Hello, I'm DaveTheAnalyzer. I'm a autistic fanfic writer with a interest in Digimon, Godzilla, Gamera, and, of course, The Land Before Time. I've heard about this forum before and occasionally perused it but this morning, I thought "What the heck" and decided to join.
The first film I can recall seeing in this series was the third one, The Time of Great Giving. At some point, this series became one of my great obsessions - I watched every entry our local VHS store got. I believe I wrote one of my first fanfics ever for this fandom, when my age was probably in the single digits, in a mickey mouse notepad long since lost to time. It involved a alien fox called Leader Fox with Strut's British voice who kidnapped Littlefoot's gang by turning into a werewolf and beating up their parents. He froze the gang into ice or crystal in his spaceship because Reasons and I can't remember what came next but it might have involved the gang becoming crystal Power Rangers. I never finished or posted it online but I have nostalgic memories of that first taste of fanfic.
I eventually moved on to other fandoms and interests, that The Land Before Time interest occasionally resurfacing. In the past few years, I've got fic ideas for the series and a quarter of the way through this year, I found time to marathon all 14 movies and 26 TV episodes (and catch up on the entries I never watched), and the love is back again. The rewatch as had awakened love for old and new characters alike, and a appreciation for others I didn't have when I was young (like Spike).
I already posted a fic on my ff.net account as my experimental entry into the fandom and already got plenty of one-shots and multichapters plotted and planned ahead. Just need to find time to write, edit, and post them since a lot of them are long and my new semester has started. This has also pushed aside my writings for other fandoms but I think that's because I'm on my third rewatch of the LBT series and that's keeping the passion going while I haven't seen Digimon or Gamera in a while and only sporadic viewings of Godzilla movies. Who knows though, the new Digimon series this fall might spark back that passion for that fandom again.
Anyway, I'm the type of fic writer who likes to alter between fluffy stuff, friendship and family, adventurous epics, and "Torment! TORMENT!!! (but with happy ending)." Also combinations of all the above. I do like to analyze the characters and fill in details about them, even go so far as to gell contradictory behavior from different entries. That can be a fun challenge. I might post here to talk about such analysis, movie and episode commentary, and fic chat, though not by much. I do want to concentrate on my story writing.
So hello again on this relaxing Sunday morning!
