The KSA Archive Interview with Foxmonkey

Interviews by Fans
Title:	The KSA Archive Interview with Foxmonkey
Interviewer:	Selursera
Interviewee:	Foxmonkey
Date(s):	January 2000
Medium:	online
Fandom(s):	Xena: Warrior Princess, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
External Links:	interview is here, Archived version
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Foxmonkey was interviewed by Selursera in 2000 for The KSA Archive.

Some Excerpts

Never even knew [slash] existed until a year ago!...I was surfing around looking for stuff on Kevin Smith, and stumbled across fanfic. Het stuff, priestess-in-the-temple jazz. Not really my thing, but I was interested in other people writing stories, 'cause I've always done that myself. I hadn't even heard the term 'fanfic' before. Oh yeah. I was surfing the fic pages, and saw an A.R.E.S. ring graphic, then read the words "Ares Rules Erotica..." I can't even tell you what the last word is - I saw 'erotica' and clicked on the link immediately! A slash hound was born.

My first pairing was Herc/Ares, which I'm a well-known slut for. Let's see...There's just something about two men together that turns me on, especially the beautiful KS. I don't know how the het crowd can stand us. Just joking, ladies! Slash clicked with me immediately--I didn't think twice about following further links! The day I found Herc slash I knew I'd found a home. Herc slash as in slash about Herc...I didn't find my true slash home 'til I joined KSA.

I like the fact that there's no 'competition. F/M has a little element of 'competition' involved. This is going to sound weird. I don't want to read about some chick with Ares, I want to be the chick with him! When he's with another male, I don't have that odd little element there, so I can just enjoy what's going on. Plus, the OFC is someone else's fantasy, and has nothing to do with me. I think that's why I'm usually turned off by het--it's not coming from me. There have been exceptions, of course--I've read some wonderful het on KSA. Plus, there's just something so sexy about two men admitting that they're attracted to each other...

I would like to challenge myself - I think everything I have going currently is much darker than my earlier stuff. I've never done action, or a mystery, so I might try those next. My darker stuff is a challenge; I thought I was becoming the list equivalent of a romance novelist, and I wanted to avoid that. I think it's the material we work with; the gods and their ability to wreak havoc on mortals is usually a great basis for angst and violence! My earlier fic seemed to deal more with people being in love, and the little bumps along the way. I wanted to do something a little different, so I'm branching out into angst. I like the angstier stuff, 'cause there's more of the mental exploration going on that I like. I think that's why writing different characters' POVs and different types of stories keeps a writer interesting. Comedy, angst, romance... Violence.