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bunney, for linking to this meme.
Apparantly, I'm:
The Mindgamer
Everything is possible, nothing is ever really over.
Fanfiction is a creative outlet for you. You don't intentionally write it, it just happens. You find inspiration in several fandoms, but are not obsessed with only one.
You like to explore "what if" situations. What if this character had never made this very choice? What if this event had taken place sooner, never, elsewhere? What if these people had never met?
You are likely to write Alternative Universes, fan seasons or sequels and just follow your (sometimes pretty strange) plot bunnies.
So far, so fair enough. The 'what if...' thing is very true, I think, though I think I'm at least equally 'True Fan' - i.e. wanting to keep things canon, and having my main interest in character exploration. Actually, I think most of the time when I indulge in mindgames it's explicitly to explore characterisation. I did say that I didn't have a problem with other people reading slash and mpreg, though, so perhaps that disqualifies me from canon aspirations in this meme-setters view!
The meme results also include cute little graphs showing how your results compare with the maximum and everyone else's.
1) Mind Gamer 80%, higher than 83% of 'peers' (I'm not sure what they mean by 'peers', as I didn't fill in the statistical info at the end apart from my gender. But heck, it's not as if this is so very scientific!)
2) The True Fan 74%, higher than 65% of peers
Once you fall in love with a movie, book or TV series, you are loyal like an old dog. You take fanfiction quite serious and use it as a substitute after the canon ran out.
You are probably a walking dictionary of your favourite fandom and you are picky about what you write and read. The closer to the "real thing" fanfiction is, the more you like it.
You rather explore a character in all depth, see new sides and learn more about them than creating new characters or mix up the situations they are in.
Actually, I think all of this applies to me more than all of the 'Mind Gamer' description.
3) Barely FF 63%, higher than 70% of peers
I assume this is the option described in the 'all possible results' section as The Free Mind:
You never got really involved in the entire fanfiction thing. You are a passionate writer, and if you have an idea about a book, movie or TV series, you write it down. But you do the same with any other idea you have, and don't really seperate. You don't put yourself in the "fanfiction writer" box.
A lot [of] typical fanfiction archives and magazines are a mystery to you. You don't really get what makes people get too involved with certain fandoms or characters.
Your fanfiction is likely dominated by own characters, and you just use the general setting or theme to get inspired.
*nods* I've enjoyed writing OCs, but my main inspiration has been existing [minor] characters. And I've not had or developed as many original ideas as I'd like. And some fanfic trends are really a mystery to me! I totally get why people are involved with fandom though. (*pets addictive personality quirk*)
I do have an orginal idea in my head at the moment, but it's rather fuzzy - no where near the intensity of interaction I've felt with existing strong characters. And it's analogous to my creativity in other areas, come to that: in work situations, for example, I do tend to be better riffing off others' ideas and gaps in provision than coming up with something totally new.
3) Weirdo 57%, higher than 30% of peers
You are pretty weird. It's hard to put you in a box. On one hand, you might lean towards the bizarre subgenres; recklessly slash people with inanimate objects, create alternative universes where Harry Potter is a 7 years old girl named Annie and don't take fanfiction very serious. On the other hand, you might be a misunderstood genius that could write Tolkien, Roddenberry and Rice into the ground, and your ideas are simply totally ahead of their time.
However, the chances you're the latter are rather small.
Yikes, 70% of people are more weird than I am? But fair enough: Lily/Squid was never my thing.
5) Slasher 49%, higher than 26% of peers
You are very likely female, and you very likely examine characters for their "slashability". Though you insist that your stories don't circle around love and sex between attractive characters, they do.
It is also likely familiar to you that at a certain point in your story, a character (or more) discovers that he (and rarely even she) is gay, and starts a relationship with another character.
Your fanfiction meets the taste of many, especially if your pairing happens to be between two attractive males that are straight in canon.
You probably wrote something about Harry Potter falling in love with Draco Malfoy, Legolas starting a secret romance with Aragorn or Obi Wan being a sex slave of Han Solo. If not, you probably still consider to do it.
I score 49% on slash? Shows what slash-centric circles I hang out in, then - I'm sure I'd come out nearer 10% if compared against the writers I know! (I have written slash subtext, at least, and I do have a slashy plotbunny spinning wheels in my head, but as most of you know it's not exactly my focus.)
5) The Immature Kid 42%, higher than 47% of peers
You are the pain in the ass of every fanfiction writer - and reader. You don't care about canon, you happily write out of character, and the main focus is almost always on absurd, simple romances, or plain sex.
People get upset about things you never really thought about. Who cares how you spell the name of a character? And what does it matter that they can't have sex because one is an alien that is poisonous to the other's species, if they only look cute together?
You write for fun, and that's perfectly fine. But please, don't publish it on archives.
Well, at least this one comes out at the bottom of the list, and under 50% both for peer comparison and absolute score. But were this in any way serious I'd be a bit piqued at idea that I'm less mature than 47% of fanfic writers! Methinks that the people who write most of the dross on ffnet a) weren't honest with either themselves or the test b) didn't understand the questions and/or c) didn't know how to click a box.
I'd love to know how some of you score/would score yourselves against these categories. I'm not sure where darkfic would fit, for example - I assume somewhere between MindGamer and Slasher (at least in my corner of fandom).
bunney, for linking to this meme.Apparantly, I'm:
The Mindgamer
Everything is possible, nothing is ever really over.
