Fandom and other fandoms -- do you indulge?

[themostepotente]

Besides the Harry Potter fandom -- do you write for any other fandoms currently?

What ships do you like in other fanverses?

Have you considered trying your hand at writing for another fandom?

Or perhaps you left another fandom to come to Harry Potter?

Do you consider some of the fandoms to be flash in the pans?

And lastly, how long do you foresee the Harry Potter fandom lasting?

I know that I've written for;

LoTR
TPM
Star Trek
X-Men

cave_canem is making me seriously consider the Buffyverse.

What are your thoughts on the topic?

Comments

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

Besides the Harry Potter fandom -- do you write for any other fandoms currently?
Ah, I've just started writing fanfiction, but yes, I'm curently writing Sherlock Holmes.

What ships do you like in other fanverses?
Holmes/Watson (Holmes/Moriarty!)
Xavier/Magneto
Giles/Ethan
Lawrence/Ali (movieverse)
Potentially:
Batman/Gordon (never seen it!)
Hamlet/Horatio (only seen it once)



And of course Star Trek, its my first fandom love, but strangely enough I don't read any slash etc. in there (even though Spock/Kirk is potentially the most slashy pairing of all time).

Have you considered trying your hand at writing for another fandom?
It's really for the individual characters that I (especially) write fic, so the character has to obsess me a great deal, as Professor R.J. Lupin has been since I first read PoA. And it must be long-lasting; I've been reading Star Trek and Sherlock Holmes since I was about eight or nine.

Or perhaps you left another fandom to come to Harry Potter?
I couldn't leave a fandom I really loved! They'll be there for me always.

Do you consider some of the fandoms to be flash in the pans?
Er, probably, but I'm not very up on these things. I just follow what interests me, and that's not so very many things.

And lastly, how long do you foresee the Harry Potter fandom lasting?
It's the Star Trek of the younger generation! It'll be around a long time.

[themostepotente.livejournal.com]

It's really for the individual characters that I (especially) write fic, so the character has to obsess me a great deal, as Professor R.J. Lupin has been since I first read PoA. And it must be long-lasting; I've been reading Star Trek and Sherlock Holmes since I was about eight or nine.

I was a huge Lupin fan until David Thewlis came along and spoiled him for me. Remus/Sirius was my start into slash.

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

until David Thewlis came along and spoiled him for me

Aw, don't let that ruin the Lupin-love. I admit, it's hard to overcome it (especially with people appropriating movie!Lupin mannerisms and physical features in fic. *stabs those damn facial scars and that cardigan*) but I manage to block out what TTT did to Faramir, whom I've loved far longer...

Just keep reminding yourself that the movies aren't canon, and Remus still looks like seviet's drawings of him. *g*