oh, we're absolutely up for stuff other than porn at ficathon_de, and would be happy for topic ideas and stuff. (I'm still all for a fluff challenge, but haven't managed to convince anyone else, yet...) lenija is still busy with finishing uni and all that, but peaches and me shoudl be available for cooperation. :)
that said, what you wrote about the double-fandom ness seems familiar. I read MangaSzene rather than Animania (it was probably just later...), discovered fandom via animexx, and then delved into the depths of originalbishounen.de, as yaoi.de was for anime/manga at that point and I was never really into the fandom aspects of any manga/anime.
by now, i hardly read any german fanfics, unless they turn up on my flist, or someone recs them. I haven't really written fic in a while, but even though i usually loved writing in German, and did so often enough in the Potter-fandom, I don't think it's something I'll keep up now that I'm in a largely english-speaking fandom. (bandom) Plus, hearing all the interviews in english, the one or two times I tried writing a bit in German with the characters just wouldn't work. The dialogue was all wrong...
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that said, what you wrote about the double-fandom ness seems familiar. I read MangaSzene rather than Animania (it was probably just later...), discovered fandom via animexx, and then delved into the depths of originalbishounen.de, as yaoi.de was for anime/manga at that point and I was never really into the fandom aspects of any manga/anime.
by now, i hardly read any german fanfics, unless they turn up on my flist, or someone recs them. I haven't really written fic in a while, but even though i usually loved writing in German, and did so often enough in the Potter-fandom, I don't think it's something I'll keep up now that I'm in a largely english-speaking fandom. (bandom) Plus, hearing all the interviews in english, the one or two times I tried writing a bit in German with the characters just wouldn't work. The dialogue was all wrong...