Ask the Author: musesfool
| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | Ask the Author: musesfool |
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| Interviewee: | musesfool (Victoria P.) |
| Date(s): | November 11, 2007 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Supernatural |
| External Links: | interview and commnts are here, Archived version |
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musesfool was interviewed for Supernatural Roundtable.
Some Excerpts
I've been in online media fandom since November 1997—I started out as a lurker in the alt.tv.homicide newsgroup and was an enthusiastic and vocal poster on alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer for a long time—and I've been posting fanfic since September 2000 (I'd been writing it for many years before that, but never had the nerve to share it with anyone until then). I've written in, um, a lot of fandoms (thirty-seven? thirty-eight?), though I tend to have one primary fandom at a time. All the fic I've written is indexed here.
I've been in Supernatural fandom since August 2006–I watched all of season one in one heady four-day period at the end of July 2006 and fell hard for Dean (it took IMToD to make me love Sam), and though I swore I wasn't going to write in this fandom, I have since written about 80 SPN stories (including crossovers), all of which can be found here.
I write (and read) het, slash (both m/m and f/f), and gen; I also really like writing crossovers. In SPN, while I read, write, and enjoy Wincest, I am not OTP about Sam/Dean, and I tend to mostly stick to writing brother-centric gen and Dean-het. I also have a penchant for writing Wincesty AUs where Sam has always been a girl. Yeah, I don't know either.
Mostly it's wanting two (or more) characters to interact, to see how they'd respond to each other, and each other's universes (if they're not particularly compatible). And also wanting two (or more) characters to have sex - Faith, in particular, is a little black dress for me - she slides into nearly any fandom and sparks with almost everyone. It was actually pandarus's Faith/Dean story that finally made me seek out SPN so I could know more about Dean and Sam.Sandman, I think, is probably the easiest 'verse to crossover, because the Endless fit in everywhere. I also like improbable Firefly crossovers. It's five hundred years in the future in space? No problem!
I like the mental gymnastics that need to occur to make the premise believable, even if only for the length of the story - Faith jumps through the hellmouth and ends up in the SPN-verse, Sirius falls through the veil and ends up on Serenity, etc.
But mostly it starts out with wanting two characters who have a lot of in common to meet.