Fandom: Fic Meme

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I have 258 works hosted at AO3. If you choose a number between 1 and 258, I will find the corresponding work, provide a link to it, and tell you three things I like about it (which may also be three random facts).

Fandom: 30 Days of Fanfic: Day 4 Muses

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4 – Do you have a "muse" character, that speaks to you more than others, or that tries to push their way in, even when the fic isn't about them? Who are they, and why did that character became your muse?

I guess? I have favorite characters in media, and I have characters I write about frequently because I have stories to tell about them. Sometimes, those characters are the same, but not always. I tend to write about characters that hook my attention somehow, and often those characters have similar qualities, so I guess that part is like the "speaking" to me part of the question. (Examples: Tough, angry girls and women. characters who listen more than they speak. Characters with monsters inside. Anyone played by Michelle Rodriguez.)


I write about these characters, because these are the characters that interest me, whose stories I want to expand, examine, change, because these qualities intrigue me and inspire me and ring truth inside me. They make me want to tell stories, and so I do.

Fandom: Things I'll Talk About #1: Favorite Movie

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Still some open topics, if you want to claim them.

1: Talk about the first time you watched your favorite movie. das_hydra and catalinay asked for this one.

Lilo & Stitch is my favorite movie, and has been since it released, but Lost Boys was my favorite movie before that, and the two run pretty neck and neck, so I'll talk about both.

Lost Boys

I actually came to Lost Boys later than most people I know in its fandom; I didn't watch it until the summer after my senior year of high school, when most people I know watched it as kids or in their early teens. It was already considered a cult classic when I first watched it, and I immediately fell in love.

I worked long hours that summer, at a drive-in restaurant, and I watched it late one night after getting home from work. It must have been an edited for tv version, because I didn't own it back then, but I can't actually remember what was (or might have been, I guess) edited. I bought my own copy pretty much immediately so I could rewatch, and started writing fic for it not long after finding the mailing list.

I love the flashy vampires on motorcycles, way too cool for life, forever young and full of teenage hormones and doing ridiculous things just because they can. I love a chosen family, and how it exists on both sides in the movie, and how sibling bonds can be so strong. I love the soundtrack and the 80s fashions and Santa Cruz as the Murder Capital of the World.

I love this movie, and these characters, and how the fandom gives them so much life.

Lilo & Stitch

Oh, hello, movie of my heart.

I have a hard time remembering the first time I watched this, because I watched it a billion times my undergrad senior year. I know I saw it in the theater, probably with J (he'd just moved back to Missouri from Hawaii, in part because of me), and I know it broke my heart right open. Siblings and chosen families and Lilo is such a strange, wonderful kid, and Nani is trying so damn hard, and Stitch. I have an epic Stitch collection, because Stitch is the greatest.