Erissa
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Post by Erissa on Aug 9, 2007 9:25:42 GMT
For me it was back in 2003. I just finished watching an anime series and I wasn't too happy with how it turned out and wanted more stories, and this friend of mine told me about FFnet. I checked out a couple of stories without really reviewing; my account was mostly just used to put stories I like on my favourites or alert list. I did this for a couple of years, rotating between different fandoms, though there were weeks or months where I didn't read fanfic at all, then Lily got me into the whole GA thing and I was more active in fandom that ever before.
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Post by leafonthebreeze on Aug 9, 2007 10:21:35 GMT
Well, when I was about 10 I always loved the world of the Zelda games, and thought there was so much that could be done with them... So I would write stories about that. Then I just kinda stopped for a while... until fear started writing ff X and XII fics, which made me think hey, I could do that! So I did, only I used ficwad until it died, then moved on to ff.net.
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Post by piedflycatcher on Aug 9, 2007 11:14:28 GMT
I can't remember really. As soon as I got regular internet access and discovered fansites for stuff I was interested in, I learned of the existence of fanfiction. I ventured to fanfiction.net a couple of times, curious to see the sort of stuff they had there. I didn't read a great deal of fanfiction though, until I started writing it, which was just over a year ago. Joining GA has definitely increased my activity in fandom though.
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Post by ladyvaltaya on Aug 9, 2007 11:50:59 GMT
I have been into fanfiction since the days when Ultima 1 was a brand new game!! (Yes, I'm aware that that is one hell of a long time ago.)
Back then, I had no idea that there was actually a name for writing stories about movies, games or books though. I never knew about fanfiction sites either until boredom from moving up here had me searching the internet endlessly for stuff I was interested in.
I got interested in FF.Net almost two whole years before I actually made an account and posted anything, and back then my main Fandom was DBZ.
I supplemented my DBZ stories with a lot of other fandoms though, mostly crossovers. I crossed Streetfighter/Fatal Fury/Mortal Kombat, then I crossed DBZ/Streetfighter/Fatal Fury/ Mortal Kombat. I also wrote a Clock Tower/Silent Hill, I wrote a story that crossed Skeleton Warriors/Dungeons & Dragons/He-man- you may not believe it, but that last one was one of my best recieved stories, and I cried when I lost that one because of its rating.
I've crossed Resident Evil with a couple of different fandoms, like Streetfighter, Tombraider and Shi. Currently, I'm crossing RE/FFVII, and at least so far, it seems to be coming together rather well- I just wish I had more time to work on it.
I really don't think I'll EVER grow out of writing fanfiction, or it would have happened by now. Even when I jump fandoms, I still feel the need to write
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Post by Dramaya M. Murasaki on Aug 9, 2007 15:45:31 GMT
Wow, this really does bring back memories when I was first introduced to fanfiction. I remember I also had no idea that stories based off of existing stories were called fanfiction. Naturally, as a kid I was always making up my own adventures involving Star Wars, DBZ, Pokemon, you name it.
However, I didn't actually learn the term 'fanfiction' until a friend of mine told me about it, and actually badgered me into getting an FF.net account of my own back in 2004. Ever since then, I had mainly used the account to read, review, and favorite fanfiction. At one time I did have an Inuyasha fanfiction, although I never posted it, and I abandoned it anyways due to the fact the main character was such a Mary Sue. I wrote original fiction for a while, and then finally got the inspiration to write an FFVII fanfiction, which is finally up, yay.
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Post by Bianka on Aug 9, 2007 16:15:44 GMT
Wow. Let's see... I first got the internet when I was 12. I was an aimless surfer for nearly two years until my love for the Squall/Rinoa pairing birthed a Yahoo! search for all things Squall/Rinoa. I started with fanart because I knew what that was at that point. Then, when at a fan site, I saw a link for fanfiction. I had no idea what it was, but I clicked anyway.
(My first encounter with fanfiction was actually through a Card Captor Sakura story. I had no idea it was fanfiction and not real, though...haha. The writer had actually illustrated it well enough to look official. I was convinced).
After I read a few FF8 stories, I did another Yahoo! search and found fanfiction.net. I was only a reader for a very short while because I wanted to try it myself. I made an account in 2002 and have been enjoying myself there ever since. =)
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Post by snarky on Aug 9, 2007 16:59:32 GMT
I spent a goodly portion of my childhood making up stories about my favorite characters from everything Legend of Zelda to The Dark Crystal to Robotech to ... whatever. My best friend at the time and I used to also hang out at her house and make up new Sailor Scouts for Sailor Moon and came up with this whole, elaborate story involving them that didn't really have much to do with Sailor Moon at all, after a while. I didn't actually start writing them down in assorted notebooks until... oh, I dunno. I still have really old notebooks that have my crappy Dragonlance stories in them.
It wasn't until 8th grade, though, that I learned that I wasn't the only one who did this, and that there were hosts of people who did this on fanfiction.net.. I was talking to a friend on the phone, and she told me to check it out. o.O So I did, and I've been there ever since. Heh.
So, basically, I got into it the same way a lot of the people here seemed to have.
