Tech Writer Clive Thompson: “The world of fanfiction is the most technologically explosive thing I’ve ever seen in my life.”
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I have a whole theory, actually, that the world of fan fiction is the most technologically explosive thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Every single technology…
Side Note To Fan Fic Authors
Here’s the thing.
I read a lot of scripts. A lot. From professionals to aspiring writers to complete newbies. Features and pilots. Specs and treatments.
And 8 times out of 10 the fan fic that I’ve read over the last, oh, 15 years is leagues better than this stuff. It’s more inspired. It’s more compelling. It’s genre bending and creative and heartfelt. It’s well-paced and intense and funny and sexy and meaningful. It’s smart and thoughtful and good. It’s novel-quality. Better than, sometimes.
Rare is the script I don’t want to put down, but how often have we stayed up until 3am to get to the last chapter of a 100k fic? And it’s not even a fan fic author’s day job. This is what they do on the side. In their spare time. For free.
So my point is, fan fic authors, you’re good. You’re good writers and great storytellers. I know it doesn’t always feel like it, especially if you’re one of the authors who’s not a BNF and doesn’t get the notes/hits that a few do. And because some people still view fic as “not real writing.” You guys know the shit that gets made into movies. You’re better than that. So be better than that. If writing is what you think want to do, then just know you’re already doing it. You’ve already started.
And you’re more talented than you might think.
fanfiction should be taken a lot more seriously as literature. True, some of it isn’t really excellent writing and some is just smut but let me tell you i have read some fics that are beautifully well done and turned my life upside down and legitimately gave me feelings for days and if that’s not real literature then what is
A loving tribute to fanfiction clichés!
(for hungrylikethewolfie, who also lives a trope-appreciation life ♥ )
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LYRICS
We all strive to be original
Don’t want to be called out on a cliché
Some feel shame in writing more of the same
But baby that’s not the way
I like what I like, and I don’t feel bad
That my favorite stories have always had—Sex pollen, I’m fallen’ in love
Clothes-sharing fits me like a glove
Folks that keep talking in their sleep
While they huddle for warmth to survive, I’m dreaming of
Mistletoe kisses for the holiday season
And getting fake-married for a stupid reason
I’ve read it before but I just want more
Call them contrived but the tropes keep the fandom aliveBiology or some ritual
Means they must have sex so they don’t die
A magic spell turns someone into a kitten
Then a potion makes them unable to lie
A soul-bond, and now they’re in each other’s minds
My favorite fics always wind up having[CHORUS]
You can go Harlequin or to a coffeeshop
Or back to high school with the genders swapped
Make them meet online, make them suffer and pine
And if you’re feeling bold, maybe
Make a man have a baby[CHORUS]
…I’m unoriginal to my very core
Give me slaves in collars, a little h/c
Hookers, strippers, bartenders, or all three
Kinky wings, heat cycles and everything
Familiar and sweet, make my life complete with
Practice kissing turning friends lovers,
Awkward boners between step-brothers
Truth or Dare, spin the bottle, photographers in love with models
It’s contrived but the tropes make me feel aliveGive me just one more fairytale AU…
What I love the most in literature and especially in fanfiction is the moment I think “I absolutely trust this author and would follow them anywhere”. In fanfiction especially because that’s how you bypass your comfort zone and all the prejudices you may have about the story premise and just dive in. And it’s glorious.
Few things means more to me as a fanfic author then a comment along the lines of ‘I don’t read this, but it’s you, so I did, and you know what, this is wonderful’
Looks like I’m working on another omegaverse story. John’s an Omega and Sherlock his Alpha, but after he witnesses Sherlock’s suicide he tries to carry on, eventually meeting and bonding with Alpha Mary.
Now Sherlock is back, finding his Omega bonded to someone else and worse, pregnant by her.
Just need to figure out the puzzle of what happens.
I was so innocent before your fics. I regret nothing.
My job here is done.
lmao people mock fanfiction but when u think about it some people manage to create novel-length stories that are extremely well written without getting paid and they do it on top of school and work and everything else in their lives just because they love to write and they love the original story or the people they write about like im pretty sure that’s more productive than being the person who is just sat there laughing at it all