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Post by T. Costa on Sept 24, 2008 19:52:25 GMT
I get bored with fandom sometimes, and stop writing, but otherwise I think I always come back to FF7. I will go do other stuff - Trigun, FFVIII, FFX, Bebop, Star Trek, et cetera. But I always come back to FF7. I'll wander off for lengths at a time - I haven't really written anything for FF7 in months and I don't expect I will until November, when NaNoWriMo forces me to - but I always come back. Not sure why.
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Post by Youko-Kokuryuuha on Sept 25, 2008 21:02:20 GMT
Ha, I am all over this topic. :p
Right, so at the tender age of twelve I began my fanfic career with (oh gawds, it's terrible to admit) beyblade. I wrote about three short fics and a one-shot, but i deleted one of the fics after its completion because of how gawd awful it was. The rest were just as bad, but... meh.
Then I jumped on the Harry Potter/Yu Yu Hakusho x-over fandom and -blam!-, skipped over to each's respective category and read non-stop. Somewhere along the line, I found Bleach and Avatar and Rave Master, and blurgh.
I dabbled in KH frequently, too, which may have been what led me to the FFVII fandom (dunno, can't really remember).
It's really a matter of what grabs my attention, because, well, I'm a male who's attention-span can be occupied with only one object at a time. I've lately taken up an itching to write Eureka Seven fics.
Edit: kaj, you mentioned .hack, and I can't help but disagree. I don't think the more recent additions, while unnecessary and a bit lackluster compared to their predecessors, brought something to the table, of their own accord.
Haseo's story was vastly different from Kite's in that it presented a (seriously psycho happy-hotel patient) conflicted character as the MC, something the .hack game franchise hadn't seen before.
And I liked the OVAs, but maybe I'm just lame like that. :B
The newer .hack though (.hack//Link, I think?) looks to be a serious moocher off of the heroics of past characters...
If you find an good .hack fanfics, btw, lemme know.
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Post by unwinding fantasy on Sept 27, 2008 14:45:52 GMT
Generally, I'll only be interested in one or two fandoms at a time but I have a collection of them stored in my brain that I cycle through. My adoration for different ones flares at different times but I never dump a fandom. I'm way too loyal for that. XD
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Post by kajnrig on Sept 28, 2008 0:01:24 GMT
Edit: kaj, you mentioned .hack, and I can't help but disagree. I don't think the more recent additions, while unnecessary and a bit lackluster compared to their predecessors, brought something to the table, of their own accord.
Haseo's story was vastly different from Kite's in that it presented a (seriously psycho happy-hotel patient) conflicted character as the MC, something the .hack game franchise hadn't seen before.
And I liked the OVAs, but maybe I'm just lame like that. :B
The newer .hack though (.hack//Link, I think?) looks to be a serious moocher off of the heroics of past characters...
If you find an good .hack fanfics, btw, lemme know. I'm sure the additions add substance to the series, but I was just never a big believer in the series from the start. I watched some of //SIGN, got //Infection... and then I drifted away, because it was just not keeping me interested. //SIGN especially was just so much about keeping you in the dark that nothing happened. And then //Infection came about, and I actually kinda liked it, but never enough to warrant a trip to the store to get the next three volumes. And then the manga (and subsequent anime adaptation) and other games and stuff came out, and I just sighed in morbid sorrow, because none of it was worth forking out the money. $30 or $40 per game that didn't have a complete story, $10 or $20 per manga that also didn't explain a lot, and so on. ...but, actually, I liked the kiddie manga that came out. Legend of the Twilight? It was interesting enough to a point. (But, again, not interesting enough to keep me going.) But blah. What're we talking about?
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Post by Youko-Kokuryuuha on Sept 28, 2008 2:11:08 GMT
But blah. What're we talking about? How awesome I am. :p
I thought LotT was a pretty good, too. It was brief, and instead of focusing on the 'mystery of The World,' it made Zefie its star and focus. It was more about humor than mystery, which is probably what made it such a fresh change.
Also, GO BUY THE OTHER THREE VOLUMES.
I never had to pay for any of them because, yanno, I have parents who do that for me. Win. :B
Though in all honesty, I've never watched all .hack//SIGN, because the theme of 'we know NUZZING" got a bit repetitive. The musical score was incredible, though.
