Yes, after spending my final two years of high school drawing (horrible) comics that didn't stop for the entire following full year, i began writing one in the spring of 2007 and it got interrupted at late 2008 or early 2009 for both self cringe for what they were and more time needed to pass at my job (and different other interests...) Don't even want to try to come back to read it at that internet site (if it still exists), nor i want to find it on hard disk storage and blank cds i saved from back then.
This fanfiction was just a story about a uprising (even if crippled and with mental problems) basketball player starting from his teen years in the late 90's, struggling with celebrity that he didn't want, and trying to find a second plan in life if the professional hoops player career wouldn't have become a thing. It was obviously very inspired by my experiences from junior high (1997-2000) and high school (2000-2005) but the main character was a fictional one as they were the two most other important people too, so all in all it was a slice of life story with popular media from the y2k times and following years as a background. For example, the main cast watches Cowboy Bebop on a weekly basis 'cause it was aired for the first time on italian television from late 1999 to the spring of 2000, and if i remember correctly, that's more of less the point when i stopped writing everything, before what would have been the recreation of my real life 4-days school trip from 29th of may to the 1st of june of 2000, including the characters singing The Bad Touch by the Bloodhoung Gang in the Eiffel 65 remix, All The Small Things by Blink 182 or Otherside by Red Hot Chili Peppers, while playing the first generation of Pokemon trading cards or some of the later games ever released for the original Game Boy.
Starting with 2010, considering i was personally more and more interested to the 80's especially for music and movies, i began developing a prequel story with a new set of original characters that are the parents or older brothers of the ones from the above fanction, and even if not in written form it became a sort of radio adaptation in february 2011 that had a plot beginning on the last day of 1979 with a bunch of 10 years old kids and their growth to become young adults at the end of the following decade. The quality was abysmal, i actually did the voices for the female characters too except for some rare external help here and there during a run of probably 55 episodes that plot wise arrived to mid 1986, and then i abruptly stopped again in the spring of 2012 when i was at a rock bottom moment in personal life with way more important problems to solve before a bad fanfiction became more and more dark, influenced by my depressed mood of those days. It didn't have any success, and the only two frequent listeners are people that sooner or later i had a very bad falling out with for some similar and some very different reasons.
In my mind, even after i got a job again just three months later and returned happy as a result, i retconned the hell out of these stories here and there, i'm honest with my feelings, i'd like so much to bring all of them back, but i don't have absolutely any more time, actual good will, talent, or tools to comply in any kind of possible media, considering i already failed them all hard. I wanted to be able to connect the 80's plot to the late 90's one covering of course also the decade into them, and finally going as far at least into extending the story until the very end of 2019, but at this point i've already just accepted it is all just in my imagination and that's final. Whatever, it's kinda fun even just thinking about it. |