The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Jengrrrl
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| Title: | The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Jengrrrl |
| Interviewer: | The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive |
| Interviewee: | Jengrrrl |
| Date(s): | May 3, 2002 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | X-Men |
| External Links: | interview is here, Archived version |
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The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with Jengrrrl was conducted in 2002.
Other Interviews in the Series
See The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview Series.
Some Excerpts
I've been writing fanfic for about three years. I got started on a whim; my first fanfic was actually for "The Practice." This was a long time ago and I was intrigued by the Bobby/Lindsay relationship that had taken place pretty much off camera. I wrote a little fic. Terrible, terrible, but I was hooked on fanfiction from then on. I've written fanfic for "Roswell" and "X-Men." That's it. Though I am intrigued by a few characters on ER and by a couple of movies few people have heard of, let alone seen.
Mutants are you and me. We're all mutants, in one way or another, so it's easy to relate. We take their characters, with their exaggerated problems, and we put them in situations we might put ourselves into. Or at least fantasize about. It's great fun. Logan is great fodder for fanfiction because of his amnesia, his inability to recollect all but fifteen years of his life. That's great angst material right there. Same for Rogue. Her skin makes her extra special, dangerous and, of course, lonely, sad, and desirous of more in her life. That's were we fanfic writers step in (God knows Marvel isn't doing it for us).