Entertaining thought experiment

[astolat]

Awww, llama!!! *hugs the mysterious joy-giver*

I thought for the last bits of More Joy Day I would entertain you all with a thought experiment I have rambled about to a few people before, re: fanfiction and what if in some frightening dystopian future it was somehow stamped out by a giant stompy boot of authority. :D No, wait, really, this will be

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[black_samvara]

I wonder how well Supernatural morphs into Star Wars...

[angstslashhope]

Benders = Jabba the Hut.

*drifts off into golden bikini happy place*

[franzeska]

And now my brain is trying to insert Sam and Dean into the golden bikini catfight scene from the second Mummy movie.

[slodwick]

*makes grabby hands*

[kuwdora]

[astolat]

Yes, it can totally be done! *mad scientist gleam*

[ext_69049]

Your brain is a wonderful place to live.

[uminohikari]

It's possible, but if the characters in a fic could really be changed like that, the characterization would be really sterotypical? And in a fic with good characterization, the characters would seem really off in another world.
Just saying.

[astolat]

omg, you with your sensible criticism and your bunnies in teacups. *g*

of course the real practical reason would be the camouflage, and generally you'd know what the author meant and use that, or else it would be just as silly fun, but actually more seriously, I do think there are certain fannish tropes -- we fall in love with the same thing over again, and like to do the same story in a million different ways, so it could actually be fun to try and write a story that works seriously for different characters who happen to fall along certain similar lines. Like, basically a variant on AU RPF stories -- let the reader cast whoever she wants to see, almost, within some broad bounds.