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mclachlan...
Bold any reasons that apply to you, strike out any that don't (if you feel like it), and add three (or so) reasons of your own to the bottom.
REASONS I WRITE FANFIC
1. To explore themes that I don't get to see in mass media using characters I love.
2. Because it's fun.
3. Because mass media does a crappy job of representing my race, gender and sexual orientation.
4. Because I can get more people aboard my ship writing a story than a manifesto.
5. Because TV science-fiction doesn't explore its science-fiction premises in enough depth.
6. Because it's a gift I can give a stranger and know they will enjoy it.
7. Because it makes my brain hurt, but in a good way.
8. The lack of attention a lot of female/minor characters get.
9. Fandom is a wonderful thing, and I want to be a part of that.
10. Writing is an important creative outlet for me
11. I have been plagued by what-ifs and untold stories all my life
12. I love to experiment
+13. To branch out by trying genres I don't usually write and which sometimes call for the use of different styles and conventions.
+14. To examine and analyze characters and themes of the canon in a way that can feel more practical and be more fun than just writing meta about them.
+15. To fill the void when the canon may be fine the way it is but still leaves me wanting more.
2. Is it just my imagination, or does it seem like every time you see someone posting in a comm describing a fanfic they read once and are trying to find again, it always sounds like a really terrible fic? Whenever I see a post with someone asking for help with something like that, it always grabs my full attention because I know it's usually going to be entertaining. Like "This story had Sirius coming back from the dead and when he finds out Remus married Tonks he puts a curse on her without knowing she's pregnant, then Remus finds out he almost killed their baby and he's furious so Sirius tries to kill himself. And I remember by the end Sirius and Remus are raising Teddy together after Tonks died in the battle. Sound familiar to anyone? Oh and I think the title was from a Muse song." LOL.
3. That icon meme again...
1. Reply to this post, and I will pick six-eight of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee.
ninety6tears gave me...
Skins: Cook/Effy. I don't really ship them per say, but I like their relationship and both of them as characters and just thought it was a pretty eye-grabbing icon. I tend to use this as sort of a stock het-themed icon.
Zodiac: Avery. Downey as the San Francisco Chronicle reporter Paul Avery. After the Zodiac killer sends him a threatening Halloween card in response to the kind of articles he's been writing about him, everyone at the Chronicle starts wearing buttons saying "I Am Not Paul Avery." (Like about 90% of the events depicted in the film, this really happened.) It took me a while to see this movie, but it's now one of my new favorites and I might be doing a picspam of it soon.
ST: Kirk & Spock. My all-purpose Spock and Kirk friendship or slash icon. This is one of the best scenes between them in the movie and I like images of them in their academy uniforms for some reason.
Skins: Freddie. Um, I'll just try not to get started on Freddie, but...yeah, I like him, deal with it. :P And I like that plaid jacket on him.
Avatar: Azula. I wasn't a particular fan of Azula as a character until this whole scene ended up being one of the great moments in the finale. The way her downfall at the hands of her brother is portrayed as tragic rather than much of a victory is really not the kind of thing you typically see in a show made for kids, but despite being dark it was actually the perfect way to handle it in a show for kids.
BSG: Kara/Lee. Pilots! With a visual representation of why we call the ship Pilots. Hehe. This is such a cute icon and not one that I see everybody all over the place using so I think I just might keep it forever.
4. God, has anyone else been waiting forever for this movie to open everywhere, if it's ever going to? It's been so long since I've even seen Jim Carrey or Ewan McGregor in anything and I was so excited when I first saw this.
mclachlan...Bold any reasons that apply to you, strike out any that don't (if you feel like it), and add three (or so) reasons of your own to the bottom.
REASONS I WRITE FANFIC
1. To explore themes that I don't get to see in mass media using characters I love.
2. Because it's fun.
3. Because mass media does a crappy job of representing my race, gender and sexual orientation.
4. Because I can get more people aboard my ship writing a story than a manifesto.
5. Because TV science-fiction doesn't explore its science-fiction premises in enough depth.
6. Because it's a gift I can give a stranger and know they will enjoy it.
7. Because it makes my brain hurt, but in a good way.
8. The lack of attention a lot of female/minor characters get.
9. Fandom is a wonderful thing, and I want to be a part of that.
10. Writing is an important creative outlet for me
11. I have been plagued by what-ifs and untold stories all my life
12. I love to experiment
+13. To branch out by trying genres I don't usually write and which sometimes call for the use of different styles and conventions.
+14. To examine and analyze characters and themes of the canon in a way that can feel more practical and be more fun than just writing meta about them.
+15. To fill the void when the canon may be fine the way it is but still leaves me wanting more.
2. Is it just my imagination, or does it seem like every time you see someone posting in a comm describing a fanfic they read once and are trying to find again, it always sounds like a really terrible fic? Whenever I see a post with someone asking for help with something like that, it always grabs my full attention because I know it's usually going to be entertaining. Like "This story had Sirius coming back from the dead and when he finds out Remus married Tonks he puts a curse on her without knowing she's pregnant, then Remus finds out he almost killed their baby and he's furious so Sirius tries to kill himself. And I remember by the end Sirius and Remus are raising Teddy together after Tonks died in the battle. Sound familiar to anyone? Oh and I think the title was from a Muse song." LOL.
3. That icon meme again...
1. Reply to this post, and I will pick six-eight of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee.
ninety6tears gave me...Skins: Cook/Effy. I don't really ship them per say, but I like their relationship and both of them as characters and just thought it was a pretty eye-grabbing icon. I tend to use this as sort of a stock het-themed icon.
Zodiac: Avery. Downey as the San Francisco Chronicle reporter Paul Avery. After the Zodiac killer sends him a threatening Halloween card in response to the kind of articles he's been writing about him, everyone at the Chronicle starts wearing buttons saying "I Am Not Paul Avery." (Like about 90% of the events depicted in the film, this really happened.) It took me a while to see this movie, but it's now one of my new favorites and I might be doing a picspam of it soon.
ST: Kirk & Spock. My all-purpose Spock and Kirk friendship or slash icon. This is one of the best scenes between them in the movie and I like images of them in their academy uniforms for some reason.
Skins: Freddie. Um, I'll just try not to get started on Freddie, but...yeah, I like him, deal with it. :P And I like that plaid jacket on him.
Avatar: Azula. I wasn't a particular fan of Azula as a character until this whole scene ended up being one of the great moments in the finale. The way her downfall at the hands of her brother is portrayed as tragic rather than much of a victory is really not the kind of thing you typically see in a show made for kids, but despite being dark it was actually the perfect way to handle it in a show for kids.
BSG: Kara/Lee. Pilots! With a visual representation of why we call the ship Pilots. Hehe. This is such a cute icon and not one that I see everybody all over the place using so I think I just might keep it forever.
4. God, has anyone else been waiting forever for this movie to open everywhere, if it's ever going to? It's been so long since I've even seen Jim Carrey or Ewan McGregor in anything and I was so excited when I first saw this.
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Date: 2010-05-25 03:51 am (UTC)Cook looks good on eeeveryone.
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Date: 2010-05-25 04:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-25 07:54 am (UTC)There was some talk of it opening in Britain, but I don't know what's happened since... :(