Anonymeme: Look into My Id
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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) seeellen_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.
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.
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Snickfic
Date: 2010-05-21 01:11 am (UTC)Re: Snickfic
Date: 2010-05-21 01:25 am (UTC)Re: Snickfic
Date: 2010-05-21 01:31 am (UTC)Eowyn_315
Date: 2010-05-21 01:31 am (UTC)Have at it!
penny_lane_42/Lirazel
Date: 2010-05-21 01:32 am (UTC)Re: Snickfic
Date: 2010-05-21 02:02 am (UTC)And I'm not sure that I could. Well, I'd definitely spot the Spike&Dawn friendship trend, but that's not especially pernicious or embarrassing, lol. But the way you wrote Seraph makes it seem very un-id!fic-like, because it's not needlessly self-indulgent, IMO. As someone who doesn't like mpreg, I didn't find myself thinking, "Okay, enough of this, let's get on with the plot already." Or maybe it's just that it's well written enough to disguise the idness. :)
Re: penny_lane_42/Lirazel
Date: 2010-05-21 02:04 am (UTC)Re: penny_lane_42/Lirazel
Date: 2010-05-21 02:30 am (UTC)Re: Snickfic
Date: 2010-05-21 02:42 am (UTC)Second, I suspect it doesn't hurt that your id and my id have a certain amount of overlap... :)
(I totally have an Icon of Id. From canon, even!)
Re: Snickfic
Date: 2010-05-21 02:43 am (UTC)Yes, I suspect that that is true....
(That is AMAZING.)
Re: Snickfic
Date: 2010-05-21 02:47 am (UTC)Re: Snickfic
Date: 2010-05-21 02:51 am (UTC)Re: Eowyn_315
Date: 2010-05-21 02:53 am (UTC)Hmm...
Re: Eowyn_315
Date: 2010-05-21 03:14 am (UTC)I think it might be that the passionate commitment to canon rules out any kind of kink that might be id!fic, y'know? Because it's all gotta be reasonable, logical, and in-character if I'm going to like it. Even Spuffy - I obviously ship them like woah, but I'm still pretty picky about what I like to read. Id!fic, it would seem, suggests that I'd read it no matter how bad, as long as it hits my kink, which is not the case.
Re: Snickfic
Date: 2010-05-21 03:16 am (UTC)That makes sense. I guess it depends on who you want your audience to be. I think a lot of id!fic is written either solely for the author's enjoyment, or for that group of people who share the same id kinks, and so there's no real effort to make it appealing to a larger audience.
Re: Snickfic
Date: 2010-05-21 03:17 am (UTC)Re: Eowyn_315
Date: 2010-05-21 03:20 am (UTC)I think you might be right. Makes sense to me, anyway. Darn you and your over-civilized tastes!
Re: Eowyn_315
Date: 2010-05-21 03:29 am (UTC)Sorry. I will try to be less of a buzzkill.
Interesting observation, though - my early fic was MUCH more iddy, IMO. This is the stuff that never got posted, mainly because I later thought it was extremely silly. But my initial instincts were much more in line with the collective fandom id (happy endings for Spuffy, fixing all the bad things like DT or "Chosen"). I'm not sure whether that shift is indicative of me becoming more civilized, or just more cynical, lol, but over time I have realized that I don't want those things at all.
Re: Eowyn_315
Date: 2010-05-21 03:36 am (UTC)angearia/Emmie
Date: 2010-05-21 03:46 am (UTC)Barb C/Rahirah
Date: 2010-05-21 04:13 am (UTC)(I have a good idea what my several varieties of id fic are, so I guess I want to see if they're as glaringly obvious to everyone else as it is to me.)
Deird1
Date: 2010-05-21 04:30 am (UTC)Re: Barb C/Rahirah
Date: 2010-05-21 05:12 am (UTC)Who gives a damn, anyway? Your id is my id, and I'm happy you're there to feed it.
Quinara
Date: 2010-05-21 06:27 am (UTC)Re: Barb C/Rahirah
Date: 2010-05-21 06:40 am (UTC)