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Sammy Interview

Before we get started, do you mind introducing yourself and telling a bit about yourself? 

My name is Sammy. I’m 34 years old, a college graduate with a background in cultural anthropology as well as women, gender, and sexuality studies. I’m particularly interested in queer and feminist methodologies. I live with my partner of some 15 years, who is also a fanfiction writer.

Q1: So, you told me that you’ve been writing fan fiction for 20+ years which is awesome! How did it all get started and what kind of fan fiction have you written in that time?

A1:  Like a lot of fangirls of my generation, anime was my introduction to fanfiction.  I grew up watching Sailor Moon when it first aired on American network television. It was love at first sight. There was nothing else like it on TV. At my local Blockbuster I discovered anime. It wasn’t as readily available then as it is now. Because the english dubs were so limited I ended up watching the same OVA rentals over and over - Ranma ½, RG Veda, Vampire Princess Miyu. First I wrote stories in my head, then I started writing them down. When I recieved my own computer and constant access to the internet, I went searching for fansites. Secreted behind unassuming links I found small clutches of fanfiction. This was before fanfiction.net first took off, and An Archive of Our Own was well over a decade away. Fansites had webrings, which took me to the next fansite, and so on.  It really was a matter of finding the right webring for a given show and following the thread.

I began with writing Sailor Moon fanfiction, and as Cartoon Network’s late night block of programming (Toonami) expanded, the more I wrote. Gundam Wing fandom introduced me to shipping and it blew my mind.

I moved away from anime when the Harry Potter movies happened. A lot of us made the transition to book and movie based fandoms when someone discovered Harry/Draco. After that I found DC comics, and then became very active in the Star Trek reboot fandom. I’ve written for Stargate: Atlantis, BBC Sherlock and Hannibal and so, so many other shows/books/video games. I’ve been an active participant in Yuletide, which is an anonymous holiday fanfic exchange, and multiple Big Bangs -another fanfic/fanart exchange- as well as a kinkmeme prompt filler for years.

Q2: What pushed you to begin sharing your fan fiction?

A2: The mailing lists. In the early days of fandom private yahoo groups and message boards were the main venue for posting and reading fanfiction. Most mailing lists were fandom based and created for specific content - like Gundam Wing Slash, GundamWingGEN and CRACKSHIP. These became high volume, tight knit communities. It wasn’t unusual to have your mail box refreshing on the left side of the monitor, while you chatted with members on AIM on the right side. There was a lot of encouragement, experimentation, and collaboration. You posted your fanfiction to the list, or board, and people cheered. It was all so exciting.  It’s hard to describe now how close we all were, and just how much fellow-feeling fueled hundreds of emails a day. This was my online family, my community. I didn’t need a push or moment of courage to post my early fanfiction - I was delighted to share, invited to share. It was an electrifying thing to be part of.

Q3: Were you scared to post it online?

A3: Not at all. I didn’t need to be scared - none of us did. No one outside these early lists and boards knew what we were doing. I really can’t emphasize enough how guarded the early fanfiction community was. We were incredibly insulated. Our families didn’t know, our teachers and co-workers were oblivious, popular culture wasn’t shitting on fanfiction writers because it didn’t know we were writing. I wasn’t scared to press ‘send’, but it did feel dangerous, a little rebellious. There was a sense of getting away with something.

Q4: Has writing fan fiction taught you anything? About writing? Reading? Something else?

A4: On a basic level, fanfiction taught me how to write. Structure, pace, dialogue - I was taught those things in a classroom, but I learned them by writing fanfiction. We all taught ourselves to write by writing for each other. We created an entire literary movement without an MA in literature, or a structured pedagogy. Fanfiction writers generated new narrative traditions, like the Five Things + 1 format (a breakaway from the three-act story), Hurt/Comfort, and a language of tagging that defies classical genre rules - all because we were messing around.

Writing fanfiction has taught me the value of questioning western literary rules and conventions, that writing for myself and my own pleasure is valid.  It’s also taught me that I don’t like to write alone. One of the things that makes fanfiction so special for me is that so much of it happens in conversation with other writers and readers. My best writing experiences have been in simpatico with total strangers, on AIM, in livejournal comment threads, gchat.  I’m not writing “original fiction” because I lack imagination; it’s just too lonely.

Q5: Do you ever want to be published in a professional capacity one day?

