Cascade Library Interview with MegaRed
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| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | Cascade Library Interview with MegaRed |
| Interviewer: | Cascade Library |
| Interviewee: | MegaRed |
| Date(s): | August 16, 1999 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | The Sentinel |
| External Links: | interview is here, Archived version |
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In 1999, MegaRed was interviewed for Cascade Library.
Some Excerpts
I was sitting home alone one September evening, waiting for Voyager to come on. I was flipping channels, and all of sudden here was this little cutie-pie with long dark curls and a dirty face running around in the jungle with a regular hunka hunka burnin' love. After I stopped drooling and took a closer look, I swear I thought Blair was Tim Curry. <g> Anyway, that was the first showing of Flight. Next week I tuned in again. The week after that I was going to be out, so I made The Commitment, and set up a tape for it. :-) After that I was lost. A few weeks later I discovered the wonderful world of online, and Tigger's terrific Sentinel page. I was so surprised that other people seemed to like the show as much as I did!
How [did I start writing Sentinel stories]? Well, I was really into the stories, and enjoying every one of them. But in the beginning there just weren't enough authors to produce the kind of quantity everyone's used to nowadays. We'd get, like, ONE story every week and a half. So one day I got tired of waiting for a new story, sat down and wrote my own. Also, I decided that if some other author wasn't going to write the scene I wanted to see, I would! :-D
I like smarm and humor the most. They just seem to fit that characters the best. Oh, but I LOVE missing scenes. Because that's really what fanfic is, after all. We the fans writing what we wanted to see, but didn't.
Must haves. Well, tickles of course. But then that's a must have for me in any TS story. <g> A good Gen smarm must be focused on Jim and Blair. There can be a case, but it can't take attention away from the friendship, that has to be the strongest aspect of the story. I don't care how many times I read it, I LOVE it when Jim scoops Blair up in his arms and carries him. Yeah, I know it isn't logical, he should just toss the kid over his shoulder like a sack of taters. I'm just a hopeless romantic, I guess. :-) Tears are good, especially when they lead to hugs and snuggles. And I'm really happy to see more kisses in genfic now. A little touch of lips to the forehead, on either guy, and MR is a puddle of mush. Get the guys curled up on the couch or in bed together and I'm in heaven.