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Sep 10, 2012 19:18

I have no interest in reading 50 Shades of Grey to start with. The whole learning to be a sub melodrama is as bad as the average BDSM poem. The Hulk puked in Aunt May's washing machine on an Ultimate Spiderman rerun last night. Same thing. That said ( Read more... )

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devo79 September 11 2012, 14:33:42 UTC

I'm very baffled by this whole 50 shades of grey thing.

I tried reading Twilight and True Blood but only got halfway through the first chapter in both cases and had to stop reading because I was laughing so damn hard. It was like reading a 13 year old's first wet dream.

I have a feeling that 50 shades of bleh is the same way.

muffiewrites September 12 2012, 02:07:47 UTC

I have a feeling you're right. I've read a few lines of it and it was ewwwwwww.

keire_ke September 11 2012, 20:20:23 UTC

What's your take on fics which were rewritten as original from scratch, using the basic premise and character baselines? You can still tell it's the same story and some of the phrasing will inevitably repeat.

muffiewrites September 12 2012, 02:17:17 UTC

That's a little more difficult than a find and replace with a few spruced up to be original scene fixes. Plots repeat and, really, they aren't that original. Case in point: Hamlet and Sons of Anarchy or Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things I Hate About You. The basic premise of the plot is the same, the characters are the same "type", but the stories are refreshingly interesting. A good ficcer can take a fanfic premise and rewrite from scratch (not opening old fic) and come up with something that's different and refreshing, not the same story at all, despite similar characters and plot. It's kind of like how two people will write two separate fanfics with essentially the same plot, but both of them will look and feel different. Polly Bywater of Sentinel fandom calls that hivemind. I don't think it would be the same story, even if a few phrases here and there repeat. The reason: the setting and characters would necessarily be different. It's like Captain America and Superman. They're both perfect Boy Scouts. They're both "alien" in some ( ... )

dimity_blue September 14 2012, 16:56:56 UTC

Apparently the actual 50 Shades version is also floating around for free. I haven't read it (or the Twilight fanfic it was originally posted as), but I've heard a number of people complain that it's total crap, and one person say she enjoyed it.

I'm surprised at how popular it is. Guess EL James got lucky.