Fanfic & OFC rant
Sometimes it really pisses me off that there's such a prejudice against OFCs in fanfic/fandom circles.
For at least a year now, I have written absolutely nothing. Not one frakking word. But seeing 'The Hobbit' changed all that, and has gotten the plot bunnies hopping again. I love LOTR, and I was so happy with the new film that it's taken over my brain.
I've got a little post-film ficlet in the works, but there's another fic that I've been writing that's really had me banging away at the keyboard the last couple weeks.
It started out as a PWP (dwarf prince Thorin meets tavern wench, lol), but 25000+ words later and still typing, it's morphed into something else entirely (although there is plenty of porn). At the moment, though, it's not even a rough draft. It's part prose, part shorthand, part script and part rambling stream-of-consciousness writing. In other words, it's nowhere near finished, and it would probably take a considerable amount of effort to be worthy of posting here or on FF.net/AO3.
But it'd be an OFC as one of the main characters, and I really don't know if I want to bother fixing it up enough to post, when I know that a lot of folks wouldn't even read it simply because it's an OFC.
I've only written one LOTR fic (Boromir/OFC), and stopped after that because of the negative attitude in LOTR fandom back in the day from the canon-nazis in in regards to OFCs. I didn't get bad feedback about my fic, but I saw so much of it against other fics that it turned me off to LOTR fandom entirely (during the time the original trilogy was been screened).
So now I have the dilemma of whether to bother trying to clean it up enough to post.... or do I just keep it to myself in a drawer...?
Any other fanficers out there who feel this way too?
Why do we do this to ourselves?
Yea, I know all about MarySues -- but honestly, what is WRONG about writing a self-insert/OFC, or even a Mary Sue? Isn't there room for that too in all the myriad of fanfic genres? Why all the hate?
/end rant
On another (related) note, I've been looking for -- and happily finding -- Bagginshield (Thorin/Bilbo) fics.... Although I wouldn't call it my OTP... well, not yet anyway!
For at least a year now, I have written absolutely nothing. Not one frakking word. But seeing 'The Hobbit' changed all that, and has gotten the plot bunnies hopping again. I love LOTR, and I was so happy with the new film that it's taken over my brain.
I've got a little post-film ficlet in the works, but there's another fic that I've been writing that's really had me banging away at the keyboard the last couple weeks.
It started out as a PWP (dwarf prince Thorin meets tavern wench, lol), but 25000+ words later and still typing, it's morphed into something else entirely (although there is plenty of porn). At the moment, though, it's not even a rough draft. It's part prose, part shorthand, part script and part rambling stream-of-consciousness writing. In other words, it's nowhere near finished, and it would probably take a considerable amount of effort to be worthy of posting here or on FF.net/AO3.
But it'd be an OFC as one of the main characters, and I really don't know if I want to bother fixing it up enough to post, when I know that a lot of folks wouldn't even read it simply because it's an OFC.
I've only written one LOTR fic (Boromir/OFC), and stopped after that because of the negative attitude in LOTR fandom back in the day from the canon-nazis in in regards to OFCs. I didn't get bad feedback about my fic, but I saw so much of it against other fics that it turned me off to LOTR fandom entirely (during the time the original trilogy was been screened).
So now I have the dilemma of whether to bother trying to clean it up enough to post.... or do I just keep it to myself in a drawer...?
Any other fanficers out there who feel this way too?
Why do we do this to ourselves?
Yea, I know all about MarySues -- but honestly, what is WRONG about writing a self-insert/OFC, or even a Mary Sue? Isn't there room for that too in all the myriad of fanfic genres? Why all the hate?
/end rant
On another (related) note, I've been looking for -- and happily finding -- Bagginshield (Thorin/Bilbo) fics.... Although I wouldn't call it my OTP... well, not yet anyway!