YOU GET OUT THERE RIGHT NOW AND RE-ERECT THAT FOURTH WALL, YOUNG MAN!

[veronica_rich]

So everybody's heard about it by now, no doubt, but the idea of Ralph Fiennes reading Voldy/Harry fanfic makes my eyelids curdle just a little bit. Not in the good way. It'll make somebody's iPod podfic list. (I like the comment "well, I can cross that off my bucket list.")

Just ... no, man. NO. Fanfic is like fight club. Don't talk about it to the entertainers. (And to answer your question, no, not even if Chris Barrie HIMSELF read it in voices, would I want my porny fanfic brought up on some public exposure like this. YIIIIIII .....)

Comments

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

I should direct you to this Red Dwarf discussion site - its a semi-official, but not really, site that's pretty visible and known to fans and TPTB. You should see the derision a few of those guys (not TPTB so far as I know, just fans) have for the slash- writing fangirls in the fandom, even though as far as I know we've never gotten snide on their discussions, in our LJ area. I'll wager there isn't one of them who would see any of our best fics as superior to the worst of the show's episodes.

And, that's okay - because our space is our space and we don't try to push it at the creators or actors or crew or suchlike. I've been doing fanfic for 20 years, and it's never been about being noticed in relation to the canon writers; it's for fun. And when I do something for fun and for free, I really don't want to hear scorn from fans who think I'm doing it to best the creator or messing negatively with the material. The less mainstream notice I get for fanfic, the more fun it stays. I don't know how to make that sound logical, it just IS to me, and IMO.

[pir8fancier.livejournal.com]

And when I do something for fun and for free, I really don't want to hear scorn from fans who think I'm doing it to best the creator or messing negatively with the material.

Of course not. Having said that, I will point out that you've written some damn fine stuff and it should be recognized as such. Just because it's fun doesn't mean that it's not GOOD. I'm rather rabid on the subject of this derision of fanfiction. Like it's cheap and we should just dismiss it because it's not "original."

It's different when talking about an older show. But current media recognizes fandom as a driving force. Witness SPN, and the latest Sherlock has several shoutouts to fandom. The days when it was all hush-hush and secret are over. Media sees fandom as a sales tool. All these conventions (like ComicCon and DragonCon) are feeding into this recognition as fandom as something to cultivate. Of course, it's also about the money, but hey.

I'll wager there isn't one of them who would see any of our best fics as superior to the worst of the show's episodes.

Fuck their homophobic asses. Seriously. Their material is better because it's het; it's more *valid* beause its het? Do we really need to visit that sad, pathetic delusion? Is there a single post-DMC het story that is epic? That will be referred to again and again by rec sites, etc. Not one.