Geckos are small tropical lizards that eat bugs and can cling upside down to ceilings. They also make a noise that sounds like a cross between a dog's bark and a bird's chirp. Jae, however, does none of these things.
(Possibly) slightly more helpful: "Jae Gecko" is the pseudonym for a
passionate, politically-minded, idealistic, stubborn, multilingual,
compulsively detail-oriented mediafan. In her spare time, she writes,
and sometimes that writing includes fanfiction. Jae thinks people are
better off not trying too hard to classify those stories according to
categories like 'gen' or 'slash' or 'het', though. Somebody's always
going to end up disappointed, and somebody else is always going to end
up missing out on something they might have liked.
She first heard of fanfiction when she was 16 and brand new to science
fiction fandom, and she was intrigued, but it never held any real appeal
for her before she saw "West Wing." She came to the show later than
many--her first episode was the two-hour season two opener--and there was
something about the combination of watching those flashback scenes and
having to try and figure out who the characters were at the same time that
caused her to wonder whether there might be more there than meets the
eye with two of the characters.
At that point, Jae set off to search for the fanfiction about that
relationship that she knew must be out there. She hadn't written any sort
of fiction at all for ten years, so it didn't occur to her at first to
write anything herself; she simply wanted to read the stories that
were suddenly appearing, whole-cloth, in her head. After an entire day of
searching the Internet, she finally realized that although there was
already a lot of stuff out there, indeed, no one had yet written these
particular incredibly obvious stories! So she set out to write
them herself, and by the time they were told, she was having too much fun
to stop. Although she mostly concentrates on original work these days,
she's very grateful to fandom for introducing her to the wonderful world
of fiction writing.
For more information (though of course outdated now), the Scriptorium did an interview with
Jae back in the spring of 2003. More up-to-date blatherings can be
found at Jae's dreamwidth journal.
