Comments | flambeau: If I had another penny

flambeau

If I had another penny

Nov 13, 2002 17:09

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 ( Read more... )

interpretation, fandom, pairings, meta(ish), fanfic

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stakebait November 13 2002, 08:17:16 UTC

Aw! Velveteen fandom! It's all fuzzy!

Okay, today I'm not feeling deep.

Mer

flambeau November 13 2002, 08:46:38 UTC

Me either, obviously. My, that's a splendid icon you've got there. :-)

stakebait November 13 2002, 10:45:25 UTC

[grin] Why thank you. Come here often? What's your sign? Sorry, I just got carried away with the concept of shallowness. :)

(And all credit goes to jess79, who made it for me.)

Mer

thebratqueen November 13 2002, 08:29:06 UTC

Yeah, I get that sometimes with canon, let alone fanfic. I sit down, watch an episode (coughSpintheBottlecough) and go "Wow that could have been so much better" and occasionally wonder if I'd be better off in the happy world where I can swallow anything as long as it's got heavy slash in it. As you say - sometimes it makes you wonder if you're lacking in imagination or something.

zvi_likes_tv November 13 2002, 08:32:18 UTC

I've always wondered if the people who tangent alert read what I consider poorly constructed and unconvincing fanfic with every evidence of enjoyment have much better imaginative skills and engagement levels than I do
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.

flambeau November 15 2002, 08:29:17 UTC

Hey, that's an understandable explanation. Substitute McDonald's french fries for the gas station hot dog and I'm so there. I think it's a sliding scale, though. I'll read stuff where I don't really buy the characterization, etc, if it gives me the right kind of warm fuzzies when I need them, but then there's the completely bizarre stuff with bad spelling and most of the plot done as expositions and sentences that have to be reread five times and I still don't understand half of them... that stuff, too, frequently has a happy-squeaky audience of pairing-fangirls. I guess, if they can manage to actually catch sight of their pairing through all that, more power to 'em. Or something.

teanna November 13 2002, 08:50:51 UTC

Oh dear, the Velveteen Fandom of Borg. I had to make you an icon. *le sigh of amusement*

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flambeau November 13 2002, 15:29:40 UTC

You are the light of my life and the joy of my existence. :-)

elynross November 13 2002, 08:57:31 UTC

Dammit, four days in the ether and I missed the smart people!

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 ( ... )