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[queenlua]

stealing a meme from necrophilia:

So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me, something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about, or something you've always been curious about but have never asked, or something completely silly that you'd like me to answer for kicks. No limits on the range of questions, either: ask me anything you want to know about, whether it's a fannish opinion or a question about a fic of mine or trivia about my real life or my thoughts on events in the offline world.

Ask away. ♥

(my answers might, uh, take a few days *stares at Friday deadline for a thing* but feel free to ask away in the meantime!)

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[queenlua]

ooh this is a fun q!

short answer:

the first fic of note I posted anywhere was Remnants of Restoration in 2011, so, uh, it’s been some ten-years-and-change by now? (yikes)

longer answer:

i certainly wrote some stuff as a kid that could be loosely classified as fanfiction (e.g. i wrote an elaborate adventure-fantasy thing featuring a lot of Pokémon as characters, but with ZERO regard for canon beyond “these pokémon look cool”), but honestly my main interest in my tweens/teens was writing for play-by-post RPGs and my own original fiction. i was aware fanfiction existed and even read it sometimes (Chrono Cross and Rurouni Kenshin especially), but i never really felt compelled to post my own or get involved in “fandom” more generally.

but, in college, at some point i got to thinking about this scrap of a fanfic idea i’d had for FE Path of Radiance years prior, and man that game was so cool, why did i never play the sequel… and i had a lot of time to kill during winter break…

and, yeah, typey-type and out fell three chapters of Remnants, faster than i’d written anything in ages.

so that’s what got me started, and then i actually got around to playing FE Radiant Dawn during the next semester, which filled me with a billion other ideas for fanfics that i promptly wrote (how did Almedha and Ashnard meet? did no one in the Dawn Brigade suspect Volug? can we see more of Zihark’s totally cool backstory please???), and that plus the lovely community in Tellius-fandom at the time (including kradeelav, HI KRAD :D) kept me around. (they were a small but active bunch! i’m always politely puzzled when people complain about a fic getting “only [x] comments” nowadays, like, i totally get everyone wants some validation for their writing, but also… back then, i was basically writing for an audience of five, lol, and so long as even one of them liked it i felt like i was winning.)

there was also an fe-contest community on Livejournal that was mad fun. like, it was a little pretentious, the whole idea was there was a monthly prompt, everyone would write a fanfic to the prompt, and then vote on their fave, but like… i don’t even remember if i won, or how many times i won if i did, lol. writing a thing all on the same prompt was the point, to me! winning was optional!

ANYWAY. yeah. and now it’s a decade later and i am STILL WRITING TELLIUS (and sometimes other things) lmao

[neotula]

hell yeah! I think for me it was Smash Bros Melee and seeing all those cool characters together and getting ideas from it. I definitely thought the FE and Zelda characters were cool, and it snowballed from there. I'd never really played video games before that, and I was super into what I saw.

It for sure feels good to find that interest that just clicks and to take it from there and even better to find buddies to share it with. It's funny, but I think for me back when I started writing fic (around 2011 too, actually!) I was super concerned with people seeing it. I wasn't very good at writing, and I was always really worried about people liking what I wrote. As years have gone by, I've definitely gotten better at writing for myself and friends and having a good time doing that. It seems the best way to do fandom is to find friends who like the same things and run with it.

That lj thing sounds super cool! I wish there was more like that for FE games other than three houses now, but I guess the closest thing I know of is like when people do a character/ship week or zine.

Hell yeah to the things that stick around! It's always good to find a favorite that sticks.