playing That Alphabet Meme (A-E)

[brightknightie]

A: Ships that you currently like a lot.

"Currently?" I've been devoted to Vision/Wanda since I was 9, and WandaVision is coming one of these days. I'm still the world's biggest fan of Nick/Urs, I suspect, but that's "current" only in my head, and barely even there, I admit. I don't know what to do with "current"... I feel that I would like Miss Thursday to come back to Endeavor and turn out to be the future Mrs. Morse, but that they'll save that for when they're canceled.

B: A pairing that you initially didn’t consider, but someone changed your mind.

All pairings outside canon? Non-canonical pairings rarely occur to me on my own. I was talked out of Nick/Natalie and into Nick/Janette by persuasive canon-based argumentation (that's not the same). Um... Duncan/Methos?

C: A ship you have never liked and probably never will.

This list could be long. Let's start and end at Nick/Lacroix.

D: What was the first thing you ever contributed to a fandom?

I had 3 letters published in Marvel comics, back in the days of letters and letters pages. Does that count? I hosted TV-watching nights in my dorm's TV lounge for DS9 and HL. No? So the meme really means the utterly forgettable FK sonnet I inflicted on the world when I first discovered online fandom? (No, it's not on the AO3.) (My first FK story is.) (But my first actual fanfics were on notebook paper long before I knew what "fanfic" was: 2 New Mutants, 1 The New Dark Shadows.)

E: Have you added anything stupid/cracky/hilarious to your fandom?

Not on purpose? Well, I did contribute to one FK parody zine (parodying wretched fanfic tropes, not FK). And I did write one FK/Doctor Who fusion-y thing that was supposed to be funny.


F: What’s the longest you’ve ever been in a fandom? What fandom was it?
G: What was your first fandom?
H: Do you prefer live action TV shows or animated TV shows?
I: Has online caused you to stop liking any fandoms, if so, which and why?
M: Name a character that you’d like to have for a friend.
N: Name three things you wish you saw more or in your main fandom (or a fandom of choice).
O: Choose a song at random, what ship does it remind you of?
P: Invent a random AU for any fandom (we always need more ideas).
Q: A fandom you’ve abandoned and why.
R: Which friendship/platonic relationship is your favorite in fandom?
S: Show us an example of your personal headcanon.
T: Do you have any hard and fast headcanons that you will die defending?
U: Three favorite characters from three different fandoms, and why they’re your favorites.
V: Which character do you relate to most?
W: A trope which you are virtually certain to hate in any fandom.
X: A trope which you are almost certain to love in any fandom
Y: What are your secondhand fandoms (i.e., fandoms you aren’t in personally but are tangentially familiar with because your friends/people on your dash are in them)?
Z: Just ramble about something fan-related, go go go!

Comments

[greerwatson]

"I had 3 letters published in Marvel comics, back in the days of letters and letters pages. Does that count?"

I don't see why not. I had one published, too. Once upon a time.

:)

[brightknightie]

Which comic did you write to? (Only if you want to share!)

[greerwatson]

You know, at this point, I can't even remember! It was a Marvel title, back in the late sixties. That I do know. X-men, maybe?

[malinaldarose]

I did write one FK/Doctor Who fusion-y thing that was supposed to be funny.

Now that I would like to see....

[brightknightie]

"Professor When" (2007) (G, gen, ~3K words)

... 13 years ago, good gravy!

[malinaldarose]

OMG, that's hilarious! Thank you for the link!

[brightknightie]

Thank you for asking! Thank you for reading! Thank you for commenting!

Trifecta. ;-)

Good golly, that was pre-River, even... and I had sincerely forgotten how Nick defeats Lacroix in the end. Virtue rewarded! :-D

[malinaldarose]

It took several hours for "Vote Norman" to click...you'd think I'd get that one faster, being a Robin Hood fan.

[greerwatson]

Oh, delightful!

[brightknightie]

Thank you!

[nicholas_lucien]

That story was great!

[brightknightie]

Thank you very much!

[senmut]

3 letters to comics counts. Letters' pages were the best.

[brightknightie]

I remember letters pages fondly! When curated with heart, they were indeed the best, so much more than anything today... although, come to think of it, Archaeology magazine, my last hard-copy subscription, still has a properly curated letters page in the printed copy. It's generally lovely, especially when readers successfully, respectfully challenge the conclusions of articles, or ask a question the journalist missed.

Not the same as comics. Or zines. :-) But still.

[chelseagirl]

Was that the same FK parody zine that I was involved with? I can't remember if we were friends with you when we did Buxom Football Players.

[brightknightie]

Yes, I am responsible for -- if I remember correctly -- 2 chapters of Buxom Football Players. I could go check. But who knows what might escape those pages if I opened them?

It strikes me now that what I should have said in answer to the "stupid/cracky/hilarious" question is actually: "I participated in more than one FKFic-L War, including War 7, the most important... so yes, for goodness' sake, yes." ;-D

[elistaire]

That's so cool that you got letters published in the letters section of the comics!