At the risk of drawing assumptions: I would guess it wasn't (common), but I don't know enough about the community. I do know that it's a fairly tightly knit community (or I infer it at this point ), and there's probably a multitude of different opinions within fandom at large.
In the same way that sci-fi fans are a 'tightly knit community'. And I do mean that literally. From the ones that go to cons that you see over and over, to the ones that seem to pop up sooner or later in the different online communities to the ones you come across in 'the rest of the world'. There are all the cliques (with the positive and negative connotations) that there are elsewhere in fandom. It does have a rather select set of vocabulary (pairings acronyms, slash, gen, chan, OTP, h/c, smarm, 'shipper) that can be confusing to the 'outsider' and gives the illusion of community.
I haven't found it any more or any less tightly knit than any other group of people bound by a common interest, like say the SCA.
But the stories I wanted to tell were the darker ones, and that bent is distinctly mine.
And that is what you see happen over and over again in fan derived fiction. They are taking the canon material and putting their own 'bent' on it. But you made that point already. :) When I write fan-fiction it tends to be along the lines of 'something I want to see in the canon material that I know I never will'. It's wish-fulfillment. When I write my original stuff it's because I can't get it out of my head. YMMV of course.
I haven't taken any offense but I do know that I have a tendency to talk and answer every comment until, in retrospect, I wish I had shut up. ;-)
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Re: Keeping things in the same medium
Date: 2004-10-20 03:19 pm (UTC)I would guess it wasn't (common), but I don't know enough about the community. I do know that it's a fairly tightly knit community (or I infer it at this point ), and there's probably a multitude of different opinions within fandom at large.
In the same way that sci-fi fans are a 'tightly knit community'. And I do mean that literally. From the ones that go to cons that you see over and over, to the ones that seem to pop up sooner or later in the different online communities to the ones you come across in 'the rest of the world'. There are all the cliques (with the positive and negative connotations) that there are elsewhere in fandom. It does have a rather select set of vocabulary (pairings acronyms, slash, gen, chan, OTP, h/c, smarm, 'shipper) that can be confusing to the 'outsider' and gives the illusion of community.
I haven't found it any more or any less tightly knit than any other group of people bound by a common interest, like say the SCA.
But the stories I wanted to tell were the darker ones, and that bent is distinctly mine.
And that is what you see happen over and over again in fan derived fiction. They are taking the canon material and putting their own 'bent' on it. But you made that point already. :) When I write fan-fiction it tends to be along the lines of 'something I want to see in the canon material that I know I never will'. It's wish-fulfillment. When I write my original stuff it's because I can't get it out of my head. YMMV of course.
I haven't taken any offense but I do know that I have a tendency to talk and answer every comment until, in retrospect, I wish I had shut up. ;-)