The AD's Office Interview: Halrloprillalar

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Title:	The AD's Office Interview: Halrloprillalar
Interviewer:
Interviewee:	Halrloprillalar
Date(s):	November 21, 1998
Medium:	online
Fandom(s):	X-Files
External Links:	part one, Archived version part two, Archived version
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The AD's Office Interview: Halrloprillalar is a chat.

It is part of a series. See The AD's Office Interviews.

Some Excerpts

I read slash, I write slash, I'm Canadian. I started to write nearly a year ago, when there was less fic and most of it was M/K or M/Sk and I thought that I didn't have anything to contribute there -- there was already so much good stuff so I thought I'd boldly go and try to push back the weirdness envelope. I like unusual [pairing] and parody, sometimes together and in the great banquet of fanfic, I see my work as a sidedish of salty, garlicky, sour dill pickles something you eat, screw up your face, and wait for a week before trying again <G>

Some ideas just hit me and say "write me, write me" and I know those are right, others I work on and discard because they're not going well and some, like slashing Young CSM and Lee Harvey Oswald, it just seems good sense to discard

anything that will take more than 2 days to finish gets shelved more easily, if it doesn't work right away, I'm less likely to keep at it

The first story I *remember* reading was Cyanide and Astroglide and it's still my all time fave. I think it influenced me quite a bit. Ethan is who I'd like to be. Wait, I lied - I did read some Trek slash first. And the one that stands out there is L R Bowen's The Lily White Boys. She slashed Tom Paris and Nick Locarno and did a damn good job of it

Feedback is like money, no one ever gets enough, and no one wants to talk about how much they get. So, I sometimes set "feedback" goals for stories and usually reach them. I do like critical feedback, seriously. I'm not thin-skinned about my fic. but I don't like to discourage the "loved it" crowd either <g> ... I have this fear that if I divulge how much feedback I get that either I'll find out it's very little or people will think I get too much already and stop sending it

I feel that [portraying safe sex in my fiction] a real hassle So, sometimes I ignore it altogether, sometimes I make concession to it.... Personally, it doesn't bother me if I or others ignore it. If I were going for realism, I wouldn't be watching the X-Files

I don't really like Mulder very much, though I think his *character* is good for the show. He's the hemi-semi-demi-Kirk

I remember sitting on the bus after class, writing the bit about Martha Stewart fashioning a lovely ball gag from a bandana and a dog ball <g> it felt really kinky

Scully slash is hard too because I find the sex harder - I don't enjoy the cruder terms for body parts, etc, so I have to be more subtle... But I can't read Sc/Sk because I think "get that man away from my Scully! Get that woman away from my Skinner!"