The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with jenn

Interviews by Fans
Title:	The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive Interview with jenn
Interviewer:	The Wolverine & Rogue Fanfiction Archive
Interviewee:	jenn
Date(s):	October 21, 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 jenn was conducted in 2001.

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Diebin made me want to [write fanfic]. Total obsession from the first story--I think "Niagara Falls" and "Cupid Doesn't Wear Leather" were the two I discovered on the WJ.com site, which led to a 'net hunt for more, and then two very long, scary emails of mass feedback to her. The movie itself made me stay because of all the possibilities in it. W/R was supposed to be my breather from my fandom in Voyager I'd burned myself out in--as you might note, it's been an almost year-long breather now. I liked all the complex relationships--I think the movie did a very good job in not only introducing interesting characters, but also in making sure that they interacted in some pretty fascinating ways. Plus, the movie was based off of a rich and varied history of comics and novels and cartoons. There's just a wealth of background, both applicable and not, that you can drag out and use.

Best of all, of course, I love the W/R interaction. I love them as a potential couple and love the very strong connection between them. I like the dichotomy of the very young and the ageless that is both Rogue herself and is also the L/R dynamic in general, and I like most of all the fact that even a year later, I can't get away from them no matter what I do or what else I try to write. I love them because when I read it for the first time, I believed in it unquestioningly, and that's a rare thing.

And I admit it, I get a huge kick out of the arguments against it as well. I can be contrary.

Angst or drama is easiest for me and the most fun. Give me plot! Give me psychological pain! Give me torture! I'm a massive fan of it. It comes naturally, I suppose. Angst almost always equals character growth, character development, and basically, fun ways to twist everything into new shapes. My creative writing teacher noted I'd write nice soap operas. I need to send him the link to Not Unspoken one day. I think he'd appreciate it.

Smut and foof are mood things. When it happens, I'm usually REALLY surprised, and rather pleased.

Humor is almost impossible. I love to read it, I love to think about it, but I cannot write it to save my life. "Happy Little Sounds" is the result of a root canal, a jaw infection and the judicious application of Vicodin and caffeine while sleepless, so I honestly think that I'm not really responsible for that one. "On a Man" was an exercise for Sare Liz one night when we were bored and I tossed lines to her to inspire her on a fic she was writing. It wasn't for public consumption originally, but when I put it back together in Word the next afternoon, it appealed to me.

[regarding being asked to write the movie sequel]: I'd rather not. I'm a shipper, and shippers are notorious about not exactly being fair on screentime. I can point out now though that the men's uniforms would lose those pesky tops right off and the rating of the movie would be such that only select moviehouses could show it. Sentinels would be a very cool, though--I like them. They're large and destroy many things, and I'm all for that. Personally, I'd love to see a post-MRA world and how the X-Men deal with it. Darkstar, dear, you gave me a serious obsession here.

Another interesting storyline would be the Phoenix arc--I saw the strange, abbreviated cartoon version a couple of times and enjoyed the massive novel-length summary a fanboy friend emailed to me when I started getting interested in the X-Men.

Would I write W/R into it? Oh yeah. Protestations of jailbait be damned.