xie_xie_xie
16 June 2013 @ 08:21 pm
I haz been aca-fanned!  
I stumbled across this academic paper on the OTW site called "'Queer as Folk' and the trouble with slash" -- and was really geeked out with joy to see that my fic and my meta were both referenced in a few places in the article.

I admit I'm a total sucker when people like the very things *I* like best about my fic... which she did:


The second direction taken by fans writing post-513 fiction is more consistent with canon but still pushes the characters toward romantic closure. This variation, exemplified by Xie's Only Time (2007) series, gets the couple back together, but only through a lengthy and complicated process of secret visits, sex, hesitation, and angst that follows the patterns of the various breakups and reunification of the couple in the actual series. These fictions generally end in the same place as the other variation—with Brian and Justin together—but they usually do so with greater complications and with a cynical, tongue-in-cheek tone consistent with the characters in the series, rather than the romantic comedy tone that characterizes the former version.

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As a result of the series' refusal of a clear resolution, a fan fiction with any variation of an ending for the couple that moves toward closure would be inconsistent with the canon's own ending. How canonical or legitimate it is to reunite the couple is beside the point. Instead, what must be examined is how closure is achieved, and the extent to which the relationship is restored by either a traditional heteronormative wedding or by the much more complicated and volatile variation evidenced in series like Xie's.


She also writes about Assbaby!Jesus AND quotes vamphile (now epicallytired).

Well, that made my weekend! Here's the article if you want to enable my squee:

http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/415/315
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[identity profile] gaedhal.livejournal.com on June 17th, 2013 01:44 am (UTC)
I thought you knew about that!

That's the main place for web-publishing articles on fan fiction.

Transformative Works is a great site.

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[identity profile] xie-xie-xie.livejournal.com on June 17th, 2013 08:58 pm (UTC)
I knew about OTW, but I had no idea anyone wrote about ME, LOL!
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[identity profile] ktkatastr0phe.livejournal.com on June 17th, 2013 03:44 am (UTC)
*begin squee enabling session*
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[identity profile] fansee.livejournal.com on June 18th, 2013 01:42 am (UTC)
Transformative Works
Wow! What an "Atta girl!" And so well deserved. You go, girl. FanSee
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[identity profile] flamencanyc.livejournal.com on June 19th, 2013 03:18 am (UTC)
Cool!
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[identity profile] not-yet-defined.livejournal.com on June 24th, 2013 01:54 am (UTC)
That was a really interesting article. And nearly made me want to go write qaf fic again in which Brian is fucking everything that moves. Because, well, sometimes he does that, and we (fanfic writers) basically denied him of it for the most part. I mean, one of the things I did love about the show was how queer it was. And I was probably as guilty as the next person of taking so much of the queer back out of it.
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