I suck, suck, suck at anonymity too. Which is to say, I'm sure people would figure it out if I even tried.
I think about a quarter of my FL already knows who I am. Plus I chaired Buffycon under my real name, and posted about it in my LJ, and the email account I use for LJ has my real name on the reply field. Basically I try to make sure they're not Googleable together to the casual eye, but beyond that it'd take about 15 minutes to connect the dots.
(fully body hives that are really really itchy)
Ugh, I'm sorry. I've had exactly one hive in my life, and that was quite bad enough.
I'm thinking like a original fic writer. (Is there a fanfic word for that? Or is that word just 'pro'?)
Pro, if they've sold. Otherwise "original fic writer" is fine. There are people, many of whom come out of the fanfic community, writing and posting original fic to the web for free, so we do need the distinction. "Real" writer has been used on occasion, but I wouldn't recommend it.
I can't imagine trying to write funny Buffy,
Nor I, but people do. I have an Iron Author request I've left dangling for months because they want Willow/Xander as a romantic comedy and I can't get past my *blink* reaction. Also I don't think I know how to write romantic commedy. It keeps degenerating into old French farce in my head.
Actually, I finally clued in in one of oyceter's posts and the response to that (mine).
Cool!
Which post? (If it's public, of course.)
I speak Buffy in daily life as well. Although lately that's been more Firefly, because I really loved that show. Note how I'm not saying Fox Sucks. Much.
Hee! I've only see a few eps of Firefly. I didn't really have time to get attached. But I did buy the DVDs, and I've got to watch them before Serenity comes out, so there may be a foredoomed and tragic love in my future.
I'm wondering if part of the reason I don't have this resonance is because I was thirty when I first came to Buffy,
Quite possibly? I was (does math) 22? Can that be right? Good lord. Anyway, when I tipped over from a casual viewer to a regular viewer to an obsessed fan I was about 26 -- it was Fool For Love that did it. And not long after I had a terrible breakup and threw myself into the Buffyverse as place to put all the energy I used to use on keeping us together, and an alternative to not feeling anything. I'm over the breakup at last, but the Buffy bonding remains.
I can see so much that isn't Buffy in Buffy, so many other sources from other experiences in both reading and popular culture. The latter of which could be considered one of my huge blind points
*nods* I can see that stuff, at least some of it, but for me that's sort of like tracing the sources of Shakespeare's plots -- I know they're not original to him, but it's he that really pulled them together in a form that punched me in the gut, so his is the mythic version for me, and the others are only ancestors, of academic interest.
It's mythic, because of the inverted hero structure, but it's not myth in the sense that I love the show, but don't believe it. At some point, those myths were beliefs, were held as true, and in some cases still are. If that makes sense.
It does make sense. And it doesn't, I hope, need saying that I don't believe there was a real Buffy and she lived in a real town that doesn't exist any more. But for someone like me, who hasn't believed in anything in that sense since Santa Claus, believing in Buffy and Paul Muad Dib and Ender Wiggins is probably as close as I'm ever going to get. I don't have real. I'll settle for true.
writing about things that are compelling, I assume, is the driving force behind much of fanfic.
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Date: 2004-10-22 07:57 am (UTC)I think about a quarter of my FL already knows who I am. Plus I chaired Buffycon under my real name, and posted about it in my LJ, and the email account I use for LJ has my real name on the reply field. Basically I try to make sure they're not Googleable together to the casual eye, but beyond that it'd take about 15 minutes to connect the dots.
(fully body hives that are really really itchy)
Ugh, I'm sorry. I've had exactly one hive in my life, and that was quite bad enough.
I'm thinking like a original fic writer. (Is there a fanfic word for that? Or is that word just 'pro'?)
Pro, if they've sold. Otherwise "original fic writer" is fine. There are people, many of whom come out of the fanfic community, writing and posting original fic to the web for free, so we do need the distinction. "Real" writer has been used on occasion, but I wouldn't recommend it.
I can't imagine trying to write funny Buffy,
Nor I, but people do. I have an Iron Author request I've left dangling for months because they want Willow/Xander as a romantic comedy and I can't get past my *blink* reaction. Also I don't think I know how to write romantic commedy. It keeps degenerating into old French farce in my head.
Actually, I finally clued in in one of oyceter's posts and the response to that (mine).
Cool!
Which post? (If it's public, of course.)
I speak Buffy in daily life as well. Although lately that's been more Firefly, because I really loved that show. Note how I'm not saying Fox Sucks. Much.
Hee! I've only see a few eps of Firefly. I didn't really have time to get attached. But I did buy the DVDs, and I've got to watch them before Serenity comes out, so there may be a foredoomed and tragic love in my future.
I'm wondering if part of the reason I don't have this resonance is because I was thirty when I first came to Buffy,
Quite possibly? I was (does math) 22? Can that be right? Good lord. Anyway, when I tipped over from a casual viewer to a regular viewer to an obsessed fan I was about 26 -- it was Fool For Love that did it. And not long after I had a terrible breakup and threw myself into the Buffyverse as place to put all the energy I used to use on keeping us together, and an alternative to not feeling anything. I'm over the breakup at last, but the Buffy bonding remains.
I can see so much that isn't Buffy in Buffy, so many other sources from other experiences in both reading and popular culture. The latter of which could be considered one of my huge blind points
*nods* I can see that stuff, at least some of it, but for me that's sort of like tracing the sources of Shakespeare's plots -- I know they're not original to him, but it's he that really pulled them together in a form that punched me in the gut, so his is the mythic version for me, and the others are only ancestors, of academic interest.
It's mythic, because of the inverted hero structure, but it's not myth in the sense that I love the show, but don't believe it. At some point, those myths were beliefs, were held as true, and in some cases still are. If that makes sense.
It does make sense. And it doesn't, I hope, need saying that I don't believe there was a real Buffy and she lived in a real town that doesn't exist any more. But for someone like me, who hasn't believed in anything in that sense since Santa Claus, believing in Buffy and Paul Muad Dib and Ender Wiggins is probably as close as I'm ever going to get. I don't have real. I'll settle for true.
writing about things that are compelling, I assume, is the driving force behind much of fanfic.
Absolutely.