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7. Have you ever had a fic change your opinion of a character?
Oh yes, all the time. I actually find it very difficult to write a character unless I've read lots of fic about them, preferably by different people, because my first understanding of a character is always nowhere near the one I end up with.
8. Do you write OCs? And, if so, what do you do to make certain they're not Mary Sues? If not, explain your thoughts on OCs.
Yes!—although, strangely, not all that often. I love reading about original characters, but I'm not so good at creating them yet. Takes quite a bit of time & effort. Making sure they're not Mary Sues . . . eh. My general guiding principle is to not write stuff I wouldn't want to read, so it's just the same as for canon characters.
9. For each of the fandoms from day two, what are your three favorite pairings to write?
I wish people wouldn't ask me these questions. GENFIC: YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG.
But if I were to write shippy fic . . . hmm. Well, it would probably end up being BFF-fic anyway, but here we go.
Harry Potter: Hermione/Viktor, Hermione/Dean, Hermione/Tracey Davis. Or possibly Hermione/Juri.
A:tLA: Mai/Kuei, Azula/Yue, Yue/Zuko. All Knife and Ink pairings, huh.
Utena: Saionji/Nanami, crossover characters --> Utena or Juri, Utena/Mikage (she would chew him up and spit him out, and it would be delicious).
Katekyou Hitman Reborn: Chrome/Mukuro, always-a-girl Tsuna/always-a-girl Xanxus, always-a-girl Tsuna/always-a-girl Gokudera. Those are the only pairings I've ever written for KHR, and maybe most of the pairings I've ever actually written.
Yu-Gi-Oh!: Anzu/Bakura, Anzu/Seto (maaaybe, stretching a little here), Bakura/Kaitou Kid.
Detective Conan/Magic Kaito: Ran/Kaitou Kid, (BFFs alert!) Heiji/Shinichi, Ran/Sonoko.
xxxHOLiC: Doumeki/Watanuki/Himawari, Himawari/Doumeki, Himawari/Yuuko.
Everything else: no pairings at all, or one extremely obvious one.
10. Have you ever gone outside your comfort zone and written a pairing you liked, but found you couldn't write? Or a pairing you didn't like, and found you could?
Two words: Gen. Fic.
Combinations of characters that I like but can't write interacting, oh yes. Lots. Usually it's because I don't have a proper grip on one of the characters in question, or because I'm not good at writing scenes in which people decide that their best course of action is, indeed, punching this smug jerk right here in the face.
Characters' interactions that I don't like but can write, not at all. If I don't like something (unlikely) then I just won't try write it, except as an exercise in getting myself to enjoy something new.
11. Do you prefer certain genres of fic when you're writing? What kind do you tend to write most?
In-universe works are my favourite, I think. Letters! Essays! History books! Research papers! Critical reviews! Poetry! Excerpts of classical novels! Popular fiction!
I don't actually write those very often, but I want to.
Other genres: domesticity, close friendship & created-family, big famous heroes deciding/attempting to live a quiet life, music, characters being fannish, slice-of-life, culture smash, cities/towns/buildings/schools as characters, genderfuck, loneliness/solitary-ness, youkai (or equivalent local spirits), crossovers.
12. Have you ever attempted an 'adaptation' fic of a favourite book or movie but set in a different fandom?
I don't think I quite understand what they're getting at here. Do they mean fusion-fic?
If so, not really. Thought about it a few times, but I tend to do crossovers instead. It's easier.
13. Do you prefer canon or fanon when you write? Has writing fanfic for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?
It depends! Fanfiction is, by its nature, generally based on canon. When there's a certain fanon thing I really like, though, I'll jump on it and completely ignore canon if I need to. (For instance: To me, Hermione will always be the girl who said 'Oh, for God's sake. They're tampons. They're made of cotton wool. They absorb blood. They obey the laws of physics. They don't need to be fucking magical,' no matter how assimilationist she ended up being in canon.) And sometimes I'll change things that don't make a difference to the overall story, just because I want to—is it really bad writing to make KHR full of girls instead of bishounen, just because I can?
So basically I write what I like, whether it's based completely on canon or not.
As to the second question: oh goodness yes. Almost always, and even when it hasn't it makes me look harder at what I'm already thinking. Reading changes my opinions more than writing does, just because I do more of it, but writing makes me think things out all the way to the end. Which, I suppose, is why it takes so long.
Oh yes, all the time. I actually find it very difficult to write a character unless I've read lots of fic about them, preferably by different people, because my first understanding of a character is always nowhere near the one I end up with.
8. Do you write OCs? And, if so, what do you do to make certain they're not Mary Sues? If not, explain your thoughts on OCs.
Yes!—although, strangely, not all that often. I love reading about original characters, but I'm not so good at creating them yet. Takes quite a bit of time & effort. Making sure they're not Mary Sues . . . eh. My general guiding principle is to not write stuff I wouldn't want to read, so it's just the same as for canon characters.
9. For each of the fandoms from day two, what are your three favorite pairings to write?
I wish people wouldn't ask me these questions. GENFIC: YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG.
But if I were to write shippy fic . . . hmm. Well, it would probably end up being BFF-fic anyway, but here we go.
Harry Potter: Hermione/Viktor, Hermione/Dean, Hermione/Tracey Davis. Or possibly Hermione/Juri.
A:tLA: Mai/Kuei, Azula/Yue, Yue/Zuko. All Knife and Ink pairings, huh.
