AMAZING fan fiction article in Time Magazine--yes, I know, right?!
Thanks to the wonderful leupagus , my year is now complete. She made this post, and brought joy to my life ^_^ While I agree that fan fiction doesn't always get the best press, this article in Time does a very good job articulating the essence of the art itself. I feel validated. I also squeed like the total fangirl that I am to see Naomi Novik's quote, a mention of AO3, and all the slash references.
I also learned something new. Somehow I missed Rule No. 34. God, how could I miss it? I read it like every day??! I loved the following excerpts from the article:
"(One of the axioms of Internet culture is known as Rule No. 34: "If it exists, there is porn of it.") A lot of alien plants turn out to produce pollen with powerful aphrodisiac effects. You'd be amazed.'
Fan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker."
Go read The Boy Who Lived Forever
I also learned something new. Somehow I missed Rule No. 34. God, how could I miss it? I read it like every day??! I loved the following excerpts from the article:
"(One of the axioms of Internet culture is known as Rule No. 34: "If it exists, there is porn of it.") A lot of alien plants turn out to produce pollen with powerful aphrodisiac effects. You'd be amazed.'
Fan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker."
Go read The Boy Who Lived Forever