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efore. In terms of writing she echoes Dinah’s concerns about
characterizations and existing fanons:
The reason I don’t write Harry Potter or Popslash, aside
from friends if they ask me to, is because both of them are
fandoms that I feel like my characterizations would be
influenced by what’s there. I feel like my characters would
only be knock-offs of fandom characterizations already out
there. As far as popslash goes, I eventually caved in and
started liking the music, but originally I was only into the
fics…so I don’t know enough about the people to write
anything that’s in character.
Barb is an online lurker as well, and her main fandoms are Harry
Potter, and the TV shows The Sentinel (1996), Stargate(1997), Angel (1999),
and Buffy. She started off in Sentinel in 1999, and was reading in this fandom
exclusively for almost six months. Shortly before she left for a bicycle trip to
Europe around that time, she discovered The Highlander (1992) and branched
out into that TV-show’s fandom. In doing so she was following a set of fanfic
authors who had started off with Sentinel fanfiction, but then started to expand
their fandoms, “because if you have a good author who writes really good
fiction in one fandom, you will read her new stories even if they are in other
fandoms.” Barb finds the stories she reads mainly on several LiveJournals
which she, in her words, “stalks” (i.e. she has not put them on her friends’
list), as well as from specific author’s websites. She doesn’t frequent main fan
archives because the overwhelming percentage of the fiction archived there is
bad in her eyes. She also uses so-called rec pages, in other words human
filtration or fic recommendation pages. Frequently she will therefore read the
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