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MaineWriter:
I know that for many people, myself included, the presence of fanfiction in the BBM universe has been very healing. Prior to BBM I didn't have a good sense of how much fanfic was out there, although I had read, years before, some /slash with Capt. Kirk and Mr. Spock (Star Trek).

The first fanfic story I read was "Ennis: A Sequel" by tforster (there is a link on this board). I enjoyed it, but I didn't truly get "fanfic fever" until I read "Human Interest" by MadLori. That story pulled me in and I read almost the whole thing (when I started reading, she was very close to the end) in one marathon read.

Shortly after finishing HI, I started writing fanfic myself, which for me was the level I needed to move to in the BBM healing process.

Others, want to share your stories? Did you know about fanfic prior to BBM? What were the first couple of stories that you read? What is it about fanfic that helped/healed/hooked you?

Leslie

Scott6373:
As with Leslie, the first fan fiction I read was "Ennis".  I literally stumbled on it and didn't even know the genre existed.  I must confess, I had very mixed feelings about the genre and initially, the story.  I thought I was hardcore "you don't screw around with perfection" kind of guy, but then after joining this forum, I saw how fan fiction itself did more than entertain.  It seemed to allow people to express the deep feelings that Brokeback caused.

The next story I read was "Somebody New".  This was really an odd experience for me.  I didn't really care for it, but it is important to me because it was while reading this, that I began to think that I could (and maybe even wanted to) explore the possibility of writing one of my own.  Having never written any fiction, my natural apprehension, not to mention my low estimation of whatever talent I might possess, kept me from doing this.

Ok, so next up was "A Love Born From Steel".  I was really apprehensive about this story for two reasons:  The first one was that I realized I didn't really care for the AU (alternate universe) type of story (for the reason I stated above), and I was so disappointed in the writing style of "Somebody New", that I feared it would be similar.  Since I didn't really know Leslie at the time, I was approaching it with an unfettered view.  I was pleasantly surprised, and literally devoured the story.  It was around this time that I became more active here at Bettermost and discoverred chat.  Funny story...one day, the chatters in the FanFiciton room were doing their thing, and as I was new, I was not talking a lot, and also having a hard time understanding what the hell they were talking about.  It seemed they were disusing what they did and didn't like about other fics that were popular at the time, and what about them they didn't like.  Well, there was this reference to Ennis getting a pierced nipple.  In my still parochial view of what should and should not be done to Annie Proulx's characters, I said something like:  "What fool would do that to Ennis?"  Well Leslie...I still cringe when I think of that.  I guess I still owe you a drink for that one.

At this point I was sort of fan fiction-ed out.  I started reading "Lead Me To Your Door", and never finished it.  Since everyone here seemed focused on "The Laramie Saga" at the time, I thought I needed to read this thing.  I tried,,I really did.  But everyone was so far ahead of me, and I had read so much before that, as with "LMTYD", I just couldn't get into it enough to catch myself up.  I have the entire story now, and plan to start again at a more liesurely pace.

So...that's where I was when I decided to write my own.  If you have never done it yourself, you can't know how thrilling, and anxiety-causing it can be.  I don't think I'll ever write another large work...but with the addition of Leslie's "Drabblefest" thread, I have found a perfect outlet for the thing I still want to say.

That's it...story over...or at least this chapter.

Brokeback_Dev:
I didn't know anything about fanfic before BBM.  My first fanfic was Human Interest by MadLori.  I was active on the BBM Yahoo message board, and someone posted chapter 19 of HI.   I read it and was blown away.  It was unbelievably awesome, so I read the whole thing from start to finish.  I'm not sure how long it took me to read it, but i dont think she had finished writing it completely.   

I was also in touch with Ohiomyown from the Yahoo board, so i knew she had a fanfic in the works.  I saved some of her early ideas she kinda bounced off me before she wrote A Better Idea, but they are safe with me i will not share those early ideas.

My all time favorite is Mainewriters A Love Born From Steel and also its sequel Through the Veil of Time.  Leslie,  thank you so much for the printed bound copy of A Love Born from Steel.  You have no idea what it means to me.  I will always treasure it. 

I choose to read fanfics where Jack doesn't die.  I've read quite a few and will continue to read them as long as folks write them.  I have indulged in a couple fanfics where Ennis goes on after Jack dies.  None Ive finished though...

Brokeback Mountain has changed my life so much, I'm a hopelessly devoted Brokie.  Thank you all fanfic authors for keeping Brokeback alive.

souxi:
I,ve read lots of BBM fan fic stories and in my opinion, the best one ever is Somebody New. I bought the zine some time ago and I shall treasure it always. Lead me to your door was a masterpiece as well. Very clever of marakesh. HI and TCJ and of course ALBFS and TTVOT. As for cannon BBM  well the Laramie Saga obviously. I caught the last bit of BBM last night on sky and I shouted at Ennis, "go to Laramie and find Ellery". Maybe some day it will be filmed. Thats my two cents for what it,s worth anyway. :)

Shakesthecoffecan:
I had no idea that FanFiction even existed before BBM. I first saw "A Love Born From Steel" and thought, wow, can they do this? Is this legal? It put a few wrinkles on my brain.

So like Dev, I knew of Ohiomyowns "A Better Idea" and have relished installments of it, even seen a character appear with the same name as me. It is a story in which Jack does not die and in my one and only attempt at fanfiction myself, I wrote a short piece based on Ohio's story in which the truck Jack drove still has a flat tire and what happened to those involved. She posted it for me, and now I think about all the technical innacuracies,etc. in it, o-well.

Some of the others I have read about ennis picking up the pieces start out like they are going to really be something and then just peter out like the writer just lost interest. O-well.

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