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xie_xie_xie - August 27th, 2008
27 August 2008 @ 11:50 am
Various and miscellaneous things with which to enthrall you on this lovely Wednesday
27 August 2008 @ 05:56 pm
Please close the canon on your way out
Mostly I just do this with my fic, but I've decided to link to some of my meta posts too... but behind a fake cut, in case you're not interested in them. :)
I was reading a meta_roundup post by IJ's the_willow about "Watching the show in my head," in which she talked about dropping shows because TPTB take them in a direction she doesn't like.
This isn't an issue I have to deal with, for a number of reasons. One is, of course, I don't watch television. Another is that I have one fandom and one fandom only and am not looking for another. Yet another is, as I wrote about before, that I can't watch things in serialization because I'm too fragile... all the things that upset her and make her prefer the "show in her head" are so intolerable for me that I can't watch serial television at all.
But it goes beyond a "what if they ruin it?" issue for me. As a writer, I feel no pull to take an in-progress story, wrest it from its writers, and do something with it myself. I know there are many writers who feel very differently -- if not, there would have been no fan fiction written in our entire fandom history prior to the end of 2005, which is, as I'm sure everyone is incredibly grateful for, not the case.
I was reading a meta_roundup post by IJ's the_willow about "Watching the show in my head," in which she talked about dropping shows because TPTB take them in a direction she doesn't like.
This isn't an issue I have to deal with, for a number of reasons. One is, of course, I don't watch television. Another is that I have one fandom and one fandom only and am not looking for another. Yet another is, as I wrote about before, that I can't watch things in serialization because I'm too fragile... all the things that upset her and make her prefer the "show in her head" are so intolerable for me that I can't watch serial television at all.
But it goes beyond a "what if they ruin it?" issue for me. As a writer, I feel no pull to take an in-progress story, wrest it from its writers, and do something with it myself. I know there are many writers who feel very differently -- if not, there would have been no fan fiction written in our entire fandom history prior to the end of 2005, which is, as I'm sure everyone is incredibly grateful for, not the case.