I'm all chatty and stuff...

[kho]

Ya know, I don't know why, or how even, but I was thinking about that fanfic for profit thing that happened forever ago just now (which I thought, and still think, was blown WAY out of proportion, and was discussed ad nauseum over here, so if you simply must tell me why I'm wrong again, please do it there) and it makes me want to think about it

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[ficangel]

Anne Rice is the biggest and most obvious example, given how dramatically her books have gone downhill in quality, but I've noticed a lot of fear in the people who stomp their feet and demand that fandom stops. Rice created some very compelling characters with some iffy prose...and then people took those characters and wrote them better, and she had a snit. Creators who are comfortable with their vision, trust themselves, and have confidence in the quality of their own work don't need to pull that shit.

[kho]

You know what, you're right. Because I've never read a AR-based fanfic, but having been in fandom so long I kow that there are soooooo many good fanfic writers. Sometimes it's just impossible for a show to be that good, because th ere's no su ch thing as censorship in fandom. The only censorship fandom has is that certain things may not be read or commented on , and therefore the author may stop writig th at. but if someone wants to write Fraggle Rock bondage slash? They totally CAN.

[zessa]

X-Files liked to Wink/Nod at it's fans. Even going so far out as to name a random Red Shirt Character after a major fan who had died. (I forget the whole story, Ask Dia she'd remember.)

David Duchovny and Nick Lea (Mulder and Krycek) totaly got into the slash following they had. At one point Krycek totally plants a kiss on Mulder just to piss him the hell off.

Kinda On the same topic. When the Simpsons did the X-Files Parody episode? I swear, someone on that writing staff HAD to be an online fan. The things they were making fun of, Mulder's red speedo, etc. Were so originally fandom cracks.

[kho]

I remember reading that about the X-Files a few months back. I forget why or where, but I thought it was one of the sweetest things I'd ever heard of a show as major as the X-Files doing. Just, one of the sweetest things period. And that's how a show SHOULD feel about it's fans, even the fanfic writers.

Mulder/Krycek, I always knew about that following, but I was such a Mulder/Scully girl that the short time I was on the fringes of the X-File online fandom (such the fringes that I never actually wrote anything myself) I only read Mulder/Scully.

And your icon is seriously cracking me up. LOL!

[zee_triscuit]

::sigh::

I miss the crazy s2-s6 mulder. The one that screeched like a girl, fell on his ass, wasn't suave, and tripped over things.

Another thing I just remembered. One epesode DD kinda yelled all high pitched and girlish. The fans of course jumped on it and make it into fannon. Then, later, someone on another episode makes a quip, "Was it a girly scream?"

An then, the shout outs of all shout outs, the Lemon Lyman chat boards in WW. Hee. CJ: "I'll shove a mother board so far up your ass Josh... So. Far. Up. Your. Ass."

[zessa]

I will not post on RL journals with my sock puppet...I will not post on RL journals with my sock puppet...

[sparkz0r]

I laugh at Anne "I don't need no stinkin' editor" Rice all the time. Especially now that she's writing her own Bible fanfic. :P