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I Have The Stupidest Hobbies Ever.

Maaaan. I love the Supernatural fandom, but it is so full of incredible fanfiction that I just feel completely inadequate. In most of my fandoms before this one I have been able to feel that I am at least a better-than-average writer, and all of a sudden I have been dropped into this world in which the average is stupendously good and I am going to have to fight incredibly hard if I want to impress anyone.

Stupid writer's insecurity. I can't remember the last time I was so nervous about submitting my fic to a community.

I want to write something amazing. How do people write amazing things?

(Still, of course, there's the not inconsiderable upside of having infinite amounts of brilliant fanfiction to read. Hurrah!)

Right! As an apology for inflicting that upon you, because this journal is supposed to be a happy place, I bring you some icons you never even knew you needed. Use, edit, et cetera as you will. (You may also take the plain-black-border version of the first that I am using.)

Does anyone actually read the alt text?

I'd like to say that's the point, but it isn't.

So I don't really care that nobody is going to use them.

I have to say, I always suspected that my first venture into icon-making would be like this. The concept is, admittedly, better than the execution. Although I am quite pleased with the way the Dean/Haunter icons came out. TRUE LOVE FOR EVER.

(In the interest of getting more people to put Pokémon where they do not belong and also because they ask very nicely to be credited if their images are used, PokéBeach is a good website for Pokémon pictures.)

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...See now we need a moving icon, where the doctor, with his thumbs up, starts moving them like a Clefairy would.

Clefairy! Clefairy!

Edited 2008-02-21 18:41 (UTC)

Oh. OH! Or a Pikachu going into a thundershock and then, when he's all electric-lit up, regenerating into Ten! I so see it!

I hope you realise that posting that idea in my comments means that you are contractually obliged to make it.

I can't actually edit a photo to save my life. Is there an escape clause?

Well, I suppose a ficlet about the problems Rose and the Doctor have when he regenerates into a small linguistically-challenged electic rodent would also be acceptable. Or you could, you know, not do anything. It's not a terribly binding contract.

SPN writers really are the best I've ever seen. Some of them make me want to weep with inadequacy. I always feel like I'm middle of the pack, jostling for position! However, I also think that writing in his fandom has upped my game A LOT. Which is always a good thing. I don't think you should be nervous about submitting anything you write, however. I've read you stuff. It deserves to be put out there for it is made of all good things. For sure.

You're very kind; thank you! I think that, if I do end up writing a lot in this fandom, it'll probably be good for me; feeling that I have to fight to reach an acceptable standard can only really improve my writing, right?

[magi] All of my major writing advances have been a process of me finding someone who makes me want to curl up in a corner and weep with inadequacy, and then going "Well, fine, then. I'M GONNA BE GOOD TOO."

Well, that and learning to read my own work with a considering eye, and being mindful of the things I do like, and being a part of various workshops, but mostly it's the raging envy.

I can pinpoint exactly the point at which I began to change from a crap writer into a not-so-crap one, and it was when I read Baco's fic and thought 'I WANT TO BE HER'.

Well, actually, I thought 'I WANT TO BE HIM', but my younger self's inability to determine sex is not the point. The point is that envy has got me this far, so a little more could be healthy.

I have the same fear of SPN fandom. I have written one fic, it is 7,000 words long and I spent six months writing it. Six months of endless re-writes, screaming obscenities and smashing my face into the desk.

For a comparison, my 7,000 word Top Gear fic took me two weeks and was nothing but a joy to write.

BUT, seeing how well your first fic went down, you shouldn't worry so much. You've really got a hang of it.

Edited 2008-02-21 19:06 (UTC)

I find it terribly reassuring that other people apparently also think that the Supernatural fandom is really freaking intimidating. (Even you! Did I mention that your Supernatural/Top Gear crossover was brilliant? Did I mention it the seventeen times you deserve to hear it?)

&hearts :D

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MASTER WITH A CLEFAIRY

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you know i love you right?

