I don't often post my thoughts on here, but I'm feeling irritated and need to vent.
I don't often post my thoughts on here, but I'm feeling irritated and need to vent.
Just read an interview posted on the community alanrickman regarding a Sweeney Todd interview. He makes mention of the Harry Potter 'porn' in a rather negative manner. Now, I love Alan but I have to say he got my hackles up with this one. Declaring the world a 'weird' place and not wishing to 'encourage it'. Granted it depend on how you read really as he could simply mean fans who have approached him and done/said something he considered inappropriate but for the main part I felt like the communities were being slightly attacked by him.
I appreciate the concept is lost on many and some would consider it perverted especially where ss/hg or slash is concerned but to me fandom is a community of encouragement and fun. Writing is often about life or at the very least is inspired by life, how is life created...sex! What can we argue makes the world spin on it's lovely axis, sex! It's not a bad or dirty thing and for the most part in fandom it's not a bunch of people sitting around 'getting off' on these stories but enjoying the humour or the passion embodied in them. I know I for one have never been turned on in the literal sense by a fiction as I don't personally read them that way. I enjoy the story, looking into other peoples lives and feeling/ sensing their emotion and identifying with it, which I'm confident is a sentiment shared by many fiction writers and readers.
Fanfiction is certainly NOT a bad thing, reference to sex or not. I have been inspired to write through it and gained a major passion that I would love to work on and perhaps discipline myself enough to write my own original stories born from the practice and inspiration of fan fiction communities.
OK, I apologise for this rant, perhaps it's my tired mind but it really did annoy me and I just felt things needed to be said. Feel free to comment whether or not you agree with me, I'd be very interested to hear (read :D ) what you guys think on the subject.
I shall post the link in two moments...I seem to have lost it...
Linkage to post...http://community.livejournal.com/alanrickman/852775.html?view=8802087
Just read an interview posted on the community alanrickman regarding a Sweeney Todd interview. He makes mention of the Harry Potter 'porn' in a rather negative manner. Now, I love Alan but I have to say he got my hackles up with this one. Declaring the world a 'weird' place and not wishing to 'encourage it'. Granted it depend on how you read really as he could simply mean fans who have approached him and done/said something he considered inappropriate but for the main part I felt like the communities were being slightly attacked by him.
I appreciate the concept is lost on many and some would consider it perverted especially where ss/hg or slash is concerned but to me fandom is a community of encouragement and fun. Writing is often about life or at the very least is inspired by life, how is life created...sex! What can we argue makes the world spin on it's lovely axis, sex! It's not a bad or dirty thing and for the most part in fandom it's not a bunch of people sitting around 'getting off' on these stories but enjoying the humour or the passion embodied in them. I know I for one have never been turned on in the literal sense by a fiction as I don't personally read them that way. I enjoy the story, looking into other peoples lives and feeling/ sensing their emotion and identifying with it, which I'm confident is a sentiment shared by many fiction writers and readers.
Fanfiction is certainly NOT a bad thing, reference to sex or not. I have been inspired to write through it and gained a major passion that I would love to work on and perhaps discipline myself enough to write my own original stories born from the practice and inspiration of fan fiction communities.
OK, I apologise for this rant, perhaps it's my tired mind but it really did annoy me and I just felt things needed to be said. Feel free to comment whether or not you agree with me, I'd be very interested to hear (read :D ) what you guys think on the subject.
I shall post the link in two moments...I seem to have lost it...
Linkage to post...http://community.livejournal.com/alanrickman/852775.html?view=8802087