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Fan Fiction Musings
Oct. 13th, 2023 01:00 pmIt's been a really fun and satisfying creative outlet to get back into fan fiction writing these past several months.
Until I jumped on AO3 this year, I hadn't written any fan fiction since 2007. I also had read very little (any?) after 2010 either for Life Reasons.
I wouldn't describe myself as particularly prolific back in the early to mid-2000s, but I had a lot of interests so wrote pieces in a lot of fandoms including Star Trek, Harry Potter, The Pretender, Highlander, and Oz. Even had some fic in some print zines for Oz and Highlander (sadly, I've loooong since lost the electronic files for those, that was several computers ago, and I know I definitely don't have at least one of the zines and maybe I don't have either).
I'm tempted to pull some of my old stories off fanfiction.net and other places and dump them on AO3 since AO3 is just so much better of a site, but I also don't want anyone to think I'm ripping off someone else. That stuff was under a different pen name (idk why I put a different name on AO3 than I used to use, that wasn't actually a particularly thought-out choice and was more or less random because I needed a username and I was listening to a song that had a lyric referring to a woman with "switchblade eyes"). I suppose I could post them on AO3 and orphan them? (Edited to add: okay, so this is totally resolved with pseuds, which seems to be what they are for, lol. Thanks fruitbat for suggesting that!)
(But my FK fan fiction from the 90s is never going to see the AO3 light of day LOL. Nooooope.)
Funny enough, when I hopped on AO3 in the spring of this year, I wasn't intending to write or read FK fan fiction. I had intended to post a story based on a video game (XCOM) that I had been working on. To date, I haven't finished that one, ha!, but that is why I actually signed up for AO3. Then I got nostalgic for FK, pounded out an FK story, posted it, and then got kinda sucked back into it all (probably because of Greer Watson lol, who was like, "here's a story you might like," "look at this link on Dreadmwidth," and "the mailing list is still around"). I'm glad because reading and writing FK has been a lot of fun and, as I said, a nice creative outlet.
Until I jumped on AO3 this year, I hadn't written any fan fiction since 2007. I also had read very little (any?) after 2010 either for Life Reasons.
I wouldn't describe myself as particularly prolific back in the early to mid-2000s, but I had a lot of interests so wrote pieces in a lot of fandoms including Star Trek, Harry Potter, The Pretender, Highlander, and Oz. Even had some fic in some print zines for Oz and Highlander (sadly, I've loooong since lost the electronic files for those, that was several computers ago, and I know I definitely don't have at least one of the zines and maybe I don't have either).
I'm tempted to pull some of my old stories off fanfiction.net and other places and dump them on AO3 since AO3 is just so much better of a site, but I also don't want anyone to think I'm ripping off someone else. That stuff was under a different pen name (idk why I put a different name on AO3 than I used to use, that wasn't actually a particularly thought-out choice and was more or less random because I needed a username and I was listening to a song that had a lyric referring to a woman with "switchblade eyes"). I suppose I could post them on AO3 and orphan them? (Edited to add: okay, so this is totally resolved with pseuds, which seems to be what they are for, lol. Thanks fruitbat for suggesting that!)
(But my FK fan fiction from the 90s is never going to see the AO3 light of day LOL. Nooooope.)
Funny enough, when I hopped on AO3 in the spring of this year, I wasn't intending to write or read FK fan fiction. I had intended to post a story based on a video game (XCOM) that I had been working on. To date, I haven't finished that one, ha!, but that is why I actually signed up for AO3. Then I got nostalgic for FK, pounded out an FK story, posted it, and then got kinda sucked back into it all (probably because of Greer Watson lol, who was like, "here's a story you might like," "look at this link on Dreadmwidth," and "the mailing list is still around"). I'm glad because reading and writing FK has been a lot of fun and, as I said, a nice creative outlet.
