"Textual Poachers" (Fiction, Sherlock BBC, 221b words), rating G (2014 JWP Practice Prompt #5)

[gardnerhill]

Title: Textual Poachers
Author: gardnerhill
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock BBC)
Pairing: None
Word Count: 221
Rating: G
Warning: None
Summary: Fanfic and fanart go way, way back.
Author's Notes: For the 2014 JWP Practice Prompt #5: Pablo de Sarasate - Hommage à Rossini,Op.2

*** John chuckled

Comments

[dreamflower02]

*grin* :D

[gardnerhill]

Yep - we've been everywhere, from the dawn of art and storytelling. When you admire Michelangelo, remember that he began by copying earlier masters - and those after copied Michelangelo.

[dreamflower02]

"Originality", if it exists, doesn't lie in plots or tropes; the time when any plot or trope was truly original is thousands of years in the dim past.

Originality lies in the ability to lend freshness to those old things in style or medium or POV or setting or form. Fanwriters and fanartists are just less hypocritical than others over the nature of their work.

[only_po]

Meh, everything old is new again. It's just a matter of execution and presentation. :) Speaking of which, this was delightful. I love it when John can one-up Sherlock, and I had no idea Sarasate remixed Rossini! (But then, I know next to nothing about music.)

[gardnerhill]

The prompt that triggered this was the first time I'd heard the musical piece.

Aaron Copeland did the same thing with his suites that were re-works of Appalachian folksongs.

I maintain to this day that the one surviving copy of "Gilgamesh" was Gilgamesh/Enkidu fanfiction written by some Sumerian woman who decided the heroic monster-slaying needed a love story.

[capt_facepalm]

"There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, STUD.

This is one of my favourite quotations because Doyle lifted it (unattributed, Tsk! Tsk! ) from Ecclesiastes 1:9.
Not that I am particularly religious, it's just that I find it humourous that Doyle appropriated that particular line.

Here's the King James Bible version.

"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun."

(Oh, and any time John one-up Sherlock is WIN indeed!)

[gardnerhill]

Fanfiction's old as dirt - Lancelot and Maid Marian are both fanfic creations (French balladeers adding a love story to British tales of King Arthur and Robin Hood).

Like most poor losers, Holmes doesn't acknowledge the win, he clams up or changes the subject.