the way, before it all blew itself out.