aubreym | Fanfic and Pairings

[Error: unknown template qotd] I wouldn't go so far as to call myself a 'shipper. I have pairings that I like, but I don't feel like they are the One True Pairing. A few of my guilty (and not so guilty) pleasures:

From Buffy and Angel:
    Spike/Willow
    Spike/Xander
    Spike/Wesley

From House:
    House/Wilson

From Lord of the Rings:
    Legolas/Elrohir

From Pirates of the Caribbean:
    Jack/Will

From Tombstone:
    Doc Holliday/ Wyatt Earp

I've been thinking a lot about fanfic lately - longing to write some again. I've been missing my fanfic writing buddy

mellymalthen as well. I've got several fics in progress, two from LotR, one from Pirates of the Caribbean (which will probably never be finished). I have a Spike/Xander plot bunny that's been nibbling the edges of my brain for months. And I've got a random Ed Vedder fanfic started as well. Shh, that's even more embarrassing than the rest, though I don't know why. After all, I've written band-fic since before I knew what fanfic was. Some of my earliest forays into writing were stories I made up about Jon Bon Jovi adopting a little girl. Yeah, they were *horrible*. I also wrote Sherlock Holmes fanfic, North and South by John Jakes (I was in love with Patrick Swayze, what can I say?) fanfic, and -once- Thundercats fanfic. I'm blushing as I type.

There's something freeing about writing fanfic. Maybe it's the knowledge that whatever I write will never be publishable, since the character's aren't mine. Or maybe it's the instant gratification of being able to make these pairings work, make them plausible even if they're something the original creator never intended.