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pixiedude · 06-10-2006, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Screenwriter

now I'm about to sell my first tv series and hopefully it's gonna be produced and then people will start to write fanfic about my show.

That would be great!

That is wonderful! Somewhere I remember reading Josh Whedon saying he used to make up stories about his favorite shows when he was a kid. That was one of the reasons he was supportive of fanfic.

My first fandom was X-Files. Over the thanksgiving weekend in 1997, I decided to look up the official site online at school. I hadn't had a tv since 1980, but I kept hearing people say how great it was, and I wanted to know more about it. One of the sites Alta Vista (then the premiere search engine!) returned was The Gossamer Archive, which collected all kinds of XF fanfic. This was the first I'd heard of it.

At that time, I knew nothing about "fanon", slash, etc. I just started reading the "New Stories" on gossamer, and the second one was a fairly well-written Mulder/Krycek story. I thought, what's this? A tv show with major gay characters? I HAD to buy a TV. I even got cable, when FX started running the reruns, to catch up on the backstory. I was disappointed. No canon gay agents after all. But by then, I was hooked on the fanfic.

By 2000, I was tired of XF. I'd started watching Buffy, which was the first WB show I ever watched, after I discovered Buffy/Faith. That's how I found out about Roswell, which looked at first like it was the complement to the XF, telling the UFO myths from the aliens' point of view.

The last show where i got into the fanfic was "The Invisible Man", which was on Sci-Fi for a couple of years. Since that was cancelled, I've gotten jaded. I don't even have cable anymore.