Ask the Author: fleshflutter
| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | Ask the Author: fleshflutter |
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| Interviewee: | fleshflutter |
| Date(s): | July 8, 2008 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Supernatural |
| External Links: | interview and comments are here (first page); interview and comments are here (second page); reference link for first page, reference link for second page |
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fleshflutter was interviewed for Supernatural Roundtable.
Some Excerpts
I came into SPN fandom in May 2007, just after watching Wendigo for the first time. Previous fandom history includes Harry Potter, Final Fantasy VII, Star Wars, and Neverwinter Nights. Both my older sister and older brother wrote, though not fanfiction, and both were into genre tv shows, rpgs, dungeons and dragons and all related geekery, so I feel like I've been standing on the edge of fandom since I was tiny.I watched the SPN pilot when it was first aired on UK television and dismissed it as pretty dreadful. I gave it a second go a few months later and it was transformed in my eyes. I latched on to SPN as my new fandom very quickly, though it took me a while to get into the right headspace to write any fanfic for it. But I devoured every bit of fanfic I could find and found myself hooked in about a week or so.
I was less bothered about the incest angle regarding SamandDean than perhaps I should have been - Harry Potter fandom is great for removal of all squicks. After one false start, the first thing I wrote in fandom was, tellingly enough, evil!Sam/conflicted!Dean - ...But a Whimper (nc-17).
Since then, I've mainly written wincest, with occasional forays into Dean/Bobby and Gordon/Dean. I seem to have slipped into writing horror mainly, but I would never have said that was a strong point of mine. I also enjoy writing crack, have never mastered the art of the pwp, and find schmoop pretty tricky.
Nothing accelerates moral decay like fandom! Yeah, I think in Harry Potter, there are some really crazy pairings and maybe it's because it's so huge, but you can find any kink/squick and... I got inured. I wrote some fairly graphic things that I just don't think I'd want to approach in SPN fandom.I have to say, no disrespect to HP fandom, but I think the quality of the average fic in SPN fandom is higher than in HP. I think it's probably the size of the fandom, really. But it's much easier to find really awesome fic in SPN than it is in HP.
And, weirdly, I still have squicky moments with rps! Sometimes I try to read something and get all freaked out and think oh my god, these are real people, what are you doing?