Sisters in Smut Interview with Commandante Teresa
| Interviews by Fans | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Sisters in Smut Interview with Commandante Teresa |
| Interviewer: | Sisters in Smut |
| Interviewee: | Commandante Teresa |
| Date(s): | 2001 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | The X-Files |
| External Links: | Interview with Commandante Teresa |
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Sisters in Smut Interview with Commandante Teresa was conducted in 2001.
It was part of a large project conducted by members of the Sisters in Smut archive, an X-Files archive with a focus on the character Walter Skinner. See Sisters in Smut Interview Project.
Excerpts
Nom de Plume ( please tell us what inspired it ):
Commandante Teresa, lifted from the series of Sharpe books (and a rather excellent miniseries) by Bernard Cornwell. Teresa was a guerrilla fighter in the Napoleonic wars, and I don't believe there's a female character, or many real women, more completely in control of her life and her femaleness, a completely equal partner to her mate, Sharpe.
What was your first experience with fanfic?:
Being 14 and writing 'what came next' to Legend (alternately some really raunchy and completely theoretical fantasies about the cast of Top Gun minus Anthony Edwards and a tub of lime Jell-O--I say 'theoretical' given that I was still quite virginal at the time and had no clue, I barely knew what 'horny' was). Of course, at the time I had NO idea what I was doing was 'fanfic'.
What was your first encounter with X-Files fanfic?:
Browsing Chicago Hope sites, actually--I encountered Nina Smith's "A Dark Smear Under the Sky" and was hooked, hooked, hooked...after that, I immediately went looking for others.
What made you into a Skinneroticist?:
Skinner begs for sexualization which he rarely gets in the series (I refuse to count dead hookers)--the eyes, the hands, the voice, the aura of command, the constant control of surging energy--plus I like smut. Sex is such a powerful act, so charged with emotion and/or sensation, it's a real test of writing ability to write quality erotic fiction.
Do you write for other fandoms? Which ones?:
I write the odd bit of Brendan Fraser fic, Sharpe fic, (hence, Commandante Teresa), and I slum in the mixed-celebrity nothing-but-smut lists (every once in a while, you just need to think about being with Mark Hoppus, Mark McGrath, David Boreanz and Selma Hayek in a tub of lime Jell-O--um, did I say that out loud?
And NO, I don't have a lime Jell-O fetish, why do you ask?:)