I've just discovered unpub_ficrants on Livejournal. It's so fun! XD It's basically a daydream community--what if your stories and books were published, and fanfiction was written for it? What would happen? What would you get sick of seeing really quick?

I've been a member less than a day and already, two rants about Carpe Noctem. XD

Carpe Noctem is my pet project. It's constantly changing and growing. It originated in a dream--a handsome, mysterious vampire showed up and started following me around for several dreams from about 2000-2003/4. So I thought it'd be fun to write a story about it. It's gone through several incarnations, from a superhero-style series where Seth is an antihero who's only protecting humans because they're his food to its current incarnation, wherein Seth is a hitchhiking vampire who hooks up with two hippies who live in a Microbus.

I get the feeling, though, that if it were ever published, I would soon have a flat forehead from bashing my head on the esk in frustration... because, Dear Lord, fanfiction.

I love fanfiction, don't get me wrong--I write a lot of it, read a lot of it. But some of it is the most gawd-awful mess to ever be committed to print medium. It makes Anne Rice look like bloody Shakespeare.

I especially fear what Mary Sues and songfics they would attract... XDDDDD