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Question of the day part 10
Rose:
I don't mind the idea of a disability trend lol. More torture for the Boys though I'd sift through till I found the good ones.
--- Quote from: mare on July 27, 2013, 05:36:05 PM ---Do you feel like you ever started your own trend? Or written something unique to the fandom that had never been done prior to yours?
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Honestly I feel like I'm tooting my own horn but I'm trying not to, in saying I think I did this twice. The first time was with Julie, When "Song For The Undead" started getting popular we saw a couple zombie fics (though they didn't last long) pop up afterwards. It was a little annoying in a sense but flattering at the same time. Because zombie stories aren't unique in general obviously but you don't ever see them in this fandom.
As for something unique, it didn't start a trend (not sure it could lol), but I feel I did that with "Remember Me This Way". No one had ever considered giving one of the Boys something like Early Onset Alzheimer's to strike in the prime the way I did. That's actually part of what scared me when I wrote the chapter revealing it. Because it was definitely brand new to the fandom. I'm proud of myself for not only coming up with it but doing my best to tackle my nerves when I wrote that story.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 27, 2013, 11:40:02 AM ---Since a lot of ye have listened to the new album already and the rest of us will be soon, I have a question about that.
When a new album comes out, do ye find yerself getting inspired by the new music and developing story ideas based on the new songs or wanting to incorporate them into yer current ones?
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Sometimes. I don't write many songfics, but several of the songs on Never Gone inspired ideas for By My Side, which I was writing at the time. I probably should have exerted a bit more self-control when it came to actually using them, but it is what it is LOL.
I tend to go the opposite way and come up with an idea first, then find a song that fits it to use for a title or just to set the mood while I'm writing. I did that most recently with Unsuspecting Sunday. The song Unsuspecting Sunday Afternoon didn't inspire the story, but when I was trying to think of a title, I thought of that song, and the lyrics fit surprisingly well, so I went with it.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 27, 2013, 11:51:20 AM ---So the drama whore in me couldn't help but notice there are at least three stories on the Most Recent page right now which have Backstreet Boys in wheelchairs (or who probably will be in wheelchairs once they wake up from their comas... and in that case, make it four!), and I wondered if this is the start of a new trend or something. What do ye think? Are ye on board for a disability fic trend?
What are some other trends ye remember from yer years of reading, and which were yer favorites?
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I am totally on board for a disability fic trend because 1) it's angsty, and 2) it's different from what's usually on the Most Recent page. Like Mare said, it is something that has to be done well, and I have read that storyline done well, but that's not to say I wouldn't want to read another if it were well-written.
Other trends I remember... When I started reading fanfics in 1999, it was all girl band stories and stories about Brian's heart. I read tons of those! I also remember several stories about Nick either having an eating disorder or being on drugs around the turn of the century. Then came the bus/car crash stories and kidnapping/hostage stories, and that was a great era. The solo female opening act storyline has always been another popular one and probably got even more popular as pop music changed and the girlband stories died down.
There was also a time in maybe the mid-2000s when vampire stories were really big. Weirdly enough, that was pre-Twilight. I haven't seen many of those lately. I guess we were ahead of the times on that one!
Slash and visuals seemed to be bigger back in the day than they are now, and I remember the fetishy era Mare was talking about, too.
The last couple of years, it's seemed like stories about fictional relatives/children have been big on AC. Like all trends, this stuff must go around in circles because the long-lost sister storyline was another popular one I remember from the early days, as was the love child the Backstreet Boy didn't even know he had fathered until it was left on his doorstep storyline.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on July 27, 2013, 05:36:05 PM ---Do you feel like you ever started your own trend? Or written something unique to the fandom that had never been done prior to yours?
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I don't think I've ever started my own trend. I have definitely followed some of the ones I mentioned - heart problems, bus crashes, car crashes, kidnappings, girlbands, solo acts. I even have a vampire story, a slash, and a long-list sibling story, so I've pretty much done it all! Maybe I should jump on this wheelchair bandwagon because that is one thing I have actually never done, permanently paralyze a Backstreet Boy. I gave AJ a spinal cord injury in my bus crash story back in the day, but he got better. LOL
The only thing I've written that was truly unique at the time was, as Rose said, Song for the Undead. As far as I know, no one had done a zombie story in our fandom before that one. I know there has been at least one since, but that's not exactly starting a trend. Still, it's nice to know we were the first, especially since zombies are so big right now.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: Rose on July 27, 2013, 05:56:28 PM ---As for something unique, it didn't start a trend (not sure it could lol), but I feel I did that with "Remember Me This Way".
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Wouldn't that be funny if it HAD started a trend? LOL!
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