Only my first fandom was Forgotten Realms, and I leave that story up just as a testiment to improvement. Heh.
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Post by Kysic on Aug 10, 2007 0:49:59 GMT
My story isn't really exciting or much different as most people's. As a kid, I often had a BIG habit of thinking of stories for all kinds of anime, cartoons, movies, and video games I was into. Before I even knew about fanfiction.net, I wrote my first fanfic on a piece of paper (it was a Ty the tasmanian tiger fanfic). I wished there was a way for me to write stories for shows, but I didn't what to do about it.
I don't remember how exactly it happened, but I think while I was researching some type of fandom (I can't remember what I looking for) I accidently clicked on a link to a fanfic on FF.net. At first, I didn't know what it was. Later I found a fanfic by accident again, and actually read it this time. Curious, I wandered around the site and learned about FF.net. I read fanfic for quite a while, but didn't join because I was sort of chicken (I was only twelve to thirteen). Finally, I got inspired to do a KH Squall fanfic, so I joined the site. I never did the fanfic Squall fanfic because it took me ages to figure out how to upload a document (Northsky taught me later). It gave me enough time to think how poorly thought out my fanfic idea was. Because of that, I didn't bother writing fanfics for quite a while.
Finally, when my best friend (I invite her over a lot) was hunting during winter and was too busy to visit me, I was bored and lonely a lot. That's when I decided to start writing fanfics. Ever since than, I've been hooked. I love writing but can be too lazy to do it sometimes XD. Maybe once I get my own computer in my room, writing will be a lot easier for me.
Well, that's my story. I know it may have some holes in it, but I don't remember too well how it all happened.
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Post by Captain Wee on Aug 10, 2007 6:00:40 GMT
I got interested in fanfiction when I was about 14. It was after I finished FFVII and I felt really unfulfilled by the ending. I just wanted to know more. So I searched online and I nearly drowned in the number of fanfics I read.
After a while I got bored reading them since some of them were just poorly written. I got back into it last year, when I found out about FF.net. I joined a couple of months afterwards and started writing.
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carzla
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Post by carzla on Aug 10, 2007 6:40:39 GMT
I can't remember how exactly I got into fanfiction, but I know I've always liked writing stories from the start. I distinctly remember having a competition with a friend on writing fantasy stories back in primary school.
I think it was because I found FF.Net through surfing fansites for my first favourite anime about 3 years ago. I started reading fanfiction first, before I decided to try my hand at writing cause I always had ideas on how the anime could've ended or on the characters themselves. And I've been writing ever since.
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Post by leafonthebreeze on Aug 10, 2007 9:58:34 GMT
Oooh, can't believe I forgot this, but the main site that first got me into fanfiction was www.northcastle.co.uk, a really amazing vintage Zelda fansite, which I spent most of my time on, just looking at the different things the site had to offer. Eventually I stumbled across the fanfiction section and totally fell in love. That's actually when I started writing my Zelda fics, and I'd forgotten!! Anyway, I never submitted anything then, although I kept looking at the site... Then, when I got back into fanfiction a few years later, I finally submitted something (you have to email it to the site's creator lady juliet) and she put it up, and I get all *squee* whenever I see it on there ^_^
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Post by Neophyte Ronin on Aug 11, 2007 1:28:53 GMT
I first heard of the concept of fan-fiction when my brother and our friend Dan recounted reading a ridiculous fan-fiction set in the world of Gargoyles--the animated television series--which had us on the ground laughing. The chain story my brother and I did eventually involved the inclusion of Magic Emperor Ghaleon from the Lunar games (of which I was a remorselessly guiltless fan of in the day), and at first, I contemplated making an all-star ensemble cast, putting them to fight to the death in a dream world, and have a ruthless villain oversee the horrors. It was everything from serious to screwy, romantic to retarded, and it was a blast to write... maybe a little too fun because at times it also sucked and my brother gave me ill looks when we tried porting it as a flash cartoon.
During that little diatribe I wanted some manner of plausible root to the chaos--how to link it all together, give a reason why they fight in a Dreamscape--and I eventually researched dreams and conceived a character who'd approximate as an apparatus from which to conceive the Dreamscape. In this case, it was a semi-original character, the unknown and embittered White SeeD leader who lost his entire unit during the Third Sorceress War.
This came around during a time of excessive and aggravating emotional turmoil, the kind that makes you want to put out grease fires with your face. My brother always quipped how I write to vent, and everything from sexual angst to outright annoyance with my current lot in life can be read through the pages of any fic I've written. My semi-OC Didymus became a powerful reflection of who I really am as much as how powerful I'd rather be (not that I'd actually want the power either since, in his tale, someone is always there trying to abuse it behind his back). Instead of traditional Mary-Sue fodder who always claim the canon hotties, this guy ends up either alienating them or making peace... never forging a true romantic relationship.
I first tried writing Tactics Twin as part of NaNoWriMo 2005; among the myriad courses taken at the Worcester Art Museum that year, that was one I really paid attention to. I might have stretched myself too thin (or the first draft was truly very rough), but I acquired the base for The Imprisoning War and ideas for further books.
