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theformerastronomer

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Writing Progress 10/20/19

Story: currently untitled AU based off of @wafflelate DOS fic from the desk

Expanding on what I’ve started with timely assist

Word count: 586

Favorite Line: Maybe it was the fact that she had lost everything again, and was feeling nostalgic about things from more than one lifetime ago.

#writing progress #myfic: currently untitled #good news: i have graduated from grad school #bad news: i now have a full time real grown up person job and a big professional exam in a few months #good news: my roommate and i are having a writing competition so i have some ~motivation~ to write

Art for F is for Fen who do stuff together exchange, since apparently i need to host images on someplace not ao3

#eye trauma

mizjoely

Unfriendly reminder that “please write more” isn’t a review, it’s a demand. At least preface it with “I love this” or “Your characterization was spot on”. You know, buy me dinner first, sheesh!

keeptheotherone

How to turn this demand into a review: tell my WHY you want me to write more.

#fanfiction #fanfiction reviews

autobotrose

part of writing is looking words up just to make sure ur using the right definition because ur unsure

zoe324writes

This!!!! And to check the spelling too, like I've written this word fifty times, but what if this time I spelled it wrong????

#writing problems

swanjolras-blog-archive-deactiv

man this has been said before by cleverer folks than me, but sometimes you have to sit down and let the sheer size and age of the storytelling tradition just completely overwhelm you, ja feel?

like— think for a second about how mind-bogglingly incredible it is that we know who osiris is? that somebody just made him up one day, and told stories about him to their kids, and literally thousands and thousands of years later we are still able to go “there was a god whose brother cut him into pieces”, it’s so arbitrary, it’s so incredible

that in talking about scheherazade and her husband, you are doing something that someone in every single generation has done since it was written— you are telling stories that have lasted an impossible amount of time

can you conceive of telling a story, and then traveling into the future and hearing that same story told— with alterations, and through media that you could not possibly conceive of, but your story— in the year 3214?

the fact that we! as a species! have been telling the same damn stories for so long— the fact that we’ve seen homer’s troy and chaucer’s troy and shakespeare’s troy and troy with fucking brad pitt because we never fucking stop telling stories! never ever ever!

we never stop caring about stories, or returning to the same stories, or putting our own spins on stories. we never stop talking about the characters as if they were real, or asking what happened next, or asking to hear it again.

generation after generation, they never ever ever stop mattering to us.

#storytelling

salisjunkyard-deactivated201610

So which is considered the oldest fandom? ( By what is considered a fandom by today’s standards) Sherlock or Star Trek?

Star Trek fandom basically created the idea of fan fiction, but Sherlock fandom nagged the writer to bring Sherlock back from the dead so the series didn’t end.

Sherlock or Star Trek???

transformativeworks

*dusts off lectern*

Star Trek is generally considered the first western tv/film fandom. (The Man from UNCLE had a fandom slightly before then, but it didn’t persist or make a huge splash like Star Trek did).

Sherlock Holmes is generally considered the first western modern fandom in the sense that it’s the first piece of media to have a fandom amidst modern ideas of copyright. (There are other fandoms that came a bit earlier, especially with the serialized publication of novels, but, again, they didn’t persist or make a huge splash like Sherlock Holmes did.)

As many other people have pointed out in response to this post, fandom (aka participatory culture) has been a thing basically forever, both in terms of writing fanfiction (though it wasn’t called that) and in terms of having Feels and Opinions about stories and sharing them with the creators.

Modern notions of fandom are generally characterized by our concept of intellectual property ownership and the methods of media distribution, both of which create a divide between producers and fans that makes each identity more discrete.

(Sorry for being a bad academic and not citing anything here, but I’m on mobile and don’t feel like sourcing it all.)

uwanosorade

(Waves) I’m a graduate student studying Classical Japanese literature, and last year a colleague of mine did her MA thesis on 山路の露 (“Yamaji no tsuyu,” “Dew on the Mountain Road”) which is an honest-to-god fix-it fic of The Tale of Genji (aka the world’s first novel) that the 13th-century author wrote so her otp could get together.

roachpatrol

A great many Knights of the Round Table were OCs added in to the narrative by local storytellers who wanted a knight from their area of England. Some of them have absolutely fucking crazy powersets, and a non-zero amount of them have same-sex romances. Lancelot himself, one of the most famous knights, is Chrétien de Troyes’ super cool good at everything totally hawt Gary Stu from the 12th century.

The fic writers for BBC’s Merlin are arguably the truest inheritors of English-language fanfiction, especially the ones that make knight OCs and slash them.

wrangletangle

In addition to the lovely and true examples listed above, fairy tales and most folklore and ancient semi-historical epics fall under this umbrella as well. Retellings and revisions and translations and artistic renderings and ballads and poems and plays and alternate universes where these stories are transplanted to new settings and… It’s all there.

