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deathpixieA survey! Hoiked from Matt's journal, created by Chameleon.
What fandom(s) do you read/write in?
Comics, specifically Marvel mutants, Vertigo, and Midnight Nation. Also have a total of one Buffy fic to my name.
What characters do you prefer to read about?
Well-drawn ones. :) Seriously, I'll read a wide range of fic, provided it's well-written. I'll usually cheak out any TCPs, tho', having a soft spot for the genre.
What was the first story you read/wrote/posted?
Read: Don't exactly recall, but probably "Faith and Dreams" by Valerie Jones - I was a bigger X-Files fan than I was a comics fan at that stage.
Wrote: An unnamed "Mary Sue joins GenX" fic that has since been ceremoniously trashed and the hardcopy notes recycled.
Posted: "Road Rage", a TCP about a cyclist with the mutant power to make people violently car sick.
Who/What is your favorite...
Author? Hell, you want me to name one? Impossible - Doc Benway, Amanda Sichter and Dark Mark will be read regardless of the topic; Andraste and Dyce are also guaranteed reading, Xander has put out some excellent stuff in the last few months - "Hellblazer" and the Hellfire Club? Whoo. :)
Single story? "X-Manson" by Doc Benway: I didn't read this until maybe six months after it had been written, and it blew me away, the whole concept...
Story arc? Dyce's Movieverse Annie stories. Cute, but also with some amazing insights and some very funny lines.
Archive? luba's "Fonts of Pryde and Wisdom", for good-quality fic. And the Itty Bitty Archives, for much the same reason. :)
Mailing List?Outside the Lines, and the Subreality Mailing List for my SC fix. Although I still lament the passing of Doqz's Subreality Times.
How do you feel about...
Slash? As long as it fulfills my normal "good fic" criteria (good plot, good characterisation, interesting story), I don't mind who's boinking whom. I have been known to read the odd PWP, but I quickly get bored - smut in any form needs to be central to the plot for me.
Stories featuring real people? I'm not really into the whole celebrity fic thing - most of the time the celebrities are so two-dimensional, they have no characterisation in real life, let alone fic. I do remember a very good Magneto story featuring Anne Frank... that was well done.
Subreality?*grins* I'm a card-carrying Be-Mused member. I love the idea of Subreality, and there's some truly great fic out there, although I will admit of late the quality has dropped off. Must be time for me to stir things up again.
Shared universes? Shadowlands is pretty much the only shared universe I've read much of, and I think that it's a great fusion of writers and creative ideas. There has to be a certain amount of restriction, I think, on these kinds of projects, a certian amount of editorial control, otherwise it goes to pot faster than a SCRR open round robin. ;)
Round Robins? I cut my writing teeth on SC round robins, so I'll always approve of them. They give you the chance to exercise your skills with a group of taltented people. I do think, however, that in recent times, things have gotten decidedly stale - there's a lot of re-hashing of previous plots, a certain lack of originality. I have to admit a certain preference to semi-closed RRs - it's easier to get the plots happening when there's not a cast of thousands. But without the open RRs, new talent isn't recognised, so the open boards have their place too. Just don't expect me to join in quite so much these days.
What fandom(s) do you read/write in?
Comics, specifically Marvel mutants, Vertigo, and Midnight Nation. Also have a total of one Buffy fic to my name.
What characters do you prefer to read about?
Well-drawn ones. :) Seriously, I'll read a wide range of fic, provided it's well-written. I'll usually cheak out any TCPs, tho', having a soft spot for the genre.
What was the first story you read/wrote/posted?
Read: Don't exactly recall, but probably "Faith and Dreams" by Valerie Jones - I was a bigger X-Files fan than I was a comics fan at that stage.
Wrote: An unnamed "Mary Sue joins GenX" fic that has since been ceremoniously trashed and the hardcopy notes recycled.
Posted: "Road Rage", a TCP about a cyclist with the mutant power to make people violently car sick.
Who/What is your favorite...
Author? Hell, you want me to name one? Impossible - Doc Benway, Amanda Sichter and Dark Mark will be read regardless of the topic; Andraste and Dyce are also guaranteed reading, Xander has put out some excellent stuff in the last few months - "Hellblazer" and the Hellfire Club? Whoo. :)
Single story? "X-Manson" by Doc Benway: I didn't read this until maybe six months after it had been written, and it blew me away, the whole concept...
