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The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Dark Ferret
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| Title: | The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Dark Ferret |
| Interviewer: | The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive |
| Interviewee: | Dark Ferret |
| Date(s): | May 19, 2001 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | X-Men |
| External Links: | interview is here, Archived version |
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The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Dark Ferret was conducted in 2001.
Other Interviews in the Series
See The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview Series.
Some Excerpts
The first time I read X-Men movieverse fic was last September. I always passed by fic sites like CFAN in my quest for X-Men info, but never read the stories. I knew what fanfic was because my friend was into X-files big time, but the whole thing struck me as the recourse of some sad folks that reveled in escapism and self-insertion. Sorry, but I was definitely prejudiced. I always considered pop writing of any kind, not very good anyways. It wasn't until I bumped across Kielle's 'X-Men Movieverse' site in search of the X-Men movie script that I decided what the heck and read a story. I don't remember what story it was or who wrote it but let me tell you guys, I was blown away!! I had seen the movie like ten times at the theater and although I was still pissed that they had changed almost everything I knew of X, I loved it dearly. I fell in love with Hugh and Anna's depiction of Logan and Rogue on the spot. Unfortunately, I couldn't mention this to my fanboy friends and the one time I mentioned the two together to my local comic storeowner, I was almost banned for life!! And there I was, staring at the screen, feeling completely vindicated, in a place where everyone thought more or less the same thing! I read every last story a few times and when I switched the computer off at six am to go to work the next day, I knew I had found an obsession. After that, I uncovered every last L/R movieverse fic ever and checked the big sites at least twice a day. It wasn't until I started saying to myself, 'I could do this' about a month later that I really got freaked. I never wrote creatively in my life, not even a journal, so I fought it. And fought it. And fought it some more, until the idea for Immunity got so big in my head, I got up early one Saturday, pissed beyond belief at myself and started writing. I didn't get up until it was all up on the screen. I was hooked in a major way. I've been writing ever since.
I like Farscape and have read some of that fic, but it doesn't move me like L/R does. This is what I like, and this is where I'm staying. The only writing I do other than fic is for school, and those are all boring-ass research papers.
I know you guys will hate me for this, but my favorite fic has never been posted. I wrote it a while back and it dealt with so many personal issues that I just wasn't ready to share it. It hurt pretty bad to write and even more to read and I just felt it would upset some people and wanted to avoid all that. Not that it's very long, or angsty or good for that matter, but for now I just want to keep it to myself. To answer your question a little better though, my fav of the ones you have read is probably 'Basic Needs'. And not because it's the best written or most profound or whatever, I'm not a big lover of angst or over the top drama anyway, but I do like seeing people overcome adversity and growing into themselves and Rogue did that in spades in that fic. I love her strength and willingness to change and especially Logan's quiet toughness and 'been there' attitude. This Rogue reminds me so much of the kids I work with and if you get past the powers and supervillains, you can see the pain and loneliness that some kids live, eat and walk in all day. As a girl who was raised in the South Bronx, was a high school drop-out, lived independently since fourteen and married as a teen, I can relate to not having the basic needs of love and security that Rogue craves and fears simultaneously. Kids are remarkably resilient to the crap life dishes out sometimes and I wanted to put that point across.