COLOREDINK: ON BEING CONSUMED BY THE HANNIBAL FANDOM
In
conversation, coloredink is hilarious. We spent most of the hour
laughing about food, writing and fandom. She walked me through her
colorful fandom history, from her Sailor Moon fandom origins at ten, to
the start of her fan writing in the “vaguely medieval, anthropomorphic
animal world” of Redwall when she was a tween. She moved onto flash
fiction and “choose your own adventure” works in the Smallville fandom,
and then after being inspired by her college writing classes went
through a “David Lynch/Radiohead” phase of “in some cases unreadable”
Final Fantasy XII fiction. A few years on she landed in the fledgeling
BBC Sherlock fandom, and went on to create an impressive 54 works, or as
she corrects me when I misquote the number:
“I think that number
is a little bit inflated because I write the occasional DVD commentary.
Like the same fic, but with my comments in it. The real number is
probably closer to 45, which is still ridiculous.”
