Media references to fanfic, the week ending 6/12/10
There were several Twilight-related refs this past week. On Salon, in regard to fame vs. S. Meyer, Lizzie Skurnick wrote Fans treat their works and the authors themselves like some massive World of Storycraft, spinning off reams of their own fan fiction and commentary and pestering the author for updates. And, in the Las Vegas Journal-Review, Twilight actor Michael Welch told Doug Elfman "I've encountered Twilight moms, authors of fan fiction, haters, lovers, Team Jacob-ers, Team Edward-ers and Twi-hards of all shapes, sizes, colors and creeds from all walks of life. But I don't think I've had the pleasure of getting to know Vegas-clubbing Twilight fanatics. It should be fun." (Normal terms apply: you diss Meyer or Twilight, I PM about why I'd buy Meyer a cookie.)
True Blood also inspired several refs. In Variety, Brian Lowry wrote the current season has so many salacious moments as to at times feel like exec producer Alan Ball and his team have started reading fan fiction and embraced the challenge of topping it. And, Ellen Gray reported in the Philadelphia Daily News that, in the True Blood third season episodes she's seen, there's at least one scene between two [..] characters that plays like fan fiction.
Finally, in the Vancouver Sun, Stephen Hume wondered is the Bard relevant in an age of atom bombs; a world of instant communication gratified by movies based on comic books, sex-saturated graphic novels, gory video games, the television soaps and the hip tsunami of fan fiction that swashes around the Internet?
True Blood also inspired several refs. In Variety, Brian Lowry wrote the current season has so many salacious moments as to at times feel like exec producer Alan Ball and his team have started reading fan fiction and embraced the challenge of topping it. And, Ellen Gray reported in the Philadelphia Daily News that, in the True Blood third season episodes she's seen, there's at least one scene between two [..] characters that plays like fan fiction.
Finally, in the Vancouver Sun, Stephen Hume wondered is the Bard relevant in an age of atom bombs; a world of instant communication gratified by movies based on comic books, sex-saturated graphic novels, gory video games, the television soaps and the hip tsunami of fan fiction that swashes around the Internet?