amathela | Fic remix

Everybody has different thoughts on remixing, I suppose. Some people are against it; some people are touchy about it, even if they're for it. I know that most people are heavily attached to what they write, and that remixes are a fairly personal thing; a remix that the author doesn't like - that interprets the story differently, that presents it in a different way, that's a different genre, has a different ending, a different message, or just that isn't to the author's taste - can feel like a rebuke. Somebody has taken something of yours and made it something you never intended, something you don't want it to be. And I'm not saying that those people should get over it and stop being so precious, especially if they volunteered their fics for remixing but I might be thinking it. Personally, I'm a huge fan of remixing, in any form, and with any outcome. And, short of a remix explicitly and intentionally insulting me or my fic, I can't see myself ever feeling negatively towards it.

Of course, that's all very easy to say in theory; but, like most things, you never really know how you're going to feel about something until it actually happens to you.

... which is all a long way of saying that one of my fics has been remixed.

fatalnocturne wrote a remix of Normal Again for

remixy_things, and it's excellent. In fact, I love it more than I ever thought I would; the fact that somebody chose to remix me, that something within a fic I've written resonated with somebody strongly enough to merit a response, it immensely flattering. And, apart from that, the remix itself is excellent; it's posted here, and I'd definitely recommend reading it.