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tempestuously) wrote2005-11-21 08:00 pm
tempestuously) wrote2005-11-21 08:00 pm
Entry tags:
- fanfiction,
- hp,
- icons,
- kitten
......argh
EDIT: I fail at my own obsession. Stupid switching lyrics.
I love how when LJ starts cooperating again, my Firefox goes on a one-browser crusade against the site. And Google. Just those two. I don't even want to know.
Sasuke-neko is no longer allowed to spend the night in my room, as she kept me awake all night scratching everything in sight and made me late to work.
Recap on Goblet. On my trip with Tom, we had an amusing Snape, courtesy of the theatre staff. He mocked the little kiddies when they couldn't perform his magic tricks. For their budget, he wasn't so bad. Much better than my last Goblet trip, where I had fangirls screaming "OH MY GOD" when Harry Potter took off his shirt and got in the tub. For God's sakes, women, it's Harry Potter! The fangirling never stopped, as everything single scene was cause for some sort of squealing or sobbing. They sobbed through the last 15 minutes of the movie. I wanted to slap them.
This trip just had a massive argument over the quality and significance of fanfiction. One of Tom's friends claimed it was worthless writing because it involved using the characters and worlds another had already established. I pointed out that published authors also do this, like the author of "Wicked" or the fantasy writers who do their own take on established stories/characters. He said there was a line but couldn't explain what that meant. It got pretty heated. I told him he was generalizing an entire genre based on a few (ok, maybe a lot of) crappy examples. He said as an English major, he found fanfiction a perversion of the author's genius. I think this is where I snapped. I wanted to knock this around in![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fanficrants just to see the reaction, but I guess I'll test-drive it here first. What's your take on the whole argument on the merit of fanfiction?
*sniffles* I'll never finish my icons by premiere date.
I love how when LJ starts cooperating again, my Firefox goes on a one-browser crusade against the site. And Google. Just those two. I don't even want to know.
Sasuke-neko is no longer allowed to spend the night in my room, as she kept me awake all night scratching everything in sight and made me late to work.
Recap on Goblet. On my trip with Tom, we had an amusing Snape, courtesy of the theatre staff. He mocked the little kiddies when they couldn't perform his magic tricks. For their budget, he wasn't so bad. Much better than my last Goblet trip, where I had fangirls screaming "OH MY GOD" when Harry Potter took off his shirt and got in the tub. For God's sakes, women, it's Harry Potter! The fangirling never stopped, as everything single scene was cause for some sort of squealing or sobbing. They sobbed through the last 15 minutes of the movie. I wanted to slap them.
This trip just had a massive argument over the quality and significance of fanfiction. One of Tom's friends claimed it was worthless writing because it involved using the characters and worlds another had already established. I pointed out that published authors also do this, like the author of "Wicked" or the fantasy writers who do their own take on established stories/characters. He said there was a line but couldn't explain what that meant. It got pretty heated. I told him he was generalizing an entire genre based on a few (ok, maybe a lot of) crappy examples. He said as an English major, he found fanfiction a perversion of the author's genius. I think this is where I snapped. I wanted to knock this around in
fanficrants just to see the reaction, but I guess I'll test-drive it here first. What's your take on the whole argument on the merit of fanfiction?*sniffles* I'll never finish my icons by premiere date.
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To say it's a perversion is very closed minded. It's an expansion, nothing more, nothing else. How it's written and the quality within has nothing to do with the fact that the characters are borrowed.
Some of the fanfic writers out there blow the established, "professional" authors I read out of the water. They work with words better, weave visuals better, everything. And to say that it's easier than normal fiction is bullshit, too. Sometimes it's HARDER to work with other people's characters. You have to work around canon without getting rid of it, find the remeaning plot threads in the ones that already exist.
To me, it is fabulous practice for young (and even older) writers, and...to be perfectly frank, there's a reason I sit at the computer all the time, and read certain stories over and over again. Some of it has to do with loving the characters. But if it was all worthless crap like a lot of it is, I wouldn't even bother.
Personally, it sounds to me like he's a bit of a snob. He probably thinks there's no merit in comic books or manga, either...
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I used to think that fanfic was pretty worthless, if only because someone spends so long on a work that will never get them any recognition outside the internet simply because the characters are copyrighted. But I think when you push aside all the shitty fics there's some *amazing* stuff out there, and those kind of stories are, I think, more of a homage to the original author than a perversion of their genius. And it's definitely not worthless writing. Fanfiction introduced me to writing and helped me with a lot of basic skills, like punctuation and grammar, because I knew no one would read my stuff if it was grammatically incorrect.
I can't believe anyone would be so narrow-minded as to call it worthless...ugh.