The Good Ship SNSD: Fanfiction, part 1

[arbitrary_greay]

Yes, you read that right. Part 1. Because I recently discovered some articles(courtesy of R and Jko) that might do all of our discussing for us. D:
But I did this damn idol fic writers survey a month ago, so you're going to get selected answers whether you want them or not, dammit.

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[just_keep_on]

I'll comment on the answers a bit later, but I wanted to drop these two links off before I lost them forever:

An open letter to professional writers who are uncomfortable with fanfic
This is in regards to fanfics about books, but a quick skim of the answers in the first section show that most consider idols as characters - at least, their idol persona. Things get a little squicky and also more tricky when trying to extrapolate their "true" persona. I just thought this post would be interesting if applied to idols.

Writing against the tide of fannish assumptions
Writing is a community, but fanfiction is almost like a cult XD This post talks about the creation of fanon and going against it. SNSD has its own fanon, particularly each of the pairings. It seems fanon can be good and bad (judging from some of the pet peeves listed).

Moar later~ And thanks AG for compiling these!

[just_keep_on]

What would also have been interesting was to see how long each participant had been reading/writing fanfic and been in idol fandom, mostly because it seems like the participants have been in fanfiction and/or idol fandom for a couple months (which is pretty much all you need to understand idol fandom, I'd say). It would be interesting to see the mindset of brand new fans and if they even think about these things at all (and why).

How do you view original fiction/fanfiction/RPF vs idol fic? ...- Fanfiction as libel: I've always wondered about this. I mean, there are authors that have prohibited people from writing fanfiction for their work (btw, can someone enlighten me as to how do they do this?) but has there ever been a celebrity who's said: "Thou shalt not write fanfic about me"? Or is it just something they shelve under the "gossip/tabloid fodder" category

[arbitrary_greay]

The links you and R gave me mostly answer all of these questions. XD I'll probably put up part 2 on Saturday. And likely steal these questions for picking excerpts~

Is a fan's knowledge...
Writer I's response to question 1: "The closer I get to a band, the harder it gets for me to do it.[write fanfic for them] It feels violating, like I'm making them do things against their will?"

[just_keep_on]

I personally think it's an inverse relationship - you don't see a lot of 'older' fans (not in age, but in length of time in idol fandom) writing fanfic, or at least as profusely as they used to. A lot of fanfics are written by newbie fans, which is also why the quality isn't so great.

Can we also put this to idol fandom as a whole? Is it it harder to be fans of an idol the more we know about them and the lives they lead?

Also, is this something that occurs only in idol fandom? Or can we not make that conclusion since fandoms like anime have only have limited information on their characters?

[greywing]

I've always wondered about this. I mean, there are authors that have prohibited people from writing fanfiction for their work (btw, can someone enlighten me as to how do they do this?) As far as I can tell, they simply ask and the fans respect their wishes, for the most part. That simple! It may even be a case of fans policing fans in these regards; authors may not have the time to trawl the Internet asking people to stop writing fanfic of their works in every individual case. XD (Then again, some of them may

[just_keep_on]

Well, makes sense: fans can be the best police.

Comics are crazy - there's 5 bazillion different storylines going on at the same time that it's hard to ever be "wrong" I think xD

So if it's not about knowledge ... is it rather how close a person feels to their idol? Or rather, how much of a "normal person" they realize their idol to be? [that prevents someone from continuing to write about them]