I feel like i could have been making these posts all along, but i never really realized before that this concept (that what fandom does is replicated in every aspect of "legitimate" creative work) wasn't as self-evident to everybody as it always seemed to be to me. I think I just lucked out in always being surrounded by fans who totally got it, and taught me to get it too. :)
Riddle me this, Aja, why is it that so many fans accept the validity of secondary creation, and yet feel that it is necessary to place a number of rigid boundaries around what kinds of secondary creations are acceptable? Where does one draw the line with regard to calling something out of character, for instance-- when does it stop being valid criticism and start being a complaint that not everyone subscribes to the exact same point of view? Is it ever valid criticism? Does it differ from fandom to fandom? STEADY MY CRISIS OF FAITH. TELL ME THAT FANDOM IS A GOOD PLACE AND THAT WE ARE NOT YET TURNING ON EACH OTHER too late
This is like, ages-old fandom debate, here! Like, about 2 months ago, I was having a friendly debate about fandom with a Random Fan on the Internet, and our perspectives on what constituted "general" fandom behavior seemed to be totally different: she was telling me that in her (quite small) fandom, a few people dictated what was "acceptable" content, and there were NO AUs or canonical divergences of any kind; like, in She's the Sheriff fandom a coffeeshop AU would have been completely unheard of, for example. And I was totally boggling because that's so antithetical to (mostly) my ENTIRE fandom experience, but in hers it was the norm
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It was halfway a rhetorical question but I also halfway wanted an actual answer! Though I don't know if there is even any point to talking with me about whether they cuddle, won't we just end up agreeing they do from the first sentence on... maybe you should debate this issue with someone who is less maudlin than you or me
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ahh, it's a great book, i've had it for like a year but haven't read it before now and now i'm like, geeking out over it constantly, carrying it around with me.
It's this giant clunky coffee-table book that announces to the world, I AM A DORK.
This reminds me of the recent tiger beatdown article on American Psycho and how it wasn't a very interesting book, but how female film makers made it a great movie (nb original author's dumb opinion on lady film makers).
It reminded me a lot of fanfic, especially in the instance of "female writers reworking male story to acknowledge sketchiness more and also add entertainment." (Not that all fanfic is this, but there's a sizable amount)
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I feel like i could have been making these posts all along, but i never really realized before that this concept (that what fandom does is replicated in every aspect of "legitimate" creative work) wasn't as self-evident to everybody as it always seemed to be to me. I think I just lucked out in always being surrounded by fans who totally got it, and taught me to get it too. :)
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uh, it dawns on me that this might have been a rhetorical question
in which case, YES, COURANT, FANDOM IS A GOOD PLACE! NOW CAN WE TALK ABOUT WHETHER THEY CUDDLE :D
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ahh, it's a great book, i've had it for like a year but haven't read it before now and now i'm like, geeking out over it constantly, carrying it around with me.
It's this giant clunky coffee-table book that announces to the world, I AM A DORK.
I love it :D
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http://tigerbeatdown.com/2011/08/09/landmarks-of-lady-hate-presents-american-psycho-or-despite-all-my-rage-i-am-still-just-a-rat-in-a-vagina/
It reminded me a lot of fanfic, especially in the instance of "female writers reworking male story to acknowledge sketchiness more and also add entertainment." (Not that all fanfic is this, but there's a sizable amount)
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