Warning, Will Robinson! Danger! Danger!
I hope that no one on my flist will fall for this.
The whole idea, of course, is to paint the subject matter in the most sensationally crazy way possible. If someone signs on in the hopes that she will get attention for her fic and her fandom, she will be sorely disappointed, because any attention she gets will be completely negative.
A couple of years back, ABC's Wife Swap featured a family in the SCA, and they made them seem like such complete crazy wackos that the organization refused the show permission to mention it in any way.
Fanfic writing already gets held up to enough ridicule as it is. We don't need more!
The whole idea, of course, is to paint the subject matter in the most sensationally crazy way possible. If someone signs on in the hopes that she will get attention for her fic and her fandom, she will be sorely disappointed, because any attention she gets will be completely negative.
A couple of years back, ABC's Wife Swap featured a family in the SCA, and they made them seem like such complete crazy wackos that the organization refused the show permission to mention it in any way.
Fanfic writing already gets held up to enough ridicule as it is. We don't need more!