#so technically i've written more non-gb than gb

[lena-oleanderson]

my version of "i wonder what else they have written - RPF hockey???" is my 22 ghostbusters (2016) fanfics i wrote within 2 of my 8 years on ao3

#in 16 months to be precise #there's like 90k words there - none of them are good #please do not read them #but i keep them up as like. mostly a reminder to myself as to where i came from #i cannot look back at that era of my life without cringing a bit (this is impossible to do in general for early teen years) #and honestly all of my writing pre-2020 makes me cringe too much to be able to read it #but like. i wrote So Much for that fandom and Through Doing it i improved a lot. and i wouldn't be anywhere close to the writer i am today #if i hadn't #for context - the only other fandom that comes close to rivalling that in numbers is supergirl with 18 fics spanning 5 years #and just over 77k words all of them added together #like in total i have 52 fics on ao3 that's 8 more than my gb total #and Nearly 230k words altogether #so technically i've written more non-gb than gb #but that 133k took me 6 years!! #granted it's bc good writing takes uh. more time. i wasn't even editing when i first started posting #and i've written lots of original work in that time #but All of that original work - i hope to get published maybe someday soon-ish #if that ever goes anywhere - i owe that in large part to fanfic bc that's where i got all my practise my immediate feedback so much communi #and all that originates from ghostbusters (2016) #my first real fandom - the first place where i really felt like i fit in (it was like. exclusively neurodivergent queer women & non-binary #people - i didn't even know i was neurodivergent back then!! i hardly knew what adhd was. i hardly knew who i was. i was still semi-recentl #out as gay. i was figuring out how i fit into the whole gender thing #and that fandom had so much genuine love in it. it really shaped me as a person and i'm glad i was a part of it #even when i - yk as i am today - i probably wouldn't gravitate towards that movie #i've avoided rewatching it bc i realise it is much better in my fond memories #but i'm glad i was there!! #so even if i cringe abt it now i also refuse to orphan those works

[tocontinue]

Start the new year off creative! Take this as a chance to ramble off some headcanons about your muse and their world!

//-Was honestly wondering how to do this, cause honestly? I'm not a super headcanon-y writer. I really like working with established canon, and only really tend to deviate from it if I think it's, like, poorly written, which I don't think applies much to the Classic series, imho. Buuuuuut, lore is also super inconsistent, so... I'm taking this opportunity to ramble about where I pull specific ideas and concepts. Which I suppose is technically a headcanon. I'm rambling and I haven't even started yet AKJBCJKASX

//-There's a lot of noncanon Mega Man stuff. I haven't played most of them (I'm not playing Mega Man DOS, I'm sorry), but I've been on my wiki deep dives and read enough. While mostly inspired by what Flynn pulled from for Archie, there's a few games I consider canon to the Rock here, namely:

-Super Adventure Rockman -BOTH Mega Man & Bass titles (there's a surprisingly non-zero amount of references to MM&B2 in MMZXA, plus it was briefly alluded to in Archie, so I'm counting it. It's also a fun story) -MMV on the gameboy

//-That said, a lot of stuff like, say, Rockman Strategy isn't canon. Not yet, at least. The first 4 GB games (though Quint is. Don't ask, I still haven't figured out the specifics KASJBCJKSX). Both DOS games (the second of which is named Mega Man 3 for some reason). Not everything fits or is something I'm eager to work with. Strategy was weird, the GB games were kinda redundant until V, and DOS.

//-Powered Up isn't canon at all, Archie's take on that is the canon to this blog. I despise Powered Up's story AKSJBCKASX

//-I use Archie a lot to fill in the gaps; I think the Classic series has much richer lore than most give it credit for, but the games themselves are usually still pretty light on any fluff. Even the more story-driven ones, like 7, 8, and 11. THAT SAID, I tend to prioritize game canon over Archie canon, and they can conflict a lot more than you'd think.

//-The most glaring one is the backstory of Light and Wily (though that one wasn't Flynn's fault; the games didn't even touch on that until 11, well after Archie was cancelled "placed on indefinite hiatus"). I consider 11's backstory to be canon; the one where Wily walked out WELL before the construction of even Blues, much less Rock and Roll. Wily's involvement in (or overseeing of, since he'd lost his license by then) their construction didn't play much into anything that happened in Archie anyways, so it's not a huge loss.

//-And this one's petty, but it always bothered me that Rock has the charged shot from stage 1 in Archie. I maintain the canon that he didn't get that until MM4 on this blog, if that were to literally ever show up for whatever reason.

//-Flynn's weird obsession with having the Robot Masters date and have crushes on each other is largely disregarded to me as well. This one's a point of contention among the community at large, but I operate under the opinion that RMs under the same creator are related in some way. So does Archie, but only sometimes. It's confusing and genuinely the only real black mark on the comics.

//-That's all I can really think about at the moment, at least. I used to have a HC that Rock could only hold a certain amount of weapon data normally? But I've kinda disregarded that. I dunno.

//-I love talking Mega Man lore, so if there's any more questions, hit me up? Eyes emoji?

#► Vio Rambles (ooc) #► Light Labs P.O Box (Answered) #//-I popped off. I'm so sorry anon AKSJBCJBAKSSX #//-I see the opportunity to infodump about Mega Man and I go feral