When I wanted to release more of this expanding story to the web at long last, to see who'd actually read it, I became outraged and confused at the demographic; I figured I'd be at least in half with the others, but instead the demographic is 96% young women between 13-30... no shot in hell a fantasy-horror that takes cues from King and Lovecraft could possibly catch on. But I didn't realize all this in a day, and suitably persisted. I made contacts with Pied Flycatcher and eventually joined GA through this course, but that was later.
The compulsion to continue on course with fan-fiction is because I had wholly imagined the worlds of Final Fantasy with Tactics Twin, and that trying to conceive a completely original book about Didymus would not fly too well. While producing original fiction is not beyond my grasp, there's just no motivation to actually do that, even on a monetary level. Further, Final Fantasy technically enters public domain after a certain number of years flies by. If anyone cares to remember it in fifty years or so... perhaps a decalogy and trilogy might just liven things up?
The other is of course the sense of being stranded both domestically and in terms of prospects. The push to become a game designer came to shove when I finally had it with my life at my parents' house. I first moved to Worcester and intended to acquire a job there, paying a way into college, but instead I ended up in West Upton center, without a car. It's becoming a Boston Suburb because contractors don't need to pay out the nose in taxes for construction projects. Acres of farmland became ticky-tacky upper middle class houses and condominiums overnight; the town hasn't the revenues required to support an infrastructure that matches the population explosion. Everyday at Honey Farms where I work, someone asks for the town bags--you know they've just moved in--and those bags are necessary for the sanitation department, and the shop makes no profit on them. Without busing or improved commerce or industry, there will come a time when the town will be relegated to the status of just another bedroom town, just like the last town I lived. And as it was before, no sign of public busing or suitable infrastructure or jobs. I must be lucky to have gotten a job there, period; strike while the iron is hot...
So I look at fanfiction like I do escapism, just as it was with video games in the past. Reality f**k**g sucks. Fantasy is far more preferable. I quipped once that after the apocalypse, God ought to let magic make a comeback, and that we'd more than likely be more responsible with it. Even Dungeons and Dragons is a twenty-pound paperweight to me. It's not worth getting into, but my last session ended quite miserably and I doubt I'm going to take the game back up again. Spend two days on a character just to have him killed within three rounds? Screw that.
So I'm pretty much stuck with fan-fiction. It's the only thing that actually makes sense, if it ever did.
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Post by relena on Aug 11, 2007 7:12:50 GMT
I started writing way back into 2002, when I decided that the Zelda games needed something more. Just what I didn't know, as my writing cleary shows. XP I was just writing for myself at the time -- until a friend showed me fanfiction.net. I have since taken down my horrific novelization of Majora's Mask, but I have written for FF VII and KH. I might do something for Zelda again later. It wasn't until 8th grade, though, that I learned that I wasn't the only one who did this, and that there were hosts of people who did this on fanfiction.net. That's about the time that I learned I wasn't the only crazy person who did this. XD Mod Edit: Double-post merged.
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Post by Sztorm on Aug 12, 2007 3:47:43 GMT
Ooh, wow. I think I first ventured into fanfiction back in about 7th or 8th grade (so that would be...1998-1999), with Anne McCafferey's Pern series, filling a couple notebooks that I hid with paranoia under my bed--a part of me must have known how bad they were, even then, and I desperately wanted to keep anyone, especially my brothers, from finding out. Self-inserts and Mary-Sues, oh my! (To my credit, though, for some odd reason, I never gave my characters a gold dragon, or a dragon period. I was very much against my avatar having a dragon or a fire-lizard... Well, whatever.) I remember coming across some fan sites with fanfiction, but never really looked into it too much.
Some time later, one of my brothers told me about ff.net, which was little more than a fledgling collection back then compared to what it is now, and I was like, "Eh. Okay. Whatever." Still didn't look into it too much. Pern had faded from my girlish worship, and I was far too interested in writing bad original (historical romance) fiction by then (coinciding with my historical teen romance kick).
I think it was around 2001 when I went to ff.net kind of on a whim, and ended up browsing the Zelda section, and that kind of kick-started things (I still remember being shocked at a LinkxDarkLink fic, and I laugh at myself, because now I'm so desensitized to it all). I browsed and read a lot in various fandoms, and once I hit Trigun, I got an account. I think I signed up, entertaining the silly idea that I might write something other people would want to read, one of these days. It eventually happened, obviously, with a short Trigun/Sandman crossover piece--which was probably pretty good for a first "real" fic, but I still cringe at it now.
And then there was a huge dry spell until I got into FF7 and fell in love with it hardcore. ;D
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Post by Pen Against Sword on Aug 14, 2007 23:14:17 GMT
Middle school. My best friends were like "Yu-Gi-Oh this" and "fanfiction that" and I wasn't into Yu-Gi-Oh and never have been, but I started sniffing about ff.net and what did I find? The Yu Yu Hakusho section, which spawned a fascination that lasted almost two years. Oh, those were the days.
But then I found Harry Potter and FFVII, and my YYH world was shattered into billions of tiny pieces.
Yay for shattering!
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