fanfic meme

[akk]

taken from sakanagi



1) Do you write or read fanfiction?
yes. both.

2) When did you first start reading/writing?
in general: elementary school.
fanfic: 1986 (both)

3) First ship?
Gooseman/Niko (canon)

4) What website do you use most?
InsaneJournal, LiveJournal, Adultfanfiction.net, Fanfiction.net, Mediaminer.org

5) What do you think of Fanfiction Net?
Their notifying feature is neat and there are a few gems on it, hidden in a gigantic pile of trash.

6) What fandoms have you written in?
Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers; Tokyo Babylon / X

7) Pairings?
I don't write pairing specific, but canon specific.
Gooseman/Niko, Zachary/Eliza, Joseph/OC; Seishiro/Subaru

8) Any fandoms you would like to write in?
Well, there is this weird idea about Yami no Matsuei's Sohryu having a bad hair day (and of course, Touda is such an inviting character...) but I'm currently occupied in TB/X and don't have time to weave ideas for YnM, so... :)

9) What ratings do you read/write for?
Depends on plot. Virtually all. But softer than PG-13 is the minority.

10) Have you ever stolen something from another person's work?
not to my knowledge.

11) Favourite fandom to write/read for?
TB/X at the moment.

12) Favorite pairing?
read above

13) Favorite writer/writers?
I'm biased.

14) How long should a chapter be?
Depends on plot.

15) Do you write/read drabbles?
Yes. But I insist on a drabble having exactly 100 words!

16) Any fandoms you avoid?
Harry Potter, most of Lord of the Rings, and everything remotely connected with Stephen King or Dan Brown.

17) Pairings you avoid?
pairings that don't make sense in context

18) Do the number of reviews tell how good a story is?
no. the quality of the reviews maybe.

19) What do you think of Mary Sues?
A plot device most juvenile authors delve into, not realizing that it's the one thing most difficult to pull off without pissing off most of your audience.

20) What inspires you to write?
Ideas.

21) Have you ever cried when reading a story?
No. I was a couple of times tempted to scream about idiocy, but aside from that...

22) Do you prefer fanfiction or the original books?
Without the original material there wouldn't be fanfiction, so the question doesn't make sense. Since I read fanfic _after_ I read the canon material (Ai no Kusabi being the one exeption, but that's currently delightfully corrected)...
...however, I wish that the majority of people who write ff, would bother to read/watch the canon first before starting to write.

Comments

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

Ah, that's what I thought. I was trying to correlate them with the seven tantric chakras and failing miserably. But your statement that the onmyouji are second to the Kamui rings true in that context as well--the Kamui are clearly Sahasrara, the Onmyouji clearly Ajna. But the other five chakras didn't scan to life, love, humanity cleanly at all.

A curiosity: which is which?

[akk.insanejournal.com]

I have the chakras a bit when dealing with the tanden (tan'tien), which is a related theory. The planes themselves...

well the Kamuis as Divinity is obvious from CLAMPs setting (it's even in the name Kamui) and

Seishiro/Subaru being second to that is shown in terms of power; also, Spirituality connects the Divine with the rest, so Spirituality, while it can't decide Divinity, can well descide how much of Divinity is seen in the rest of the world, so to speak. The rest of the world being Nature Ego Life Love and Humanity.

Which is which I decided mostly what worked best for the plot back then (and a few things were obvious).

Nature: Kusanagi & Yuzuriha (he with the plants, she with the pets; plus it's the one pair where there is virtually no battle, which makes sense, because Nature *is* Evolution, not Revolution not consolidation. Hence, nothing to decide actually.

Ego: Arashi & Nataku (Arashi went after Nataku died, in order to preserve the context of Death as the ultimate Change, hence a point for the Angels, I needed to find something that one of them has and the other hasn't. Ego in the philosophical/sociological context fit the bill. See here: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego (the English article is too Freud to be useful, sorry).

Life: Kakyo & Aoki, in the broad context of life as existence and existence in society. Kakyo denying it all with his death wish, not caring for anyone, and Aoki, fighting to preserve his humanity, while keeping his family (wife and daughter) safe and out of the line of fire.

Love: Yuuto & Sorata, Yuuto the flirtatious drifter with careless affairs (selfish love (&sex)) versus Sorata, who will die for the woman he loves.

Humanity: Satsuki & Karen.
Satsuki, connecting herself with physically with a Computer, barely recognizing social attempts towards her (therefore doesn't even perceive what Karen stands for), vs. Karen, who works in the sex business & harbors motherly feelings even for Nataku, as a symbol for (human/fleshly) weakness & virtue.

Hope that helps. :)

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

It does. Because the seven leves are all yours, I won't be using it myself, but I found the discourse on it within the fic interesting and wanted to learn a little more. The pairs, though, I might drop a mention of, since that's CLAMP.

Glad to see I was right on counts--my first guess had fliped Kakyou/Aoki to be humanity and Satsuki/Karen as life, but in hindsight your way quite works.

[akk.insanejournal.com]

life and humanity are actually close connected -- nicely shown by Aoki's "almost affair" with Karen ;) -- so it makes sense that they are somewhat interchangeable. I chose Kakyo/Aoki for life mostly, because with respect to Kakyo, it's the harsher definition...
which reminds me, now that Kakyo kind of lost his death wish and the decisions of the final battle aren't quite made, how will that affect Aoki and his daily resolve regarding family, work & friends?
Interesting stuff. I'll have to pic that up in a sidestory....

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

...an awesome short story and hey, works in context of the challenge...?

[akk.insanejournal.com]

It's at least topic -listed.

btw. now I have a question.
Is there a good English translation / version of Albert Camus' line "Einen Menschen lieben heißt einwilligen, mit ihm alt zu werden."? I tried to find one myself, but apparently i'm looking in the wrong places.

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

"A man's love is consent, and with it all his world." ? that's what I get when I read it. Which Camus is the quote from, I'll try and find a professional translation.

[akk.insanejournal.com]

No, that's a different line.

Unfortunately, the quote is from a collection of quotes, which I no longer have in hand, so I can't look up from which of his works it is. :(

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

and with it he grows old...? Simpler and less poetic.

I'm still looking.

[akk.insanejournal.com]

My laymen translation would be:

"To love someone means to agree getting old with him."

But I wondered if there were an "official translation" for it. You don't have to search. I just thought you might probably know it. :)

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

It's still a little awkward the way you put it...but all the quotesearches are turning up nothing.

[akk.insanejournal.com]

same here. Thanks for the effort. I'll continue looking for the source.

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

No problem. I'll ask around, though.

[akk.insanejournal.com]

You might get your wish for a challenge entry, though not about Aoki, I fear.
I actually have a side story plot for FM that stands well on it's own and fits the challenge context.

[mithrigil.insanejournal.com]

I LIKE the sound of that!

[akk.insanejournal.com]

Sound?