I would buy another... fandom, probably.
I wish lj would let me do a multiple-comments reply and send email notifications to everyone in the thread. Oh, well. It's been really interesting, anyway, to see the sensible comments to my
plaintive whine about why people think one thing in fanfic threatens or invalidates another. Thank you, smart people
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Okay, today I'm not feeling deep.
Mer
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(And all credit goes to jess79, who made it for me.)
Mer
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I will sometimes read badly written stories because they give me an element that I rarely find in better written fiction, usually ridiculously long series and/or clan-building. It engages a somewhat different part of my life as a reader than stories with good characterization or excellent plots or beautiful prose.
In the same way, I'm a snob about cheese and orange juice and can really enjoy beautifully cooked vegetables or beef, but there are occasions when what I really, really want to eat is a gas station hot dog with a lot of mustard or a Reese's Peanutbutter Cup and not something from Godiva.
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I think I used to be much more One True Way than I am, anymore. Right? looks nervous That is, I'm not sure I ever bought that there was only one Right Way to write a character, but there were (and still are, I admit) pervasive opinions about some characters that set my teeth on edge, and to my mind, they were seldom supported by what I saw on the show. However, since I've had to admit, more and more, that what I see on the show is seldom the same as what anyone else has seen, I have to admit that probably the views of the characters that drive me crazy are just as valid in some ways as my own perceptions -- as long as they don't run counter to factual info the shows give us ( ... )
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