Fanfic apologists sounds ridiculous, it's technically a valid form of writing as any, the main reason I can think of that it's treated with such disdain is that it's easy to do which draws in really unskilled work from silly teenagers and then propagates its stagnating badness like a meme which helps spawn fandoms; the most terrifying of all digimon. Plus you can't make money off of it since it's someone else's property which is something our capitalistic culture helps to encourage disdain.
It's something that your sum of experience automatically classes as Low Status. Mostly because most of it's shit; see Maximum Paradise Driver and Shingeki No Lesbian Horses for further details.
edited 17th Mar '14 7:01:54 AM by Ironypus
Pretty much, it's never going to get as much positive recognition as legally published literature because it's sort of leeching off someone else's creative property. Nobody likes leeches, but at the end of the day it's fairly harmless, causing only abject embarrassment when you look back at what you've written years earlier. Or pride, if you wrote something actually good, or a troll fic that got famous.
Yeah, depends on where the bar's set. Write something better than Naruto, well done kiddo. Write something better than Harry Potter, it's a shame you used someone else's stuff or you could have made a lot of money.
Fanfiction is a legitimate for of literature, as we established using other people work as a basis from yours is as old as storytelling itself and it hasn't become any less legitimate just because the economic model changed.
Sure most of Fanfiction is really bad, but that's the tradeoff forth low entry barriers.
Honestly Fanfiction is one of the best things that happened to through art of storytelling in our era.
@Shlugo - Fair points.
@Irony - Yeah, true that.
I must admit that some of my original ideas started off as a fanfic.This used to be a MLP fanfic, to start with.
Change of a topic.
By God, this is HOT. And this is (probably) SFW, at that.
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Man, Shlugo, you are so wrong. I hate whiskey. It tastes too strong. Or was that a scotch...? Anyhow, rum and coke is my favorite.
Has anyone here watched Love Live? I watched the first episode a while ago, and wow, everybody has identical faces. I know Only Six Faces is common these days, but man, that was just bad.
edited 17th Mar '14 1:44:38 PM by dRoy
Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.Correct. It's like The iDOLM@STER, only more depressing, less colorful, and low budget.
Finished Leverage season 3. It was awesome.
Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.Random thought.
People call Man vs Wild fake. True. But that has as much merit as calling professional wrestling fake; even if it is staged, all the stunts that they pull, like suplex and piledriver for wrestling, eating grubs and killing crocodile and other dangerous animals, are still insane.
Kinda relevant:
Happy meal time, according to nationality.
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edited 18th Mar '14 8:54:54 AM by dRoy
Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.I was told that a survey was done and women find it attractive when Brad Pitt eats. But not when he finishes food (and you can only finish food on so many takes), so you'll see him throwing away the last bites, too.
Bear Grylls eats only the freshest food. I wonder if he washed that down with a nice glass of warm piss.
The sad, REAL American dichotomyOkay, wow.
So there are four core members of Man Vs Wild, including Bear himself. ALL of them are from both SASnote and SBS, British special forces unit.
That's right; if they really go out of their mind, they could turn the damn show into Modern Warfare.
Well, not really, obviously, but you get my joke.
Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.Apparently Putin likes his pose kawaii.
Of course, that's obviously not why he's doing that pose. His handsign clearly describes satan.
Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.

Also, most of the stories writers like Shakespeare, Dante, and Goethe used are mythology, history, and other stories that were over centuries old. It isn't a fanfiction if you are using public domain property.
So yeah, it's a load of bull fabricated by fanfic apologists.
In another topic, I kind of want to see a romance story that centers around a love triangle, one guy and two girl. that starts off with two girls trying to win over the guy's heart...then ends up falling in love with each other.
edited 17th Mar '14 6:02:30 AM by dRoy
Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.