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What if the Hulk fought Superman? What if the X-men teamed up with the Avengers? The latter actually happened. . . .
I always thought the whole point of being a writer is to use your own creation and imagination - I guess you do in a way with fan-fi. I'm just not a fan.
You know what I notice about these fanfic discussions? Nobody wants to defend slash. So the question is, if pretty much everyone agrees it's bad...
But... why??? Why do they do it? It boggles me that people are willing to twist characterization around like a pretzel in order to make their two favorite characters hook up. Faithfulness to the source material be damned. This goes for shippers in general, but slashers in particular.
Probably an element of "fantasizing" in there, which is an element to a lot of fiction, slash fanfic or not.
I don't think there is any contradiction in loving the source material and writing fanfic that is very different. I assume most people that write fanfic do it with respect to works they are "fans" of.
It seems more like the fanfic writer declaring "Screw you, my way is better!"
In which case the question becomes, why don't you write your own stuff?
The absolute best and most charitable interpretation of fanfic I can muster is that it is like the pretend games we play as children, where we "become" our favorite characters and have adventures in the roles.
But even that comparison is unfavorable for fanfic, slash in particular, because every game has rules and the fanfic-ers seem to forget this. Exempli gratia:
Kid A: "Bam! I just killed you!"
Kid B: "You can't do that!"
Kid C: "Because Batman doesn't kill, DUH!"
Kid A: "Yeah, play right."
Kid B: "Okay, okay."
Fanfiction writers seem to have forgotten the rules that small children know instictively.
If you assume the role of (or write) a character, you must be consistent. If you want to deviate significantly from the source, the best you can do is to set your fiction in an "alternate universe". Fanfiction includes no such disclaimer.
And I fail to see how destroying characterization just so you can see [insert villain] sodomize [insert hero] and afterward discuss their wonderful relationship is "social commentary."
It just seems contradictory to me. If you love the original so much, why would you want to change it? (And I mean change it wholesale, not just make tiny edits like Psy mentioned.)
Some people love it I personally hate it. Right noe there is a lot of Twilight fan-fiction and Hunger Games. I just feel that, those authors created those characters, no one knows them better than the author.
When I read fan-fi it's just not the same. It's not as good, and the characters alwys feel different to me, almost like entirely different characters.
(though if you have the resources, you can try to intimidate the fanfic writer with threats of suit, I suppose).
To me that doesn't make since the fanfic writers aren't making money off of the material written (and most of the time fanfic writers put disclaimers in their stories), but then again: there would be someone asshole enough to try and bury them out of butt-hurt over their work being used.
To me that doesn't make since the fanfic writers aren't making money off of the material written (and most of the time fanfic writers put disclaimers in their stories), but then again: there would be someone asshole enough to try and bury them out of butt-hurt over their work being used.
Hi Anders,
The only thing that matters is - are you enjoying it?
I'm not a fan of it and I've never had the desire to read any. I think fan fic is the equivalent of "writer karaoke."
But... why??? Why do they do it? It boggles me that people are willing to twist characterization around like a pretzel in order to make their two favorite characters hook up. Faithfulness to the source material be damned. This goes for shippers in general, but slashers in particular.