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RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 15, 2021, 09:46:51 PM ---All fair points. I wonder why it's "team dark" that's stuck around more. Is it just the "harder to write romance about married dudes" issue? I don't think I could write about the kids... Too much.
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Maybe? Or maybe it's because the more "normal" people who wrote light, fluffy stuff have moved on from the fandom and are either writing other things or not writing at all anymore. Meanwhile, the weirdos like me are still skulking inside our fanfic bubbles, writing depressing stories about the Backstreet Boys. LOL
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 15, 2021, 09:44:29 PM ---Our conversation in Tracy's update thread gave me another idea for a question.
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We gotta stop having great discussions in Tracy's update thread. lol
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 15, 2021, 09:41:15 PM ---That is true; those years were when AC was at its peak! I guess we found solace in fanfic. I think fanfic is also what helped get through the hiatus between Black & Blue/Chapter 1 and Never Gone. Other than Nick's solo album, there wasn't much BSB stuff happening, but there were a lot of great fanfics being written.
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They weren't doing things, but they could do things in fanfic! That's probably why: ktbspa by keeping them busy in our hearts.
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 15, 2021, 09:44:29 PM ---Looking back on your own experience reading and writing fanfic, were you more active and involved when the Boys were also active, or did you tend to read and write more when there was nothing happening in the real world of BSB? Why do you think that is?
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:shrug: I want to say that them doing things is inspiring, but then I didn't open any writing after the residency or the first DNA tour concert or even back in 2010 for the TIU tour. But Never Gone was really inspiring and... what was going on in 2006? House of Carters... Nick on DWTS... AJ on DWTS when Nick was on Masked Singer... The perfect storm I needed to come back, really.
I think maybe I feel more drawn to it when they seem omnipresent like the good old days of 90's BSB. Social media isn't quite the same for me even though they're accessible all the time in small pieces.
But then sticking to writing, I think that happened in the times they haven't been busy. Again, maybe it's a way to make them feel omnipresent. I'm not really sure.
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on February 15, 2021, 09:50:40 PM ---Maybe? Or maybe it's because the more "normal" people who wrote light, fluffy stuff have moved on from the fandom and are either writing other things or not writing at all anymore. Meanwhile, the weirdos like me are still skulking inside our fanfic bubbles, writing depressing stories about the Backstreet Boys. LOL
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Did that make me more "normal" while I was gone because I "moved on"? Perish the thought! Team Dark forever! You're not skulking, you're thriving -- a Team Dark Queen!
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 15, 2021, 09:59:37 PM ---They weren't doing things, but they could do things in fanfic! That's probably why: ktbspa by keeping them busy in our hearts.
:shrug: I want to say that them doing things is inspiring, but then I didn't open any writing after the residency or the first DNA tour concert or even back in 2010 for the TIU tour. But Never Gone was really inspiring and... what was going on in 2006? House of Carters... Nick on DWTS... AJ on DWTS when Nick was on Masked Singer... The perfect storm I needed to come back, really.
I think maybe I feel more drawn to it when they seem omnipresent like the good old days of 90's BSB. Social media isn't quite the same for me even though they're accessible all the time in small pieces.
But then sticking to writing, I think that happened in the times they haven't been busy. Again, maybe it's a way to make them feel omnipresent. I'm not really sure.
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That all makes sense!
Personally, I think my level of involvement with fanfic and the fandom in general has more to do with what's going on in my personal life than what's going on with the Boys. There are only a couple of times when I've taken an extended break from writing. The first was when I was getting my master's, fall of 2013 to summer of 2016. I still wrote and updated during that time, but I was only really productive during winter and summer break, and then I would go weeks or even months without writing or updating while I was busy with work and class.
The second time was a shorter hiatus in 2018. My laptop died like a day into the new year, which derailed me because it made it much less convenient to write. Then my cat died unexpectedly a few days later, which absolutely destroyed me because my pets are like my babies. I don't think I wrote much of anything until summer. By then, "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" had come out, and that got me inspired to try my third attempt at starting the story that would become A Heart That Isn't Mine. Weirdly enough, what really got me going on that one was my grandpa dying in November of that year. I decided to channel my grief into writing the most depressing, depraved thing I have ever written, and it worked! But I didn't stat posting that story until 2019. The only thing I posted in 2018 was a sneak peek of My Brother's Keeper (which I then promptly stopped working on until a week ago LOL) and a death for 1000 Ways to Kill Nick Carter.
As far as the Boys go, I have written through good times and bad. The pre-Never Gone hiatus was the Broken era for me, which is one of my personal favorite eras of fanfic. The summer Kevin left was in the middle of the BMS era, and then this forum and 00Carter came about, so that was a good time for fanfic too. But then I also was super productive during the summer of sadness, 2010, when the This is Us tour was in full swing, and the Boys had been really busy releasing two albums two years apart. So I guess it doesn't really matter what they're doing; I'll write either way if I have the time and am in the right state of mind to do it.
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on February 15, 2021, 10:02:35 PM ---Did that make me more "normal" while I was gone because I "moved on"? Perish the thought! Team Dark forever! You're not skulking, you're thriving -- a Team Dark Queen!
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LOL Probably! Welcome back to the land of the fanfic freaks! I embrace my weirdness the way I embrace my darkness.
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