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tigs

Middle of Nowhere

Oct 25, 2009 21:10

I went through my old geocities site earlier this week to rescue all of the stories that I still had there. Or, really, to rescue Middle of Nowhere, because in some ways, no matter what else I write, or how much editing it could use, I think that story is always going to be one of my favorite things I've written ( Read more... )

popfic: middle of nowhere

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seimaisin October 26 2009, 03:42:52 UTC

Oh, man. I know that feeling so well - I wrote pop fic back in the day (OFC style, which I refuse to be ashamed of!), and the first really long story I'd finished since my notebook days of high school was a BSB story. I'm actually sad that I've completely lost that story - the websites are long gone, and the hard drive I wrote it on crashed without a backup. But, as much as it was probably a melodramatic Mary Sue-ish story, I'm still super proud of it for many reasons!

Where did you post this originally? To a mailing list, or just to your website?

tigs October 26 2009, 03:55:16 UTC

Long live the OFCs! And the melodrama!

I know the feeling with losing stories (which is why I decided I was going to put this one in google docs, wonky formatting and all). I lost most of my Lance/Britney epic, and my JC story, which was maybe the saddest thing I've ever written. I'm actually tempted to try to go to the mac store and see if there's any way to access a way-old hard drive on a totally dead laptop, just so I can get that story back.

I posted this one to my website, but did most of my publicity over at fictionlyn's board. And--there was another board, which I'm totally blanking on, but yeah. Mostly at fictionlyn's. (Did you hear that she came back recently?) Oh, the memories.

seimaisin October 26 2009, 04:10:52 UTC

Wow, fictionlyn. That's a name I haven't heard in a long time. (/obi-wan) Where's she hanging out these days?

I still have that old hard drive sitting in a closet! Someday, maybe I'll take it in to a repair shop and see if someone can retrieve the data. That would be a trip in the wayback machine, that's for sure!

tigs October 26 2009, 04:22:36 UTC

Her name appeared on my flist a few weeks ago, with regards to her coming back, and I realized I hadn't thought about her in years at that point. She basically just posted an update to her fictionlyn journal about how she was going to finish the story she abandoned... 7 years ago, or so? And how people could contact her if they wanted to read it. Or something.

Yeah. :)

modus_irrealis October 26 2009, 04:33:10 UTC

OH MY GOD. I was thinking about that fic just a few weeks ago, wondering who wrote it and where I could find it again. It was you?

I really loved it at the time, because 'pop star in hiding' is such a delicious trope, I liked the readjustments Justin had to make to living in 'normal' high school, and even if Maggie was kind of in a Mary Sue role I liked her and I liked their romance. Sometimes I think that self-indulgence is severely underrated in fanfic.

Oh, this is funny. I was never really in popslash fandom, I just went through a few phases of frantically devouring fic, so it still takes me by surprise when it turns out that fics I really liked in popslash turn out to have been written by some of my favourite bandom authors (I'm thinking of wearemany here).

modus_irrealis October 26 2009, 04:38:15 UTC

And I just realised I used the term "popslash", which is clearly not relevant here. Whoops!

tigs October 26 2009, 04:45:14 UTC

I totally considered myself a slasher by that point, despite the fact that I, you know, hadn't written any slash. But that was the side of the fandom I was hanging out in. :)

And yes, that was me. :)

I've also been totally surprised how many popslash people have ended up in bandom, too. I keep seeing names I haven't seen in years, or I'll do some digging on their sites/lj's and go, hey. I've read this before! It was just written under a different name many, many years ago.

seimaisin October 26 2009, 11:31:25 UTC

I totally considered myself a slasher by that point, despite the fact that I, you know, hadn't written any slash. But that was the side of the fandom I was hanging out in. :)

Ha. Were you me? Because you sound like me. :D

The past has popped up EVERYWHERE in bandom. It's been almost frightening sometimes!

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tigs October 26 2009, 05:23:46 UTC

...I still call it MON in my head. It's been MON pretty much since it had a title. :)

Unfortunately, none of it is on the wayback machine anymore. (Which is why getting MON off of there and onto googledocs was a priority!) Basically, I just need to go to the store and see if they have a really old power cord (mine got fried) and see if I can charge the computer up enough to get onto the hard drive. (I want "Into the Woods" and "Short Story of a Lonely Guy" back.)

weird_one October 26 2009, 13:19:05 UTC

Dude. Dude! I loved that story! I love that trope. And I had no idea you wrote that one. I remember basically stalking your site for updates.

tigs October 29 2009, 04:40:23 UTC

Hee! I'm very glad you enjoyed it, back in the day!

supersyncspaz7 October 26 2009, 17:58:37 UTC

I REMEMBER THAT STORY!!! Last night I tried to log in to my Geocities account and saw that all of my stuff was already gone. Amazingly, I remembered that a lot of it is still up on Angelfire (which hasn't died--YET), so I still can access some of it. I think I need to get on that.

tigs October 29 2009, 04:41:53 UTC

That's horrible that your Geocities stuff was already gone. Most of my old stories I don't care so much about, but this one... yeah. Too many memories.

I hope you can find your stories on Angelfire!