{"id":272,"date":"2012-01-30T17:46:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T01:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harperkingsley.wordpress.com\/?p=272"},"modified":"2023-10-17T23:38:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T06:38:35","slug":"fanfic-a-dirty-dirty-little-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/fanfic-a-dirty-dirty-little-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"Fanfic: A dirty *dirty* little secret"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, so I totally read this==> Christie Gordon’s post “Should a Published Author Let On About Their Fanfiction<\/a>”\u00a0 <== awhile back and it’s something I’ve wondered for a long time. It’s basically a question on whether a published author should admit to their fanfiction past or not.<\/p>\n

On the one hand, you have your root fanbase of fanfic readers, which can really help you with your sales. On the other hand though, I would think you have to worry about litigation or what-not from the authors that are really not very fanfic friendly (hey JKR, LKH, AR, how ya ladies doing?)<\/p>\n

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So back in the day (it was a Wednesday, btw) I wrote a bunch of fanfic. I am still receiving story recs and faved author notifications from said stories. I have never been that big into fandom, being more of a lurker than anything else. I’ve read a whole lot, but I probably haven’t given back as much as I should, considering all the enjoyment I get out of reading slash fanfic. I love crossovers, I have a fondness for mpreg, and there’s this whole thing where I kind of like it where the bad guy wins.<\/p>\n

Basically fanfiction is my dirty little secret. I love Methos, Harry Potter, Kal-El\/Richard White, Iruka\/Kakashi, Naruto\/Gaara, Xander\/Spike, Sheppard\/McKay, and Robin\/Superboy.\u00a0 I was an old school Xander\/Angel shipper back in the day, btw. Right now, Sherlock\/Watson is pretty hot.<\/p>\n

I have not written any fanfiction in a very long time, mostly because I don’t currently have the time for it. Not when I just read some 500,000 word epic pile of crap, anyway. It just seems as though some fanfic authors feel the need to completely bloat out their stories past all recognition just so they can gloat that they have the longest story on TTH or FF. It’s actually pretty painful, especially when I’m the stooge that’s reading it and it starts out really good then just gets more and more ridiculous.<\/p>\n

Though I’ll always jump on a good Creature!fic, mostly because I can’t help my curiousity. Which has ended up totally squicking me in the past.<\/p>\n

Anyways, this was just a rambling admittance of the existence of fanfic. Not that I’m secretly hoarding any or anything, but that unlike the mythical unicorn, fanfiction really does exist. And some of it is pretty good (like a certain “Avatar: the Last Air Bender” epic that has been rocking a lot of peoples’ worlds for awhile. Zuko is pretty bad ass, and I like how he keeps those Embers burning.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, so I totally read this==> Christie Gordon’s post “Should a Published Author Let On About Their Fanfiction”\u00a0 <== awhile back and it’s something I’ve wondered for a long time. It’s basically a question on whether a published author should admit to their fanfiction past or not. On the one hand, you have your root…<\/p>\n Read More<\/span> Fanfic: A dirty *dirty* little secret<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,55],"tags":[308],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","has-more-link","post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-journal-2","category-real-life","tag-fanfic"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-4o","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":613,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/where-are-all-of-the-book-remixes-at-the-book-remix-project\/","url_meta":{"origin":272,"position":0},"title":"Where are all of the book remixes at? 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So I'm going to have to edit this whole thing for you because it's driving me insane when I download copies to my ereader and there's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Harper Kingsley\"","block_context":{"text":"Harper Kingsley","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/tag\/harper-kingsley\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6517,"href":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions\/6517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}