Fanfic Survey

[kerravonsen]

Gacked (what does gacked mean?) from izhilzha and fikgirl.

Fanficton
Do you read or write fanfiction?	Yes, both.
When did you first start reading/writing fanfiction?	If you count poetry, I wrote B7 poems when in 12th grade, even before I knew of the existance of fandom
What was your first fandom?	Blake's 7
First ship?	(I hate this assumption that it's all about SHIPPING!) Avon/Cally
What website do you use most?	my own: http://www.katspace.org
What do you think of Fanfiction.net?	99.9% crap
What fandoms have you written in?	Blake's 7,Doctor Who, Highlander, Buffy, Sentinel, Stargate, Tomorrow People, VR.5; Matrix, HHGG, Farscape, Scarecrow & Mrs King, Lexx, Red Dwarf, Samurai Jack, Star Wars, Star Trek; Babylon 5, Bladerunner, Sapphire & Steel, Forever Knight, LotR, Millenium, Ocean Girl, Pretender, SAAB, UFO, Battlestar Galactica; Little Fuzzy, Six Million Dollar Man, Champions (a lot of these are crossovers and poems)
Pairings?	Avon/Cally, Daniel/Sha're; and in defiance of this assumption, I also declare that the AMPERSANDS I write are Jim & Blair, Daniel & Jack... but mostly just everybody being who they are in canon...
Any fandoms you would like to write in?	Sapphire & Steel (I've only done poetry before, not stories), Sandman, Matrix (the TV show not the movie), Stingray (the Cannell show not the Anderson one), House, Alien Nation, Wanderer, Darkover
Do reviews affect how you write in any way?	Since I don't publish WIPs, they don't affect the course of a story, but they do encourage me, and concrit is always good to learn from
Do you use a beta?	for everything except ficlets (with short deadlines such as b7friday) and drabbles
What ratings do you read/write?	G/PG/PG13 up to MA for violence
What warnings have you used on your fiction/read?	spoilers for X, AU
Do you have any squicks?	slash, major non-canonical character death, and leave sex in the bedroom
Do you Role-play online? If so, what?	Once upon a time, I played a cyberpunk character in alt.cyberpunk.chatsubo newsgroup (ah, those were the days)
Have you ever stolen something from another person's work?	Do you think anybody would honestly admit that? But, no, I haven't stolen, though I have been inspired, both positively and negatively.
Favorite fandom to write/read?	I have to pick ONE?
Favorite pairing?	What's with all this pairing stuff?
Favorite writer/writers?	Too many to name. Look at my reviews page.
How long should a chapter be?	How long is a piece of string?
Do you write/read drabbles?	Yes, mainly b7friday ones
Any fandoms you avoid?	the ones for shows I don't like? Actually I like more shows than I'm involved in the fandoms of.
Pairings you avoid?	non-canonical ones, especially when a canonical one already exists (some crossovers excepted)
Warnings you avoid?	What's the difference between this and the squicks question?
Do the number of reviews tell how good a story is?	It depends entirely whether the reviewers are mindless sycophants or intelligent people. Mindless sycophants tend to hang out at fanfiction.net; intelligent people give more than two-word reviews.
What do you think of Mary Sues?	http://www.katspace.org/fiction/essays/marisu.html
Have you ever flamed someone?	Not intentionally
Have you ever been flamed?	Yep. Though never about my stories.
That's it, aren't you glad?	No, why aren't there ampersand-related questions?
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Comments

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

O_O You're thinking of writing Alien Nation fic?? PLEASE DO! Astro and I would probably both love you forever for it!

[kerravonsen]

Not really. I had an Alien Nation/Highlander crossover idea many years ago. Which never got further than an idea. Therefore I put AN on the list, because it did get into my "list of fic ideas"... but very low down on it.

I don't think I *could* write AN at this point, because I've forgotten most of the canon.

Of the list of "would like to write" fandoms, Sapphire & Steel is the most likely to happen (see above), followed by House and Sandman.

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

Makes sense. And Sandman fic, I honestly think the world needs more of it. I've never met a bad peice of Sandman fic.

[kerravonsen]

And Sandman fic, I honestly think the world needs more of it. I've never met a bad peice of Sandman fic.

The two follow on from each other, IMHO. Fandoms for which there is little fic, tend to have better quality fic... especially if the canon is one which sets the bar very high. I'm really basing this assertion on my observation that Highlander fandom got more instances of crappy fic as the fandom got bigger. But maybe it was just the time and the place and the people...

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

Possibly, possibly, though my own experiences in Matrix fandom bear you out... in reverse. The smaller the fandom gets, the better the fic that's still around is. :)

[mistraltoes.livejournal.com]

No, I think you're right. Mass appeal means lowest common denominator, while niche appeal means you get the type of person who seeks out things that are 'special'. This latter type of person is more likely to put effort into good writing, IMNSHO.

[kerravonsen]

True, but I've just remembered an exception: I have read bad Sapphire & Steel fic, and that's a very small fandom. Well, it wasn't actually crap, it just failed to be good, and that's probably more due to the nature of the show itself, it's very hard to write well for, I think.