Utena: Saionji/Nanami, crossover characters --> Utena or Juri, Utena/Mikage (she would chew him up and spit him out, and it would be delicious).
Katekyou Hitman Reborn: Chrome/Mukuro, always-a-girl Tsuna/always-a-girl Xanxus, always-a-girl Tsuna/always-a-girl Gokudera. Those are the only pairings I've ever written for KHR, and maybe most of the pairings I've ever actually written.
Yu-Gi-Oh!: Anzu/Bakura, Anzu/Seto (maaaybe, stretching a little here), Bakura/Kaitou Kid.
Detective Conan/Magic Kaito: Ran/Kaitou Kid, (BFFs alert!) Heiji/Shinichi, Ran/Sonoko.
xxxHOLiC: Doumeki/Watanuki/Himawari, Himawari/Doumeki, Himawari/Yuuko.
Everything else: no pairings at all, or one extremely obvious one.
10. Have you ever gone outside your comfort zone and written a pairing you liked, but found you couldn't write? Or a pairing you didn't like, and found you could?
Two words: Gen. Fic.
Combinations of characters that I like but can't write interacting, oh yes. Lots. Usually it's because I don't have a proper grip on one of the characters in question, or because I'm not good at writing scenes in which people decide that their best course of action is, indeed, punching this smug jerk right here in the face.
Characters' interactions that I don't like but can write, not at all. If I don't like something (unlikely) then I just won't try write it, except as an exercise in getting myself to enjoy something new.
11. Do you prefer certain genres of fic when you're writing? What kind do you tend to write most?
In-universe works are my favourite, I think. Letters! Essays! History books! Research papers! Critical reviews! Poetry! Excerpts of classical novels! Popular fiction!
I don't actually write those very often, but I want to.
Other genres: domesticity, close friendship & created-family, big famous heroes deciding/attempting to live a quiet life, music, characters being fannish, slice-of-life, culture smash, cities/towns/buildings/schools as characters, genderfuck, loneliness/solitary-ness, youkai (or equivalent local spirits), crossovers.
12. Have you ever attempted an 'adaptation' fic of a favourite book or movie but set in a different fandom?
I don't think I quite understand what they're getting at here. Do they mean fusion-fic?
If so, not really. Thought about it a few times, but I tend to do crossovers instead. It's easier.
13. Do you prefer canon or fanon when you write? Has writing fanfic for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?
It depends! Fanfiction is, by its nature, generally based on canon. When there's a certain fanon thing I really like, though, I'll jump on it and completely ignore canon if I need to. (For instance: To me, Hermione will always be the girl who said 'Oh, for God's sake. They're tampons. They're made of cotton wool. They absorb blood. They obey the laws of physics. They don't need to be fucking magical,' no matter how assimilationist she ended up being in canon.) And sometimes I'll change things that don't make a difference to the overall story, just because I want to—is it really bad writing to make KHR full of girls instead of bishounen, just because I can?
So basically I write what I like, whether it's based completely on canon or not.
As to the second question: oh goodness yes. Almost always, and even when it hasn't it makes me look harder at what I'm already thinking. Reading changes my opinions more than writing does, just because I do more of it, but writing makes me think things out all the way to the end. Which, I suppose, is why it takes so long.
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Date: 2011-07-28 04:17 pm (UTC)I haven't read the last two books, so I don't know any HP Juri. As such, I read this line as a Revolutionary Girl Utena crossover.
Can I just say: @____@
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Date: 2011-07-28 06:47 pm (UTC)(I love your icon.)
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Date: 2011-07-28 07:47 pm (UTC)And terrifying. But that's about how it goes with Juri in all things, so.
(And I love yours! I have others on my LJ I also love, but... DDOS. I need to put them on my DW, though, because I love this show, and it has so much prettiness.)
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Date: 2011-07-28 04:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-28 07:19 pm (UTC)& oh yeah, definitely writing changes my thoughts on the source. But so does just having lots of discussion about the source -- I rarely get to discuss big fannish loves w/multiple people in depth, & the manga read/anime watch in the Natsume comm has been awesome for making me think more about canon & get more ideas for fic. ♥
Question 12 confuses me too.
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Date: 2011-08-03 07:11 pm (UTC)I'm glad my answers are sufficiently interesting! This meme does not ask many of the questions I want it to ask, though. :\
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Date: 2011-08-03 07:13 pm (UTC)(& I know there are lots of valid reasons for people lurking -- it's fine if you just want to do that! I just would like to encourage you to delurk if you were ever leaning in that direction, heh.)
You could write a new fanfic meme w/your preferred questions!
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Date: 2011-08-03 08:28 pm (UTC)As soon as I finish this one, I am totally making up a new fanfic meme just so I can answer it. :D
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Date: 2011-08-03 08:49 pm (UTC)I am so over the current storyline, which ended w/this most recent chapter, &... now I would like a fluffy heartwarming chapter for the next one. I think we're due one!
BTW, how do you pronounce your username? I was thinking of maybe doing the 5 questions you gave me as a voice post & it would be horrible if I botched it. I just say ez-men-et in my head but perhaps that is wrong!
(Related, b/c thinking of your question about my favorite moment in Natsume -- there's one in this most recent chapter! Though I'd do it in a separate file, or right at the end, & warn people so they could stop listening if they didn't want spoilers.)
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Date: 2011-08-03 10:22 pm (UTC)