International Fanworks Day Top Ten List

From the Home Office in Tampa, Florida, it's the International Fanworks Day Top Ten List

Some of these were easy to write and some weren't. Some came from a happy place in my mind, and some most definitely did not.

10.The Starchild Meets The Mothership Connection. Setting: The 1970s. What would happen if characters from KISS' albums met the characters from P-Funk albums? This story offers an answer.

9.Happiness Is A Kicked Football. Charlie Brown never got to kick the football...until now.

8.They Fall For You At First Sight. A professional wrestling High School AU story, with Heidi Lovelace (WWE's Ruby Riott/AEW's Ruby Soho) being surprised by her reaction to transfer student Taeler Hendrix, based on a mishandled lesbian angle between them in Ohio Valley Wrestling, with a mix of references that only dedicated fans of 2000s-2010s American independent wrestling would ever get. This was a story I would start and stop and restart a few times until I figured out the right approach. This was the first High School AU story I have ever written.

7.The JWL [Episode 54]. This was the hardest episode for me to write, since it was the first show after the Chris Benoit tragedy. (Benoit had been the inaugural JWL World Heavyweight Champion, and he never lost the title.) I had all the faces go over to send the fans home happy. Unfortunately, the reaction to Victoria's surprise debut was so overwhelmingly negative it overshadowed everything else on the show and killed off her intended feud with Trish Stratus before it could get started.

6.Mariah Makes It Happen. A Fix Fic set at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards. Inspired by how, at the 1991 show, R.E.M. were the big winners and everytime they went up to accept an award Michael Stipe removed the shirt with some political slogan on it to reveal a shirt with a different political slogan. Back then, I'd wanted Mariah Carey or Janet Jackson to duplicate that. Not the part about wearing shirts with different political slogans, just the part about removing an article of clothing every time she accepted an award.

5.Obscene? No. Incomprehensible? Yes.. An idea I'd had going back some 20 years, inspired by Howard Stern's movie Private Parts. Producer Gary "Baba Booey" Dell'Abate suggests to Howard that, as a way to confuse the censors, rather than saying things that could be considered "vulgar" and "obscene", they should work the words themselves into whatever they talk about, especially when it would make no sense in context to do so.

4.On The Bus. Inspired by the scene of Tyra Banks and Janet Jackson in bed together on Janet's tour bus on the October 9, 2008 episode of The Tyra Banks Show. I had never written a sex story before. I originally left the sex implied. Janet stole a kiss from Tyra and threw her, Janet's, bra at the camera. Tyra whispered, "Turn off the camera!" with the screen smashing to black. Sometime after I posted the story, I randomly had a brainstorm: Janet's room was soundproofed! While I could not get explicit, it was still a severe departure for me.

3.Godzilla Comes To America. Written out of rage following the second failed impeachment of The Orange Monster, I decided to challenge myself to write a drabble, meaning no more than 100 words. It worked, with TheTofuEatingCat calling it "The pinnacle of fanfiction".

2.JWL SuperBrawl I. My second PPV, with the main event being the 22-woman Royal Rumble to crown the inaugural JWL Women's Champion. This was April 2004, 12 years before WWE held their Hell in a Cell 2016 PPV, which had Sasha Banks vs. Charlotte Flair in the first women's match to main event a WWE PPV. I put a strong emphasis on women's WRESTLING in my work. Rest assured that when reading my shows you will NEVER see an evening gown match or bra and panties match, and, especially, you will never see such a match for a title.

1.The JWL [Episode 37] (2005). One of my best-reviewed shows. Begins with the TV debut of Sable [Rena Lesnar] and ends with the debut of , until the reveal at JWL The Great American Bash I, one of my most successful gimmicks, The Stranger.