Gather 'Round the Fire: On the Value of Fanfiction

[the_arc5]

Title: Gather 'Round the Fire: On the Value of Fanfiction
Author: the_arc5
Genre: Meta/essay

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[mewsrissicat]

(Linked in to here through a friend)
You've articulated your argument very well. I sincerely doubt that it will touch on DG's consciousness, because she's willfully put on blinders and is doing her best to justify her own beliefs. (A far cry from the concept of "Understand others first, then seek to be understood."

I also wanted to make a note that the concept of fan-fiction existed long before the internet. I've seen plenty of fan-zines of Star Trek, Star Wars, etc. long before the Internet was everyone's playpen. But even before ST, SW's and all the others... people were delighted to play in the arena of other people's makings. There are plenty of books published in the late 1800's that leverage Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes character. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-canonical_Sherlock_Holmes_works

The bottom line is the fact that "fan fiction" has always existed, and will continue to exist, so long as there are more stories to tell.