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Fandom Questions Meme (25-28)
22 Mar 2018 08:54 am25. What’s your most popular fanfic?
The Spirit of St Mary Mead, which I wrote for Wasuremo in Yuletide 2016, and is about Miss Marple as a sort of genius loci. (223 kudos, 75 comments and 37 bookmarks. I mean, I know that's peanuts by mega-ship/fandom standards but it leaves most of my other works miles behind in the dust.)
... followed closely by So We Meet at Last, a crossover ficlet in which Miss Marple dusts Dracula. (170 kudos, 40 comments, 32 bookmarks.) (Amused as I am by James Maxwell's epic fainty-ness, the first thing I noticed about the 1968 TV Dracula was that it had Joan Hickson in as Mrs Weston and people patronised her and it was awful. Clearly there was only one possible response, hence the ficlet, which I scribbled in about 30 mins for![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fan_flashworks.)
#4 is also a Miss Marple crossover ficlet. For reasons I have no explanation for, weird Miss Marple fic is apparently what the universe wants from me. I am really not sure how I feel about this, although it could certainly be worse.
26. How do you come up with your fanfic titles?
Either straight away, as if by magic, or else by sheer desperation, rifling any appropriate poetry, songs, quotes etc. etc. And for meme ficlets, yes, one word titles. I don't care. Although when I get my kudos emails from AO3, I do have no clue which ones they all are.
27. What do you hate more: Coming up with titles or writing summaries?
It depends! Both can just arrive with the story, although I suppose titles are harder, as with summaries you can often get away with quoting a line or two of the fic at least.
28. If someone were to draw a piece of fanart for your story, which story would it be and what would the picture be of?
I don't know, meme, I don't actually have the second sight. Do they mean which story would I want it to be? In which case, the answer is any of them and anything. I would be thrilled. It happened to me once, with one of my S&S ficlets, and it was lovely and then the fanartist just deleted it, which was very saddening.
The Spirit of St Mary Mead, which I wrote for Wasuremo in Yuletide 2016, and is about Miss Marple as a sort of genius loci. (223 kudos, 75 comments and 37 bookmarks. I mean, I know that's peanuts by mega-ship/fandom standards but it leaves most of my other works miles behind in the dust.)
... followed closely by So We Meet at Last, a crossover ficlet in which Miss Marple dusts Dracula. (170 kudos, 40 comments, 32 bookmarks.) (Amused as I am by James Maxwell's epic fainty-ness, the first thing I noticed about the 1968 TV Dracula was that it had Joan Hickson in as Mrs Weston and people patronised her and it was awful. Clearly there was only one possible response, hence the ficlet, which I scribbled in about 30 mins for
fan_flashworks.)#4 is also a Miss Marple crossover ficlet. For reasons I have no explanation for, weird Miss Marple fic is apparently what the universe wants from me. I am really not sure how I feel about this, although it could certainly be worse.
26. How do you come up with your fanfic titles?
Either straight away, as if by magic, or else by sheer desperation, rifling any appropriate poetry, songs, quotes etc. etc. And for meme ficlets, yes, one word titles. I don't care. Although when I get my kudos emails from AO3, I do have no clue which ones they all are.
27. What do you hate more: Coming up with titles or writing summaries?
It depends! Both can just arrive with the story, although I suppose titles are harder, as with summaries you can often get away with quoting a line or two of the fic at least.
28. If someone were to draw a piece of fanart for your story, which story would it be and what would the picture be of?
I don't know, meme, I don't actually have the second sight. Do they mean which story would I want it to be? In which case, the answer is any of them and anything. I would be thrilled. It happened to me once, with one of my S&S ficlets, and it was lovely and then the fanartist just deleted it, which was very saddening.