Articolo intelligente
Bazzicando qua e là sul web, ho trovato questo articolo del TIME magazine "The Boy Who Lived Forever" che parla di fanfic, e ne parla anche sotto una buona luce, senza nemmeno dover nascondere le parti meno politically correct (vi dico solo che passa in rassegna sia le Mpreg che le twincest). Mi ha lasciato piacevolmente stupita, perché è chiaro che l'autore ha fatto bene le sue ricerche e sa di cosa sta parlando, analizzando l'argomento senza la solita superficialità con cui vengono solitamente trattati i tipici "fenomeni giovanili" (che poi tanto giovanili non sono.)
E' ancora talmente forte lo stigma posto sul mondo delle fanfic da parte di chi è "fuori" dal fandom che mi ha fatto piace vedere dato loro ufficialmente il riconoscimento che meritano. Magari arriverà il giorno in cui scrivere fanfic non vorrà dire essere uno sfigato o un copione ma - come suggerisce l'articolo - sarà equiparato allo strimpellare sulla chitarra una canzone del tuo artista preferito.
L'articolo è in inglese purtroppo, e un po' lungo, ma copio qui alcuni dei passaggi che mi sono piaciuti di più:
- 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.
- "I've been in fandom since early 2005, when I was getting ready to turn 12," says Kelli Joyce. "For me, starting so young, fanfic became my English teacher, my sex-ed class, my favorite hobby and the source of some of my dearest friends. It also provided me with a crash course in social justice and how to respect and celebrate diversity, both of characters and fic writers."
- "For me, fanfic is partially a political act," says "XT." "MGM is too cowardly to put a gay man in one of their multimillion-dollar blockbusters? And somehow want me to be content with the occasional subtext crumb from the table? Why should I?"
- The same site [FF.Net] also has 87 examples of Tetris fan fiction, which are a showcase for the resourcefulness of writers spinning stories from the thinnest of threads: "L-block has just found out that his life partner, Square block, was cheating on him with his brother, Inverse L-block ..."
- There is, of course, a ton of sex in fan fiction. It's a monument to the diversity of human sexual whim. There are stories that take any and every character you can name and pair them up romantically or erotically or pornographically. (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.
- [parlando di copyright] A writer's characters are his or her children, but even children have to grow up eventually and do things their parents wouldn't approve of. "We don't own nonfictional people," Maltese says, "and at the end of the day, I don't think we can own fictional ones either."
E' ancora talmente forte lo stigma posto sul mondo delle fanfic da parte di chi è "fuori" dal fandom che mi ha fatto piace vedere dato loro ufficialmente il riconoscimento che meritano. Magari arriverà il giorno in cui scrivere fanfic non vorrà dire essere uno sfigato o un copione ma - come suggerisce l'articolo - sarà equiparato allo strimpellare sulla chitarra una canzone del tuo artista preferito.
L'articolo è in inglese purtroppo, e un po' lungo, ma copio qui alcuni dei passaggi che mi sono piaciuti di più:
- 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.
- "I've been in fandom since early 2005, when I was getting ready to turn 12," says Kelli Joyce. "For me, starting so young, fanfic became my English teacher, my sex-ed class, my favorite hobby and the source of some of my dearest friends. It also provided me with a crash course in social justice and how to respect and celebrate diversity, both of characters and fic writers."
- "For me, fanfic is partially a political act," says "XT." "MGM is too cowardly to put a gay man in one of their multimillion-dollar blockbusters? And somehow want me to be content with the occasional subtext crumb from the table? Why should I?"
- The same site [FF.Net] also has 87 examples of Tetris fan fiction, which are a showcase for the resourcefulness of writers spinning stories from the thinnest of threads: "L-block has just found out that his life partner, Square block, was cheating on him with his brother, Inverse L-block ..."
- There is, of course, a ton of sex in fan fiction. It's a monument to the diversity of human sexual whim. There are stories that take any and every character you can name and pair them up romantically or erotically or pornographically. (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.
- [parlando di copyright] A writer's characters are his or her children, but even children have to grow up eventually and do things their parents wouldn't approve of. "We don't own nonfictional people," Maltese says, "and at the end of the day, I don't think we can own fictional ones either."