Fandom is contagious
Feb. 17th, 2019 05:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bladesparkAlso the goober child's sleep patterns are a despair sometimes. Anyhow.
I watched Thor: Ragnarok last night because of a fanfic. I almost never watch movies or TV shows anymore because watching anything not suited for a three year old has to come out of my precious "me" time, and movies are not a priority for that time.
But I read a fanfic that filled in this to-me-somewhat-mysterious "hug scene" that I had heard something vague about, and although I really enjoyed it, I also came away from it thinking that some aspects of it just weren't what I wanted. I wanted to write more or less the same thing, but for me, the way I'd do it.
But writing a fanfic for a movie I've never seen felt weird. And what if there were opportunities to pull in past plot moments to strengthen my story idea (there were!) that I would miss? So I watched it (it was very good, I see why everyone liked it, and I also see why shipping fandom went nuts over the hug tease thing) and then I sat down and banged out about 1400 words worth of fic all in one go.
Now that I'm involuntarily awake at a stupid hour I've gotten it up to 2k, and getting to the really fun bits.
It's titled "Surrender" and/or "Say My Name." Having trouble picking, tbh. It is not exactly filling in the hug scene, but it's a kind of continuation of it all the same. Also, you know, it's going to be explicitly rated, and have lots of sex.
The funny thing is, though, that nothing about seeing any Marvel movie up to this point made me want to write my own stories. It was reading somebody else's story that did it. I've always liked Thor/Loki as a ship, but it didn't lodge itself in my brain as something I super related to, until I saw somebody else's take on Loki that just kinda pinged against my own interests but didn't quite fill them properly, and then suddenly I had an idea.
Fandom is contagious. :3
And I already have a different idea, too, though it's probably going to work best as an AU of some kind...
I watched Thor: Ragnarok last night because of a fanfic. I almost never watch movies or TV shows anymore because watching anything not suited for a three year old has to come out of my precious "me" time, and movies are not a priority for that time.
But I read a fanfic that filled in this to-me-somewhat-mysterious "hug scene" that I had heard something vague about, and although I really enjoyed it, I also came away from it thinking that some aspects of it just weren't what I wanted. I wanted to write more or less the same thing, but for me, the way I'd do it.
But writing a fanfic for a movie I've never seen felt weird. And what if there were opportunities to pull in past plot moments to strengthen my story idea (there were!) that I would miss? So I watched it (it was very good, I see why everyone liked it, and I also see why shipping fandom went nuts over the hug tease thing) and then I sat down and banged out about 1400 words worth of fic all in one go.
Now that I'm involuntarily awake at a stupid hour I've gotten it up to 2k, and getting to the really fun bits.
It's titled "Surrender" and/or "Say My Name." Having trouble picking, tbh. It is not exactly filling in the hug scene, but it's a kind of continuation of it all the same. Also, you know, it's going to be explicitly rated, and have lots of sex.
The funny thing is, though, that nothing about seeing any Marvel movie up to this point made me want to write my own stories. It was reading somebody else's story that did it. I've always liked Thor/Loki as a ship, but it didn't lodge itself in my brain as something I super related to, until I saw somebody else's take on Loki that just kinda pinged against my own interests but didn't quite fill them properly, and then suddenly I had an idea.
Fandom is contagious. :3
And I already have a different idea, too, though it's probably going to work best as an AU of some kind...
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Date: 2019-02-17 02:06 pm (UTC)