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nostalgia-tblr · 2 years ago

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hey remember that old livejournal meme where you were to write a "commentary" for one of your own fics and someone would inevitably request one for something you wrote a few years previously and when you read it over again you're like "I have literally no memory of writing any of this" and you were like oh no do I just make shit up that sounds good or do I turn in many italicised lines of "I don't know what this bit means. Or this bit. That joke's quite good but I have no idea how I thought of it"?

#fanfic stuff #ye olde livejournal days of yore #it was a good meme in *theory* just it assumes the author knew WTF they were doing in the first place #which i generally don't tbh #now i am wondering about the things pro writers have said about their works - did they make it up after the fact?!#see also - old skool Dr Who DVD commentaries when it was 50 years ago and nobody remembers anything about the production #(we're just here for the weird shit they say like when tom said he should have married mary instead)#perhaps the curtains ARE blue for a reason but i think it's a bit much to expect the author to remember that fact even a week later

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