Public embarrassment meme

[vilakins]

Publicly embarrass yourself too!
Post your first fan fiction ever. C'mon, I showed you mine, now show me yours!

I've been writing since I started school, but fanfic? My very first fanfic was Vila Restal's Emails (first under "Humour" on this page), which I started writing while I was watching Blake's 7 reruns in 2001. Wow, 9 years ago! :-P They weren't quite the first published though. I think the first was one of these three very short ones, two written in response to a certain person's challenges on a mailing list, back when I was such a newbie I didn't realise that she was always asking bizarre questions (and still is though I kill-filed her long ago).

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[samantha-vimes.livejournal.com]

Hmm. That would be the Leela's TARDIS series, but what I have of it is in little newsletters in storage.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

So DW was your first fandom?

[samantha-vimes.livejournal.com]

Pretty much. I mean, I was keen on some SF and fantasy works before then, but it was my first opportunity to geek out with others in a recurring fashion, and deeply influential on me.

[ultrapsychobrat.livejournal.com]

My first story was before there were computers--actually, I think it was a poem. I'll see if I can dig it up.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I wrote a series of stories called The Adventures of Naughty Amelia when I was 6. They were what it says on the box: a very naughty girl who got away with doing a lot of mischief without there being any moral to the stories whatsoever. They were very popular with the other kids at school. I wrote a lot of other stories after that, including two novel-length ones complete with illustrations s at high school, but none of them were fanfic. That came with B7.

[azdak.livejournal.com]

I adored Vila Restal's Emails. I thought they were among the funniest things I'd ever read. They were a real eye-opener to me - up till then I'd thought fanfic was a poor substitute for the show. I'd had no idea that it could be so clever and so witty and so satisfying.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Awwww, thank you! [huge grin] I wrote those to cheer myself up during bleak season 4 and thought that maybe a handful of friends might eventually read them. They were so easy to write too, being all basically dialogue.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I remember them all, and they're lovely.

And I so know who you mean... I can't believe she's still going...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! They were fun to write, even though I didn't realise I was encouraging her. You'd think she'd have given up by now. I occasionally see her messages when someone replies to one, and they're the same sort of thing. :-P

[hafren.livejournal.com]

Well, the mailing-list person may have been a pain but at least now and hten, she did inspire something like this! I loved the way your fics redressed, for me, a lack of realisation, among many fans, that Vila was always the star...:)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

[laughs with pure delight] Why else was he in every episode?

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Those stories were the ones that compelled me to write my first fan letter to the author. I have them in hard copy just in case your site goes down before I do and you have nothing to be embarrassed about. they wre and still are womderful.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Really? Those silly short things? I remember you writing to me, but I thought it was about the longer stories I wrote later.

I've told Greg he has to keep my site going if I no longer am. A lot of the stories are also on AO3.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

No, as I worked my way through your site you got more coherent feedback from me but my first correspondance with you was about the e-mails. I think I gushed and babbled but I do remember saying how well I thought you had caught all of their voices but especially Vila's and possibly thanking you for not writing A/B centric fan fic. Much as I like them V+A or evan the occassional V/A are still my favourite combos.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ah, you meant the E-mails! I thought yo meant the three little stories. I've had so much feedback about the e-mails, and I loved writing those. I even gave Michael Keating a printed illustrated copy, but I'll be amazed if he even opened them.

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

I think my first fan letter was to executrix to say how well I thought she had caught Isherwood's voice for Wanderjahr (http://www.liberated.org.uk/1068wanderjahr.htm).

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

I know these! Always loved your sunny approach which is much needed with B7.
Ha. I do have one story, it was Star Trek TOS and a very typical one - however the language is not only embarrassing, it is a shame, I tried to translate it in English and...I think I can´t public it. Anyway, I haven´t had it in a PC, just hand written and then typed...too old, oh yes...
:-)Suddenly I feel like going and searching for it!:-)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Star Trek! Did you enjoy writing it? That's the main thing. What was it about? Perhaps your Czech SF friends you meet with would enjoy reading it.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Oh, I enjoyed it very much! I will try and find it and I might re-write it, I might make less mistakes now:-)
It is a typical story of a beginner: I wake up on board of the Enterprise and meet with my heroes...no MarySue, honestly!
Yes, I will try ro find it!:-)

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

I hadn't seen those before. I like them all, and the third one is especially neat. My favourite piece of dialogue from all three, because it's so delightfully cynical, has to be: "Or, as my people say, may all your thoughts be pleasant ones, and if not, may you cry alone and silently. Cally."

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I think I used the first one in my first B7 Christmas card.

I had another go at the three wishes theme with the genie-Blake-in-a-bottle one.

[nautile26.livejournal.com]

Vila's emails were the first fanfic I ever read. Having always been a Vila fan, they were a delight to read. It was through your stories that I found my way onto Livejournal and all the wonderful B7 fic that is out there.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Awww, really? I'm delighted that I was the cause of that. :-) And yay for more Vila fans. He appreciates them. :-)

[norda.livejournal.com]

Vila Restal's E-Mails were the very first fanfic I read in *any* fandom, and I re-read them at least once a year.

We've just started our own rewatch, and it has coincided with the finale of PROJECT RUNWAY here in the States. So far our household has made two B7/PR crossover commentaries.... one for Mr. Raiker when he gets blown into space ["I'm sorry, Mr. Railer, that means you're owt"], and one where Vila asks Cally's opinion of Vila's outfit. [The expression on Cally's face when she smacks Vila could almost have been that of Nina Garcia, one of the regular PR judges.]

We're going to have a B7/PR field day when we get to "Gambit", I am sure.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I had so much fun writing those, sniggering away to myself in my lunch-hour at work. Thank you!

I remember the first time I saw that, thinking that was rather harsh crtisicm of a fairly inoffensive outfit. ;-) I've freeze-framed that and Cally does look as if she's enjoying herself working out a lot of aggression on poor Vila. I don't know PR, but Vila and Avon are very much fashion victims in Pressure Point.

[corvuscornix.livejournal.com]

I love your humour (and envy you your wit!) Not that your serious stories aren't just as good, but just re-reading these short pieces had me in tears of laughter at several points just now... :-D

Like you, I've been writing other stories since I first learned to write, but I've only been writing fanfic since less than three years back, when I first got caught up in Doctor Who. Though I've just realised that the only story of any kind that I've actually completed in recent time was a short B7 piece, (only 200 words or so) written in direct response to 'Horizon' I think, on my first watching of the series. I hope that is a good sign for the other, longer thing I'm working on. (Though, with some regret, I've decided I won't be joining you for picowrimo this year though. Too much on my schedule this month. I might just manage the writing, but I'd be useless on the feedback.)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I like writing comedy and find it much easier than the more serious stuff.

You don't have to give feedback; just respond to what you get if you prefer. I don't even know what I'm writing yet. :-P