A5: I do, though I feel like this is a bit of a fraught subject for fanfiction writers.  There’s an compulsion to say yes, of course I plan to publish one day, as if that end goal legitimates the fanfiction I write. I don’t want to contribute to the idea of fanfiction as a lesser form of literature- a stepping stone to Real Writing - but yes. I started writing creative nonfiction in community college.  That writing comes from a very different place than fanfiction. It satisfies another hunger.

Q6: How you feel about the stigma surrounding fan fiction and fan fiction writers? Or, do you not feel any stigma at all?

A6: I think the stigma towards fanfiction is pushback from multiple sociological and institutional sources.

In the beginning we had the sense that fanfiction - slash fanfiction - wasn’t something to bring up outside of those digital spaces we made for ourselves. We knew it would be considered an auteur kink at best, or downright perverted plagiarism at worst (I think this is largely still the case). Before the community found the language to discuss slash and fanfiction as transformative works - as deconstructions of conventional media, gender roles, and sexuality - there was an ethos of compartmentalization to the whole thing.

Q7: Do you think that stigma is warranted? (Whether or not you have personally experience it?)

A7: No.

I touched on this earlier, but I believe the stigma and hostility towards fanfiction is firmly rooted in gender and non-normative sexuality. The writing we do is generally characterized as a feminine endeavour, which immediately marks it as inferior to a literary canon that values the masculine so highly. The perception that fanfiction is a plagiarism of male authored source material makes it all the more egregious.

Equally as foundational, is the reduction of fanfiction to gay porn written by straight cis women for straight cis women - fanfiction is not only shit writing, it’s perverted and weird.

I’ve never been ashamed of the fanfiction I write, or read. Embarrassed maybe, of those first earnest attempts at writing. But fanfiction does not have a monopoly on bad writing. I can just as easily find the same trash in Barnes & Noble. So, quality is not and never has been a valid criticism.

Q8: What’s your favorite piece of fan fiction you’ve ever written? Why?

A8: A gen fic I wrote for Star Trek (AOS). I’m a leisurely writer, and stories don’t just hit me whole and complete in one go. But this one did. It took three hours to write and I didn’t have to think about where I was going after finishing a paragraph, the next was already there, I just had to type it out. It’s never come that easy before or since. It’s not my most popular piece of fanfiction, but I can go back and read it and not feel like I need to change anything.

Q10: Do you write outside of fan fiction?

A10: I do - until recently I was writing up lesson plans for classes I was co-facilitating. Generally, when I’m not writing fanfiction I’m working on creative non-fiction. I use the frame of gender analysis and sexuality studies (among others) to write about my life.

Q11: What site do you prefer to write and post your fan fiction on?

A11: An Archive of Our Own (AO3). The tagging system is superior and the site is far more user friendly than ff.net, which is an absolute dumpster fire.  

Q12: What’s something you want people outside the fan fiction community to know about the fan fiction community?

We’re not a monolith. Teenage girls are the cultural face of fanfiction, but so many of us are in our 30s and 40s, old fandom queens from those first private mailing lists, boards, and LiveJournal accounts. We have soul sucking jobs. We have degrees in STEM. We teach college, have kids and debt, and friendships that have lasted decades.. We are not, and never have been a homogenous group of straight cis women. Asexuality and gender fluidity abounds. Plenty of us experience disability and chronic illness.  And we aren’t a small group of weirdos obsessed with Johnlock. We’re an enormous and diverse group of weirdos who have created a literary movement.

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Do you honestly think Sinner and Alcaraz (or any tennis players) are madly in love or fucking like bunnies? That's weird, their just kids!

Wow. WOW. But hey, I did say anything on anon so sure, that's your prerogative.

OK so honestly no, no I don't. I fell in love with both of their tennis playing this year (I've been watching tennis since the mid-80s), and then somewhere around Wimbledon the ADHD went 'oooh new hyperfixation' (there's another long post brewing actually about it might be a lifelong suppressed special interest) I felt like I was being super annoying to my partner and all my friends and went 'oh huh I wonder if there's a tennis fandom on Tumblr', and lo, there was a tennis fandom

