Cupidsbow

Fan
Name:	cupidsbow
Alias(es):	cupidsbower, verdigrist, Thyme
Type:	fanfiction writer, meta writer, vidder, reccer, artist
Fandoms:	Stargate Atlantis, Supernatural, Torchwood, Afflection, Lotrips, Battlestar Galactica, Highlander, NCIS, Smallville, SG-1, Teen Wolf
Communities:	http://rec-room.livejournal.com/ http://lotr-squee.livejournal.com/
Other:
URL:	cupidsbow on Dreamwidth, cupidsbow on LiveJournal, cupidsbow on AO3, and podfic of cupidsbow's stories hosted at the Audiofic Archive
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Cupidsbow is a writer of fanfic, meta, and recs and an occasional vidder and fanartist, who was an early supporter of the Organization for Transformative Works.

"I value transformative works and their related cultures highly, but they are not all I value in life. I also have:

• a Doctorate in Creative Arts (for creative writing)
• published original fiction and essays in actual journals/books
• taught writing at university for several years

This is not a definitive list of things I've done, but it should give you a sense of the types of textual creation and analysis I do for a living, and how that likely informs my fanworks."

Some Works

SGA

• 8 Ways Not To Write A Fanfic and sequel With Six You Get Unicorns, McShep fandom classic badfic parodies which are also meta deconstructions of the genre.
• Forbidden Fruit and sequel Windfall, McShep fics in which eating is used as foreplay.
• Class: Insecta. McShep fic in which John doesn't entirely debugify.
• Sheppard's Choice. genderfuck fic.
• Keylines, podvid hosted at the Audiofic Archive. (AO3 text-only version)
• The Scientific Method, a John/Rodney story.
• The Education of Rodney McKay

Other

• Torchwood: Homme Fatal, or, Five Ways Ianto Jones is Not What He Seems. Canon-related secret agent fic.
• Meta: The Formula for Writing Sex Scenes, which uses the stories "Forbidden Fruit" and "Windfall" to illustrate. (2006)
• Meta, SGA: A Genderfuck Reader in SGA (2007)
• Meta: How Fanfiction Makes Us Poor about women writing and fanfiction. (2007)
• Meta: Clichés and the id: a map to fictional seduction (2009)
• Meta: Derek Hale: Love, PTSD, and Maladaptive Dreaming, written in response to the season 3b finale of Teen Wolf. (2014)
• Meta: It’s gonna be ok: in response to the Tumblr NSFW Content Purge (2018)