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seekingferret ([personal profile] seekingferret) wrote2019-06-04 07:24 am
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10 years ago last week I went to see the Star Trek reboot movie and I went home and wrote fixit fic. I Hate That Vulcan was an immediate and nearly thoughtless response to how silly the technobabble was in that movie. The movie's main McGuffin was lazily tabbed "Red Stuff" and that made me so angry and I had to do something about it.

"I Hate That Vulcan" is not the first fic I ever wrote. I've written fic on and off since I was a kid, and at various points as a teenager I wrote and posted Star Wars fic online that thankfully is sufficiently buried that I can no longer find it on search engines. But "I Hate That Vulcan" is the first fic I wrote as [livejournal.com profile] seekingferret, and it is therefore an important milestone as the entrypoint into a fannish community that I am grateful to be a part of.

In honor of that decennial, I wanted to post the actual first fic I ever wrote, a Mighty Morphin Power Rangers AU I wrote when I was about nine years old. I found it in a pile of old papers sometime last year and have been waiting to post it.

I cannot make very much sense of it: Best I recall, I was enthralled with the Power Rangers show, which involved teenagers who piloted mecha shaped like dinosaurs, and I also had just written a report for science class about polar animals' adaptations for cold weather. Therefore I decided it would be cool if the Power Rangers could morph into polar animals. But not into mecha of polar animals! No, the Rangers seem to have morphed into the actual animals, and to have started behaving as if they were those animals. My favorite bit is the Penguin Ranger deciding not to fight but just to peck his enemies. I am simultaneously very charmed and completely embarrassed by my nine year old self. 9 year old Ferret was also struggling with how to balance the desire for storytelling with the even stronger desire to be HIGHLY SCIENTIFICALLY ACCURATE.

My other favorite part of the narrative is the end with the very obvious Gary Stu Orange Ranger, who has a mecha "with more power than all your north zords combined..." I'm a little sad I don't seem to have actually written any of the adventures of the Orange Ranger. Then, as now, I was better at ridiculous ideas than follow-through.



Scan of my Power Rangers fic
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[personal profile] grrlpup 2019-06-04 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
my favorite part was when Billy finished the fight with a flipper wack! Also impressed that the antagonists were stoats.
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[personal profile] kass 2019-06-04 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
As you know, my own nine year old has recently written his first fic, so I am delighted to see this evidence of your first foray into this realm! :-D
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[personal profile] bookherd 2019-06-05 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't understand exactly what's going on here, but I enjoyed reading it anyway! Kid interpretations of How To Write A Story are always interesting to me in their own right. I love that you included chapter headings for each "episode."

It seems very Animorphs-y. I'm guessing this predated them by a few years, though.
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[personal profile] lokifan 2019-06-08 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
the Penguin Ranger deciding not to fight but just to peck his enemies.

ADORABLE <333