Good heavens! What is this *aadler*-person thinking about what fanfictions should be?! The word *fiction* says it clearly - it's about your fantasy and imagination, about what you think the characters would do and how they could act. It don't have to be always cannon. It also could be a different story line - and that's what we call *AU*. Or in case of same sex relationships it is *slash*. No matter, if the characters were gay in cannon or not! Slash could be as good as any other good written fanfiction. Could be drama, could be romance, could be horror - all kind of things. If you don't like it, don't read it! The writers always give the warnings above the stories. I am for example don't like *Death*-fictions, were one or more of the main characters die, so I don't read it!
A lot of script writers from tv shows also take a look into the fandoms and the fanfictions there to see what the fans would like to see on the shows from them. Wouldn't be a surprise if some ideas first were in fandoms befor they got on the screen. LOL
In 1996 the show of *Buffy* started on tv. And almost exactly on the same time also an other good show called *The Sentinel* was aired. But I choosed Buffy to watch.
I came to fanfictions in 2003 when there was a re-run from the show *The Sentinel* with Richard Burgi (some will know him from the show *Desperate Housewifes*). He was playing an ex-ranger and now beeing a detective in a big city (They filmed in Vancouver, but it was an american show.). He got a new *partner* and worked and lived with him together. These guys were so different but they matched so perfectly together, it was so close too a lovestory between them. But sadly they canceled the show after only three years. So I searched for more information about the show, the characters and the actors in the web and found a fanpage from a german girl. She had done a lot work in creating a good working fandom of her own. I had a lot to read about the show and there were a lot of fanfictions on her page from german writers. All genres and of curse there was slash too. It was so logical that people wrote abut them as a couple if you would *read the subtext* in the show. And the stories were really good written. Most of them were *Case*-stories were they investigated murder or other crimes. But the relationship between them was also a matter of the plot.
After a while I had read a lot of fictions and tried to write a story by myself. Sure, I was afraid it would come out as a disaster, but the other girls were really nice to me and one did the beta for me. - She became my best friend. :-) Sadly the page wasn't updated since 2008. Mishale had to much to do in real life and so the page counts more as an archive nowadays. But it is still online. If you like to take a look into it: http://www.mishale.net/sentinel/
Back in these days there were not so much german writers and so I searched for more fanfictions in englisch. First it was difficult for me to read and understand all of it. But the more I read the more I trained my englisch too and after a while I couldn't tell if I had read a story in german or in englisch if someone asked me about it. LOL
Almost all of my fanfictions are in german (also do translations englisch / german) and most of them are slash, humor or sugar sweet romance. LOL But one or two are sad stories. So I always give warnings above. :-)
Hope it answered your question how I came to slash-fictions. :-)
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Date: 2011-08-18 10:50 pm (UTC)The word *fiction* says it clearly - it's about your fantasy and imagination, about what you think the characters would do and how they could act. It don't have to be always cannon. It also could be a different story line - and that's what we call *AU*. Or in case of same sex relationships it is *slash*. No matter, if the characters were gay in cannon or not!
Slash could be as good as any other good written fanfiction. Could be drama, could be romance, could be horror - all kind of things.
If you don't like it, don't read it! The writers always give the warnings above the stories.
I am for example don't like *Death*-fictions, were one or more of the main characters die, so I don't read it!
A lot of script writers from tv shows also take a look into the fandoms and the fanfictions there to see what the fans would like to see on the shows from them. Wouldn't be a surprise if some ideas first were in fandoms befor they got on the screen. LOL
In 1996 the show of *Buffy* started on tv. And almost exactly on the same time also an other good show called *The Sentinel* was aired. But I choosed Buffy to watch.
I came to fanfictions in 2003 when there was a re-run from the show *The Sentinel* with Richard Burgi (some will know him from the show *Desperate Housewifes*). He was playing an ex-ranger and now beeing a detective in a big city (They filmed in Vancouver, but it was an american show.). He got a new *partner* and worked and lived with him together. These guys were so different but they matched so perfectly together, it was so close too a lovestory between them. But sadly they canceled the show after only three years.
So I searched for more information about the show, the characters and the actors in the web and found a fanpage from a german girl.
She had done a lot work in creating a good working fandom of her own. I had a lot to read about the show and there were a lot of fanfictions on her page from german writers. All genres and of curse there was slash too. It was so logical that people wrote abut them as a couple if you would *read the subtext* in the show. And the stories were really good written. Most of them were *Case*-stories were they investigated murder or other crimes. But the relationship between them was also a matter of the plot.
After a while I had read a lot of fictions and tried to write a story by myself. Sure, I was afraid it would come out as a disaster, but the other girls were really nice to me and one did the beta for me. - She became my best friend. :-)
Sadly the page wasn't updated since 2008. Mishale had to much to do in real life and so the page counts more as an archive nowadays. But it is still online.
If you like to take a look into it:
http://www.mishale.net/sentinel/
Back in these days there were not so much german writers and so I searched for more fanfictions in englisch. First it was difficult for me to read and understand all of it. But the more I read the more I trained my englisch too and after a while I couldn't tell if I had read a story in german or in englisch if someone asked me about it. LOL
Almost all of my fanfictions are in german (also do translations englisch / german) and most of them are slash, humor or sugar sweet romance. LOL But one or two are sad stories. So I always give warnings above. :-)
Hope it answered your question how I came to slash-fictions. :-)