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Post by kajnrig on Sept 28, 2008 4:06:38 GMT
...but equally as repetitive. Which is why I got tired of it.
But anyway. Moving away from FFVII.
I'm curious - has anybody else heard of any 5 CM Per Second fanfiction? 'Cuz that'd be... just weird and awesome.
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Post by Jeanneandheralters on Sept 28, 2008 18:54:35 GMT
Oh... should have posted sooner.
I originally got into fanfiction thanks to my friend Lexa who would ramble about it during school. Some of the ideas and things she talked about sparked my interest mainly because it was Final Fantasy VII. My favorite game of all time, and at the time I knew really no one who was a fan of it.
Eventually around the end of the school year I wandered onto ff.net for FFVII and haven't abandoned it in the short time (coming up on two years I think) I've been on it.
I do drift into FFVIII, rarely IX (despite my extreme love of it), I practically stalk Tales of Symphonia, occasionally I drift into Tales of the Abyss and Fire Emblem as well.
All in all VII is the only thing that keeps my attention.
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Post by Youko-Kokuryuuha on Sept 28, 2008 20:45:58 GMT
Really, Jeanne? You don't indulge, even a little? :/ I can't do that, I'm too weak.
And my attention-span doesn't allow for it. :B
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Post by Jeanneandheralters on Sept 28, 2008 20:52:01 GMT
No indulgence of that kind for me thank you. I've known Final Fantasy VII since I was like 8 or 9... IX even sooner. I shall stick with my fiction dear Koky
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Post by Youko-Kokuryuuha on Sept 28, 2008 21:14:30 GMT
But, but, but! D: You can always come back to it; I do. The point is to dabble in different fandoms and wet your feet. You don't have to jump into the water all at once.
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Post by Jeanneandheralters on Sept 28, 2008 23:23:10 GMT
My feet are wet from other fandoms yo! I'm just stuck from the elbows down in the FFVII fandom....
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Post by Youko-Kokuryuuha on Sept 29, 2008 0:11:31 GMT
Ah, well that good. As long as you're not afraid to go out and kiss other girls experiment with different fandoms, then. :3
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Post by Moira Rose on Oct 8, 2008 5:59:52 GMT
When I started fanfiction, it was near the start of the year. Oh my fanfictions were insufferably bad. They were horrifically bad, testimony to the blood and gore of child writing.
I've deleted most of the ones done before June, except for my faithful HDM one.
I'm not saying the ones I do now are any good, but they're still miles better. I jump fandoms sometimes, but I'm still forever HDM's, since it was my first one. I'm stuck with it for better or for worse.
But FF7 has been an experience. I'm not going to say that it's been awful or fabulous, but it's twisting, mysterious, and complicated. A fun fandom.
I dropped Harry Potter after the last book, and I can't bring myself to go and read it again. Recently, I received some email from a long-forgotten forum of Harry Potter and I went, "Oh sure, yeah." and then clicked the delete.
I'm not sure if it's just my unfaithfulness, but it's nice to know other people do that too. Interests change, right?
Moira
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Post by NRGburst on Oct 16, 2008 3:21:45 GMT
Since I'm almost done "The Assassin King," I just had the most crazy idea for a crack pairing (Anborn/Melissande for those of you who have actually read the series) and decided to check the Pit. Now there is a Symphony of the Ages section, but there are exactly 2 "fics" in it, both of which have absitively NOTHING to do with the series. (One of them has had a visit by none other than Flame Rising for this.) There is also a Rhapsody Trilogy section (although the series is now six books and a seventh is on the way...) with exactly 41 fics in it. Coming from this fandom, I find this...boggling. Even the Bartimeaus fandom had several hundred fics in it to choose from. I'm thinking the poor fandom needs some propping up. I might just write my crack pairing out of pity.
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Post by Tennyo (Nentikobe) on Oct 16, 2008 4:25:20 GMT
I will sometimes go in spurts of obsessing over a fandom, but I've never actually dumped one. Not too long ago I read through some Shadow of the Colossus fics. That's actually a good fandom to write for because the back story in that game was not fleshed out very much. Everyone has their own take as to how things went down before Wander set off to the Forbidden Lands with Mono. I actually have a story idea myself that I'd like to do.
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