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The neverending fanfic debate in Lee Goldberg's blog that I idly follow just got interesting again. Interesting with overtones of paranoia (note that the post in question isn't by Lee himself but by someone who calls themselves inside.fandom.)
Guess what: you, me... all of us, we're apparently part of a devious ploy, a conspiracy to overthrow society as we know it. Or something like that. It's kind of hard to say what they're getting at.
I'm not linking to the blog [*], but you can google it easily enough. The post in question is 't3h ebil fanficcers'. Inside.fandom's second comment downthread is even more... interesting than the first one which Lee quotes. Go, read, boggle, do not engage. I mean, you could engage of course, but that way lies insanity. These people have issues.
*[eta: but here's the URL, for convenient cutting&pasting:
leegoldberg.typepad.com/a_writers_life/2005/12/t3h_ebil_fanfic.html]
There're certainly elements of fandom that make me uncomfortable to say the least, but I wish the anti-fanfic crusaders would get it into their heads that fanfic doesn't solely consist of underage Pottersmut and RPF. Because, just for the record, those squick me as well. So what I do when I don't want to read something: I don't go looking for it. Heck, I've been in fandom for 10 years before I even learned of the existence of 'chan', let alone what it means... I never stumbled across it, and if I ever do I'll know how to hit the back button.
Speaking of Lee Goldberg andblogging boggling: He actually speaks rather favourably of the fan-made Star Trek New Voyages movies. I'm quite surprised at the balanced tone of that post. Here's an article about the movies by Wired Magazine that he linked to.
Guess what: you, me... all of us, we're apparently part of a devious ploy, a conspiracy to overthrow society as we know it. Or something like that. It's kind of hard to say what they're getting at.
I'm not linking to the blog [*], but you can google it easily enough. The post in question is 't3h ebil fanficcers'. Inside.fandom's second comment downthread is even more... interesting than the first one which Lee quotes. Go, read, boggle, do not engage. I mean, you could engage of course, but that way lies insanity. These people have issues.
*[eta: but here's the URL, for convenient cutting&pasting:
leegoldberg.typepad.com/a_writers_life/2005/12/t3h_ebil_fanfic.html]
There're certainly elements of fandom that make me uncomfortable to say the least, but I wish the anti-fanfic crusaders would get it into their heads that fanfic doesn't solely consist of underage Pottersmut and RPF. Because, just for the record, those squick me as well. So what I do when I don't want to read something: I don't go looking for it. Heck, I've been in fandom for 10 years before I even learned of the existence of 'chan', let alone what it means... I never stumbled across it, and if I ever do I'll know how to hit the back button.
Speaking of Lee Goldberg and
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*raises eyebrow, Spock-like* Fascinating. :) Thanks for the rec!