The Fanfiction Issue

I have a love/hatred relationship with fanfiction.

Connected the one hand, it makes my clamber crawl. Especially some of the seedier stuff, the type where you just know some poor, deranged soul has been in private fantasizing about Princess Leia and, for some unfathomable rationality, has decided to share those fantasies with the macrocosm.

On the other hand, IT can be fun – and fruitful – to borrow characters from your favorite movie/TV demo/game and produce them bash your bidding (just so long as you'Ra not making them hump). After all, without fanfiction, the internet would be pretty untold self-complacent-free (save for content of people humping).

I've only if ever participated graphic fanfiction once. Information technology started as a joke, but the more I wrote, the many I enjoyed it. I discovered that building on a world, moving the pieces and making things happen is intoxicant. Especially when, as a fan, you've invested time, energy and love into the enjoyment of the matter. Turning the tables, then, and proper a co-creator, in essence, is a singular thrill.

My own adventure in fanfiction writing wasn't all but Princess Leia or any fictional type, as a matter of fact. It was about yoghurt – Dannon Light and Fit yoghourt, to make up precise. Information technology was a sort of circular story-telling physical exercise on a videogame forum I used to frequent that, I have got to accommodate, got a little out of hand. Still, I had a neat time, even if (as we can all surely agree) yogurt and zombies should never beryllium amalgamated.

This is why I'm conflicted, you see. Although we know very well from our observations of the many, many places where cardinal terminate participate in content creation on the internet that most of the satisfied created is garbage, there is the unpredictable jewel in the rough. And even up when the subject matter being created has no good appreciate some, uncomparable can't deny that the act of creating IT is amusive. So I imagine it's plausibly time we stop puss-footing around this issue and cover IT straight-on at The Wishful thinker.

Does this mean we've lost our minds? Have we at The Escapist finally gone over the edge? Bequeath this be the day on which we publish fanfiction, thus destroying our credibility in one case and for all? No, of course non. Don't follow ridiculous. This is The Escapist after completely. We have standards.

We have detected, however, that fanfiction means something. Information technology's decisive. Not only in that IT provides an sales outlet for the frustrated, the bored and for those with talent yet very few options, but in what it says about us, what IT means to us and what it does to us when we participate.

For this week's issue of The Dreamer, Issue 249, "The Fanfiction Yield," we're probing deeper than Princess Leia slashfiction – operating room even my own weak attempt to transfigure breakfast food. Brendan Main explores the relationship-supported fanfic of Star Ocean: Second Tarradiddle, Peter Maxfield Frederick Parrish speaks to the creators of fanfic about how they ply their patronage, Vanessa Cohen looks at how written material fanfic can prime same's ticker for creating original work and Dillon Sinnott examines the rise of "corporate fanfic." Enjoy!

/Fingergun

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