Reading articles for Composition II
Oct. 21st, 2013 04:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shamanicshayminI found this little gem from The Problem(s) With Fan Fiction:
If you’ve got crazy cool ideas for characters and relationships, don’t waste them in someone else’s world. Do you think Suzanne Collins would have been successful if she reworked her Hunger Game stories into works of Rugrats fan fiction?
Congratulations, author. You just shot yourself in the foot, 'cause now Hunger Games AUs in Rugrats fanfiction probably exists. Or will exist. I don't even like Rugrats, and the first thing I thought was, "Dude, now I wanna see Collins do dark Rugrats fic set in her own universe."
Is it me, or does a few of the anti-fanfic arguments seem misogynistic? "Ugh, women and their slash and talentless hacks masturbating over porn of someone else's characters! Stupid anime fangirls who crush over hot bishounen disrespect the author by writing fanfiction."
If you’ve got crazy cool ideas for characters and relationships, don’t waste them in someone else’s world. Do you think Suzanne Collins would have been successful if she reworked her Hunger Game stories into works of Rugrats fan fiction?
Congratulations, author. You just shot yourself in the foot, 'cause now Hunger Games AUs in Rugrats fanfiction probably exists. Or will exist. I don't even like Rugrats, and the first thing I thought was, "Dude, now I wanna see Collins do dark Rugrats fic set in her own universe."
Is it me, or does a few of the anti-fanfic arguments seem misogynistic? "Ugh, women and their slash and talentless hacks masturbating over porn of someone else's characters! Stupid anime fangirls who crush over hot bishounen disrespect the author by writing fanfiction."
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Date: 2013-10-23 07:26 pm (UTC)~Because how dare you fandom scum write about MY timeless characters? brb, gotta write Hamlet fanfic because the orig. play is sooooo dumb & it would be SOOOO better if Hamlet was, liek, a Gary-Stu & his dad was a pedo! i r so smrt!!!~
^*doesn't think much of Orson Scott Card*
Though misogyny and elitism tend to go together in male-dominated fields, because of course those wretched women are a lower class of fan. After all, FEMALE-written fanfics filled with gratuitous sex, botched characterization, and pointless power-ups are INFINITELY inferior to MALE-written fanfics filled with gratuitous sex, botched characterization, and pointless power-ups! XP