Creeping Doom Callable

Well, I've lost my virginity. My fanfic virginity, that is.

For a long time I've...well, not really disdained it, but just never felt the urge to have anything do with it. I have zero interest in slash, since putting male characters into gay couples just doesn't attract me. (My matchmaking seems to be strictly het, and I am constantly bewildered at how it seems to be so strongly the other way in fanfic. But anyway.) Reading it doesn't really attract me, either, because I don't really like reading long stories online, and I tend to file fanfic writers into "People who probably need editors". Prejudiced of me, I know.

There's also the whole "completely unpublishable" thing. With rare exceptions, like those Star Trek anthologies they have these days, and any crossover fics torpedo even that slim chance. It's not like I'm working hard every minute of every day to get my stuff published--in fact I'm rather lackadaisical about the whole thing--but I do so little writing that, these days, I prefer to conserve it for things that could conceivable be published someday.

Then, a little while ago, merde posted something about an LJ community called ithurtsmybrain. Which specialized in generating weird, bizarre and random fanfic crossovers. I was intrigued. I checked it out.

The result, so far, was over 3000 words of crossover fanfic, actually posted and everything, written over two evenings. The pairing that sucked me in ended up being Moiraine Damodred/Spiderman, and I'm fairly happy with it. It could even continue, though I'm not sure I'll bother. I was also tempted by Superboy/Kristine Kochanski, Lyta Alexander/Beka Valentine, and the vampire Lestat with either Ringo Starr or Illyana Rasputin. (Just thought--shouldn't she have been "Rasputina"?)

That said, there is one other sort of fanficcy kind of thing which I've also started writing a little bit of. I'm keeping it fairly peripheral, so that I could detach it from the fandom if I wanted to. Basically, with all the Harry Potter I've been submerging myself in recently, it occurred to me at one point to wonder how wizards would go to the moon...