7 Days of Fanfic: Day 3
Sep. 23rd, 2010 10:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lexDay 1: What are you responding to or inspired by when you write fanfic?
Day 2: What themes or patterns do you write?
Day 3: What character archetypes do you enjoy (or hate) writing?
Day 4: Do you feel you have a writing style?
Day 5: When do you write what kinds of fanfics?
Day 6: How do you interact with readers' responses (or lack thereof)?
Day 7: Once it's posted, how do you interact with your story?
I love the semi-feral persons. I love sentient nonhumans (oh boy do I love them wink wink nudge nudge say no more). I love the sociopaths and psychopaths. I almost never really like the main characters - they exist to be the foil for the characters I DO like. I hate the standard Japanese archetypes: the cute girl who NYAAAAs a lot, the crazy left-handed evil, the seme and uke, the badass big-breasted woman, the weeping and blushing. Not my culture. It is the culture that a lot of fandom is first exposed to, though, and it shows. God does it show. Not that Western culture is better: the helpless woman, the mustache-twirling ridiculous villain, the charismatic leader with grandiose speeches... I will be honest, I only love Optimus for his voice. If he didn't have such a fine voice I wouldn't have given him the time of day, but as it stands I adore him. I guess basically I don't like the traditional roles.
So I've been thinking about food, specifically what I can and can't eat. I've been reacting to something lately and I'm not sure if it's me being lax or whether, as I've suspected pretty much all along, I honestly am intolerant of corn. I thought it was just corn products, the really processed crap, but... I am beginning to suspect it's ALL corn. Shit. Do you know how hard it is to remove corn from your diet? Corn, beef, pork, dairy... Next thing you know I'll be reacting to wheat and soy. Sigh. So, time to get stricter on myself - no corn products for at least a week and see if things improve.
Sometimes I really hate food.
Day 2: What themes or patterns do you write?
Day 3: What character archetypes do you enjoy (or hate) writing?
Day 4: Do you feel you have a writing style?
Day 5: When do you write what kinds of fanfics?
Day 6: How do you interact with readers' responses (or lack thereof)?
Day 7: Once it's posted, how do you interact with your story?
I love the semi-feral persons. I love sentient nonhumans (oh boy do I love them wink wink nudge nudge say no more). I love the sociopaths and psychopaths. I almost never really like the main characters - they exist to be the foil for the characters I DO like. I hate the standard Japanese archetypes: the cute girl who NYAAAAs a lot, the crazy left-handed evil, the seme and uke, the badass big-breasted woman, the weeping and blushing. Not my culture. It is the culture that a lot of fandom is first exposed to, though, and it shows. God does it show. Not that Western culture is better: the helpless woman, the mustache-twirling ridiculous villain, the charismatic leader with grandiose speeches... I will be honest, I only love Optimus for his voice. If he didn't have such a fine voice I wouldn't have given him the time of day, but as it stands I adore him. I guess basically I don't like the traditional roles.
So I've been thinking about food, specifically what I can and can't eat. I've been reacting to something lately and I'm not sure if it's me being lax or whether, as I've suspected pretty much all along, I honestly am intolerant of corn. I thought it was just corn products, the really processed crap, but... I am beginning to suspect it's ALL corn. Shit. Do you know how hard it is to remove corn from your diet? Corn, beef, pork, dairy... Next thing you know I'll be reacting to wheat and soy. Sigh. So, time to get stricter on myself - no corn products for at least a week and see if things improve.
Sometimes I really hate food.
