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[kryptonitemonkey]

I have to wonder what binge-watching shows does to the creation of fanfic. I was just thinking about how I haven't had the desire to write any fic for a few years now, but there was a time when I really got into Smallville, with a few forays into generic Superman and Buffy. It's not like I don't watch shows anymore, far from it. But I mostly watch through the likes of Netflix and binge when I do. I can't help but think that it's easier to create when a show is still in flux. When you only get to see an episode once a week, there's a whole different feel to it. It gives you time to think about the given episode, for one. And wanting to know what comes next and having to wait, that absolutely would contribute to a desire to make it up one's self.

I think maybe watching in the slower manner also lets the universe sink in more, giving time to reflect and question. When I'm binging, I don't have much time to go, that was stupid, they should have done this, this, or that; neither do I have time to contemplate whatever direction could/should things go next. Nope, it's just on to the next episode. I think too that watching a show all at once, rather than as it slowly unfolds, makes events more solidified canonically in my mind, again because I don't have the time to question. It happened, now on to the next.

I'm sure not everyone feels this way, but I can't help but notice the signs in myself. But I also have to wonder how much of my desire to write fanfic was due to my age. I really was into the Smallville community and others when I was in my late teens and early twenties, times when I was in transition, hormonal, and going through lots of stuff emotionally. It's entirely possible that I connected in ways that I simply am less able to now that I'm more stable and have less desire to change things. I think I'm just more likely to accept things as they happen now, shrug, and move on with a story. That, or outright say it's stupid, I don't accept it, and move on.

Introspection can be fun sometimes.

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[phaea]

I have noticed the gay thing too, and that may even be why I didn't quite get into fanfic. I didn't stick with it long enough to find the good stuff, perhaps...

[kryptonitemonkey]

Any decent fanfic website will, thankfully, have categories clearly listed, so you can sort out anything you don't want to read. Then you just have to worry about finding something worth reading.