The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Artemis2050
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| Title: | The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Artemis2050 |
| Interviewer: | The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive |
| Interviewee: | Artemis2050 |
| Date(s): | January 17, 2006 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | X-Men |
| External Links: | the interview is here, Archived version |
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The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Artemis2050 was conducted in 2006.
Other Interviews in the Series
See The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview Series.
Some Excerpts
Writing in general, or writing fan fiction? *g* Writing in general, I was about five. I was always a huge reader, and it was fascinating to think I could make up stories of my own.Fan fiction definitely goes directly back to Star Trek. I'm not old enough to remember the original series when it first aired, but I became a fan of the show when I was about ten. At the time, no one happened to be rerunning the episodes, so I read my way through James Blish's novelizations and then I discovered that there were actually collections of original stories-things people had written all by themselves, just because they loved the characters and the world so much. And I was off.
My earliest stuff was ST, Battlestar Galactica (the first one, that is) and one pretty good ripoff of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." (I should post that. It was kind of fun.) But I never published before this.
I don't read the comics much any more, but I did when I was a teenager. (I have a very good friend who fulfilled a lifelong dream about a year ago and opened a comic store, so he's slowly drawing me back in.) The first movie, in fact, really reignited my interest in the X-Men in general. My ideas overall about the characters were probably pretty outdated, but fortunately it seems to me that the movie was really targeting the characters from around that time-I started reading around issue 115 and quit around 250. I was reading when Frank Miller created the first Wolverine mini-series, which is what really made him that group's "Dark Knight". So I connected with the movie Wolverine right away. I know Rogue is with the good guys in the comicverse now, but my memories of her were of course totally at odds with that, so my views of her as far as the fiction is concerned are pretty much entirely drawn from the movies.
Dark [fic: The Evil That Men Do] certainly was. I was sort of worried when I posted it that it was too dark and might put people off. Anyway, Shakespeare was my version of one of those stories I guess we all have to write at least once: How They Met. I think in this case the nature of their meeting intensified the way Logan is so immediately protective of Marie, and also makes her trust in him much more meaningful. Given that, the development of their interest in each other romantically became problematic in interesting ways.
Logan's never been one to overestimate his own worth, the big lug. He generally needs a little help along the way. (Fortunately, Jubilee is such a fun little busybody.) He sees himself as her protector, and the idea of changing that is incredibly unsettling to him. Marie is a lot more open to the idea, but she isn't sure she knows how to go about getting what she wants.
I think most women have very fond memories of that time in their lives, when they first discover the power they have over the opposite sex-or the same one, come to that. I really like writing Marie as she passes through that phase, and that was my first shot at it.
I was nervous about posting it, though! The first time is always nerve-wracking, and I was very grateful to people for responding to the new kid on the block. I actually started it three different ways-one became Shakespeare, one eventually evolved and is being finished as Scripture, and the third…I don't think the third is ever going to go anywhere.
But who knows? *g*