real person slash is where the writer makes love to a famous person
Wrong. And also:
There are literally millions of fanfic stories in which sex and humiliation (fuelled no doubt by fan boredom) are the only possible outcome of such contrived and meaningless confrontations.
Then he makes his denouement:
Fanfic begets fanfic, which then in turn becomes mainstream which then begets further fanfic and so on.
Shocking! OMG, people are using their imaginations to write their own stories about characters and scenarios that other people created to capture their imaginations! Lands SAKES, what is the WORLD coming to?
This person isn't at ALL exaggerated and alarmist, no....
for many the rise of fanfic is "the end of the world"
Huh. Well, I admit to having written more than one apocalyptic fic...
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Date: 2012-08-13 05:31 pm (UTC)real person slash is where the writer makes love to a famous person
Wrong. And also:
There are literally millions of fanfic stories in which sex and humiliation (fuelled no doubt by fan boredom) are the only possible outcome of such contrived and meaningless confrontations.
Then he makes his denouement:
Fanfic begets fanfic, which then in turn becomes mainstream which then begets further fanfic and so on.
Oy Vey!
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Date: 2012-08-13 05:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-08-13 09:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-08-14 05:48 am (UTC)This person isn't at ALL exaggerated and alarmist, no....
for many the rise of fanfic is "the end of the world"
Huh. Well, I admit to having written more than one apocalyptic fic...
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Date: 2012-10-02 08:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-02 08:58 pm (UTC)