Chronicle X Interview with Halrloprillalar
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| Title: | Chronicle X Interview with Halrloprillalar |
| Interviewer: | uncredited |
| Interviewee: | Halrloprillalar |
| Date(s): | March 2000 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | X-Files |
| External Links: | Interview with Halrloprillalar (Chronicle X); copy |
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Chronicle X Interview with Halrloprillalar was conducted in 2000 by the Chronicle X archive.
Some Excerpts
I'm a classicist by education, a techie by employment, and a student of popular culture by avocation. When I grow up, I want to be either Ramona Quimby or the Log Lady. On my desk, I have dart flights with alien heads, an Obi-Wan Kenobi action figure trussed hand and foot with duct tape, and an Ashley MacIsaac CD. I'm Canadian. I use an iMac.
[Writing XF fanfic] was less the show itself and more the prospect of becoming involved in a community that prompted me to begin. I was reading fanfic -- slashfic, specifically -- and I wanted to participate, not just spectate. But I find that TXF really lends itself to fanfic because of the rather lax attitude 1013 seems to have towards continuity. There's a lot to interpret, to fill in.
[My work]: Mostly slash, a lot of parody, some serious work. Strange pairings, strange situations. The slash that dares not speak its name. A friend once called me "the erotic Willy Wonka of fanfic." That seemed to sum it up pretty well. <g>
It was late 1997. I'd been wanting to write some fic for a while and then I read one of the Badfics that were just making their appearance. It contained the malapropism "male bondage" for "male bonding" and that really stuck in my head. The episode "Detour" made me think about office team-building seminars. And it all combined into a slash parody piece about team building through BDSM. Begin as you mean to go on, I always say.
The first one that actually made an impression was "Cyanide and Astroglide," a Mulder/Skinner slash humour story by Ethan Nelson. I was influenced quite strongly by his work. When I started watching TXF, one of the first things I thought was: "This show must have great fanfic. And great slash." I searched around and found out I was right.
It's not the only reason I write, but if I never got any, I wouldn't post. While I don't read as much fanfic as I used to, when I do, I make a point of sending feedback. It's validation, it's payment. It's what makes this a community and not just a bunch of people writing for and reading magazines or something. I've made some very close friends as a result of sending or replying to feedback. Some of my favourite pieces of feedback, actually, were from people who didn't like a particular story I'd written and told me so, almost apologetically. I loved that they felt they could say that to me.