Fanfiction is a creative outlet for you. You don't intentionally write it, it just happens. You find inspiration in several fandoms, but are not obsessed with only one.
You like to explore "what if" situations. What if this character had never made this very choice? What if this event had taken place sooner, never, elsewhere? What if these people had never met?
You are likely to write Alternative Universes, fan seasons or sequels and just follow your (sometimes pretty strange) plot bunnies.
So far, so fair enough. The 'what if...' thing is very true, I think, though I think I'm at least equally 'True Fan' - i.e. wanting to keep things canon, and having my main interest in character exploration. Actually, I think most of the time when I indulge in mindgames it's explicitly to explore characterisation. I did say that I didn't have a problem with other people reading slash and mpreg, though, so perhaps that disqualifies me from canon aspirations in this meme-setters view!
The meme results also include cute little graphs showing how your results compare with the maximum and everyone else's.
1) Mind Gamer 80%, higher than 83% of 'peers' (I'm not sure what they mean by 'peers', as I didn't fill in the statistical info at the end apart from my gender. But heck, it's not as if this is so very scientific!)
2) The True Fan 74%, higher than 65% of peers
Once you fall in love with a movie, book or TV series, you are loyal like an old dog. You take fanfiction quite serious and use it as a substitute after the canon ran out.
You are probably a walking dictionary of your favourite fandom and you are picky about what you write and read. The closer to the "real thing" fanfiction is, the more you like it.
You rather explore a character in all depth, see new sides and learn more about them than creating new characters or mix up the situations they are in.
Actually, I think all of this applies to me more than all of the 'Mind Gamer' description.
3) Barely FF 63%, higher than 70% of peers
I assume this is the option described in the 'all possible results' section as The Free Mind:
You never got really involved in the entire fanfiction thing. You are a passionate writer, and if you have an idea about a book, movie or TV series, you write it down. But you do the same with any other idea you have, and don't really seperate. You don't put yourself in the "fanfiction writer" box.
A lot [of] typical fanfiction archives and magazines are a mystery to you. You don't really get what makes people get too involved with certain fandoms or characters.
Your fanfiction is likely dominated by own characters, and you just use the general setting or theme to get inspired.
*nods* I've enjoyed writing OCs, but my main inspiration has been existing [minor] characters. And I've not had or developed as many original ideas as I'd like. And some fanfic trends are really a mystery to me! I totally get why people are involved with fandom though. (*pets addictive personality quirk*)
I do have an orginal idea in my head at the moment, but it's rather fuzzy - no where near the intensity of interaction I've felt with existing strong characters. And it's analogous to my creativity in other areas, come to that: in work situations, for example, I do tend to be better riffing off others' ideas and gaps in provision than coming up with something totally new.
3) Weirdo 57%, higher than 30% of peers
You are pretty weird. It's hard to put you in a box. On one hand, you might lean towards the bizarre subgenres; recklessly slash people with inanimate objects, create alternative universes where Harry Potter is a 7 years old girl named Annie and don't take fanfiction very serious. On the other hand, you might be a misunderstood genius that could write Tolkien, Roddenberry and Rice into the ground, and your ideas are simply totally ahead of their time.
However, the chances you're the latter are rather small.
Yikes, 70% of people are more weird than I am? But fair enough: Lily/Squid was never my thing.
5) Slasher 49%, higher than 26% of peers
You are very likely female, and you very likely examine characters for their "slashability". Though you insist that your stories don't circle around love and sex between attractive characters, they do.
It is also likely familiar to you that at a certain point in your story, a character (or more) discovers that he (and rarely even she) is gay, and starts a relationship with another character.
Your fanfiction meets the taste of many, especially if your pairing happens to be between two attractive males that are straight in canon.
You probably wrote something about Harry Potter falling in love with Draco Malfoy, Legolas starting a secret romance with Aragorn or Obi Wan being a sex slave of Han Solo. If not, you probably still consider to do it.
I score 49% on slash? Shows what slash-centric circles I hang out in, then - I'm sure I'd come out nearer 10% if compared against the writers I know! (I have written slash subtext, at least, and I do have a slashy plotbunny spinning wheels in my head, but as most of you know it's not exactly my focus.)
5) The Immature Kid 42%, higher than 47% of peers
You are the pain in the ass of every fanfiction writer - and reader. You don't care about canon, you happily write out of character, and the main focus is almost always on absurd, simple romances, or plain sex.
People get upset about things you never really thought about. Who cares how you spell the name of a character? And what does it matter that they can't have sex because one is an alien that is poisonous to the other's species, if they only look cute together?
You write for fun, and that's perfectly fine. But please, don't publish it on archives.
Well, at least this one comes out at the bottom of the list, and under 50% both for peer comparison and absolute score. But were this in any way serious I'd be a bit piqued at idea that I'm less mature than 47% of fanfic writers! Methinks that the people who write most of the dross on ffnet a) weren't honest with either themselves or the test b) didn't understand the questions and/or c) didn't know how to click a box.
I'd love to know how some of you score/would score yourselves against these categories. I'm not sure where darkfic would fit, for example - I assume somewhere between MindGamer and Slasher (at least in my corner of fandom).
