Fanfiction in my life :)
About fanfiction...
We didn't have TV at university. So the habit of TV-watching was lost for nearly six years.
Time passed. Graduated, got married, had a kid.
I was a housewife then with a quiet three year old daughter who loved to play alone rearranging any kind of tiles. That is why I began watching TV while making evening meals. They were very boring evenings...
And it was the year I made close acquaintance with Internet.
And FARSCAPE happened. Apparently, it takes only one perfectly fitting TV-show to make that stupid habit resurface...
Oh, how I loved science fiction back when I was 10 and nearly the only place I could read it was Young Technician magazine... Bulychov and brothers Strugatsky, Bradbury and Shackley, Azimov and Stanislaw Lem, a bit of Alfred Bester here, a bit of Heinlein there... It was an addiction through my last school years and a part at uni.
Then, one day I didn't turn TV off after Farscape... And so the mighty BTVS entered my life. I was fascinated with life over there - it was so completely different from ours. It was so bright and cheerful, despite all Buffy problems (it was the 4th season - a nice place to start watching. I doubt I would watch it if I caught the first seasons - too childish for my tastes then).
Buffy ended unexpectedly and I was left with nothing but internet to explore what happened before season 4. So I began reading Russian BTVS forum. Slowly but enthusiastically I navigated through episodes and characters discussions. And then I discovered fanfiction. Oh, so many new words and conceptions... Shippers, fanfiction, cliffhanger (hadn't seen it before), restricted sections which needed passwords, slash, beta-readers, ratings and so on... Even conception of season was foreign then.
First reading Russian translations, later I tentatively began exploring the vast world of English-speaking fandom. There were so many genres, so many authors, styles and plotlines. And I was hooked. I participated in some translation works, betaed some, even translated some short stories myself.
Since then it became a guilty pleasure. Comfort food, so to speak. Now and then I prefer reading fanfiction to actual watching TV.
I still read BTVS fics. From time to time here and there pops up something new, and I swallow it in a second. I even reread my favorite authors from those old days - Herself, Barb C, Kantaraya and Kallisten, Euridice - and some new for me, like Enigmaticblues, Anaross.
Later I surfed through Harry Potter fanfiction. There was plenty of it with every plot already written, every relationship already dissected. Sometimes I reread those things too, especially two Severitus stories (where Snape turns out to be Harry's father) - rather fluffy Blood magic by GatewayGirl and angsty In blood only by E.M.Snape.
And how disappointed I was that my favorite show of 2011 - Fringe - did not have any good, long, heavily plotted fanfiction. The only good pieces are either essay-like character studies or one-shots with a character study in mind :( I love them, but want something else). Nearly everything else is either so weak in writing it makes me, non-english speaker, cringe with spelling or phrase construction, or so not in character it makes reading useless, or is just a satisfaction of some author's kinks...
Read some Labyrinth fiction. There were enough good stories to leave me satisfied.
Read some Castle fiction. Same here.
Reading Sherlock BBC fiction now and I'm bored to tears with Sherlock/John stories, I dislike Moriarty, and so I can't read Moriarty-centric stories... It leaves me with Mystade only((( And it's mostly such a fluffy romance, teeth are rotting just by reading summaries
Furthermore, I find magic AU (werepeople, omega-verse, elves) unsatisfying. I'd say that I hate slave theme, which is always undercurrent with magic plot.
We didn't have TV at university. So the habit of TV-watching was lost for nearly six years.
Time passed. Graduated, got married, had a kid.
I was a housewife then with a quiet three year old daughter who loved to play alone rearranging any kind of tiles. That is why I began watching TV while making evening meals. They were very boring evenings...
And it was the year I made close acquaintance with Internet.
And FARSCAPE happened. Apparently, it takes only one perfectly fitting TV-show to make that stupid habit resurface...
Oh, how I loved science fiction back when I was 10 and nearly the only place I could read it was Young Technician magazine... Bulychov and brothers Strugatsky, Bradbury and Shackley, Azimov and Stanislaw Lem, a bit of Alfred Bester here, a bit of Heinlein there... It was an addiction through my last school years and a part at uni.
Then, one day I didn't turn TV off after Farscape... And so the mighty BTVS entered my life. I was fascinated with life over there - it was so completely different from ours. It was so bright and cheerful, despite all Buffy problems (it was the 4th season - a nice place to start watching. I doubt I would watch it if I caught the first seasons - too childish for my tastes then).
Buffy ended unexpectedly and I was left with nothing but internet to explore what happened before season 4. So I began reading Russian BTVS forum. Slowly but enthusiastically I navigated through episodes and characters discussions. And then I discovered fanfiction. Oh, so many new words and conceptions... Shippers, fanfiction, cliffhanger (hadn't seen it before), restricted sections which needed passwords, slash, beta-readers, ratings and so on... Even conception of season was foreign then.
First reading Russian translations, later I tentatively began exploring the vast world of English-speaking fandom. There were so many genres, so many authors, styles and plotlines. And I was hooked. I participated in some translation works, betaed some, even translated some short stories myself.
Since then it became a guilty pleasure. Comfort food, so to speak. Now and then I prefer reading fanfiction to actual watching TV.
I still read BTVS fics. From time to time here and there pops up something new, and I swallow it in a second. I even reread my favorite authors from those old days - Herself, Barb C, Kantaraya and Kallisten, Euridice - and some new for me, like Enigmaticblues, Anaross.
Later I surfed through Harry Potter fanfiction. There was plenty of it with every plot already written, every relationship already dissected. Sometimes I reread those things too, especially two Severitus stories (where Snape turns out to be Harry's father) - rather fluffy Blood magic by GatewayGirl and angsty In blood only by E.M.Snape.
And how disappointed I was that my favorite show of 2011 - Fringe - did not have any good, long, heavily plotted fanfiction. The only good pieces are either essay-like character studies or one-shots with a character study in mind :( I love them, but want something else). Nearly everything else is either so weak in writing it makes me, non-english speaker, cringe with spelling or phrase construction, or so not in character it makes reading useless, or is just a satisfaction of some author's kinks...
Read some Labyrinth fiction. There were enough good stories to leave me satisfied.
Read some Castle fiction. Same here.
Reading Sherlock BBC fiction now and I'm bored to tears with Sherlock/John stories, I dislike Moriarty, and so I can't read Moriarty-centric stories... It leaves me with Mystade only((( And it's mostly such a fluffy romance, teeth are rotting just by reading summaries
Furthermore, I find magic AU (werepeople, omega-verse, elves) unsatisfying. I'd say that I hate slave theme, which is always undercurrent with magic plot.