Jul 10, 2007 23:33
I imagine we're all planning to buy Lance's book, yes? And take our copies with us when we go to see 'Hairspray', right? *plots trip to NYC*
Okay, let's not speculate on the contents.
What I do wonder, though, is this: will Lance's autobiography affect what we write? And if so, how?
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There must be little dirty secrets on nsync. On top of my head I'm thinking about the real reason of Nsycs's break up...
The book will affect the canon, no doubt about it. The thing is how many people will read the book.
I've spoken to fans here in Mexico and they are quite skeptic about its contents. As I said most celebrity biographies include dirty secrets and I don't know if the book as a whole will be disappointing for some people or illustrative for some others.
I will read the book, I mean, that's for sure. If it has Nsync on the label I will read it.
Myself? I do expect to read about some dirty little secrets, but I won't be dissapointed at all if the book has none as long as it gives you an insiders perspective on the whole Nsync project.
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But will the book make a difference to how you write fanfiction?
Well, when Lance came out my perception of him changed a little, because really, we as popslashers don't care if the guy we are writing about is gay or not. We just write them gay. Lance's coming out was great in the way that well, some of those fics where they portraited Lance as gay, came to be true.
To me it doesn't matter much. As I told turps33 once, I ended being disappointed by some people around here who got really mad that you as a fic writer wrote Lance as straight. I don't see the difference. If I could write Lance being gay while we were in the dark about his sexual preferences, now that we DO know his sexual preference, I can still write him straight ( ... )
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You'd think, for example, that after the People article, that you wouldn't see any new fics where Lance was openly gay with the rest of the band during the early years, but I've seen some.
Fanfiction is all about using what you like and ignoring what interferes with your story :)
My guess is that if there's anything new, especially if it's unexpected and shocking (which I actually doubt), it'll get stories based on it, but if it contradicts something we love, it'll just get written around :) It seems to be a fairly common technique, actually, to take cannon and write the backstory that completely turns it on its head.
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But in existing stories (I'm thinking Something So Right here, specifically) the world-building's already been done so I can slide back into that 'verse without having to make revisionist changes. In that world, JC and Lance were on-and-off together through most of ANSN and NSA and PopOd and Celebrity and that's that.
And Jesse's still the prettiest. ;)
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Yes, I can see that where you've already built the world, that's that, and it doesn't need to be affected by fresh canon info. I hope that means you have more bits and pieces of that world yet to come!
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I remember feeling very uncertain of my ground when I wrote a Lance/Reichen story, and not *just* because that was writing about a real relationship - but I hadn't any Lance/Reichen *fanon* to work from, so I felt rather insecure!
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Of course, with Lance's book we have the option of believing it or not. Depending on the contents, of course, which I know I, for one, will be taking with a grain of salt. I seriously doubt Lance is going to be revealing anything crazy that will effect our canon as we know it and prevent us from making everyone gay, as we like to do. I mean, his coming out effected some stuff--definitely, for example, some people were upset/disappointed that Lance never told the guys about his big gayness. I like to think that all those times he fucked JC in front of them sort of cleared up any confusion they might've had about the subject :P
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And indeed, we do ignore canon whenever it suits us. I've sometimes followed a strict timeline using canalbaby's chronology, and at other times a fic is just 'in Europe' or something. Our 'muses' aren't really the same people as 'our boys', I think.
I can't help wondering why there hasn't been more fic poking into the whys and wherefores of Lance leaving Justin until the very last when it came to saying, hey, I'm gay (and, um, you might wanna have some answers ready for the interviews, because there's this magazine...).
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Heee. See um, I think it's pretty funny actually, but I'm not sure that Lance DID leave Justin until the end. That was the party line at first, but if you watch interview with Justin from last summer, his story slowly changes. First, Lance didn't tell her at all, he hasn't talked to Lance, etc. Then it was, "Oh, Lance never said anything, but of course I KNEW." And then (I think it was on Leno?) Justin said that Lance had actually *called* him before hand to ask if it was okay with Justin that he do this, and Justin told him it was his life and he needed to do what he needed to do to be happy.
SO. I sort of think they held back the real story for the sake of waiting to see how public opinion would fall. Who knows what the real story is?
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That's one of the places where canon has nice little cracks into which we should be able to insert stories.
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