Fandom survey

[altariel]

From everyone.

Fanficton
Do you read or write fanfiction?	On occasion
When did you first start reading/writing fanfiction?	When I was 8 or 9 or 10
What was your first fandom?	Blake's 7
First ship?	Avon and Cally
What website do you use most?	Live Journal
What do you think of Fanfiction.net?	I think it's brilliant - it's how the internet would be in Gormenghast
What fandoms have you written in?	B7, DS9, lots of Tolkien, tiny bit of Earthsea
Pairings?	Avon and Anna, Faramir and Eowyn, Garak and Ziyal, Garak and Bashir, Garak and anyone passing...
Any fandoms you would like to write in?	Firefly
Do reviews affect how you write in any way?	They have done
Do you use a beta?	Yes
What ratings do you read/write?	I'll try anything if the recommendation comes from the right people, but left to my own devices tend away from NC-17
What warnings have you used on your fiction/read?	Usually I only use the ratings that archive sites ask me to use; the occasional 'bleakness' warning
Do you have any squicks?	Kira/Dukat
Do you Role-play online? If so, what?	No
Have you ever stolen something from another person's work?	I swipe from Chris Boucher all the time
Favorite fandom to write/read?	I can't choose... I've written most based on Tolkien
Favorite pairing?	Stop making me choose! Oh Faramir and Eowyn then
Favorite writer/writers?	Isabeau, of course; others too many to mention
How long should a chapter be?	As long as this bit of string
Do you write/read drabbles?	It's an addiction
Any fandoms you avoid?	Not really, although I don't read that much Firefly, which you think I'd be hoovering up
Pairings you avoid?	Kira/Dukat
Warnings you avoid?	"This story is about Kira and Dukat" I suppose
Do the number of reviews tell how good a story is?	Of course not, but for god's sake don't stop reviewing
What do you think of Mary Sues?	Long may she flourish!
Have you ever flamed someone?	I prefer the icy stare, which translates online into the silent treatment
Have you ever been flamed?	Of course
That's it, aren't you glad?	No, now I have to go back to work
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Comments

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

LOL!! I'll have to take this one, too. Yeah, I'm a bit surprised that you aren't reading much Firefly, given your other fandom penchants. If you did decide to write it, though, I'm sure you'd have a whole new fan base.

Long may your Tolkien stories be archived, as they remain some of the most inspirational reading I've enjoyed.

[executrix.livejournal.com]

I tend to think that Firefly is not as strong a fiction fandom as B7. Of course all the more reason for altariel to improve the average.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I swipe from Chris Boucher all the time... which is fair enough...

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Been thinking about that... not Firefly so much, but just the difference between B7 and others I've read, and it occurred to me that B7 is almost infinitely adaptable; I've read everything from cyberpunk to bawdy comedy to soap opera to sugar-overloaded send-ups to mushy sentiment to modern-days (or historical) AUs to high (and low) romance to sprawling Asimovian galactic political sagas to small kitchen sink dramas to comedies of manners (and yes, that means you)... and nearly every time, someone's made it work.

(True, there's also the usual enormous amount of rubbish, but being a smaller fandom in recent years, there's less of that around as well...)

I haven't seen Firefly, so I don't know how far it can stretch, but my other two fandoms (which I love dearly for their own reasons) just don't have that vast capacity to be all things to all writers...

[crossbow1.livejournal.com]

Garak and anyone passing...

Excellent ship, that.

[executrix.livejournal.com]

Replying to sallymn: I'm not sure that the protean nature of B7 fic doesn't say more about fanwriters than about B7, because I have almost no acquaintance with DueSouth fics, but judging by recs I've seen EVERYTHING turns up there. Although I guess nothing beats HP when it comes to defining "everything." I mean, just because a sane person wouldn't see the opportunity to write something doesn't mean there aren't 15 of 'em on ff.net alone.

I try to pimp everybody on Firefly* (and with rather more success than I had pimping B7) and certainly in your case you've overcome the most important barrier: you like Mag7, so you're at least willing to watch a Western.

*HP fans think that Browncoats are kinda too enthusiastic about mentioning our fandom in and out of season. Stop and think about that.

[kerravonsen]

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[altariel.livejournal.com]

:-)

[kerravonsen]

Replying to sallymn: I'm not sure that the protean nature of B7 fic doesn't say more about fanwriters than about B7, because I have almost no acquaintance with DueSouth fics, but judging by recs I've seen EVERYTHING turns up there.

Hmmmm. I would have thought that a space-based show would still have more breadth of scope than a current-day-set-on-Earth one, though. At least for doing stuff that isn't a parallel universe with a different setting, anyway.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

:-D

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Homage, as hafren says.

[dolamrothdame.livejournal.com]

Awwwwwww. Thanks for the ego-boo! That and Remembrance help with the whole dead sheep/dead furnace/dead refrigerator thing.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed the answers :-) I suspect I don't read or write Firefly because the universe feels so complete to me (particularly since the film).

And thank you for the kind words about the Tolkien fic. They'll be up on ff.net until TPTB invent rules which exclude them, and I'm slowly moving them all across to TFF.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

And happy Thanksgiving (despite recent trials).

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

So what or who would you like to write in Firefly?

Garak and anyone passing

Including the flourishing Mary-Sue? How would that go?

[altariel.livejournal.com]

The only story I can think of is one about Simon and Book, when Simon does shoot someone for the first time. But Firefly feels so complete - what I'd like is more episodes!


Garak and anyone passing

Including the flourishing Mary-Sue? How would that go?

I fear for Mary-Sue's sanity.

[thrihyrne.livejournal.com]

I tend to think that Firefly is not as strong a fiction fandom as B7. Of course all the more reason for altariel to improve the average.

Very true, and much shorter time frame than B7. Any fandom in which altariel1 submits works has been improved, in my book. ;)

[altariel.livejournal.com]

Bless you!