So of this morning’s fic. I now have 250 works on AO3…
THERE ARE FOUR KINDS OF FANFICTION
ANGST
FLUFF
CRACK
AND… *AHEM*
Tech Writer Clive Thompson: “The world of fanfiction is the most technologically explosive thing I’ve ever seen in my life.”
The leading flank in discovering how to use technology in cool, interesting, thoughtful ways will generally always be the amateurs. […]
I have a whole theory, actually, that the world of fan fiction is the most technologically explosive thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Every single technology that has come along, fan fiction people have come along and colonized it and stress-tested it and found the most amazing things. They were the first people to realize the potential of meta-tagging and bookmarking sites. Like, here’s a link with four tags, and then you go to a fan fiction person, and they have a link, and it has 70 tags. They are pushing this to absolute limit, and they are finding these amazing ways to sort knowledge.
It’s all because they’re passionate and nobody is making any money off of it and they don’t want to make any money off of it. They get some amazing stuff done. If you’re ever wondering about a future technology, just drop what you’re doing and find out what fan fiction people are doing with it. What are fan fiction people doing right now with WhatsApp? I don’t know. But, whatever it is, it’s the future.
– SXSW Interview: Author Clive Thompson Explains FOMO, the NSA, and His Latest Book, “Smarter Than You Think” (x)
wow!
every single fandom has that one character that can be paired up with basically everyone else and still be plausible
he can also be paired with anyone from another fandom and it still be plausible
I will pair him with virtually anyone else…
So far I’ve written jack/castiel, jack/sam, jack/sam/castiel, jack/castiel/john hart, jack/ianto, jack/martin crieff, jack/john watson, jack/mycroft, jack/sherlock/john, jack/ianto/sherlock/john, jack/lestrade, jack/ten, jack/nine, jack/nine/rose, jack/malcolm reynolds…. am I missing any?
I was going to link to each pairing but this post crashed mid doing that. So. I’m just going to link to my Jack Harkness Shags Everyone masterpost of fics…
What is significant about fanfiction is that it often spins the kind of stories that showrunners wouldn’t think to tell, because fanficcers often come from a different demographic. The discomfort seems to be not that the shows are being reinterpreted by fans, but that they are being reinterpreted by the wrong sorts of fans—women, people of colour, queer kids, horny teenagers, people who are not professional writers, people who actually care about continuity (sorry). The proper way for cultural mythmaking to progress, it is implied, is for privileged men to recreate the works of privileged men from previous generations whilst everyone else listens quietly.
Sherlock and the Adventure of the Overzealous Fanbase by Laurie Penny (via cypress-tree)
THAT LAST SENTENCE
Things fanfiction authors do
*posts chapter*
*checks page to make sure chapter hasn’t transformed into 100% typos*
*refreshes to check for reviews*
*refreshes again*
*resolves to go to bed and not check until morning*
*goes to bed, turns on phone, checks for reviews*
Clearly, someone’s been spying on me.
This. THIS.
I just want to give a shoutout to all of you who comment on fics. Kudos are wonderful too, but those of you that comment, especially regularly, are an extra kind of special. I’m always happy when I see your names in my email and you’re why I keep on writing.