Thinking of my own fanfic experiences - is Fanfic just another form of (unauthorized) adaptation?
You get books made into movies and television shows - and movies can be made into print adaptations...
Is fanfic just "Fan adaptation"?
(I was thinking about how Walking Dead was designed to be "The zombie story that never ends" and how the television show *would* have to eventually end... but that maybe it wouldn't for the fans... and came to that thought)
I started out in Lord of the Rings fandom, though, where a lot of the stuff that's canon spans thousands of years and there's not a ton of detail given-we get a very dry recounting, instead, of what happened. Lots of space to fill in the blanks.
I would think that would be a lot of fun - to fill in details between events, while keeping to established continuity.
With the Marvel groups I was in - there was a jumping off point where the timelines between established Marvel and our version occurred. Big cross-overs events that didn't end up happening in the same way, or whatever caused a relaunch didn't occur. That kind of thing.
Of course, working in a shared universe meant that we had to make sure that we were keeping consistent with what everyone else was doing. It was a fun way to play in the sandbox.
Alternate realities are a part of comics, so there was definitely an advantage starting there! :)
It's what eased me into fan fiction, honestly-before that I was always like, this is so weird why would anyone write this? wouldn't you rather come up with your own characters? and then I found the community and it was like, "...I GET IT NOW!" There's standard fic, too, just exploring relationships or going for total alternate-universe-what-if-this-thing, but I totally got started in on it via the "this is in line with canon, I'm just filling in the blanks."
I can imagine the working in a shared universe thing would complicate it somewhat! But you're right-alternate realities and whatnot are part of canon, in comics, so that makes things a bit easier. :D
You get books made into movies and television shows - and movies can be made into print adaptations...
Is fanfic just "Fan adaptation"?
(I was thinking about how Walking Dead was designed to be "The zombie story that never ends" and how the television show *would* have to eventually end... but that maybe it wouldn't for the fans... and came to that thought)
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I started out in Lord of the Rings fandom, though, where a lot of the stuff that's canon spans thousands of years and there's not a ton of detail given-we get a very dry recounting, instead, of what happened. Lots of space to fill in the blanks.
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With the Marvel groups I was in - there was a jumping off point where the timelines between established Marvel and our version occurred. Big cross-overs events that didn't end up happening in the same way, or whatever caused a relaunch didn't occur. That kind of thing.
Of course, working in a shared universe meant that we had to make sure that we were keeping consistent with what everyone else was doing. It was a fun way to play in the sandbox.
Alternate realities are a part of comics, so there was definitely an advantage starting there! :)
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I can imagine the working in a shared universe thing would complicate it somewhat! But you're right-alternate realities and whatnot are part of canon, in comics, so that makes things a bit easier. :D
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People who create adaptations are fans of the thing.
Oh and just because I'd be a bad fan if I didn't mention: SHERLOCK.
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