Line #39 Quotes/RunningTheAsylum


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3	->''I even wrote a script! Let's see, uh...[[Creator/AllisonPregler Lupa]] and 90's Kid start making out." Oh, wait, that's my fanfiction.''
4	-->-- '''[[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall 90's Kid]]''', WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic review of ''Film/SimonSez''
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6	->''"The problem with modern Franchise/{{Sonic\|The Hedgehog}} stories is that the characters revolve around the story instead of the story revolving around the characters. There's this [[MisaimedFandom strange disconnect]] between [[MemeticPersonalityChange what people want Sonic to be]] and [[RoundedCharacter who Sonic actually is]]. And, look, fan interpretations are fine, we all like to see the characters we love in [[WhatIf different styles, and tackling different themes and ideas]]. The problem is this mindset is bleeding into official stories. Character personalities are being [[OutOfCharacterMoment ignored or altered]] to fit the stories and the themes within them, so you end up with characters who serve as [[AuthorFilibuster mouthpieces for the writers]] instead of standing on their own, and stories that feel more like fanfiction."''
7	-->-- [[https://youtu.be/6qUFvrbXTA4?feature=shared "Nobody Understands Sonic"]] by '''[[https://www.youtube.com/@PixelrushTheFunnyPixelMan Pixelrush]]'''
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11	->''When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.''
12	-->-- '''Creator/HunterSThompson'''
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14	->''You could say that any Franchise/{{Batman}} fan writing a Batman comic is writing fan fiction.''
15	-->-- '''Creator/NeilGaiman'''
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17	->"I've kind of become drunk on my own power, I'm not gonna lie, I'm kind of like, "I AM DREAMER." I keep having to remind myself I am not actually a superhero in real life."
18	-->-- '''Creator/NicoleMaines''' (on writing her version of the character from ''Series/Supergirl2015'')
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20	->''[Comics writers and artists] took their concerns to the management and sensibly suggested that they form a union to represent them in legitimate, grown-up negotiations, at which point they were informed by management that they were fired, and that replacement writers would be found to fill the titles on which they were working. With characteristic canniness, the company recruited these replacements from the all-too-eager ranks of U.S. comic fandom, bringing in a generation of fan writers who were only too pleased to be working with the costumed heroes that they’d been fixated on since they were children, and apparently were not concerned that in accomplishing their adolescent dreams they’d helped to put the far superior talents who’d created the beloved emblems of their endlessly extended childhoods out of work. Nor, for the most part, were they likely to risk their nostalgic opportunity to rummage in 'the toy-box', as the major companies' repertoire of misappropriated super-characters is sometimes known by the enthusiastic fans-turned-pro who now account for a majority of the professionals employed within the industry, by raising any of the questions or complaints that led to the dismissal of their luckless predecessors. In this shift from working writers to promoted fans we can see the beginnings of a process whereby the creative duties on a title will most likely be assumed by someone who's a devoted admirer of some previous creator's run upon the book in question, and will fill his or her tenure on the title with fan-pleasing references rather than originating the fresh concepts that all comics need if they are to survive. As a result, with some few decades of fans referencing fans who in their turn were referencing fans, we have a program of inbreeding which almost surpasses that of European monarchy, assuring that the product will be subject to genetic weaknesses, will speed up the decline and ultimate extinction of whichever line it happens to be part of, and will be inordinately stupid.''
21	--> --'''Creator/AlanMoore''', ''Occupy Comics'' #3, "Buster Brown at the Barricades, parts 5 & 6"
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23	->''"What's happening with video games is the same thing that happens with anything new and interesting. At the beginning, everybody wants to see what it is. They gather around and check it out. But gradually, people start to lose interest.''\
24	''"The people who don't lose interest become more and more involved... And the medium starts to be influenced by only those people. It becomes something exclusive to the people who've stuck with it for a long time. And when the people who were interested in it at first look back at it, it's no longer the thing that interested them."''
25	-->-- '''Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto'''
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27	->"''People get into all these debates of what's {{canon}} and what's not, and sometimes forget the special nature of telling a good story and creating great characters. Part of the fan debate in the past always used to be 'What's canon? What's not?' because there was Creator/{{George\|Lucas}}, and we always knew George was the canon. I look at it very broadly, and I just say there's a love of'' Star Wars''. Because I knew George, I worked with him, and none of us are going to be him. But we love the Galaxy he created, and we're very much a product of it; growing up with it."''
28	-->--'''Dave Filoni''' on ''Franchise/StarWars''

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