There were people loving Sinner and Alcaraz and Federer and Nadal and Shelton and being excited and geeking out over the games. And there were slashers. Now, I'm a slasher. I have been writing fanfiction since I was a pre-teen, I have been writing slash fanfiction since my teens, and I have been posting said fanfiction online since my late teens. We're talking the 90s here people. (proud owner of an Anne Rice C&D dontcha know?) I've also been in as many, if not more, RPS fandoms than FPS ones. It's a hobby, I enjoy it. (There's only been maybe 2 RPS fandoms in all that time I actually believed in. Sincaraz is not one of them (although the more time I spend in fandom, the less sure I am about not believing the Fedal!) - but seriously, allow me to talk about how I do believe the Jack/Daniel and McShep or the Hardison/Parker/Eliot)

And so I was curious and I went onto AO3. I was... legit quite shocked by the amount of fic. I wasn't expecting it. I started reading. It was a lot of fun. My muse, Bob!, he is a fickle creature and he likes the pretty. He's decided Jannik and Carlos are his current pretty he wants to play with. I've written and posted more fic in the last two weeks than I have in months and THAT feels fantastic.

Although, having said that, I'm not actually physically/sexually attracted to either of them. You know why? Because they are literally over half my age. I think Jannik is cute as fuck and I'm currently at 'would kill to protect', I think Carlos has a... conventionally attractive physique and I do appreciate good strong shoulders/upper arms. I legit feel kinda dirty at times. But it's nothing more than 'aesthetically attractive', there's no... anything else. If nothing else, I'm queer so there's that! (There's a whole 'nother long post planned about being demi/ace, levels of aesthetically pleasing/pretty/attractiveness and what they mean).

TL;DR no, I don't think they're fucking, I adore them both as tennis players and people, I am loving the fandom around them, slash fanfic is fun. *gives all the love to the tennisblr, jannikblr and sincaraz peeps who've graciously welcomed me to the party over the last couple of weeks*

"If I load a headcanon where they've already been lovers in the past,"

Please share the past lovers headcanon?Season/episodes?

I didn't have anything specific in mind when I wrote that. I remember getting to the early season 8 episodes before actually thinking, "Wait...did Dean and Cas fuck in Purgatory?"

Then I got overexcited about Naomi brainwashing Cas and the meta-storyline and all the lovely hurt/comfort/whump/angst, and my slash braincell wandered off for a bit.

Season 9 pinged my slash radar too, human-feels!Cas and distracted!Dean, but that season could've been intentionally written to keep the two of them physically separated. It's like a season-long chastity belt!! Nothing a determined slasher can't overcome with tenacity and a Jedi handwave, spinning time for them out of a pause for breath in the narrative (9x03 I'm No Angel and 9x06 Heaven Can't Wait being obvious choices with a smidge of offscreen unaccounted-for time), but I'm still at the stage of noodling over why the Supernatural creators made that choice for their story and characters. Cuz it plays like they just plain got spooked by the 'profound bond', there (!).

If you like a canon-compliant fanfic setting (which I usually do), most of Supernatural is thin gruel as a setting for any sustained 'shipping - for any pairing. I can think of a dozen good moments where I could shoehorn in a feels-raw PWP without difficulty, but anything lasting and exploratory between them... They're just so ridiculously occupied the whole time!

I bet there's a ton of 5x04 'Endverse' Cas/Dean fanfic, because it's one of the few opportunities to really get stuck in for any sustained smutty storyline - to give them days/weeks/years to play with. And because those two were so very obviously doing the deep rugged nasty anyway, obviously.

Mr. Brownstone (Slash) Part I

It's been a month of craziness here in the island. I love the place, if only I could live here forever.

A lot  changed during our stay here like Katherine got knocked up by Steven, their affair started the night when Axl beaten up Slash and then that's it they are expecting a baby. We don't know what's the real score but Steven seems to care.

The band is on off tour that's why they are staying here and working on some new music too.

"Wes I didn't know you can cook?" I turn off the stove wipe my hands on my apron.

"Too bad, they didn't give me a chance to cook here."

Charlie is here in our place (that I share with Slash) for lunch. Axl and Slash went to L.A yesterday to attend some matters Charlie is feeling alone in their place so she is here.

I can see that they are so happy together especially Axl, he seems in a good place now. We also found out that they had a sex tape, the one Axl and Slash were fighting last month.

I don't know how Charlie handled the scandal but by the looks of it it didn't bother her.

"I just miss him." Charlie pouted. She is talking about  Axl. They were inseperable.

"They will be back tonight for sure."

I assured her. Slash said they won't be long.

"Yeah they better be cause I can't bear everytime I hear Steven and Kath fucking." We both laugh.

