Well, I've never written fanfic about a 'living' show, but I've recently started reading DS9 fic and found it really weird, because the show hasn't been dead for very long yet and most of the fanfic that's around today was written while it was still runnning, so now there are all kinds of conflicts between canon and the fanfic. E.g. Odo and Kira are often brought together in fanfic - this happened in the show, too, but a lot later than in most of the fanfic, so now, knowing the rest of the show, I find it really difficult to read fanfic about Odo and Kira that has them a happy couple in, say, season three, when really it only happened in season six or five... I usually like fanfic that 'accepts' the whole of canon best - or sometimes Alternative Universes that are explicitely alternative... I think the best fanfic is only written after the 'death' of a show - if the fandom survives that death.
Posted on Aug 7, 2000, 12:45 PM from IP address 62.104.212.85