Octaves of the Heart Interview with Tesla

Interviews by Fans
Title:	Octaves of the Heart Interview with Tesla
Interviewer:	Octaves of the Heart
Interviewee:	Tesla
Date(s):	early 2000s
Medium:	online
Fandom(s):	Buffyverse
External Links:	online here, Archived version
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Octaves of the Heart Interview with Telsa is posted at the Buffy website Octaves.

For others in this series, see Octaves of the Heart Interview Series.

Excerpts

What's so funny about me and the Jossverse is that I came here more or less ass-backwards. My Toronto friend and X-files beta, Maybe_Amanda was a fan, but I was all, nyah. I was into "Farscape" and "X-Files" when Duchovny was on. Hated the last season. Amanda was trying to get me to see the light, but I resisted.

I watched the last episodes of Buffy Season Five, a couple in six, and most of seven. So, I had no idea about the prior glories. Amanda had stopped watching it entirely! Naturally, I was a Spuffy fan. When Angel appeared in the final two episodes, I wondered, literally, "Who the hell is this guy kissing Buffy?" I started watching summer re-runs of "Angel" to be up to speed for Spike's return. Unfortunately, I watched "Orpheus," which is definitely not the most newbie-friendly. But there was something in the big galoot that caught my eye. So, having a holiday weekend of some sort, I went to the mall and bought Buffy seasons one and two.

The scales fell from my eyes. The next weekend, I bought Angel season one.

I also started watching "Buffy" in the mornings before I went to work, since I live in the central US time zone and could get in two hours before 8 a.m. By the time the fifth season of Angel premiered, I was madly in love with Angel and David Boreanaz. (Duchovny who?) So much so, that I was not aware of the cancellation and a Phile friend from Texas called me to console me on Black Friday, and ended up breaking the news to me. She later related in her LiveJournal that I just said, brokenly, "But that means David is out of work!"

I had seen "Our Mrs. Reynolds" of "Firefly" , but my local Fox station messed about with the scheduling so badly that I didn't see any others. However, Starlet made up for the omission by gifting me with the boxed set. Oh, mama.

I was an English lit major in college and editor of the campus newspaper. However, I took a wrong turn and became a lawyer. However, I've been writing fanfic since I could first grip a pen. When I was in seventh grade, a friend of mine and I wrote "Wild Wild West" and "It Takes a Thief" fic; in college, another friend and I wrote "The Rat Patrol" and "Star Trek" fic, and I wrote one "Magnum, PI" fic for a Christmas present. Later, after I was married and got internet access, I fell headlong into "X-Files" fic like someone falls into a well. I didn't write it until, I think, 1998. I was just getting started when I got divorced. In the meantime, I had started making Phile friends over the internet.

After the dust settled, and I was established in a new home, I picked up a WIP and some drafts and began writing again.

I like the Jossverse better than the X-Files world, because there are more characters, more interactions, and I like fantasy. I had narrowed myself to writing about Profiler!Mulder, and I really think that I've done about as much as I can with him in the Chris Carter 'verse. However, I have plans for poor, vamped, ensoulled Mulder in my crossover.

I was never a slash writer until recently, and now I'm getting e-mails asking if I write het. Hee.

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