secrets post #2

[shibaiko]

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[xthinktwice]

yay 27 and 5, wherhehrhe. haha ♥

[littledragonfly]

#18 honestly made me roll my eyes. I understand nearly all of the objections towards fanfiction, even if I don't agree with them - except for this one. For one, it presumes that somebody who never met him (I assume) can speak for him. Secondly - no, this DEFINATELY wasn't a man who believed in expression! Oh no! And he CERTAINLY had no experience in taking somebody else's masterpiece and changing it! Heavens no! /snark

[ogiraffe]

You win :)

[schizophrenic0]

Marry me.

[littledragonfly]

First of all, fanfiction is lame. And while I can understand writing it for something that is continuous, like a book series or a television show, because there's a chance that the plotlines explored in fics could actually happen, to take the characters from a Broadway musical...something that is essentially frozen, ie, that's it--nothing else is going to happen to them, it's been written, the end--makes absolutely no sense. He wrote it the way he wrote it for a reason; it's not the business of random people on the internet to fuck with it.

Anyway. My point was that the vast majority of the people who write Rent fanfiction (and while I've only read a few stories, just for the hell of it, I've seen enough to get the jist) do it horribly. They're just terrible writers. So basically what they're doing is taking these characters--these inherently flawed but well-written characters--and turning them into a bastardization of their former selves. It's ridiculous. And please don't bring the fact that Jonathan Larson adapted La Boheme into

[darko4ever]

I totally thought the same thing

[enchantee]

I think that's why I like him the best, actually-- I never really saw Mark as a particularly hot character.

[schizophrenic0]

17, 19, and 27 I completely agree with.

[sprnplr]

So, I'm confused (surprise). Have the 11 that weren't posted last week been included in this post automatically? How do you choose which ones to not post (and why don't you post some that meet the requirements?)?

[shibaiko]

unless it's over the size limit or it's not a secret (for instance: someone submitted a picture of tarazan with joshua kobak's head. wtf?), everything does get posted. just not all at once! so yes, everything that was in the first submissions post that didn't get posted last week was posted this week, and everything posted in the second submission post that didn't make this week will be posted next week.

[sprnplr]

Thanks!