Thanks for your thoughts on this! My shipping preferences certainly have something to do with my RL. When I started in HP fanon as a student I wrote mostly about characters in their teens and early twenties, but now having graduated & become a faculty member I'm more interested in the teachers and adult characters, and questions of how they balance relationships with their work. I've also noticed myself using fanfic as an outlet for emotions I can't express in RL: when all around me is falling apart, I write escapist fluffy fic, but when all is well in my RL I write darker stories.
Lastly, sorry to hear the tenure process has been so grim for you, but I'm also (perhaps selfishly) a little reassured to hear it's not just me that finds it so isolating & depressing. Fingers crossed for you!
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Date: 2014-06-25 07:02 am (UTC)Thanks for your thoughts on this! My shipping preferences certainly have something to do with my RL. When I started in HP fanon as a student I wrote mostly about characters in their teens and early twenties, but now having graduated & become a faculty member I'm more interested in the teachers and adult characters, and questions of how they balance relationships with their work. I've also noticed myself using fanfic as an outlet for emotions I can't express in RL: when all around me is falling apart, I write escapist fluffy fic, but when all is well in my RL I write darker stories.
Lastly, sorry to hear the tenure process has been so grim for you, but I'm also (perhaps selfishly) a little reassured to hear it's not just me that finds it so isolating & depressing. Fingers crossed for you!