GIP and a fanfic question.
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suki_blueI was having a look through some of the old files on my laptop and I came across a few caps that I'd done of the first season of 21 Jumpstreet - my original obsession and the series that kicked off a Johnny Depp fixation that spanned 14 years.
And the only thing to break that obsession was ~drum roll~ you guessed it, Buffy. Or, more specifically, Spander.
So, in fond memory of a TV show long passed but much loved, I made an icon. ~points~ Totally sharable. Feel free to snag.
Now, that brings me to something else.
I wrote a heck of a lot when I was very young, but for reasons that I wont go into - because it would probably involve pages and pages of babble and the possible need for a head doctor - I stopped writing around the age of about 14. Shortly after, I discovered 21 Jumpstreet, and , as I said before, it kicked off a mammoth obsession with the show and with Johnny Depp.
Then, several years ago, I discovered The Matrix. Cue another obsession. But instead of replacing my Johnny kink ~cough~ it merely extended it. I began to fantasise about Tommy from Jumpstreet, who by this point was so much more than an undercover cop - in my head - and Neo with his dark glasses, long coat and Big Fucking Guns. Yep, in my head, I crossed them over.
I will also admit to dreaming about Johnny Depp/Will Smith, although it came nowhere near to the utter joy of Tommy/Neo. I even had T/N Sims.
And the rest is History, or if you'd like a slightly longer version: Along came Spike and Xander and within a week poor old Johnny Depp and Keanu Reeves were out on their unwanted, discarded, frankly-not-interested backsides. Two months later I was writing again.
This got me to wondering, if I'd known about fanfiction all those years ago, would I have written Jumpstreet slash? Or Matrix slash? Would I have written a really weird Jumpstreet/Matrix hybrid crossover? Or, if we go back a little further, Doctor Who slash? Or ~gulp~ Neighbours slash? (And yes, you may bitch-slap me for my Jason Donovan phase)
So, what about you? What would you have read, searched for, or written if you'd known about slashfic/fanfic a decade or more before?
And the only thing to break that obsession was ~drum roll~ you guessed it, Buffy. Or, more specifically, Spander.
So, in fond memory of a TV show long passed but much loved, I made an icon. ~points~ Totally sharable. Feel free to snag.
Now, that brings me to something else.
I wrote a heck of a lot when I was very young, but for reasons that I wont go into - because it would probably involve pages and pages of babble and the possible need for a head doctor - I stopped writing around the age of about 14. Shortly after, I discovered 21 Jumpstreet, and , as I said before, it kicked off a mammoth obsession with the show and with Johnny Depp.
Then, several years ago, I discovered The Matrix. Cue another obsession. But instead of replacing my Johnny kink ~cough~ it merely extended it. I began to fantasise about Tommy from Jumpstreet, who by this point was so much more than an undercover cop - in my head - and Neo with his dark glasses, long coat and Big Fucking Guns. Yep, in my head, I crossed them over.
I will also admit to dreaming about Johnny Depp/Will Smith, although it came nowhere near to the utter joy of Tommy/Neo. I even had T/N Sims.
And the rest is History, or if you'd like a slightly longer version: Along came Spike and Xander and within a week poor old Johnny Depp and Keanu Reeves were out on their unwanted, discarded, frankly-not-interested backsides. Two months later I was writing again.
This got me to wondering, if I'd known about fanfiction all those years ago, would I have written Jumpstreet slash? Or Matrix slash? Would I have written a really weird Jumpstreet/Matrix hybrid crossover? Or, if we go back a little further, Doctor Who slash? Or ~gulp~ Neighbours slash? (And yes, you may bitch-slap me for my Jason Donovan phase)
So, what about you? What would you have read, searched for, or written if you'd known about slashfic/fanfic a decade or more before?
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Date: 2006-05-02 01:32 pm (UTC)I'm not too up on classic films, but that sounds really cool! I hadn't even thought about going back that far, era wise. I wonder how many people wrote their own version of fanfic back then.
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Date: 2006-05-02 01:45 pm (UTC)Actually, writing Jeff/Johnny (Johnny Eager) slash would be quite appropriate. Most people agree that when Van Heflin won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for playing Jeff, he was the first actor portraying a gay character to do so. While, since this movie was made in the 40's, no one comes out and refers to Jeff as being gay in the film, it's pretty obvious that his devotion to Johnny (the title character) is something other than platonic. I, like you, wonder if gay viewers wrote, or at least dreamed up, fanfic of their own after seeing this movie. I'm sure they all saw what modern viewers do. And I'm pretty sure the director put it there on purpose!
Gabrielle
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Date: 2006-05-02 02:38 pm (UTC)Oooh, that is interesting. I need to catch this film. The viewers must have at least dreamed up some stuff in their heads, even if they didn't dare put it down on paper.
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Date: 2006-05-02 03:00 pm (UTC)It's a really cool gangster film, and Jeff is easily one of the most interesting characters in ANY gangster film ever....drunk, intellectual, gay...gotta love him! And Robert Taylor and Lana Turner are pretty cool, too. Plus there's lots of snappy dialogue and a really cute greyhound named Gypsy. If you get the chance, you should definitely see it.
I am quite sure that moviegoers and TV viewers have at least imagined fanfiction, if not written it down, since the invention of the flickers. Heck, there was LITERATURE-based fanfic in the 19th century! Honest to God! Thackeray hated the ending of Scott's Ivanhoe so much that he wrote and published a sequel called Rebecca and Rowena!
Gabrielle