Anonymeme: Look into My Id

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The above title should be read in a suitably faux-German sort of voice.

penny_lane_42 recently wrote an intriguing post on id!fic. Basically, id!fic is fic that may or may not be reasonable, logical, in-character, or in any way good story, but that you eat up with a spoon anyway. So like narrative kink, only more so.

(For another fabulous post on fanfic and The Id (or at least a pop culture bastardization thereof) see ellen_fremedon's classic essay on slash, shamelessness, and the id vortex.)

Now, some writers embrace their id and write it all out there, and that can be a fabulous thing. Self-awareness FTW. But often when I'm reading a fic I find myself wanting to tap the author and say, "Pardon me, did you know your id is showing?"

So, a couple of us got to wondering what our fics revealed about us. Hence this anonymeme. Are our ids showing?

The Rules:
1. Comment as yourself, with your name/LJ-handle in the title of the comment
2. Link others to your link
3. Comment anonymously on others' ids, as revealed in your fic
4. Play nice!

ETA: Or, yanno, not so anonymous. Sign in or no; either is fine.

Comments

Re: Quinara

[stultiloquentia.livejournal.com]

I'm in ur stories, id-hunting...and I canna' find it. Oop, wait, there it--! Nope. Lost it again.

As far as I'm able to tell, you mostly work from the ego. You make me believe things about your characters' ids just fine (your remix draft comes to mind), but the id-ish themes across your body of work are so diverse that you yourself manage to stay behind the curtain.

Re: Quinara

[quinara]

I can live with that! :D It sort of harks back to something I was saying on penny_lane_42's journal, in that if I want to write something I tend to just write it (and I have a fairly varied repertoire of wants) - but I think you could add to that an ego-type impulse to make the story work somehow. With Positive Exposure, for example, I had the idea of Buffy as a minor celebrity for years before the fic managed to completely come into fruition. Hmm!