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Five Things About Fanfiction
Mar. 1st, 2010 10:19 pm1.( fanfic recommendation )
2. ( why would anyone in their right mind plagarize someone else's fanfic to write their own fanfic? )
3. Why do people write and read fanfic? What compells us to do it? And what draws us to it?
And what do we look for in fic that we can't find in something else? And more to the point, why are we so judgmental and critical of the fanfic that others write and read - regardless of the type? Why are people judgmental of others tastes?
4.Who in the heck came up with OTP as one true ship, why isn't it OTS - OTS would make more sense and wouldn't be confusing since (ETA: Never mind, I figured it out on the way to work this morning, when it hit me = "paring" and I thought, Duh. Then I pondered why people picked pairing over "ship" or "relationship" or "romance"...because in the real world - OTP means On-Time Performance and has meant this since the 1800s, hence my confusion. My difficulty is that Online and Offline are using the same accroynymes/abbreviations but with completely different meanings. Examples:
ETA = Estimated Time of Arrival (at work) vs. Edited to Add (online)
OTP = On time performance rating (at work) vs. One True Pairing (online)
And there are others...]
5. What is up with this whole fic must be based on canon?? Isn't this an oxymoron of sorts? Isn't all fanfiction by its very nature based on canon??? (Personally, I find if the fic concerns a favorite pairing of mine - I will try anything. Canon, smanon. I honestly don't care that much...as long as the characters are interesting, provide a new twist, and seem plausible - I'm there. Also more character-centric than plot centric fic wise. Overly plotty fic bores me. It should be about the characters, new layers, bits I didn't think of or see before.) Not sure I understand the whole canon thing when it applies to fanfic. I mean let's be honest, can any fanfic be considered canon and not AU at a certain point? And isn't all fanfic to some degree based on canon - including an everybody's human fic - after all you are basing it on the characters of the story, using their attributes and similar themes from the tale to tell your own. If it was "canon" then it would be plagarized and not original in the least and sorry, what is the point of doing it in the first place? PRide and Prejudice with Zombies was certainly not canon, yet it is certainly based on canon.
PS: While I'm generally speaking not a huge fan of parody, the Buffy the PEnguin Vampire Slayer Fanfic/Fanart meme going about is hilarious. Especially the photo of a naked Spike in Wrecked conversing with a Penguin Buffy, after a hot night of sex. That you don't see everyday. Someone even wrote a fic in which everyone in the series is a penguine and what it would have been like if it had been a series with well the animated Penguin cast of Happy Dance. At the very least it would have been something kids between the ages of 6-10 would have loved.
2. ( why would anyone in their right mind plagarize someone else's fanfic to write their own fanfic? )
3. Why do people write and read fanfic? What compells us to do it? And what draws us to it?
And what do we look for in fic that we can't find in something else? And more to the point, why are we so judgmental and critical of the fanfic that others write and read - regardless of the type? Why are people judgmental of others tastes?
4.
ETA = Estimated Time of Arrival (at work) vs. Edited to Add (online)
OTP = On time performance rating (at work) vs. One True Pairing (online)
And there are others...]
5. What is up with this whole fic must be based on canon?? Isn't this an oxymoron of sorts? Isn't all fanfiction by its very nature based on canon??? (Personally, I find if the fic concerns a favorite pairing of mine - I will try anything. Canon, smanon. I honestly don't care that much...as long as the characters are interesting, provide a new twist, and seem plausible - I'm there. Also more character-centric than plot centric fic wise. Overly plotty fic bores me. It should be about the characters, new layers, bits I didn't think of or see before.) Not sure I understand the whole canon thing when it applies to fanfic. I mean let's be honest, can any fanfic be considered canon and not AU at a certain point? And isn't all fanfic to some degree based on canon - including an everybody's human fic - after all you are basing it on the characters of the story, using their attributes and similar themes from the tale to tell your own. If it was "canon" then it would be plagarized and not original in the least and sorry, what is the point of doing it in the first place? PRide and Prejudice with Zombies was certainly not canon, yet it is certainly based on canon.
PS: While I'm generally speaking not a huge fan of parody, the Buffy the PEnguin Vampire Slayer Fanfic/Fanart meme going about is hilarious. Especially the photo of a naked Spike in Wrecked conversing with a Penguin Buffy, after a hot night of sex. That you don't see everyday. Someone even wrote a fic in which everyone in the series is a penguine and what it would have been like if it had been a series with well the animated Penguin cast of Happy Dance. At the very least it would have been something kids between the ages of 6-10 would have loved.