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Okay, fannish5 time:

Name five fannish opinions of yours that have changed since you entered fandom.

1.) Super-fanon pairings (as in, characters never interact in canon) are becoming less and less interesting to me. The pairings that I'm really invested in/write a lot of fic for (regardless of whether I think they'll get together in the text or even want them to) are all ones that have a textual relationship, even if it's not explicitly romantic or totally reciprocated (e.g. Zuko/Katara, Jeff/Annie, Damon/Elena). Back when I was a wee, innocent newbie, I was reading a ton of Hermione/Draco and Draco/Ginny as well as Ron/Hermione and Harry/Ginny, and I've read just about every Buffy pairing possible at least once (including Tara/Spike, Spike/Xander, and Willow/Giles).

2.) I no longer feel that if I find a fic for a show and character(s) that I like, I have to read it. I just don't have the time! Now I basically only read fic for the fandons I'm obsessed with right this very moment or if I know the writer is awesome. And I can't even remember the last time I read a long fanfic.

3.) I used to be really nervous about writing sex scenes. And now I host kink memes. Wow. Just thinking about it kind of boggles my mind.

4.) Well-crafted, beautiful icons of characters I'm not in love with > less awesomely done icons of characters I like more.

5.) I upload less icons of secondary characters than I used to.

So, flist, what has changed for you since you discovered fandom?

Five questions you would like to ask authors or creators of source material in your fandom(s).

Assuming that they would answer honestly...

1.) TVD shooting has been plagued by injury, illness, and foul weather this season. I'd love to talk with the writers about how that changed when they had hiatuses and if/how it shaped storylines.

2.) The TVD writers and I also need to talk about Matt because how they think they're writing him ≠ how I see the character at all.

3.) I'd ask Suzanne Brockmann, writer of the Troubleshooters series (which has a reoccurring cast of characters and several romances that play out over multiple books), if she originally planned to write a Sophia/Decker romance and switched it to Sophia/Dave because even knowing the endgame, early books point in a direction that later books do not bear out. Which is not to say I don't love Sophia/Dave, because I totally do.

4.) I'd talk to TSCC writers about how they intended to resolve Cameron's... corporeal issues.

5.) Dear Carrie Vaughn (author of the Kitty & The Midnight Hour series), ARE YOU DELIBERATELY SETTING UP A RELATIONSHIP EVERYONE WITH TASTE IS GOING TO SHIP JUST TO REFUSE TO WRITE IT? No love, me.