DrWorm
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| Fan | |
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| Name: | DrWorm |
| Alias(es): | dearratboy |
| Type: | Fan writer, fan artist, vidder, fanmixer, moderator, archivist |
| Fandoms: | Harry Potter, Back to the Future, Re-Animator, Agent Pendergast Series, X-Men: First Class, Gundam Wing, Saiyuki, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., others |
| Communities: | ratpr0n, love_you_weird, staydeadsirius, headinatray, nightthings, bttf_slash, thrushies, your_mission |
| Other: | 60 Seconds to Eternity, ratpr0n, When I Grow Up |
| URL: | drworm.net (archive link) drworm on Livejournal drworm on Dreamwidth DrWorm on AO3 DrWorm on FF.net drworm on AFF.org dr-worm on DeviantArt dearratboy on YouTube drworm on y!Gallery (archive link) DrWorm on skyehawke (archive link) Dr Worm on the PSA (archive link) |
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DrWorm is a fan writer and fan artist. He takes his pseud from the They Might Be Giants song.[1]
He was active in fandoms including Gundam Wing and X-Men: Evolution as early as 2001. In Harry Potter fandom, he was an early Remus/Harry shipper.[2]
In Back to the Future fandom, DrWorm was a George/Marty McFly shipper and ran the 60 Seconds to Eternity archive for the pairing. He described himself as "something of a pariah in BttF fandom" due to his shipping preferences.[3] He was a Crispin Glover fan and also started a fansite and LiveJournal community for the film Willard.
By 2010, DrWorm had "basically dropped out of fandom."[4]
Example Fanworks
Fanfiction
- Of The End – Harry Potter, Harry/Remus, rated M. Abandoned WIP recommended on the Potter Slash Archive. (2002–2003)
- That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is In French – Back to the Future, George/Marty, PG-13. Written for contrelamontre. (December 2003)
- Kayser-Fleischer Rings – House, M.D., House/Wilson friendship, PG. Part of housefic_meta's Housefic Hall of Fame.[5] (February 2005)
- Aching Like Birds – The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Illya/Napoleon, PG-13. Recced on crack_van.[6] (June 2009)
- Q is for QUENTIN who sank in a mire – The Magicians, Quentin Coldwater/Eliot Waugh, Written for Yuletide. Recced as "a lovely, very insightful look at Quentin and Eliot" and "all-around excellent fic for the fandom."[7] (December 2011)
Fanart
- Morgue kisses – Re-Animator, Herbert West/Daniel Cain (November 2004)
- The love that died of ennui (aka "The Bedsheets Are Dribbling Into Spirals") – Re-Animator comic inspired by One Last Temptation Before Bedtime by Nightspore[8] (February 2005)
Fanvids
- A Protest Song for Drug Dealers – The Man from U.N.C.L.E., gen (May 2008)
- Spies in the House – The Man from U.N.C.L.E./Mission: Impossible crossover (May 2008)
- Killer for Hire You Know Not Yourself – The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Napoleon/Illya (August 2008)
Meta
- Rotting Monsters Behind His Slow Boyish Smile – Harry Potter, Remus Lupin/Harry Potter manifesto (September 2004)
- L and Autism – Death Note, L character essay (October 2004)
- The World May Never Know – Back to the Future, Marty McFly/George McFly manifesto (October 2004)
- Together, We Are Providence – Re-Animator, Herbert West/Daniel Cain manifesto (December 2004, edited in 2009)
Fan Comments
["That Feeling, You Can Only Say What It Is In French"] should be read by anyone who thinks people who write fanfic do it because they themselves are devoid of imagination sufficent to create a real world and living characters in it. This is a perfect example of taking something the mass media gives you and taking it off into a dimension of your own, injecting it with your own psychology and take on the universe, making it meanigful in a personal way, all those things I thing fanfic should aspire to and rearely achieves with any kind of artfullness.– Nightspore, 2003 [9]
External Links
- fan fiction, fan art, and fanmixes in drworm's Livejournal memories
References
- ^ The title of DrWorm's website is a referent to the opening line of the song, "They call me Dr. Worm'". His skyehawke bio contained the lyrics "I'm not a real doctor, but I am a real worm."
- ^ He noted in 2004 that he had "had to wait two [...] maybe even just about three years to see Remus/Harry become something other people actually want to see": Untitled comment, Archived version on jain's " Sirius/Harry and Remus/Harry recommendation searches" on LiveJournal, posted 25 June 2004.
- ^ Comment by drworm on a post by stargurl137 in bttf_slash on LiveJournal. Original post, Archived version states: "I posted a link to Dr. Worm's essay at BTTF.com and I got banned and the thread was closed. Has this happened to anyone else? I think they're really slashphobes over there.'" Posted 11 October 2004.
- ^ drworm on LiveJournal. Your name is bitch! I own you!, Archived version, posted 13 March 2010.
- ^ namasteyoga in housefic_meta on LiveJournal. Differential Diagnosis People: Kayser-Fleischer Rings, Archived version, posted 17 April 2006.
- ^ kleenexwoman in crack_van on LiveJournal. Aching Like Birds by DrWorm (PG-13), Archived version, posted 10 June 2009.
- ^ novembersmith on LiveJournal. Fandom Snowflake Challenge/Yuletide Recs: Day 2, Archived version, posted 4 January 2012.
- ^ drworm in headinatray on LiveJournal. Fan art: "Stamp out aardvarks!", Archived version, posted 25 February 2005.
- ^ ghostgecko on LiveJournal. Recent Entries, archived 16 January 2004. Post dated 20 December 2003.