User blog comment:Adelina Le Morte March/Fanfiction Pains: annoying things I've noticed related to Merlin fanfics/@comment-5102537-20130125233445/@comment-5659316-20130126021128

Hey, Fimber!

Before I answer your comment, I just want to say thank you so much for the compliment on my blog posts. I'm glad somebody finds them actually interesting (I was wondering about that!). I also want to say thanks for always leaving such nice, equally interesting comments in response. I know we do not always see eye-to-eye, my enjoying seasons four and five of Merlin (with the exceptions of Herald of the New Age and Death Song of Uther Pendragon, both of which I find extremely poorly written, and living proof that somebody NEEDS to stop poor Howard Overman writing ANYTHING after watching the Sixth Sense! Ghost stories are clearly not the man's strong point, LOL), and you only liking the first three series (which I think we can both agree were AH-MAZING; hands down). You never put down my opinon, my liking episodes you clearly don't, and I strongly appreicate the respect.

I'm not a fan of fanfiction at all -I differ in that I have a very deep long-standing love of fanfiction. I agree that much of it is poorly written and -even though it's supposed to be against the rules on most fanfiction hosting sites- often bordering on (or flat out) porn, but fanfiction has also played a major role in making me the writer I am today. Fanfiction, long before I discovered Merlin, was both a friend and "comfort blanket" of sorts to me, and I got a lot of support, even when my first "scribbles" on there were full of typos, from the other users. For a young, geeky wannabe writer that meant an awful, awful lot, you know? Nowadays, I don't get as much time for fanfiction as I used to, but it's still my go-to project if I'm stuck or just need to exersice my writing in general. But, sadly, yes, fanfiction -in ALL categories- is also a hotbed for crazy, pervy teens to write nonsense. (As I mentioned in my post, most people writing explict or even "fluffy" -their word, not mine!- Merthur seem to be little girls younger even than I was when I discovered the magic of writing for the internet, and that's pretty dang disturbing.)

I'm kind of okay with Arthur/Morgana (only because Arthurian Legend DOES back it up or else in most versions Mordred wouldn't have been born and there goes half the plot... -and I admit Mists of Avalon DID sort of peak my interest the pairing a little in spite of my preference for Arthur/Guinevere in general), as long as it's not explict, but aside from that I don't like slash or incest pairings either.

Uther raping Arthur - Wait... WHAT??? Please tell me you did not base that comment on a real story you found! That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. In what world does a fanfic writer sit down and say, "Hmm, THIS is a good idea for a story..."? (blinks in horrfied shock.)

I'd like to read a story of yours if you don't mind -No, of COURSE I don't mind! I'm FLATTERED. I'm actually TWO fanfic writers (I have two pennames, only one of which is used for Merlin stories, partly because I have a friend on my other account who I'd rather not know I'm a fan of BBC's Merlin -for personal reasons, because we had a slight quarrel about 'glorfied magic in fictional works' and I really would rather her not start on me for liking the Merlin series in spite of my stand against other works that she finds similar). That said, I would be MORE than happy to direct you to my account on FF for doing Merlin related stories (I hope you don't mind Freylin, though, since quite a bit of it is pretty Freya-centric). Just go to my profile and there's a link already there (I go by Adelina Le Morte March on FF, too) for anyone interested in my stories to check out.