I wanted to give him a Jigglypuff, but it didn't really work, alas. I mean that it didn't work even by my certainly-not-that-high manipping standards. Now that I think about it, a Clefairy may actually suit him more.

hahahaha.

oh man

ALSO

I HAVE BID ON A COPY OF FF8 ON EBAY.
AND AM REPLAYING 7.

people who say breeding chocobos is the most time-consuming part of the game are LYING
limit breaks = ;_______________;

What pokemon is it with the Master, and why did you pick it???

/clueless (and using own icon)

It is a Clefairy! It seemed sort of appropriate because, er, it comes from the moon?

And I love that icon. The Master travelling around with Annie would be brilliant. And by 'brilliant' I mean 'probably really sort of horrible in the long run'. Poor Annie.

Thank you! I've been planning to make more polished versions now I have GIMP, but my free time's being eaten up by Big Bang.

And I read a short fic where Gene and Annie become the Master's companions- I wish I could find it again, it was brilliant.

I'm mildly offended that the icon you dismiss as 'a bit rubbish' is my favourite. His expression. 'HOW DARE YOU CLAIM THAT HAVING A POKEMON IS NOT NORMAL BEHAVIOUR FOR A POLITICIAN. LIES, I SAY.'

Also DDD:, that is EXACTLY HOW I FELT ABOUT SCRUBS FANDOM. Are there any bad writers in that fandom, or have I just been lucky? (Although admittedly I have read VERY FEW ff.net fics, and most of those have been perfectly in-character angst.)

(The only reason I do not feel the same about Top Gear is that I barely read any fic before starting to write.)

Supernatural fandom's good enough to intimidate you? You're brilliant!

How good are they?

Well, I generally have a fairly short attention span, and so I often have trouble reading long fics. Not so with the Supernatural fandom, in which I will stay up long into the night, completely engrossed in, for example, a rentboy fic. And I don't even usually like rentboy AUs!

Even ones with squid in them?

Well, the rentboy-and-squid fics were clearly not meant to be taken terribly seriously. This one was apparently written with a straight face, and I enjoyed it immensely anyway.

You try being locked in a cave with Ken Livingston's trained killer squid of death and tell me it's not serious!

Really though, I know what you mean. Most rent-boy AUs put me off, too.

Oh, come on, there's got to be dreadful over the top fanfic where Dean cries a single emo tear, right? And Mary Sues? There have to be Mary Sues!

Also, that Haunter looks like it'll eat Dean.

The problem is, I think, that Dean cries single emo tears canonically.

Yeah, same problem as in Doctor Who fandom. Seriously, as much as I like David Tennant's acting, I wish he wouldn't produce a single tear trickling down his face nearly so much.

Well, I've only been in the Supernatural fandom for a few days, admittedly, but I've yet to read a fic that doesn't impress or engross me.

And the Haunter is not going to eat Dean. They are very much in love.

Oh my God, I know. I read my first Supernatural fanfic iiin October, I think? And now it's mid/late-February and I've only just started finding the not-so-good stuff. AND IT'S NOT EVEN THAT BAD.

On the plus side, it's something to aspire to, innit.

Have you ever read anything by

flipmontgirl? Because she's fantastic.

I have not! And, as that username doesn't appear to work, it seems that I am unable to remedy this. Alas!

Whoops, it's

flipmontigirl! Sorry, should not write HTML while drunk.

the Supernatural fandom is seriously a gift from God to me, I swear. I've been a geek for fanfiction for years and years and the fact that the fanfics for this show are almost always amazing is like, a miracle to me haha. I never get bored and I've only once or twice read a pretty bad fic for this fandom.

Also, those icons are awesome.

AHHHHH YOU HAVE TO STOP! I don't read much SPN fan fiction because, in my past experiences with fandom, it tends to screw with canon too much and destroy the fandom for me. So with SPN I've been trying to stay away, but you keep posting about it and Wincest and AHHHHHH! XD Why must the SPN fandom be SO AWESOME?!

Sorry, just wanted to leave some love for the Dean/Haunter icons! (It doesn't help that I had a cracktastic dream involving me and the Winchesters existing in a pokéworld. Weird.)

Thank you! I don't know why the Pokémon and Supernatural universes combine so absurdly well in my mind, but somehow they do.

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