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she-who-fights-and-writes
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fixionhype
“I adore the way fan fiction writers engage with and critique source texts, by manipulating them and breaking their rules. Some of it is straight-up homage, but a lot of [fan fiction] is really aggressive towards the source text. One tends to think of it as written by total fanboys and fangirls as a kind of worshipful act, but a lot of times you’ll read these stories and it’ll be like ‘What if Star Trek had an openly gay character on the bridge?’ And of course, the point is that they don’t, and they wouldn’t, because they don’t have the balls, or they are beholden to their advertisers, or whatever. There’s a powerful critique, almost punk-like anger, being expressed there—which I find fascinating and interesting and cool.” ― Lev Grossman
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elfwreck

Grossman's 2011 article in Time Magazine about fanfic:

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The Boy Who Lived Forever
Inside the alternate universe of fan fiction, where Harry Potter's story never ends
TIME.com

Fandom reactions roundup: https://elf.dreamwidth.org/430840.html

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faustandfurious
Up until relatively recently, creating original characters from scratch wasn't a major part of an author's job description. When Virgil wrote The Aeneid, he didn't invent Aeneas; Aeneas was a minor character in Homer's Odyssey whose unauthorized further adventures Virgil decided to chronicle. Shakespeare didn't invent Hamlet and King Lear; he plucked them from historical and literary sources. Writers weren't the originators of the stories they told; they were just the temporary curators of them. Real creation was something the gods did. All that has changed. Today the way we think of creativity is dominated by Romantic notions of individual genius and originality, and late-capitalist concepts of intellectual property, under which artists are businesspeople whose creations are the commodities they have for sale.

I want to yeet this quote at everyone who refers to the Aeneid as fanfiction

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ramyun-monster

And they mean it in a derogatory way? Like fanfiction to those people you're referring to treat it as a synonym for badly written self indulgent stories?

I still don't really know what is wrong with fanfiction. If we look at Legolas by Laura as an act of desecration of the original text (instead of taking it literally and reading it like a story somebody's telling us), it gets interesting even though it has probably been written by a kid. What if we treat it like a meta-story about telling stories and interacting with the original text?

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faustandfurious

The point is that the concept of fanfiction only makes sense in a context where copyright also exists, and in the older literary tradition where everyone is borrowing plots and characters from everyone else, calling the Aeneid or the Divine Comedy «fanfiction (often mildly derogatory)» simply misses the mark.

#i agree with this reblog like#referring to old literature pieces as fanfictions doesn’t make sense bc#copyright didn’t exist/wasn’t the same as now#but at the same time i think the point is that mocking fics is a stupid move bc#every single writer needs a reference for their works to the point the “original writer” doesn’t make sense#writers don’t invent stories#they tell them#which is different imo
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letitrainathousandflames

Y'know, some people do have a strong crying response to stress, and they might cry (even against their own will) when faced with an upsetting situation and that doesnt mean they are "gaslighting" or "manipulating" you.

There are people who use crying as a manipulation tactic? Absolutely. But that doesn't mean that every person that cries during a heated argument is trying to get under your skin. They have their own emotions and issues, and frankly, not everything other people do is a personal attack on you.

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immortalspacelesbian

i’m so glad (tv show) heartstopper explicitly said that tara and darcy were lesbians multiple times because it’s so rare to actually see women on screen CALL themselves lesbians instead of just being ambiguous about their sexuality

lesbians in media are always made to be ambiguously queer and it’s so rare that a character will actually use the word lesbian to describe themselves. some characters in movies and tv are so SO lesbian coded. they never state that they like men, they only get into relationships with women, but they will never use the word lesbian. it’s gotta stop getting the ‘dirty word’ treatment because it isn’t a dirty word it’s literally just a sexuality

lesbian is not a dirty word, it’s okay for people to call themselves lesbians

#heartstopper#THIS!!!#i hate when things are so obvious but people pretend they don’t have eyes like#honestly assuming that every gay/lesbian person is probably attracted to the other sex just bc “the story wasn’t long enough to show it”#it’s kinda homophobic#“the story wasn’t long enough” and it’s a 2million words novel#long enough my ass#glad they used the word lesbian#it was fucking finally
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