I just realized that I seldom write/read fanfiction of books, and when I do, it's because they've been adapted to multi-media. Like, when I was into the LoTR and Hobbit fandoms, my baseline was the movies. When I got into Hannibal, it was because of the TV show. Harry Potter--the recent video game. Even my most recent story, set in the Song of Ice and Fire, is based on the series.

The only time I've had the book-version in mind, was when I was looking for stories on Arya/Jaqen H'ghar.

Everything else, I imagined the assets and events used in the shows/movies.

It's the same with drawn media. Manga and comic books don't inspire the urge for fanfiction in me, but anime and movies do. I had no interest in reading Marvel fanfiction until the movies came out. I only got interested in fanfiction for Haikyuu, One Punch Man and Chainsaw Man when I saw the anime.

The type of media I tend to write for is video games and the ones I read from are TV shows. I have no idea why, but I just thought it was interesting how certain media can make my brain latch onto the IP more creatively than others.

How about you guys? Any media preferences as well or maybe you have other factors in play?

Hi there! So I'm two weeks in to kbin and I think I have a layman's understanding of the fediverse, but I'm still not the most technical person, so I thought I'd just post my questions here.

So I know "fediverse" stands for federated universe, so does "kbin" also stand for something? I tried checking the FAQ but the about page just tells me it's a link aggregator, and google links me to a Japanese manufacturing site or those birth name meaning/ancestry sites. (can anyone tell me if lemmy also stands for something or is this just a word the developers came up with?)

Regarding defederation, does it affect previous posts? If there's a thread with comments by multiple people under different instances, does defederating break the chain?

In fact who "owns" a thread? Like, in which instance is it stored? If someone posts on kbin, and people from lemmy and beehaw comment on it, does kbin "keep" all of those stored away or do they stay in their respective instances?

And am I correct in thinking that instances who defederate essentially block off an instance, but that instance can still see their posts, but not interact? ie. Instance A defederates from B, so they can't see/interact with B, but B can still see A but not interact with them? Or is it a mutual blocking? Ergo they both can't see nor interact. I know beehaw defederated with lemmy recently, so...?

The whole concept of defederating is just so interesting to me. I know I have to read more about it but those were mostly my main questions.

I thought it might be a little fun to discuss how we first got started with fanfiction. How were you guys introduced and what made you write your first story?

I got introduced to the whole concept of fanfiction when I was ten, and my best friend at the time actually showed me her notebook, where she had written a Final Fantasy VIII fanfic. It blew my mind! I never thought that was a thing people did.

I eventually learned about Fanfiction(dot)net, and I remember printing out pages and pages of fanfiction to read, because the internet wasn't as ubiquitous then. (I printed in colored ink and the smallest font, back to back, with 0.5" margins--a weird effort to conserve paper and black ink XD)

As for my first story, well, I always had stories running in the back of my mind growing up, but I never bothered to write anything down. It would take a few more years before I finally gathered the courage to write up a story. I remember my first fic was a Fire Emblem 7 story.

It had all the cringy tropes of a fanfic written by a teenager. It had a Mary Sue heroine. It was melodramatic as hell. I used 'orbs' for eyes and hair color for identifying epithets (I still do, YOLO XD). It had a 'disclaimer' in the very beginning and awkward author's notes. Best of all, it stayed incomplete.

I love it. I still read it when I need a good laugh.

So how about you guys?

(Sidenote: this is my first time posting on kbin, so I don't know if I'm doing this right. Feel free to let me know how to post better?)