How Will It End? Interview with Oracle
| Interviews by Fans | |
|---|---|
| Title: | How Will It End? Interview with Oracle |
| Interviewer: | How Will It End? |
| Interviewee: | Oracle |
| Date(s): | 2003? |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | X-Files |
| External Links: | full interview is here, Archived version |
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Oracle was interviewed for the X-Files website How Will It End?.
This was part of a series. See How Will It End? Interview Series.
Some Excerpts
It all started in 1997. People were still dancing the Macarena. I was twelve years old and had a major crush on David Duchovny. I knew nothing about the X-files because my parents wouldn’t let me watch it, so I started reading about it religiously. I snuck peeks in episode guides at bookstores, read the TV program blurbs every week and found articles in pre-teen magazines.By the time the movie came out I’d turned thirteen and my parents decided I was old enough to watch it. Despite being confused by everything from Jiffy Pop Poppers (okay, what are they? can someone please explain?) to FEMA, “the secret government”, I joined a league of ‘shippers around the world who muttered “damn bee” after a certain scene. When I walked out of that cinema, I knew I had to watch every episode in the series, even if I had to lie, cheat, steal or sell my own family members to do so.
I discovered the internet, I discovered ‘shippers and noromos, and then I discovered fanfic. At first I thought it was something akin to FAQs, so I ignored the links to it. I can’t remember how I figured out what it was— I think a Hanson-obsessed friend told me about it.
Once I started reading fanfic I couldn’t get enough. But for the first few years I didn’t read anything rated higher than PG-13. My parents should never have sent me to a Catholic school. To be safe, I stuck to UST, noromo fic and character deaths until I was sixteen, when I finally said ‘to hell with it’ and started reading every M/S fanfic I could get my hands on. Writing and posting my own fanfic was a natural progression from there. I’ve wanted to be a published author for as many years as I’ve been obsessed with the X-files. When I finally decided to take the plunge into writing fanfic it took several failed experiments before I wrote something I considered good enough to post. I posted my first fanfic, It is, in late September 2002.
I don’t really think about it much. I mean, it was fantastic to win a Spooky Award, but it hasn’t made a difference to how I write, how much I write, or how I feel about what I’m writing. I guess what it did do was give me a bit more confidence in the XF community, where I sometimes feel clumsy, out of it and very young.
Is [a second X-Files movie] definitely happening? If Duchovny and Anderson are involved, I’m there. I don’t care what Chris Carter does any more. I’m too much of a crazy fan to miss out on a second XF movie. He can dress them up like chihuahuas and I’ll still go watch.
I always have upcoming stories because I can’t stop myself from writing fanfic. It’s a compulsion. If I’m not careful I’ll end up being the first Australian on the Dr. Phil show.