Writing...
Jul. 24th, 2018 11:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spindle_ella Soooo... after only 2 days I'm roughly 5K in on cannibalising my WTNV fanfic concepts into something original, instead of writing the things I should be writing. I think this might be a thing now. This is probably a thing.
I think it helps that an original fic-verse that existed before I ever came across the WTNV fandom already had aspects that I concentrated and expanded on in the fanfics: otherworldly beings; genius loci and their effects on the local environment; tattoos that are more than what they seem; moral ambiguity; excuse you but you can take the idea that only homo sapiens qualify as people and shove it.
You could say that when I first found Night Vale fanon I parked myself up Ace Ventura style, screeching into what I thought was a good parking spot like a whirling dervish and screaming LIKE A GLOVE!!! at the top of my lungs. I had found my fandom home. I didn't have to orig-fic it because someone else had hit my narrative buttons and now, now I could revel in a pre-existing fandom where I could indulge those buttons to my heart's content!!! And then I was quite confused by canon. But I carried on until wank and doxxing happened and then I noped out and went back to my original stuff before ever really interacting with anyone, let alone posting.
But maybe that was a blessing in disguise, because I'm quite enjoying fleshing bits of plot-bunny out into an original setting that I know like the back of my hand. And torturing some old favourites (Noone, for one, is unamused by this bullshit. But he's a fun chew-toy, bless his heart). And I'm sure that my world-building is different enough to not cause problems.
I think it helps that an original fic-verse that existed before I ever came across the WTNV fandom already had aspects that I concentrated and expanded on in the fanfics: otherworldly beings; genius loci and their effects on the local environment; tattoos that are more than what they seem; moral ambiguity; excuse you but you can take the idea that only homo sapiens qualify as people and shove it.
You could say that when I first found Night Vale fanon I parked myself up Ace Ventura style, screeching into what I thought was a good parking spot like a whirling dervish and screaming LIKE A GLOVE!!! at the top of my lungs. I had found my fandom home. I didn't have to orig-fic it because someone else had hit my narrative buttons and now, now I could revel in a pre-existing fandom where I could indulge those buttons to my heart's content!!! And then I was quite confused by canon. But I carried on until wank and doxxing happened and then I noped out and went back to my original stuff before ever really interacting with anyone, let alone posting.
But maybe that was a blessing in disguise, because I'm quite enjoying fleshing bits of plot-bunny out into an original setting that I know like the back of my hand. And torturing some old favourites (Noone, for one, is unamused by this bullshit. But he's a fun chew-toy, bless his heart). And I'm sure that my world-building is different enough to not cause problems.
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Date: 2018-07-25 09:33 pm (UTC)