I have a sudden random urge to write a parent lock where John has a previously unknown child. Maybe as a Christmas fic?
Why fic? Why fic?
Fic. Fan writers call it “playing in someone else’s sandbox” or “borrowing someone else’s toys.” I call it “writing.” Opponents call it “stealing” – and I call that bullshit. Whatever else we call it,though, today we largely understand fanfiction as writing that continues, interrupts, reimagines, or just riffs on stories and characters other people have already written about. Fanfiction means writers getting their feet wet, their hands dirty – and if in their stories other body parts are sometimes getting wet and dirty, too, that doesn’t mean those same stories can’t be smart. If we call a piece of writing fanfiction, we usually (though not always) understand that it wasn’t published for profit.
Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over The World by Anne Jamison
Dear Creators of Things that are On Televsion/in Theatres/Published,
Dear Creators of Things that are On Televsion/in Theatres/Published,
Fanfiction isn’t generally this is what I see happening in this book/on this show/in this movie.* You don’t need to keep telling us that that’s not what it’s about, or that’s not what we’re doing here. We know that, actually! You’re not doing it, that’s…
I wasn’t going to post anymore on this subject, but I will post this one. I don’t have much to add except this is excellent and worth the read.
And as a fanfic writer, yes I write as an exploration of possibilities. I mean I write in Superwood and I know that will never ever be anything but imagination.
Sometimes I write as an exploration of fandom too. My more recent omegaverse story was me saying “okay these characters, this universe as a background, what if THIS happens.
And it’s helped me grow as a writer to play and explore and tweak templates and see where characters lead.
Moran may have wanted to tease the creative team: but Johnlock is no joking matter to Sherlock fandom.
Even more incendiary is the fact that it wasn’t just any woman being handed the microphone to discuss fandom with Cumberbatch, who frequently seems uncomfortable with the zeal of his fandom. Moran herself is a polarizing figure within the feminist community whose greatest hits include calling people “retards,” using the slur “tranny,” and famously declaring she “literally couldn’t give a shit” about the lack of minority representation on the tv show Girls.
Moran’s brand of self-centered feminism lies in sharp contrast to the predominantly female spaces of fandom, where women regularly debate privilege, embrace transgender and genderqueer characters, and genderflip and ‘racebend’ media like Sherlock so that the shows they love will, at least on some level, be more representative, diverse, and empowering for women and minorities. And for all that trotting out slash is the go-to gimmick when entertainment reporters want to discomfit their celebrity guests, slash fanfiction is very often smart, subversive, and transformative. At the very least it is one of the most interesting kinds of online writing in existence.
I have a new most popular fic.
The Bond we Make just beat out. Maybe Sherlock Should Ruin John’s Dates More Often for my fic with the most hits.
Also Bond is second on kudos, just behind Maybe that Movie Before Bed was a Bad Idea
So….maybe I should write more Omegaverse? Or turn that alpha/alpha one (Passing for Omega) into a chaptered fic? Or write something else? I always take prompts and ideas.
I still really like my Night Hymns series and I kinda have a hankering to write something longer
All I love every single last one of you people that reads my stuff. You’re amazing.
What do you think?
I always get an uneasy feeling when Switzerland is mentioned in a Sherlock fic.
If You ever think You’re too obsessed with something, just remember that David Tennant used to get in trouble at school because all his essays were Doctor Who fan fiction.
that’s actually extremely uplifting
