Great topic, Kathy.
As I alluded to on the other thread, I really couldn't say what my very first fanfic was. Well...actually come to think of it, just as I typed that I realised that it's not strictly speaking true.
The
very first LNC fanfic I ever read was a pen and paper zine that I bought from the author for a whole £3.00.
When I saw an ad for this zine (it contained a whole
one story btw - all of 42 pages) I snapped it up out of sheer despair.
But I don't really count that.
And, no, it wasn't worth the £3.00. Which is why I'm always especially keen to contribute as much as I can afford to the Annesplace and Fanfic Archive fundraising drives when they come up. All those stories and all for a lot less than that £3.00 it cost me for one medicore fanfic. Where else can you get value like that? <g>
The second LNC fanfic I read was within half an hour of finally getting hooked up to the net. It wasn't from FoLCdom. It was on a private website and was the most horrendous and appalling fanfic I've had the misfortune to read. Mercifully, I've tried to block it from memory, but I recall it was wildly OOC and wallowed in gore, death and destruction. I was desperately disappointed and threw it in the bin - was this what online LNC fanfic was going to be like? Where was the compassioniate Superman I knew? The waffs? The romance? The humour of the show?
Fortunately - ten minutes later I hit the Archive.
LabRat
