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opera14212 – Have you ever attempted an "adaptation" fic of a favorite book or movie but set in a different fandom?
Occasionally I'll bandy around a Cinderella scenario, but then I get caught up in porny thoughts of Cinderella and Drizella in maid play, and forget about whatever fanfic adaptation I had going on. Stylistic influences by book or movies, however, are legion in my stuff. "Charity Work" is a Tarantino rip-off; "Amends" is Aaron Travis lite. I don't know if there would have ever been a "Crows" without "Brokeback Mountain."
It's odd I haven't, though, now that I think about it. Wrestling goes everywhere, weasles into everything. Maybe it's the cheese factor. In the wrestling universe, Taker is the ultimate badass. In the real world, he's a middle-aged body builder with out-dated hair and western wear.
13 – Do you prefer canon or fanon when you write? Has writing fanfic for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?
Bitchfully, I've never understood the unstated notion that these two things are mutually exclusive. I mean, fanon is most fun, most potent when it works with canon. Maybe I just think that because crackfic kinda annoys me.
Fanon totally influences how I see wrestling. I'm not even seeing the same show as everyone else on the planet.
14 – Ratings – how high are you comfortable with going? Have you ever written higher? If you're comfortable with NC-17, have you ever been shocked by finding that the story you're writing is G-rated instead?
For sexuality, I'm okay with going as high as the story requires. For gore, eh I dun care what other people write/read, I just don't care to go much above a light R.
I'm okay with ratings; no needs to be squicked or triggered. I guess, though, and maybe this is me being hedgy or self-serving or too meta for my own good, but it's too bad there isn't something like a mood rating.
What I mean by that is, most of my fics feature explictly detailed sex. I get that earns at least a R. I'm not fighting that in the least. But, I feel like there are tone differences in my stories that get sorta white-washed in a generic rating system.
Like, removing the explict sex and swearing in "Wow and Flutter" would leave it a rather g-rated little story about Edge and Lance meeting up at a halfway point. Removing the explict sex and swearing from "Amends" still leaves it a nasty short story about pissing off the people on top.
Or, there's the idea that at the heart of it, "Glory Hole" is consensual blowjob shared by two mostly-dressed adults. Obviously, there's more to it. The title alone hints to that. Yet, that's the fic, in a fandom full of rubber duckies going up Jeff Hardy's butt, Evan Bourne getting raped then soothed with ice cream, and anal sex during a birthing scene, that got called "Raunchy".
Rightly so, it was raunchy. I wrote that blowjob as sweaty, sloppy and unsentimental as I could. But, that's thing. It was the slop and unsentimentally that made it raunchy, not necessarily the act of fellatio. Maybe I'm just catering to my own weird little squicks and stops, but tone affects my enjoyment or disgust just as much as the actual content.
Occasionally I'll bandy around a Cinderella scenario, but then I get caught up in porny thoughts of Cinderella and Drizella in maid play, and forget about whatever fanfic adaptation I had going on. Stylistic influences by book or movies, however, are legion in my stuff. "Charity Work" is a Tarantino rip-off; "Amends" is Aaron Travis lite. I don't know if there would have ever been a "Crows" without "Brokeback Mountain."
It's odd I haven't, though, now that I think about it. Wrestling goes everywhere, weasles into everything. Maybe it's the cheese factor. In the wrestling universe, Taker is the ultimate badass. In the real world, he's a middle-aged body builder with out-dated hair and western wear.
13 – Do you prefer canon or fanon when you write? Has writing fanfic for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?
Bitchfully, I've never understood the unstated notion that these two things are mutually exclusive. I mean, fanon is most fun, most potent when it works with canon. Maybe I just think that because crackfic kinda annoys me.
Fanon totally influences how I see wrestling. I'm not even seeing the same show as everyone else on the planet.
14 – Ratings – how high are you comfortable with going? Have you ever written higher? If you're comfortable with NC-17, have you ever been shocked by finding that the story you're writing is G-rated instead?
For sexuality, I'm okay with going as high as the story requires. For gore, eh I dun care what other people write/read, I just don't care to go much above a light R.
I'm okay with ratings; no needs to be squicked or triggered. I guess, though, and maybe this is me being hedgy or self-serving or too meta for my own good, but it's too bad there isn't something like a mood rating.
What I mean by that is, most of my fics feature explictly detailed sex. I get that earns at least a R. I'm not fighting that in the least. But, I feel like there are tone differences in my stories that get sorta white-washed in a generic rating system.
Like, removing the explict sex and swearing in "Wow and Flutter" would leave it a rather g-rated little story about Edge and Lance meeting up at a halfway point. Removing the explict sex and swearing from "Amends" still leaves it a nasty short story about pissing off the people on top.
Or, there's the idea that at the heart of it, "Glory Hole" is consensual blowjob shared by two mostly-dressed adults. Obviously, there's more to it. The title alone hints to that. Yet, that's the fic, in a fandom full of rubber duckies going up Jeff Hardy's butt, Evan Bourne getting raped then soothed with ice cream, and anal sex during a birthing scene, that got called "Raunchy".
Rightly so, it was raunchy. I wrote that blowjob as sweaty, sloppy and unsentimental as I could. But, that's thing. It was the slop and unsentimentally that made it raunchy, not necessarily the act of fellatio. Maybe I'm just catering to my own weird little squicks and stops, but tone affects my enjoyment or disgust just as much as the actual content.
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Date: 2011-07-21 06:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-07-23 10:22 am (UTC)Amen x 10,000,000. It's not necessarily strictly about the what, it's about the how and the why and the mood.