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Excuse me! My fanfic is like Jesus!
Jan. 21st, 2008 02:03 pmIn that it heals the sick and raises the dead. And then people fight long, bloody, and pointless wars about it for millennia.
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misscam, why fanfic is like same-sex marriage and interracial marriage
So, don't be a hater: support fanfic and OTW. Otherwise you're....something really, really bad.*
PS. Fanfic has not been written since people first began telling stories. Fanfic is a product of a post-copyright era in which people believe in authorial ownership of certain narratives and hence differentiate between the originating story and derivatives from it (often via long, bloody, and pointless internet wars). Telling a story from a common pool of myths and tales in ye olden tymes back when the Greeks were still wondering how much fun democracy might be is not the same thing as writing about TV characters doing it while they save the world/fight evil/oppress the poor/repair washing machines.
Which is not the same thing as saying it's crap or not fun to read or write, but it's not the same thing as Virgil's Aeneid. For one thing Aeneas doesn't have violet eyes. And he doesn't sleep with all of his crew. But he does emo deliciously.
*ETA: I am almost (only almost) delighted with OTW for providing me with so much delicious entertainment and self-righteous comments on the value of writing fanfic. Sadly, it will all end in tears and law-suits.
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misscam, why fanfic is like same-sex marriage and interracial marriageSo, don't be a hater: support fanfic and OTW. Otherwise you're....something really, really bad.*
PS. Fanfic has not been written since people first began telling stories. Fanfic is a product of a post-copyright era in which people believe in authorial ownership of certain narratives and hence differentiate between the originating story and derivatives from it (often via long, bloody, and pointless internet wars). Telling a story from a common pool of myths and tales in ye olden tymes back when the Greeks were still wondering how much fun democracy might be is not the same thing as writing about TV characters doing it while they save the world/fight evil/oppress the poor/repair washing machines.
Which is not the same thing as saying it's crap or not fun to read or write, but it's not the same thing as Virgil's Aeneid. For one thing Aeneas doesn't have violet eyes. And he doesn't sleep with all of his crew. But he does emo deliciously.
*ETA: I am almost (only almost) delighted with OTW for providing me with so much delicious entertainment and self-righteous comments on the value of writing fanfic. Sadly, it will all end in tears and law-suits.
