Unpopular Fannish Opinion #1: Fandom, I owe you nothing.
What? I was pretty sure fandom owed me cookies.
Liking characters as people vs. liking them as characters.
This is an easy one for me. I mean, gosh do I love the character of Jim Profit. But he'd kill me and sell my loved ones into slavery if it would get G&G stock to go up a quarter-point. I wouldn't like that guy in person. Heck, my last boss I did not like at all, but he'd make for a great character.
Fanfic as the fulfillment which canon lacks.
Nobody likes a tease. But teases bring people back again and again. Until they get sick of you.
I do know that I spent four hours today staring at a list of concepts, but didn't know what plot to give to the concepts, so ended up making this post.
I'm like that, except way less prolific. My fandom conversations tend to go this way. Lots and lots of ideas and little shape. Which is part of why I haven't written fic in so long. All I have are hooks.
When I want to write fic I don't want to tell a story so much as say something about the characters.
Ditto. For me, that's what I try to do in story - I'm probably even more explicit about it than most. My fic, what there was of it, was character essay in disguise as narrative.
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What? I was pretty sure fandom owed me cookies.
Liking characters as people vs. liking them as characters.
This is an easy one for me. I mean, gosh do I love the character of Jim Profit. But he'd kill me and sell my loved ones into slavery if it would get G&G stock to go up a quarter-point. I wouldn't like that guy in person. Heck, my last boss I did not like at all, but he'd make for a great character.
Fanfic as the fulfillment which canon lacks.
Nobody likes a tease. But teases bring people back again and again. Until they get sick of you.
I do know that I spent four hours today staring at a list of concepts, but didn't know what plot to give to the concepts, so ended up making this post.
I'm like that, except way less prolific. My fandom conversations tend to go this way. Lots and lots of ideas and little shape. Which is part of why I haven't written fic in so long. All I have are hooks.
When I want to write fic I don't want to tell a story so much as say something about the characters.
Ditto. For me, that's what I try to do in story - I'm probably even more explicit about it than most. My fic, what there was of it, was character essay in disguise as narrative.