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Mar. 28th, 2006 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pezProgress of AU-fic is good, although I'm not even 1/4 into chapter 2 =_=
Last night involved a lot of downloading (collecting stuff for my dad's retirement gift) and watching Winter!HyouteiMyu. Although the two occured almost concurrently, somehow that was all I managed to do the whole night, so I don't quite know what happened. Probably rewatching the Tezuka-Atobe duet took more time than expected......
I have several emails I should have replied to long ago. I'm so bad at emailing. Though I'm not sorry for it, since I'm obviously not the worst one around here...
Today should be at least Thursday already.
Bern posted PoT OVA screencaps. OH OH OH. I am SO watching this tonight. and watch America's Next Top Model >_>"""
Coming next! The random musings of a fanficcer.
Watch PoT. Watch Weiss Kreuz. You see inconsistencies and mistakes (Niou's dual rat-tails!), half baked research (Yukimura's not-quite Guillain-Barre Syndrome), plot holes you can drive a truck through (WK OVA!!!). Yet, even though we point and laugh, we accept it anyway and enjoy it anyway.
Watch a fanfic writer produce any fic that involves the above. And watch her get smacked down, dissected, laughed at, disgraced.
Bearing in mind writers are almost always a one-man team whereas mangakas and animators have groups of people helping them, why are we so unforgiving about ficcers? If it's a story, does it have to be historically or scientifically correct? If the writer has tried, isn't that good enough?
I am a firm believer of what Stephen King had said about writing what you know, but if I'm not an astroscientist, does that mean I can't write sci-fi, or that I can't write historical fiction if I'm not a historian? I don't think so. I know what it feels like to be dumped into a foreign environment, hence I can start to guess how, say, an American astronaut might feel if he got displaced into a Russian space station. In the end, it's a story. Those who take what is in a story to be true (eg *cough*TheDaVinciShitCode*cough*), well they fail at life.
Also, we see that people commission for fanarts, everywhere. I vaguely remember, though, that once someone opened commission for fanfics and was totally murdered by fandom, something about not owning the characters and shouldn't make money out of it, etc. What is actually the difference between fanart and fanfic in this respect?
Nothing in particular happened to make me say/ask any of this, it's just been on my mind for a while already...
Last night involved a lot of downloading (collecting stuff for my dad's retirement gift) and watching Winter!HyouteiMyu. Although the two occured almost concurrently, somehow that was all I managed to do the whole night, so I don't quite know what happened. Probably rewatching the Tezuka-Atobe duet took more time than expected......
I have several emails I should have replied to long ago. I'm so bad at emailing. Though I'm not sorry for it, since I'm obviously not the worst one around here...
Today should be at least Thursday already.
Bern posted PoT OVA screencaps. OH OH OH. I am SO watching this tonight. and watch America's Next Top Model >_>"""
Coming next! The random musings of a fanficcer.
Watch PoT. Watch Weiss Kreuz. You see inconsistencies and mistakes (Niou's dual rat-tails!), half baked research (Yukimura's not-quite Guillain-Barre Syndrome), plot holes you can drive a truck through (WK OVA!!!). Yet, even though we point and laugh, we accept it anyway and enjoy it anyway.
Watch a fanfic writer produce any fic that involves the above. And watch her get smacked down, dissected, laughed at, disgraced.
Bearing in mind writers are almost always a one-man team whereas mangakas and animators have groups of people helping them, why are we so unforgiving about ficcers? If it's a story, does it have to be historically or scientifically correct? If the writer has tried, isn't that good enough?
I am a firm believer of what Stephen King had said about writing what you know, but if I'm not an astroscientist, does that mean I can't write sci-fi, or that I can't write historical fiction if I'm not a historian? I don't think so. I know what it feels like to be dumped into a foreign environment, hence I can start to guess how, say, an American astronaut might feel if he got displaced into a Russian space station. In the end, it's a story. Those who take what is in a story to be true (eg *cough*TheDaVinci
Also, we see that people commission for fanarts, everywhere. I vaguely remember, though, that once someone opened commission for fanfics and was totally murdered by fandom, something about not owning the characters and shouldn't make money out of it, etc. What is actually the difference between fanart and fanfic in this respect?
Nothing in particular happened to make me say/ask any of this, it's just been on my mind for a while already...
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Date: 2006-03-28 10:15 am (UTC)And I wouldn't actually want to write about what I know in that kind of detail in fic (namely, archaeology and history), because it's eaten ENOUGH of my life already. Enough, I say! XD I'd rather write about other stuff and get it a bit wrong.