There is no first fandom on record because “fandom” is just a modern name for a universal human impulse that dates back to long before the written word. While we may mark milestones in fannish development in different cultures, mostly driven by new technology and social structures and access, we cannot - nor should we try to - define the world’s “first fandom”. We cannot possibly know the first story any human ever told another, and that other then retold. We cannot know the first painting that a human was inspired to imitate or translate into song. That is lost to pre-history.

melannen

The Epic of Gilgamesh is basically somebody looking at the existing canon of episodic Gilgamesh stories and going “you know what, this needs a coherent character arc.”

“…..and let’s make it a lot more gay.”

ninemoons42

omg I need to have this shit on my blog for reasons

#fandom #fan history

Writing Progress 4/28/17

Story: The Security Applications of Temporal Compression Seals

Word Count: 396

Favorite Line: The kunai are sharpened and well balanced, but the impression on the handle was made with a much larger hand, with much longer fingers.

#writing progress #myfic: the security applications of temporal compression seals #good news: i got into grad school!#bad news: i have two online classes to take and need to move to a different state by the end of july

moosekleenex

#fanfiction #fanart

katie-dub

We’ve all seen a lot of posts telling us we need to comment/kudos/reblog/love our fanfic authors or they will stop writing. I know, I’ve shared them.

But those posts never talk about what you, as a reader, get out of it. So here are my entirely selfish reasons that you should engage with fanfic (writers) that you love:

1. Free, quality content on your blog in the time it takes to smash reblog.

2. It’s good for you: people who “practice gratitude consistently report” higher levels of happiness, lower blood pressure, feel less lonely and other good shit.(x)

3. It’s not just writers who read those comments and reviews, you might find yourself a flail buddy. It just feels good to say “this is the BEST” and have someone else say, “I know, right?!”

4. The actual author might respond to your comments, follow you, start chatting to you or publicly thank you for encouraging them to write more.

5. If you start putting out fic rec lists, people might come to you asking for more recommendations. Who doesn’t like to feel like their thoughts and opinions matter?

6. Get so inspired you have to make art for a fic? Writers looove that - you could find they say thanks, share your art, use it as their header (on their blog or fic - seeing your picset at the top of a fic you love is just jandjdjbdudndj) or write you a fic.

7. And, of course, you’ll make a writer happy. And happy writers write more fic. Even if they never, ever engage with you, just knowing you’re there reading and caring means you get more fic to read.

8. All the ways we have of showing writers some love makes you a part of something. Fandom can be weird and wonderful, and at times utterly mental. But being in the club feels pretty damn great.

@kmomof4 @pocket-anon @artandteaandstuff @effulgentcolors @mahstatins @like-waves-on-the-beach @justanotherwannabeclassic @shipping-goggles

amagicalship-deactivated2020072

I love this very positive take on leaving reviews! Everyone wins, I agree. :)

nfbagelperson

I read so much fo’ free, the least I can do is give a well deserved shout out. It’s slightly selfish, because it means you may get more stories.

#fanfiction

fanfic alignments

Lawful Good: lurked for a month before posting to consume all fan content in their area of interest, internalise tagging conventions, and learn what content is already well-represented and what is lacking. fills in gaps in the fandom oeuvre out of a sense of community responsibility. alerts people who were like "why isn't there fic of this" that there is now fic of this and includes author's notes acknowledging those people by name for inspiring said fic.

Neutral Good: writes fic in response to prompts or community discussion. beloved by those who follow and interact with them. potential ouroboros relationship with fanon, where they both contribute to the development of fanon conventions and perpetuate them.

Chaotic Good: "I know no one asked for this but the idea wouldn't leave me alone so HERE, HAVE THIS THING THAT I POURED AN UNREASONABLE AMOUNT OF MY LIFEFORCE INTO. FREE ME FROM THE GRIP OF THIS FEVERED MUSE"

Lawful Neutral: scrupulously researched, impeccably canon-compliant fic. author may go out of their way to mimic the canon narrative style as closely as possible. readers' comments are likely to include "wow, this feels like it could have been an actual episode of [source media]!" high proportion of missing scenes, alternate POV scenes, and character interactions that should have been given screentime in canon but were tragically underutilised.

True Neutral: had an idea, wrote it, and posted it. may not be aware of the fandom zeitgeist or may simply not care. doing their own thing and feeling the fulfillment of an idea properly manifested. lower average hitcount than many other alignments due to lack of engagement with fandom or fanon and potential redundancy to already-existing fanwork. may be dabbling in a fandom they have no specific intention to revisit.

Chaotic Neutral: AUs, expies, self-inserts, reader-inserts, reader-directed/choose-your-own-adventure fic, crack, etc. We're all mad here! Mad and having so much fun.

