Interesting! I often write in live canon, and it often breaks my heart. :(
For me, there's usually one or more characters I want more of than the source provides. That's the primary factor.
Other things that help include:
An active fandom, because it's always more fun when you have someone to bounce ideas off of.
A universe I like, for whatever reason.
Something in the canon that I want to "fix" somehow: my fave character isn't treated right (IMHO), my fave couple should totally be together, I don't like the direction the live canon is going, etc.
My Stargate involvement was mainly loving Daniel and shipping him with Jack. My HP involvement was mainly thinking Jo and Harry didn't treat Snape right. ;) In both, I went into the fandom knowing someone (my ex-SO) and made friends while I was there, so there was definitely a social aspect.
I haven't been following people into new fandoms since he and I broke up. Hmmm. iff is primarily Tumblr now and was all The Force Awakens, but I never really got into StormPilot (her thing) or Kylux (her friend that I followed's thing). They're both now into Some Video Game, I Dunno. ;)
There are book fandoms that I would love to be involved with, but am not for whatever reason. Like, I still love AngeLINK, but it's a fandom of me and the author (who is awesome, just like her books, BTW, but I was unable to lure anyone else into the fandom). I would probably read Parasol Protectorate fic (Biffy/Lyall or Biffy/Akeldama/Lyall or Lyall/Sandy; Lyall is my favorite) but I haven't gotten off my butt and read any yet, for whatever reason. And the Vorkosigan books: Despite naming my cat after him, Miles isn't my favorite. Cordelia is. I'd be reading/writing about her. (I do love Miles, though.) I read some Cordelia/Aral and it was adorable, but I only wrote the one tiny ficlet.
My Sith Academy involvement was half parody/critique of the source and half social interaction with the other authors. I was super-prolific, and I also cowrote more stories with other people than anyone else. Most of the Sith people were on a closed Star Trek mailing list (surprise!) and those that weren't, well, we started emailing each other intensely. So again, social.
Huh. I'm not sure I've said anything deep here. ;) Ah well.
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Date: 2017-04-17 03:05 pm (UTC)For me, there's usually one or more characters I want more of than the source provides. That's the primary factor.
Other things that help include:
- An active fandom, because it's always more fun when you have someone to bounce ideas off of.
- A universe I like, for whatever reason.
- Something in the canon that I want to "fix" somehow: my fave character isn't treated right (IMHO), my fave couple should totally be together, I don't like the direction the live canon is going, etc.
My Stargate involvement was mainly loving Daniel and shipping him with Jack. My HP involvement was mainly thinking Jo and Harry didn't treat Snape right. ;) In both, I went into the fandom knowing someone (my ex-SO) and made friends while I was there, so there was definitely a social aspect.I haven't been following people into new fandoms since he and I broke up. Hmmm.
There are book fandoms that I would love to be involved with, but am not for whatever reason. Like, I still love AngeLINK, but it's a fandom of me and the author (who is awesome, just like her books, BTW, but I was unable to lure anyone else into the fandom). I would probably read Parasol Protectorate fic (Biffy/Lyall or Biffy/Akeldama/Lyall or Lyall/Sandy; Lyall is my favorite) but I haven't gotten off my butt and read any yet, for whatever reason. And the Vorkosigan books: Despite naming my cat after him, Miles isn't my favorite. Cordelia is. I'd be reading/writing about her. (I do love Miles, though.) I read some Cordelia/Aral and it was adorable, but I only wrote the one tiny ficlet.
My Sith Academy involvement was half parody/critique of the source and half social interaction with the other authors. I was super-prolific, and I also cowrote more stories with other people than anyone else. Most of the Sith people were on a closed Star Trek mailing list (surprise!) and those that weren't, well, we started emailing each other intensely. So again, social.
Huh. I'm not sure I've said anything deep here. ;) Ah well.