See, I find myself really wanting to read things I never see - Dawn/Angel friendship fics, Gunn/Faith, or just Gunn, or just Faith, or Lilah femslash, or Connor anything, or Anya that's either het or slash but not Anya/Xander.
I think that's why I'm not reading a lot of Jossverse fanfic right now. (read: not reading any)
Even my favorite pairings feel overdone. They're a wet rag that's been used too many times, and when I go to work on a WIP like my Buffy/Faith, which isn't like any of the B/Fs I've read before, I find that I've gone over it so many times in my own head that it feels... I dunno. Unoriginal.
Right now my brain is doing a Smallville loop, and while I imagine I'll finish my Harry/Peter fic shortly after the movie comes out on DVD - YAY! for inspiration and oh so pretty Harry - I don't see myself drifting into any other fandoms any time soon. That is, however, contingent on the Will Not Get Sucked Into Lost mantra that I have repeating in my head.
I like to read HP fanfic, but I'm not really interested in writing it.
Jossverse just feels meh. Years of fanfic and a huge fandom have used up a lot of fanfic ideas, and I feel like I'm just retreading ground.
Maybe I need to... I dunno, take the characters out of the given context. You read Omiai (the good C/L marriage fic), and the characters are still themselves, but they're removed from any and all canon. I think it'll take something drastic like that to get me back into needing to write Jossverse.
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I think that's why I'm not reading a lot of Jossverse fanfic right now. (read: not reading any)
Even my favorite pairings feel overdone. They're a wet rag that's been used too many times, and when I go to work on a WIP like my Buffy/Faith, which isn't like any of the B/Fs I've read before, I find that I've gone over it so many times in my own head that it feels... I dunno. Unoriginal.
Right now my brain is doing a Smallville loop, and while I imagine I'll finish my Harry/Peter fic shortly after the movie comes out on DVD - YAY! for inspiration and oh so pretty Harry - I don't see myself drifting into any other fandoms any time soon. That is, however, contingent on the Will Not Get Sucked Into Lost mantra that I have repeating in my head.
I like to read HP fanfic, but I'm not really interested in writing it.
Jossverse just feels meh. Years of fanfic and a huge fandom have used up a lot of fanfic ideas, and I feel like I'm just retreading ground.
Maybe I need to... I dunno, take the characters out of the given context. You read Omiai (the good C/L marriage fic), and the characters are still themselves, but they're removed from any and all canon. I think it'll take something drastic like that to get me back into needing to write Jossverse.