Now I know why Slash loves her.

She is bold and never backs down but she is dense and too inlove with the other guy.

I know that rock n roll involves drugs, I just never thought that it already get the best of some. I've seen paraphernalias in the bathroom and I know Slash is doing shots I just hope he won't take it too far. He's always high, I even wonder how does he deal with me or us everyday in that state.

"So how do you deal with Slash? He's the second one I wanted to kill after Axl."

We are in the Patio eating our lunch together.

"We're going along fine. He's funny and....well interesting."

Charlie looks at me unbelievably. "Ohh nice one even though he is a pain in the ass."

That's because he loves you.

Slash was high and drunk one time, he thought I was Charlie and just confessed to me his feeĺings. I was shocked at first cause Axl and Charlie is together now. The next day he didn't remember a thing but everytime he is drunk he keeps mumbling about Charlie. I wish I had a reason to hate Charlie because she is one of the reasons why Slash can't just stop the heroine and coke, but it is Slash's choice to fuck up his life. It just scares me that one day we'll find him dead in this place.

I care about Slash you know.

"He is really nice. If he is not just high always I think he is the most stable in the band." Charlie and I both laugh at my remark.

"I think you two will be a good pair." I almost choke to what she said. If she only knew that the guy loves her.

"Nah. I don't think so. Plus he likes someone already."

Her eyes widened. "Really? Why the hell he didn't tell me this?" Because it's you.

It was around 4 when Charlie went back to their place and I was left here alone again. I went to my room and retrieve one of Slash's bottle of Jack.

The villa is dead silent and it will be boring if I will drink alone so I bother the next door. Izzy's and Aimee.

Aimee is crazy is as everyone, just break in a little to her bubble and you'll see that side of hers.

"Too early for drink eh?" Aimee is the one who opened the door.

"I'm bored." She rolls her eyes.

"Come in."

She led me inside her place, I found Izzy in their living room strumming some chords in his guitar.

"Hey Iz, be a good friend and let's have some drink."

I sat on the single couch across him.

"God I am here in this place cause I want to lay off some booze so spare me."

I rolled my eyes and Izzy continued playing his guitar.

"Bummer."

Aimee went back with a glass and a coke. While Izzy left us and went to Aimee's room.

"Err- that's the first time." I said when he closes the door of Aimee's room.

"I don't understand him sometimes." Aimee shrugs off. I guess it's just Izzy's time of the month.

We shared the bottle of Jack Daniels and we drink our asses off until it is empty. I'll crash here later when I'm too drunk to get to my place.

Aimee keeps cracking corny jokes but I also find it funny.

"Shit this is so unlady like of us." Aimee said while wiping her tears from all the laughing.

"I have something for us."

She drunkenly stood up and pick out something from her bra.

"Ta daaaa."

I think I sobered up when I saw the cocaine and the fancy straw.

"What the fuck? Where did you get that?"

She swayed the object as if it's the most magical thing in the world.

"Well don't tell Izzy. I saw him doing this and you know why not try some."

Aimee hiccuped. She put down the drug on the table.

"God Aimee. Is this even legal?"

She rolled her eyes. "Duh we are in some remote island as if the cops will patrol here." Aimee made some line of the coke on the table and started snorting. I put my palm on my face. What are we getting into?

Aimee wipes her nose after and handed me the straw. "Your turn."

I look at the straw and hesistated.

"Fuck you Aimee."

I took the straw from her leaned down and tried snorting this white substance that is about to change my perspective of life.

"Yay!" Aimee jumps from her seat and bounce on the sofa. Damn she is already high.

I wipe my nose and stop myself from sneezing. I almost sneeze. The drug started it's effect. I feel dizzy all of a sudden, hell I could even hear my heart hammering down to my ribcage. It also started to feel hot and I could see fairies. Fucking fairies.

"Wes!! Wes!"

Aimee's words echoed to my ears, Jesus! Even Aimee has wings.

"Aimee you have wings! You have fucking wings!"

God this feel so good. Am I in fairytopia? Everything smells fruity and feels fluffy.

"Shit! We need to fly Wes! We're fucking flying!"

Now I know what Slash feels.

-

Izzy's POV

I heard a thud and some breaking outside. The two must be drunk already their laughter said so and I can't fucking concentrate on the technicals I'm doing. Axl wrote a song, me Slash and Duff are already working on the technicals but the two women outside is making it impossible because of their chattering.

