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Xena fic: "Craft Twined From Craft"
May. 20th, 2019 06:04 pmI wrote my first-ever Xena: Warrior Princess fic a few weeks ago, which is clearly a momentous occasion.
Title: Craft Twined From Craft
Fandom: Xena: Warrior Princess
Rating/Warnings: PG-13/T; dubious consent & mention of backstory non-consent, general concubine dynamics
Character/Pairing: Satrina, Xena, Borias, Xena/Satrina, Xena/Borias
Summary: Satrina is a consummate survivor. Xena is a new type of challenge.
Writing fiction has been very challenging for the past few years, really since I started doing social work full-time. I'm still untangling what's going on with that (I think it has to do with confidentiality, with keeping others' stories inside me, not mine to tell, and this subsequent protectiveness about my own), but I still want to write, and I am fighting to find my way back to it.
Which also means finding my way back to interacting actively in fandom. Xena is a slightly intimidating one to enter; it has such a long and developed history as a fandom, so different from my usual tiny fandoms around pieces of literature that have a history of adaptation, but not so lively and active a community. I'm trying to start with the types of things with which I feel most comfortable, which are these kind of short, character pieces about traumatized women. I love Satrina and, from what I can tell, the fandom doesn't.
I want to use this platform for fandom-related things, but I've lost the knack. LiveJournal felt different, and I was at a different stage in my life then; I was doing RP and all other sorts of things in which I have no interest now. What's working for any of you, my small but treasured circle? What's going well in your fandom life, in the platforms we now have?
Title: Craft Twined From Craft
Fandom: Xena: Warrior Princess
Rating/Warnings: PG-13/T; dubious consent & mention of backstory non-consent, general concubine dynamics
Character/Pairing: Satrina, Xena, Borias, Xena/Satrina, Xena/Borias
Summary: Satrina is a consummate survivor. Xena is a new type of challenge.
Writing fiction has been very challenging for the past few years, really since I started doing social work full-time. I'm still untangling what's going on with that (I think it has to do with confidentiality, with keeping others' stories inside me, not mine to tell, and this subsequent protectiveness about my own), but I still want to write, and I am fighting to find my way back to it.
Which also means finding my way back to interacting actively in fandom. Xena is a slightly intimidating one to enter; it has such a long and developed history as a fandom, so different from my usual tiny fandoms around pieces of literature that have a history of adaptation, but not so lively and active a community. I'm trying to start with the types of things with which I feel most comfortable, which are these kind of short, character pieces about traumatized women. I love Satrina and, from what I can tell, the fandom doesn't.
I want to use this platform for fandom-related things, but I've lost the knack. LiveJournal felt different, and I was at a different stage in my life then; I was doing RP and all other sorts of things in which I have no interest now. What's working for any of you, my small but treasured circle? What's going well in your fandom life, in the platforms we now have?
