When fanfic encounters the rest of the world

[firecat]

"Is It Time to Rethink the Rules of Fanfiction?" by AJ McDougall

Stupid title (fanfic? RULES?) for an article that wanders into some interesting areas of the topic of "what happens when creators and other entities in the mundane world encounter fanfic."

Quote which has very little to do with the rest of the article: "Actors like Orlando Jones, Michael Sheen, and Mads Mikkelsen have all said they’ve had fun wading through [Archives of Our Own] to read stories about their characters (with Mikkelsen adding he 'tremendously' enjoyed the steamier stories he found)."

[*runs off to write some steamy fic for Mads Mikkelsen*]

Comments

[firecat]

Ahhh this is amazing!

“The greatest ambition is found in those who wish to live as they are, without fear, without pretense, and without compromise” > way to go, Hat!

Creators get to open the door to a world but they don’t get to control what happens when the rest of us get inside.

[silveradept]

I am particularly proud of that line, because it's something I thought the Hat would say, and it has layers of meaning depending on how well you know the character on the receiving side of that proclamation.

Yes, the creator gets too give us the tour of the place, but they don't get to dictate where we set ourselves up (sort of. Anne McCaffrey's rules about what had to be done to get the blessing of being an official fan club, for example, didn't stop other things from happening, just that they don't get her blessing.)

[firecat]

I agree, Hat would definitely say it.

Yup, Anne’s fanclub isn’t the world she showed us, just a particular corner of it.