Another crashing came from outside and I stop what I'm doing. That's it. They haven't eaten dinner yet the two of them are drunk already.

I unlocked the door and checked them in the living room, my eyes widened when I saw how messy it is but one thing caught my attention.

"Where the fuck did you get that?"

There were excess of cocaine on the table, it's a lot and a straw and already four bottles of Jack Daniels. Where the fuck did it came from? I thought they only drink one?

"Izzy, Izzy so easy!" Wesley sing songed. She look so fucking high and drunk. Her pupils are dilated and made her eyes all green.

"Wes, he had wings too! Fuck! It's the fairy godfather!"

Aimee caught me off  guard when she lounge her self to me causing us to fall on the floor.

"Jesus Aimee!" I held her waist to get her off me but the woman is heavy and stubborn.

"Aims! I'm flying to the sea!"

Wesley jumped from the couch and ran outside in her drunken state. God forbid what if she will get into the sea it's dark already.  Slash will kill me.

I helped Aimee first and made her sat on the couch. "Aimee. Stay here."

She nodded slowly and I ran after Wesley.

-

Axl and Slash just got back from L.A. and the place is awfully quiet. It's over dinner time so Wesley must be with the other girls, Slash thought . But he is wrong because she is running towards the beach and Izzy is after her.

Izzy look like he's chasing after his chicken escaped. Wesley probably didn't saw him and ran past him with Izzy yelling behind. He wanted to laugh because they look childish plus Izzy don't play childish games.

"Damn it Slash! She's high and she wants the beach fucking chase her!"

It didn't take him time to think about what he said and ran after Wesley who is already sprinting to the beach

"Wesley!!!" 

Slash managed to keep up with her and got her before she could step into the water. They both stumble and fall to the sand.

"Jesus I thought she's gonna drown."

Izzy also came running after him.

"A-aww!" Wesley remained lying on the ground but Slash pick her up and carried her bridal style to their place with Izzy following behind.

He place her on her bed and went back to Izzy who is waiting on the living room.

"What happened Iz?"

He is suddenly curious what they did the whole day that end up Izzy chasing her.

"They were drinking then they were snorting."

His eyes widen. He think he heard Izzy wrong. "What the hell?"

Izzy shook his head. "I think Aimee sneaked some from me then they used. I swear Slash it was a lot."

Damn these women gave Izzy a mini heart attack. He don't know if they already tried before but thank the heavens no one is dead and he is slightly pissed because Wesley is high. 

"You should take care of Aimee Iz. I'll handle Wesley."

Izzy's eyes widen. "Shit I forgot the other one! Goddamn these women."

Izzy ran back into their place. Maybe this is the reason why he didn't drink today and miraculously sober. He don't know how Wesley handles him when he is drugged up but he always woke up harmless.

Now he had to deal with her. He went back to her room and found her sitting on the floor.

"Wes, you okay?"

He asks. Wesley look up to him and held her both arms up.

Slash help her stand. "I think I'm gonna be sick."

She ran into the bathroom and vomits on the toilet bowl. Slash followed her.

Wesley is hugging the bowl as if her life depends on it. He helped her by massaging her back and held some of her hair that comes in the way.

"I'm not drinking again." She mumbles before puking again.

"Oh yeah? Tell that to Izzy." He clenched his jaw and stop himself from speaking.

Wesley stopped puking and leaned on him passed out.

"Hey pumpkin. We gotta clean you up first before sleeping."

He taps her cheek lightly but Wesley is dead at her feet.

Slash has no idea how to take care of a woman when drunk. It's always women who takes care of him when he is drunk and high.

"Shut up Slash! Go to Bed." Wesley mumbles.

Slash grins. This woman had no idea what she got herself into. Coke always fuck you out.

"Yeah I'll go to bed. But you need to clean yourself first."

Wesley leaned away and stand up. Slash thought she's gonna fall but the woman lie down on the bath tub.

"Fuck. Help me." This is a long night for Slash.

Chapters: 2/7 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Rape/Non-Con Relationships: Harry Potter/Severus Snape

Harrie Black, a 20 year old, Slytherin, Death Eater only asks one thing of her honored Dark Lord. That she may be in charge of the punishment of his favored Severus Snape.

Head's Up : mind the tags. This fic is darker and it has mature and explicit themes.