Lawful Evil: "I have no justification and no excuse, but enjoy this exhaustively-tagged, morally unconscionable character torture! I sure did :)"

Neutral Evil: fic would not have existed if not for the motivating power of spite and frustration with the fandom (or, in certain end-of-the-bellcurve cases, the source media, but in general spite/frustration toward the source media is common in any alignment). whatever other motivations there may be, the fic is an express Take That of greater or lesser subtlety. this author is so mad. why is everyone doing this wrong? WHY MUST THEY BE THE ONE TO RIGHT THIS WRONG? THEY'LL SHOW YOU WHAT THIS CONTENT SHOULD BE. THEY'LL SHOW YOU ALL!!!

Chaotic Evil: wants someone to suffer. is it the cause of their spite, whom they are using Take That fic to call out? is it their readers, whom they are trolling, whether with badfic or with a poisoned-apple plot that seems to be all the reader desires before it takes a horrible twist? is it the creator(s) of the source media? it doesn't matter, as long as someone experiences regret as a result of the fic's existence.

#fanfiction

Writing Progress 3/21/17

Story: The Security Applications of Temporal Compression Seals

Word Count: 341 (Ch 4 word count: 2360)

Favorite Line: Aoba stared at Kakashi aghast, “I thought this was supposed to be a simple pick up mission!?”

#writing progress #myfic: the security applications of temporal compression seals

salisjunkyard-deactivated201610

So which is considered the oldest fandom? ( By what is considered a fandom by today’s standards) Sherlock or Star Trek?

Star Trek fandom basically created the idea of fan fiction, but Sherlock fandom nagged the writer to bring Sherlock back from the dead so the series didn’t end.

Sherlock or Star Trek???

transformativeworks

*dusts off lectern*

Star Trek is generally considered the first western tv/film fandom. (The Man from UNCLE had a fandom slightly before then, but it didn’t persist or make a huge splash like Star Trek did).

Sherlock Holmes is generally considered the first western modern fandom in the sense that it’s the first piece of media to have a fandom amidst modern ideas of copyright. (There are other fandoms that came a bit earlier, especially with the serialized publication of novels, but, again, they didn’t persist or make a huge splash like Sherlock Holmes did.)

As many other people have pointed out in response to this post, fandom (aka participatory culture) has been a thing basically forever, both in terms of writing fanfiction (though it wasn’t called that) and in terms of having Feels and Opinions about stories and sharing them with the creators.

Modern notions of fandom are generally characterized by our concept of intellectual property ownership and the methods of media distribution, both of which create a divide between producers and fans that makes each identity more discrete.

(Sorry for being a bad academic and not citing anything here, but I’m on mobile and don’t feel like sourcing it all.)

uwanosorade

(Waves) I’m a graduate student studying Classical Japanese literature, and last year a colleague of mine did her MA thesis on 山路の露 (“Yamaji no tsuyu,” “Dew on the Mountain Road”) which is an honest-to-god fix-it fic of The Tale of Genji (aka the world’s first novel) that the 13th-century author wrote so her otp could get together.

roachpatrol

A great many Knights of the Round Table were OCs added in to the narrative by local storytellers who wanted a knight from their area of England. Some of them have absolutely fucking crazy powersets, and a non-zero amount of them have same-sex romances. Lancelot himself, one of the most famous knights, is Chrétien de Troyes’ super cool good at everything totally hawt Gary Stu from the 12th century.

The fic writers for BBC’s Merlin are arguably the truest inheritors of English-language fanfiction, especially the ones that make knight OCs and slash them.

luninosity

Medievalist here: I’ve actually done papers on this, and how we are moving back toward a much more medieval (especially later medieval, with wider distribution of texts) concept of collective and collaborative authorship and participatory culture, as per Lydgate (who openly invited someone to take his work, rework it, and do better), and Malory, who actively asked readers to help him out (you like? Leave kudos! Support! Message the king!) while he was writing from prison. Also, Malory’s Lancelot indisputably crossdresses and is arguably bisexual. :-)

yeahcoolduck

I don’t know if ya’ll caught that super huge fanart phase for a popular book about a renegade rebel magician who came back from the dead after being executed for crimes agains the state, but it was pretty intense and lasted nearly two thousand years. The fandom infighting was and continues to be fucking catastrophic even though most of the artists have moved onto other fandoms.

petermorwood

I remember reading a suggestion that “The Aeneid” could be regarded as a fanfic sequel of “The Illiad” and, since it was retconning Roman history to make Octavian / Augustus Caesar look good, it was also a Martius Stuus fanfic…

(YMMV - it’s a vague memory, so all this is very dodgy.)

rembrandtswife

And the Divine Comedy is a fanfic fusion of the Aeneid with the Bible in which great ancient poets tell the author he’s just as cool as they are. And he faints a lot.

beka-tiddalik

Also “who topped” was an ongoing dispute between Ancient Greek Philosophers like Plato and Aeschylus in regards to their favourite pairing from the Illiad, Achilles and Patroclus.

So yes, slash shipping wars are actually older than Jesus.

#fanfiction #fanfiction history