Fanfiction to me, is like the fun colourful sprinkles on top of a cake; with coda fics and canon re-writes, there’s the chance for more than the show is able to give within the time span of the episodes. AU’s allow so much room for fun and exploration, to take these characters that we love and hate and love to hate and just drop them in an interesting scenario to see how they’d handle it. And of course, sometimes it’s just fun to use the characters we’re familiar with as a foundation to write – anything. […] I don’t think there’s enough minutes in the day for me to list all of my favourite parts of writing and sharing fanfiction; I’ve been doing this for over five years, and every day I find something new to love about it. I love the characters in all of their own ways, and writing them has helped me understand them to a deeper level. Writing AU’s allows the chance to spin an entire world with these same characters as the focus, to send them down the metaphoric rabbit hole and see what comes from it. Writing canon is an exercise in itself, because you have to stay relatively within the confines of the given canon, sticking to the characters and the world whilst still making it your own (which honestly helps with my university studies, a bonus above all bonuses).

Writing fanfiction has always been special to me because it was the place I really found my love of writing; fanfiction is the basis for everything, it’s what helped me figure out what I want to do for the rest of my life, it’s lead me to university and to impossibly special friends that I’d be lost without, and it keeps me sane when I need it the most. […] Fanfiction writing is, for me, one of the best forms of writing. and I am grateful beyond everything that I have the chance to do it.