Author has written 15 stories for Cowboy Bebop, and Trigun. When I write fanfic, I often write for one “universe” only, for example, with my Trigun fanfic, it’s based solely on the anime and not the manga.I think of the anime and the manga as two separate things, not one and the same, rather like comparing Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid” with Disney’s “The Little Mermaid”.The latter is based on the former, but they really can’t be thought of as being in the same universe, or what being canon or “in character” in one as being canon or “in character” in the other. So to those of you enjoyed the original sources of the anime I in turn based stories on, be they manga, video games, or visual novels, if you notice any inconsistencies, or my portraying the heroes in an “out of character” way, that’s why.Also, I don’t tend to get caught up with fandom communities often, or groups of other fanfic authors writing for the same properties, so I don’t always know what’s been accepted as “fanon”, and when I do find out, I don’t necessarily accept it myself--I just go by my own interpretation of shows/movies. And as to just about every one of my stories being “lousy with virginity” (a major exception being my Cowboy Bebop fics)?I idealize characters who are pure, including--and especially--the men.I love me a good virgin hero like other women dote on a man who’s “been around”.Give me Gilligan over James Bond any day.(Now, I’m not saying men shouldn’t be macho or some other PC ultra-feminist garbage; I’m just saying what personally attracts me.) When watching a TV show, if a character is single, I like to assume he or she is a virgin unless proven otherwise.(It got really hard with modern American TV, where the single characters are all more sexually active than the married couples, and I’ve basically given up on new American TV series, but there’s a lot of older series and anime that are safe.)But I guess a lot of other viewers feel the opposite way—that unless it’s proven otherwise, it can be assumed that any single character of a certain age is sexually active.Then there’s my quasi-fanfic inspired by The Monkees TV show, “The Four Innocents”, were the heroes are not only virgins, they’ve sworn to be so for life.Sometimes there are heroes I want to abstain from such relations until marriage, and then there’s others who are so pure I don’t want them losing their innocence even within the sinless bonds of Holy Matrimony. This begs the question that if why if I prefer my heroes so virginal, I can write some rather erotic sex scenes about see, once my favorite shipped couples get married, that whole virginity thing goes out the window. I don’t expect married people to remain celibate or even idealize Homer Simpson once said to Marge, “But it’s Valentine’s Day.God wants us to do it!” In some of my stories, I have mentioned unmarried characters committing fornication, because I just think it’s in character for them.That’s just what they’d those cases, to not glorify fornication too much, I try to let the lovers involved suffer at least some consequences, even if things do work out for them in the writing steamy content, I take my cue from the Bible book “Song of Solomon”. I think a lot of religious people’s aversion to such content is more cultural conditioning than actually Biblical. It’s a fantasy of mine of the man being the more sexually innocent one, as contrary as that is to the majority of men in real life.With gender stereotypes (as well as generalizations about other things, like the belief systems of members of a specific country, such as a Japanese person would never do this or that), I prefer writing not about the typical, but the , yes, I know the typical man, Japanese citizen, etc., is not like that, but I’m writing about an individual like that anyway. Some of my fanfic I have given an MA rating to.I am perhaps being overcautious.I have read several fanfics rated T that have been more explicit than some of my MA stories.I don’t appreciate mature content when it’s gratuitous, such as a constant barrage of crude jokes; a great amount of profanity not expressed in angst or to advance the story, but just because the author likes using such words over and over again without meaning; or glorification of sex in a purely kinky, non-marital way that robs it of its mysticism and romance.But, that said, as much as I love Disney’s G rated classics, I can handle just about any content when it makes sense to the storyline. On another topic, if you’re a fiction writer, you may know there’s a “rule” that you can only write from one character’s point of view, even in third person, until the scene ends.I choose to ignore that ’s too limiting, and I think dated in the day and age of TV and movies.When watching a movie, say “The Empire Strikes Back”, and there’s a scene featuring Han and Leia, at one moment during the scene, I’ll be wondering what Han is thinking, and in another moment, during the same scene, I’ll wonder what Leia is thinking.I don’t see the whole scene from one character’s point of view, and I don’t think most viewers written word stories shouldn’t be like that anymore, either—that’s how I feel, so I am intentionally breaking the rules, and will not apologize for it, and encourage other writers to rebel against the constraints of this archaic rule as well. Some of my stories are what I call “direct” fanfic, where I use the original names and situations from the show I based the stories on.Others are what I call “quasi-fanfic”, where I am inspired by a particular show or movie, but change the characters’ names and maybe also the setting. The newly-named characters end up evolving into characters of my own creation, though in the back of my head I still often see them as being the TV/movie characters I based them on.I’ve done this with a lot of my older works, such as “The Four Innocents” (The Monkees) and “Zavanra” (Pocahontas).For some reason I’m not sure of, when I started writing anime fanfic, I did not feel the need to change the theory I have is that perhaps anime, by its nature, satisfies me to the extent that I can accept the most devastating plot twists, such as a major character’s death, a gal never being able to requite her love for a certain man, or moral transgressions, without feeling I have to re-write their reality, and instead, I just explore it further. I intend for all my stories to be together on AO3, but my full profile is here, as they will not allow enough space. You may notice I have given certain characters struggles with depression, sometimes to the point of wanting to commit suicide.I’m not trying to glorify suicide or endorse it—these story elements come from my own life.I have wrestled with depression since my high school years in the 1980’s.These days, most of the time I am quite happy and content with life, but every once in a while, I have what I call a “flare up”. Sometimes, my depression manifests itself as severe sadness, of course, but other times as intense, unwarranted guilt, or even irritability and anger. I like to explore and advance awareness of depression, related mental disorders, and suicidal tendencies through my stories.But perhaps I do glorify death, but I have reason for that, too--I believe in the afterlife and that death isn’t necessarily this big awful dark tragic final thing, but a gateway into a better, more peaceful existence.Unless you’re going to Hell.Then I guess it is a big awful dark tragic thing. I do tend to write my fanfic to be head canon to me, but I certainly expect no one else to adopt is as their head canon, and as I don’t even know the original creators of the shows/movies (and as fanfic authors often state, don’t own it), it’s certainly not official canon.Oh, I tend not to read my reviews.I’m really scared about flames, and totally embarrassed by even good reviews.Sorry about that. NOTE: I once flamed a Monkees fanfic author on here. I won't give her pen name in case she doesn't want that, but I promptly apologized to her in private when I calmed down the next day. My mental health problems caused me to really be freaked out that night and felt like lashing out at people (and inanimate objects). I acted like my head canon should be her head canon, a canon which she knew nothing about in the first place. I have grown more respect for everyone's right to their own head canon in the meantime. |
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