...that in the "straight world" fan fiction is generally held to be something despicable or questionable or a negative reflection on you or a slur on your character for daring to engage in it
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It is weird encountering the un-fanfic-friendly world, and even weirder to me that even after repeated explaining a lot of people don't 'get' fanfiction or just see it as 'sad'. I think just about everyone has imagined themselves as getting to visit their favorite fictional universes, it's just that most people aren't as good writers as we are of course! ;D
There really IS something kind of transgressive about fanfic, which I have come to think is pretty cool. It's the idea that a story doesn't end when the author is finished telling it - and that means that a story isn't just something in one author's head, it's maybe something bigger than the writer. Or, with RPF, that reality itself can be subjective and open to interpretation. As fanfic writers we get to decide what the nature of everything is and for at least a little while, at least within one little story-box, that is what IS. Any storytelling is transgressive in that way but fanfic is special because it is a double (triple? x-tuple?) reinterpretation.
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There really IS something kind of transgressive about fanfic, which I have come to think is pretty cool. It's the idea that a story doesn't end when the author is finished telling it - and that means that a story isn't just something in one author's head, it's maybe something bigger than the writer. Or, with RPF, that reality itself can be subjective and open to interpretation. As fanfic writers we get to decide what the nature of everything is and for at least a little while, at least within one little story-box, that is what IS. Any storytelling is transgressive in that way but fanfic is special because it is a double (triple? x-tuple?) reinterpretation.
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