Fanfic meme: Answer Post The Fourth
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pensnest
19. Do you prefer canon-compliant, AUs, or something in-between?
All of the above? Some of it depends on the canon itself, how I feel about what happened in canon, how the consequences were dealt with in canon, how the consequences were dealt with in fandom.
I have written innumerable stories starting from what was canon (at the time). I've written missing scenes and prequels, and canon-compliant inserts. And a lot of pre-canon stories for characters who sprung fully formed into the world at the moment they walked onto the screen and who have no identity in the minds of the canon writers or the viewers otherwise.
I've also written fusion AUs by the bucketload (51 of my works at AO3 are 'Alternate Universe'). Everything from Black Jewels AUs (quite a few of those) to the one where Raleigh and Yancy Becket are Companions in the Firefly-verse. A reasonably popular recent work features Bucky as the traveller through time and Steve as the Winter Soldier.
I enjoy the process of working out who people are in different circumstances, what aspects of their personality are related to the way they were nurtured (or not) vs their innate nature. I like deciding exactly what is this Alternate Universe equivalent of Teyla's decision to leave her people, or Mako's loss of her family, or Steve's taking of the super-soldier serum?
So it's a little bit of everything, I think. Whatever catches my interest and takes my fancy, and I'll work it out from there. Sometimes in complicated ways.
Reading is much the same: frankly, I want a good story about characters I want to read about, written about them in ways that I see them.
nobody:
5. What’s the fic you’re most proud of?
That's a bit of a tricksy question, in part because I've written SO MUCH FANFIC that it's hard to pick any one.
However, probably the most recent story that I would point to if I had to point to one would be the other side of infinity.
It's long and epic and convoluted. I came across the idea, plotted and planned it all out, and then I started writing the opening scene, trying it all on for size. The opening scene took a week. The next three chapters took nine months, and I think I did it in just over a year, and the last three months of it was writing against the countdown to 'Endgame'.
Frankly, I do wish I'd posted 'the other side of infinity' after 'Endgame', not before. People were looking for fixits then, although it probably wouldn't have pulled in anyone new. Certainly not any of the BNFs (a few of whom I'm fairly sure blackballed me back around 2015).
But it was a satisfying write, and it's still (for me) a satisfying read. I got to take an idea and make something of it, to mirror situations and circumstances, highlight one of my favourite characters and several others besides, and make the people who were snaptured out of existence the deciders of their own fate rather than the helpless lost needing to be saved.
One doesn't always get to write A Story That Counts - at least in one's own head, even if not everyone else appreciates it - but I like to think I did it in the other side of infinity.
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pensnest19. Do you prefer canon-compliant, AUs, or something in-between?
All of the above? Some of it depends on the canon itself, how I feel about what happened in canon, how the consequences were dealt with in canon, how the consequences were dealt with in fandom.
I have written innumerable stories starting from what was canon (at the time). I've written missing scenes and prequels, and canon-compliant inserts. And a lot of pre-canon stories for characters who sprung fully formed into the world at the moment they walked onto the screen and who have no identity in the minds of the canon writers or the viewers otherwise.
I've also written fusion AUs by the bucketload (51 of my works at AO3 are 'Alternate Universe'). Everything from Black Jewels AUs (quite a few of those) to the one where Raleigh and Yancy Becket are Companions in the Firefly-verse. A reasonably popular recent work features Bucky as the traveller through time and Steve as the Winter Soldier.
I enjoy the process of working out who people are in different circumstances, what aspects of their personality are related to the way they were nurtured (or not) vs their innate nature. I like deciding exactly what is this Alternate Universe equivalent of Teyla's decision to leave her people, or Mako's loss of her family, or Steve's taking of the super-soldier serum?
So it's a little bit of everything, I think. Whatever catches my interest and takes my fancy, and I'll work it out from there. Sometimes in complicated ways.
Reading is much the same: frankly, I want a good story about characters I want to read about, written about them in ways that I see them.
nobody:
5. What’s the fic you’re most proud of?
That's a bit of a tricksy question, in part because I've written SO MUCH FANFIC that it's hard to pick any one.
However, probably the most recent story that I would point to if I had to point to one would be the other side of infinity.
It's long and epic and convoluted. I came across the idea, plotted and planned it all out, and then I started writing the opening scene, trying it all on for size. The opening scene took a week. The next three chapters took nine months, and I think I did it in just over a year, and the last three months of it was writing against the countdown to 'Endgame'.
Frankly, I do wish I'd posted 'the other side of infinity' after 'Endgame', not before. People were looking for fixits then, although it probably wouldn't have pulled in anyone new. Certainly not any of the BNFs (a few of whom I'm fairly sure blackballed me back around 2015).
But it was a satisfying write, and it's still (for me) a satisfying read. I got to take an idea and make something of it, to mirror situations and circumstances, highlight one of my favourite characters and several others besides, and make the people who were snaptured out of existence the deciders of their own fate rather than the helpless lost needing to be saved.
One doesn't always get to write A Story That Counts - at least in one's own head, even if not everyone else appreciates it - but I like to think I did it in the other side of infinity.
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Canon-at-the-time is quite a different starting point from canon-when-we-know-the-full-story. I've generally missed the opportunity to write the former, in my fandoms, as I'm always late to arrive in them.
I also very much enjoy making canon equivalents in AUs; I like my fanfic to be based in the stories I'm fanficcing—though that is an elastic concept.