This is what fanfic is all about

[winter]

Theresa Nielsen-Hayden on fanfiction. Word, girl.

In other news, am horribly frustrated and generally growling at people. Hence, meme from gmth:

Pretend for a minute that the only contact you have ever had with me is through my fic. We've never exchanged LJ comments or emails, never hung out in chat or on YM, never talked on the phone or met each other at a con, none of that stuff. The only thing you know about me is the kind of fic I write.

What kind of person would you think I am? How would you describe my attitudes and opinions about real-life issues?

(And on that note, it's probably a good move that so far only two people on the f-list have read my borderline chanfic.)

Comments

[arabwel.livejournal.com]

I'd thinjk you are a well-read, cultured person, with a biting fetish :P

[arabwel.livejournal.com]

and curses, the rest of the comment got eaten. stupid stray brackets...

I would say that your opinions and attitudes would be liberal, with emphasis on intellectual issues. or soemthing like that :)

[winter]

*eyedart* Blood fetish, thankyouverymuch :P

(Am re-reading Dracula now, just past Lucy's death. All the transfusion scenes read like so much group sex, and then Van Helsing confirms it. Nearly giggled myself to tears.)

[arabwel.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, i really need to re-read that one soon...last time i read it i was... weh, much younger. did not appreciate the finer points of blood D

[winter]

I somehow managed to mislay my copy and just bought myself a new one a few days ago :) I'd forgotten how slashy the first section was - it's like all the time Dracula's barely stopping himself from munching on Jonathan...

[arabwel.livejournal.com]

I have a copy I.. eh.. forgot to return to he school library sitting here SOMWEWHERE...

[calatha.livejournal.com]

Nice article about fanfic. Authors who shriek 'My characters! NO!!!' are just incomprehensible to me. Of course they're your characters duh, they're copyrighted.

[winter]

I think it's a particularly good point that it's part of the cultural storytelling process. No-one's forcing the authors to read fanfic, but if they think no-one's imagining their characters doing things the authors themselves would find icky, they're really naïve ;)

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

Ridiculously clever, well-read, likes the little details. The like of blood, vampires and shadows suggests either goth or repressed Goth impulses.

Would go further, but gah! Class and tutor.

[winter]

*eyes the wardrobe* Definitely not repressed. Unless it's repression by Lestat, who's spreading brown-grey hair on everything :/

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

I suspect I would be a goth if I could afford it, just because I adore the fancy clothes. Actually, no. That would be a fib. I will wear anything that flares and sweeps (except skirts, because I have a deep dislike of baring flesh aside from forearms and head) and heck, anything with buckles and chains and clips, because I have a fastener-fixation. Especially anything that ties. I love things that have to be tied up to be worn. So, so much love.

Alas, I can't afford them.

[winter]

I do appreciate the fact clothing's much cheaper around here :) Though I don't actually wear most of my flashier stuff that much. Detracts from my hair :P

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

*grins* Should have seen the looks I got when I wandered into a goth-period-costume shop in Edinburgh. The full-length leather coat I always wear got approving nods, then they noticed I was wearing baby blue and pink underneath it with a cutesey picture of Eeyore on my T-shirt ;) I like being a walking conundrum.

[winter]

goth-period-costume shop

*glazes over*

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

Oh! I have to find you the pictures of the two boys working in there. One was a goth Jack Sparrow :D And the other looked similar to Porthos in Three Musketeers :D

[winter]

I think you mentioned them on LJ :) I'll need the address for when I'm in Edinburgh, that's for sure.

[fyrie.livejournal.com]

It's only small and wee and mainly goth, but it's lovely :) Best one I ever saw, though, was a place called Shock in Gothenburg. Hugh and beautiful :)

[ithilwen.livejournal.com]

That's a great fanfic discussion, I agree - and an uncommonly civil one, too.