Tag: fanfiction

Here’s what fanfiction understands that the Puppies don’t: inversion and subversion don’t ruin the story – they just give you new ways to tell it, and new tools to tell it with. Take a platonic relationship and make it romantic; there’s a story in that. Take a romantic relationship and make it platonic; there’s a story in that, too. Take a human and make her a werewolf; take a werewolf and make him human. Don’t try and sidle up on hurt/comfort like it’s something you’re ashamed to be indulging in; embrace the tropes until you have their mastery. Take a gang of broken souls surviving the apocalypse and make them happy in high school; take a bunch of funny, loving high school kids and shove them in the apocalypse. Like Archimedes, fanfic writers find the soul, the essence of what makes the characters real, and use it as a fulcrum on which to pivot entire worlds, with inversion/subversion as their lever of infinite length.

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I’m done explaining why fanfic is okay.

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Note: this post was originally made in 2010 in response to Diana Gabaldon’s epic rant about fanfiction. The original version is still being updated. I’m reposting it to Tumblr by request, but if you have any additions, please feel free to drop a comment at LJ so they can be added to the masterpost!

Dear Author of the Week,

You think fanfic is a personal affront to the many hours you’ve spent carefully crafting your characters. You think fanfic is “immoral and illegal.” You think fanfiction is just plagiarism. You think fanfiction is cheating. You think fanfic is for people who are too stupid/lazy/unimaginative to write stories of their own. You think there are exceptions for people who write published derivative works as part of a brand or franchise, because they’re clearly only doing it because they have to. You’re personally traumatized by the idea that someone else could look at your characters and decide that you did it wrong and they need to fix it/add original characters to your universe/send your characters to the moon/Japan/their hometown. You think all fanfic is basically porn. You’re revolted by the very idea that fic writers think what they do is legitimate.

We get it. 

Congratulations! You’ve just summarily dismissed as criminal, immoral, and unimaginative each of the following Pulitzer Prize-winning writers and works:

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Not to my taste

Saying ‘this didn’t work for me’ isn’t hate.

Saying ‘I didn’t buy the relationship’ isn’t hate.

Saying ‘This part worked for me but this didn’t’ isn’t hate.

Not liking something isn’t a crime, isn’t hate, and won’t get your fandom card revoked. I promise. Saying certainly isn’t wrong either. There is a very pervasive culture to not critique in fandom because it is a gift culture and saying no to a gift or complaining about it, especially in the USian culture I grew up in, simply isn’t done.

Online fandom is not that, folks. It is perfectly okay to not like something and say you don’t like it. We engage in critique of popular culture by writing fanfiction, creating fan art and writing meta. Responding to fanworks is just another form of interacting with that.

I have been in fandom for a very long time now (let’s just say BSG, the original, was on the air) and I see this every so often. Please, just step away from the keyboard for a day or two and think about if you are going to remember this is a week, month or year (I bet you won’t). 

Someone not liking the same things as you IS OKAY. SAYING IT IS OKAY.

mercy-misrule:

every time you write fic where its primarily about one pairing but you include and celebrate the characters’ other friends, family and loved ones, where you acknowledge that they have other important connections

small animals everywhere are suddenly more fond of you, the wind feels gentle, and the fresh smell of cut grass and crushed flowers lifts the spirits of someone who is having a bad day

and every time you write fic that demonises, ignores, aggressively mischaracterises and stereotypes the characters’ other important connections for the sake of cheap shitty angst

an angel whispers ‘yeah but nah, mate’.

they are an Australian angel and they are extremely tired of their job. how did this happen to them, why does it keep happening, why don’t people understand that no man is an island, that gross character bashing is dull and boring and 99% time entirely out of character.

then the angel gets a latte and eats a mediocre spanakopita to help them get through the day.

Bottle Opener

copperbadge:

Natasha found Clint in his apartment, which made life easier. He was sitting on the couch, a beer in one hand, a knife dangling casually from the other. 

The floor was strewn with clothes — not unusual for Clint, but generally there weren’t this many on the floor. It looked as though he’d emptied his entire closet and dresser. Underwear, sweatpants, t-shirts, uniform gear. Two pairs of boots and one pair of running shoes. Two ties. Several pairs of socks. And a six pack’s worth of beer bottles. 

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