Story arc? Dyce's Movieverse Annie stories. Cute, but also with some amazing insights and some very funny lines.
Archive? luba's "Fonts of Pryde and Wisdom", for good-quality fic. And the Itty Bitty Archives, for much the same reason. :)
Mailing List?Outside the Lines, and the Subreality Mailing List for my SC fix. Although I still lament the passing of Doqz's Subreality Times.
How do you feel about...
Slash? As long as it fulfills my normal "good fic" criteria (good plot, good characterisation, interesting story), I don't mind who's boinking whom. I have been known to read the odd PWP, but I quickly get bored - smut in any form needs to be central to the plot for me.
Stories featuring real people? I'm not really into the whole celebrity fic thing - most of the time the celebrities are so two-dimensional, they have no characterisation in real life, let alone fic. I do remember a very good Magneto story featuring Anne Frank... that was well done.
Subreality?*grins* I'm a card-carrying Be-Mused member. I love the idea of Subreality, and there's some truly great fic out there, although I will admit of late the quality has dropped off. Must be time for me to stir things up again.
Shared universes? Shadowlands is pretty much the only shared universe I've read much of, and I think that it's a great fusion of writers and creative ideas. There has to be a certain amount of restriction, I think, on these kinds of projects, a certian amount of editorial control, otherwise it goes to pot faster than a SCRR open round robin. ;)
Round Robins? I cut my writing teeth on SC round robins, so I'll always approve of them. They give you the chance to exercise your skills with a group of taltented people. I do think, however, that in recent times, things have gotten decidedly stale - there's a lot of re-hashing of previous plots, a certain lack of originality. I have to admit a certain preference to semi-closed RRs - it's easier to get the plots happening when there's not a cast of thousands. But without the open RRs, new talent isn't recognised, so the open boards have their place too. Just don't expect me to join in quite so much these days.
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Date: 2001-09-06 07:09 am (UTC)You've placed me in pretty extraordinary company - thank you very much. I am honored. I've read a great deal of Benway, DM and Andraste's work, and after no less than four recommendations this week, I shall definitely have to give Sichter and Dyce a try.
It is interesting and very post-modern how multiple individuals perceive the same story differently depending upon what they bring to it in terms of their interest and experience. In our correspondence about the piece, Benway and I clearly perceive H:H to be a Hellraiser yarn that happens to star characters from the HFC and Hellblazer. However, the vast majority of people who've sent in feedbackback consider it exclusively an X-Men villain's story. You seem to take it as a tale anchored in Constantine's reality.
I can't quite put my finger on it yet, but it seems to me that there is some kind of question in those differences of perception that relates to our conversation about author identity.
Round Robins? I cut my writing teeth on SC round robins, so I'll always approve of them.
I've been poking around in Kielle's Subreality archive, mostly reading individual stories. If there are any round robins you (or any other readers) would particularly encourage me to read, I'd love the suggestion.
*grins* That would be the Constantine fangirl showing.
Date: 2001-09-06 05:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Pretty much anything labelled "WARNING: VIOLENCE" is bound to be fun. This lot does their best work when hacking each other to pieces. *G* "The Subreality War," the "Fallen"/"Requiem" set, or any of the Halloween Massacres would do; "Subreality Slave Ring" is HORRIBLY dark but sorta petered out at the end.
Other than that, "Subreality Cafe Noir," "The Court Of Miracles," and "The Age Of Apocabyss" are considered The Classics and might be worth checking out, depending on what genre interests you -- "film noir," "fantasy," and "dark future" respectively. They're long, yes, but at least they have coherent endings!
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Date: 2001-09-06 10:06 am (UTC)Thanks for the pointer - I will check some of them out.
Who, me?
Date: 2001-09-06 05:47 pm (UTC)Or themselves, neh? *grins* You know it's not a proper Dark RR unless I start maming myself.
As far as recommendations go... Ki's pretty much covered it, although I do like the Meta RR, "Writing The Round Robin", which was a lot of fun. And also Dex's "Walkabout", which technically isn't an RR, but has some interesting stuff to say about Subreality.