Flights of Forgotten Fanfic
Feb. 1st, 2023 11:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhodrymavelyneMemories of fanfics unfinished come flooding back. Two things brought this on.
One was watching Interview with the Vampire and seeing Rae Dong Chong’s name in the credits. I remember her appearances on Highlander and Poltergeist the Legacy, but I also remember her sister, Robbie Chong. I remember how she played Alex on Poltergeist the Legacy, a character I was always hoping would get a more active part.
I had all these fanfic ideas for Alex and Kristen. I imagined the two of them in the Legacy library, talking and flirting about various varieties of vampires, contrasting them to the vampire Alex almost became. I imagined Kristen shooting herself up with a compound which was the reverse of what Giles used on Buffy to take away her powers, pretending to be a Slayer. I imagined a huge crossover where Alex drew on her vampire powers and went to ‘Salem’s Lot, pulling rank on the local vampires, pretending to be a representative of the Authority (a True Blood reference). I imagined Alex finding out that Kristen had died in other places, only she’d had a different name. One of those was Hallie Stokes and she’d be Faith’s former Watcher. (This references Dark Shadows and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.) The whole mystery would involve the cloning conspiracy from The X-Files and Colonel Grace from First Wave.
I wrote huge fragments for this overall story, but I never posted them. Nor did I turn them into a coherent whole.
Why am I remembering this now? What is the second thing which brought back these memories?
My fifty-first birthday. It’s fast approaching. It’s a remind of how much I haven’t done, how much I have left to do, and how little time I have to do it.
I haven’t even thought of this fanfic in years. It’s not one of the ongoing stories in progress I’m posting on Archive of Our Own. There’s a whole bunch of fanfics I’ve written parts of, but I’ve never posted. Considering that More Than a Jinrou and Sisterhood of the Witchblade are unfinished, I wasn’t sure if I should post anything else unfinished.
I’m just talking about the fanfics. This doesn’t count the many original stories I’m juggling, trying to finish.
So little time. So much to write.
Better get back to work.
One was watching Interview with the Vampire and seeing Rae Dong Chong’s name in the credits. I remember her appearances on Highlander and Poltergeist the Legacy, but I also remember her sister, Robbie Chong. I remember how she played Alex on Poltergeist the Legacy, a character I was always hoping would get a more active part.
I had all these fanfic ideas for Alex and Kristen. I imagined the two of them in the Legacy library, talking and flirting about various varieties of vampires, contrasting them to the vampire Alex almost became. I imagined Kristen shooting herself up with a compound which was the reverse of what Giles used on Buffy to take away her powers, pretending to be a Slayer. I imagined a huge crossover where Alex drew on her vampire powers and went to ‘Salem’s Lot, pulling rank on the local vampires, pretending to be a representative of the Authority (a True Blood reference). I imagined Alex finding out that Kristen had died in other places, only she’d had a different name. One of those was Hallie Stokes and she’d be Faith’s former Watcher. (This references Dark Shadows and Buffy the Vampire Slayer.) The whole mystery would involve the cloning conspiracy from The X-Files and Colonel Grace from First Wave.
I wrote huge fragments for this overall story, but I never posted them. Nor did I turn them into a coherent whole.
Why am I remembering this now? What is the second thing which brought back these memories?
My fifty-first birthday. It’s fast approaching. It’s a remind of how much I haven’t done, how much I have left to do, and how little time I have to do it.
I haven’t even thought of this fanfic in years. It’s not one of the ongoing stories in progress I’m posting on Archive of Our Own. There’s a whole bunch of fanfics I’ve written parts of, but I’ve never posted. Considering that More Than a Jinrou and Sisterhood of the Witchblade are unfinished, I wasn’t sure if I should post anything else unfinished.
I’m just talking about the fanfics. This doesn’t count the many original stories I’m juggling, trying to finish.
So little time. So much to write.
Better get back to work.
