Weekly Fic Discussion

[lachrymosy]

(Bi)Weekly Fic Discussion

Welcome back to our (now every other) Weekly Fic Discussion post!

This post can be used for any kind of fic discussion you want, but there are also a few prompt questions each week. You can reply to all of them, one of them, or none of them if you have something else you want to talk about!

Feel free to post WIP snippets, ask others' opinion on characterization, share a clip that has broken your brain, etc.!

This week's prompt questions:

• What was the first Kpop fandom you read/wrote for?


• Tell us about the plot of the first fanfic you ever wrote (any fandom).

Comments

[hitokage]

I think the first fic I wrote for Kpop fandom was Taebin/Seven? Alas, all that early stuff got lost in a computer crash (and then theft), so the earliest I still have access to is OT5 DBSK, which is pretty close to the same time, only I actually published some of that out where I could theoretically claim it back again. (But probably won't, because trash fans managed to chase me out TWICE, so fuck that.)

Uh, the first fic I ever wrote was almost forty years ago and a self-insert Greek mythology MESS that I'm not at all sorry to not have anymore. XD It wasn't meant for anyone else anyway, so it's fine.

[blackcatofmisery]

RIP your computer. I've killed a few in my time. No idea what all I lost before finally saving things on USBs or in the cloud (which has also messed up a few times 🙄). I am sorry you've experienced such negativity from other fans. They forget the basics of fandom and just sink to new lows the more I hear of them throughout various fandoms.

Self-insert mythology, though. That's unique. A good setting for very wild possibilities. 👍

=^..^=~

[hitokage]

Xuxi is my eighth, and while he's not as bling bling as some of his predecessors, he trundles along nice and solid and I appreciate him for that. As many times as I've lost fics to technical troubles, one would think I'd be better about keeping backups, but... not so much. XD

IDK, mythology is kinda rife with Mary Sues, it's the perfect place to start telling stories. I remember being obsessed with Greek myth for awhile, especially the story of Psyche & Eros. I wanted sooo badly to be rescued from my boring, mundane life, that writing stories became an escape.

[blackcatofmisery]

Long live Xuxi! There's still time for us to learn, because I still have a bad habit of keeping backups only so up-to-date... But until the next household technological apocalypse happens, I won't change my ways.

I think it's rather sad to feel so strongly that the only outlet is fantasy, but it's what has driven so much creativity and art. Even Mary Sues have their time and place of great importance.

[nagi_schwarz]

Your first fanfic sounds epic (pun not intended).

[hitokage]

Oh the Mary Sues I wrote and rewrote for myself back in the day... I worked through a lot of childhood and teenaged angst that way and I'm a little sorry I don't have those stories anymore, but. :shrug:

[andersenmom]

Stories were DEFINITELY how I worked (and still work) through things going on in my life. Writing is such an amazing outlet.