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for the fandom question prompt, numbers 20, 42, 43, 44, and 51?

20. Any ships which you surprised yourself by liking?

oh yeah! i was pretty ambivalent about kent parson and his ships until, idk, a month and a half ago? but now i

42. List and link to 5 fanfiction authors who are amazing

@querulousgawks, @des-zimbits, @foxfireflamequeen, @holsterr, @nomorelonelydays, @iddayidnight, pscoptera, @junosteeled, @jacksbits, @stultiloquentia, @annundriel, @omgericzimmermann... okay, more than five. and that’s just check please!! i KNOW i missed some too, but those are off the top of my head. i’m actually a pretty picky reader so it’s rare that something really sticks with me, but these authors clearly have.

43. Is there anyone in your fandom who really inspires you?

i’ve said it before, i’ll say it again: @querulousgawks‘s anti-inflammatory is the fic of my heart, and @foxfireflamequeen‘s easy like sunday morning made me look at jack zimmermann in a whole new way (maybe that’s because we spent a lot of time discussing his characterization together, but still).

44. What ship do you feel needs more attention?

lamilla!!! where’s my long-ass lamilla slow burn. give it to me

51. Rant or Gush about one thing you love or hate in the world of fanfiction! Go!

aw ok well i ranted about verb tenses earlier so i’m going to gush about that moment when someone takes a cliché and flips it on its head -- whether it’s a trope, or a characterization, or a sentence, or anything. i like when people make me look at something in a new way. the english prof who taught me in my Informal Essay class was really anti-cliché and made us look through every sentence we wrote for clichés, and once you start looking, it’s amazing how many you’ll find. for example, just saying “flip the cliché on its head” is, in and of itself, a cliché, because that turn of phrase is super overused... even if i had said “take the cliché and turn it upside down” would have been a cliché. of course, it’s really really difficult to write like that, constantly aware of every single expression, and i certainly don’t, especially in a fandom like this where the language used is a lot more informal than most because of the nature of the universe in which it takes place. but eeeevery once in a while you get something that makes you stop and say. huh. i’ve never looked at it like that. or i’ve never heard it said like that. and it’s fantastic.

i think one of the fun things about fanfiction is that EVERY trope has been done. every AU. every scenario. which means that, aside from being able to explore infinite universes for FREE, you can also figure out what works and what doesn’t. whether that’s in your own writing or just what you like to read. the drawback of that is, of course, that since everything’s been done, everything’s been done. BUT it does force you to be creative, and to constantly be looking for new angles to write the same plot and the same characters and the same settings. i think that’s really cool, and it means that sometimes, fanfiction succeeds where traditional media and literature doesn’t. because let’s face it -- a lot of novels published and TV shows and movies are just boring, because we’ve read it already, and not only that, sometimes (often) we’ve read a better version. a more well-developed version. a version with better continuity, or better characters. i’m not saying that fanfiction is inherently better than traditional media -- for every good fic i’ve read, i’ve probably read three i disliked. but it makes it all the more special when you find that fic that makes you say wow, that’s new.

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