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Okay, I'll bite. Hawm

one argument you often see about fanfiction is that it's like 'training wheels' writing? like 'oh it's fine to do that while you're still learning, it's easier than coming up with your own ideas'. and I have to say I have just never agreed with that.

penny-anna

in my experience it's actually pretty common for newbie fanfiction writers to gravitate towards coming up with OCs rather than writing about the canon characters (hence the infamous Mary Sue); this suggests that many people find that 'easier' than attempting to write about pre-existing characters.

I would say that recreating the characterisation, mood and general vibes of an existing work of fiction is in fact a skill in and of itself that's acquired via practice. A common compliment delivered to fanfiction writers is how well they have captured the spirit of the original work. Inexperienced fanfiction writers fail to do this.

When creating an original character you can, ultimately, say anything about them and now it's canon bcos you created them and you said so. conversely, well, if you are covering a well known song and start playing the wrong notes people will notice immediately.

In addition: a lot of fanfiction, IMO, is in actuality a form of metafictional literary analysis. a story where two characters sit down and talk about their feelings about a canonical event? literary analysis, which is of course a skill. Sometimes fanfiction is bad bcos the writer is not good at interpreting texts.

finally I have made this point before but you never really see anyone suggesting that fictional works based on existing public domain texts are on 'easy mode'. is it 'easier' to write something based on a copyrighted work than a public domain work? Of course it isn't.

penny-anna

I know I said 'finally' but I forgot a point:

A major strength of the transformative work is its ability to create dramatic irony. If a fanfiction's emotional resonance is dependent on being familiar with the source material that's not necessarily a bad thing. sometimes it's a sign that the author has done a really skillful job of engaging with said source material.

argumate

love the genre of discourse that’s like “the world used to be [thing it never was] but now society is [I’m over thirty]”

inphront

evergreen post

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lamignonette

tomhoppusdelonge

“If they wanted too, they would” wrong. I have executive dysfunction. go fuck yourself

tomhoppusdelonge

“If they’re not showing you effort, they’re not interested” bro I can barely show interest in my own hobbies. get down off your pedestal a moment

puckwanger

— dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

#heated rivalry

lakevida

had a beautiful dream last night where anything in the world could be turned into pure uranium if you microwaved it long enough and much like in my waking hours everyone in my life was chastizing me for how badly i want uranium objects in my home

artifactual-annihilation

microwaves arent ionizing but if you used ionizing electromagnetic waves instead of microwaves (so just... really really powerful microwaves to the point we dont call the microwaves, i guess) it is theoretically true that you could, over the course of a very long time, turn things into uranium with it. at least i think.

lakevida

if as many people as possible gave me just one or more dollars i believe i could pursue this line of scientific reasoning with great return on investment

random-jot

ooh I got pliny of elder

russianblush

#the shadow acting as bars of a prison cell forcing ilya to hide himself in russia vs the overflowing of light at shane's cottage that allows him a place to be free and completely himself

#heated rivalry #exqueuese me