Intentions, Actions, Results.

[browngirl]

[You'd never guess it from the first paragraph, but this is as much about hobbits as it is about superheroes. Really.]

I should probably keep that title for a Batfamily story. Maybe one involving Cass. (I love Cass. I'm going to have to be careful with her, though: she and Steph tempt me to write about my issues with my parents, and I must remember to temper experience well with art, because the point is to write about *them*, not about myself.) OK, I just *hugely* digressed, but this digression illustrates my point. ()

I've been in Tolkien fandom for well over a year now, and I have written about characters I intended to, as well as ones I didn't. I've written about themes I wanted to see elucidated, and ones that have surprised me. It's been a satisfying experience.

My experience with the DC Comics fandom has, so far, been different, and yet no less .satisfying.

I arrived at the Teen Titans via the cartoon (and one day I'm going to write the Slade/Robin Slade/Terra story I haven't yet seen) and I fell in love with both the current lineup and the second one. (Not so much with the first: sorry, Speedy and Aqualad and Kid Flash I) So I figured I'd write about Robin III and Superboy and Kid Flash II, right? And maybe about Starfire and Wonder Girl and Cyborg and Beast Boy?

Well, except that Robin III led me to the Batfamily (via research for my TimFinity stories, no less) and I fell in love. My fandom loves Dick, and so do I. My fandom also loves Jason, and so do I (though I haven't written about him much--- I hope to change that soon.) So while people such as (but not limited to!) girl_starfish write the sort of OT3 story I thought I'd be writing (and do better at it than I would have, and write lots of others besides) and others are writing the various couples in that threesome, I find myself writing Dick/Tim. Which pairing has other writers as well, but it's colonized my imagination.

Where does that leave the hobbits? I have so much left to say about them (Rosie waiting for Sam to return from the Havens! Frodo, Merry, and Sam settling out their intertwined relationships! Pervinca! Elanor and Frodo Gamgee coming to grips with their heritage! Annuminas and Breredon! Fire, death, and love!), and so much more playing to do in Middle-Earth, which I love. Writing in DC requires a really different narrative voice, beneath the different character voices, from writing hobbitfic, so I've been finding it a little difficult to switch back and forth. Also, I want to post at least as many Tolkien fandom stories as I do DC Comics fandom stories, and drabbles don't count. (ironically, I have several DC drabbleoids sitting on ice, waiting for a day when I need to post something.)

Also, I don't want to overload the DC fandom people with my stories. I know I'm writing a lot because of NRE, and I don't want them to get sick of me before most of them even know me. And I want to make myself make the stories sufficiently different. I still remember that on Fanfic_hate they called me repetitious, and I still remember a comment I read about writers whose stories in one fandom too closely resemble those in another. I don't intend to deserve either of those.

Even so....I have to write what's in my heart and head, and trust my friends to trust me not to leave one love for another. Right?

And I should post this before I chicken out. :)

Comments

[danachan.livejournal.com]

This will be short and sweet (much like me): I like what's in your head. No matter what order it thinks it wants to come out of your head. That aside, I guess -- well, if you write somethin, you know you don't have to post it right away. Sam knows I do that with my hobbitfic, love.

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

Just like yoou. :D Thank you, sweetie. I gues... once I've written a story, I get that urge to send it out into the world and all. :D

*huggles you* At any rate, thank you. :)

[danachan.livejournal.com]

*cuddles you* You're welcome, lovey -- and of course, I do feel like that with my hobbitfic, too, but I -- I, er, am rather set in my ways when it comes to assuming what people will think about it. That's why I hold things back. You'd boggle at the fic I have ready to post, really...