Meme day 11

11 – Genre – do you prefer certain genres of fic when you're writing? What kind do you tend to write most?

I... write fatalist time travel stories about people who are trying to fight their fate and lose, stories about traumatised people who are capable of functioning but never truly get over their trauma, and sometimes I write stories that include both (okay, elements of both).

Well, and sometimes I also write crack.

Where does the trauma that never truly heals come from I know, but I'm not quite sure about the fatalism.

meeeeeeeeeeeeme.

12 – Have you ever attempted an "adaptation" fic of a favorite book or movie but set in a different fandom?

Nope. That sounds like it could have been an interesting exercise 10 years ago, but not really now.

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?

Canon, absolutely. I have trouble with writing things that contradict canon too much. It;s a good example of what killed my SG1/SGA story before I ever managed to complete it - season 2 came along and since my premise was based too much on "what happens after season 1", it made it from "possible continuation" to "complete AU" and killed my ability to write it. Likewise Alternate Realities Are No Excuse (if I ever get to write that one) that originally was supposed to be a sequel to Time Crash, but that's not gonna happen now.

Most of the time I write on the faultlines. I don't directly contradict canon, and I do my best to make it plausible that my story actually sits somewhere inside canon. It can also work with AUs - that's how Reset works, for example, going through AUs until it reaches canon.

Likewise, fandom doesn't change my viewing of canon. The things that are open to interpretation are open to interpretation, the things that aren't... aren't. When it's open to interpretation I'm never stuck on one interpretation (I know that even my favourite explanation/ theory are just that, one of many) and when they aren't, well, that's not gonna change.