fandom musings

[honeylocusttree]

Another reason for me not to participate in big bangs is the anon meme. It would be extremely difficult for me to avoid the urge to go on that thing and say terrible, awful things about my own fic. I can't even imagine how much I would hate whatever fic I eventually wound up writing, and the meme seems like a fantastic place to go and vent about it

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[honeylocusttree]

I honestly didn't think about it much, but guickreaver mentioned something about it to me and I got curious and went looking. It seems like they (the one I was looking at, seems like there's been more than one?) have individual postings for new challenges, and then comment threads within the post for each individual work. So it's kind of fun to go through and read old posts for really bad fics because they can be pretty hilarious. But when I saw some of the stuff for summergen get posted I wondered what I would do if mine did, and I realized it would be a prefect opportunity to vent about how much I hate that thing. And one thought led to another, and, well...yeah

[honeylocusttree]

The creepiest thing of all? Apparently in RPF it's actually a thing people do where they use find/replace and change the lead character/s to the name(s) of whoever is the reader's favorite real actual living human person/people. (So they can have the setting and premise but with whatever real person they personally like best in their fic.)

Because the characterization in the fic has nothing to do with the person in question, so the only thing that has to be changed is the name.

[honeylocusttree]

The one I was looking at is here. Though there may be others.

You mostly have to slog through the pages of comments/replies, but you can pretty quickly see which ones have the longest threads. Beware, though, much like tvtropes it's kind of a black hole that will suck your attention for a while. I was only looking at the stuff about fics so as for the gossip and fandom-related stuff, man you are on your own. Good luck! Leave a trail of breadcrumbs on your way in!