Outside Views
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When pro-authors enter areas populated by fans looking for fanwork recs, the results may not be pretty. Also a discussion about the purpose of sex in fanfic.
Originally posted May 25, 2007 and June 3, 2007
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- Part 1 of Outside Views
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And it seemed to me that this is what's at the heart of so much outrage over fanfic. The whole horror at taking elements of something designed for one message (one with which the objector agrees and identifies) and turning it into something with a different message seems to really rankle, as if this repurposing is a direct attack upon a person's values and personal enjoyment.
Originally posted July 11, 2008
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- Part 2 of Outside Views
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Given a recent study, I started musing on whether or not the form in which you engage with issues -– through fiction or non-fiction –-changes the way you look at information?
Originally posted November 18, 2008.
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- Part 3 of Outside Views
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I've read so many "fanfic is wrong" posts along the way that I could probably write bingo cards in my sleep
Originally posted March 4, 2009 and May 28, 2009
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- Part 4 of Outside Views
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Apparently not women, according to some.
Originally posted August 25 & 28, 2009
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- Part 5 of Outside Views
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Changing the Context by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Fandom - Fandom, The Colbert Report, White Collar
16 Dec 2022
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Looking at whose voice and identity gets ridiculed, and why so many writers seem so bad at developing romantic relationships.
Originally posted March 7, 2011 and April 10, 2011 and April 13, 2011.
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- Part 6 of Outside Views
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Why do I get the feeling this is unlikely to include historically female fanvids, particularly slash ones? I also saw nothing in the review that suggested that part of the fan arguments lay in expanding the understanding of copyright to include transformative works, particularly those that reinterpret the most common readings of the Star Wars verse. Maybe if it had, the reviewer would have found it less pointless.
Originally posted May 6, 2011.
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- Part 7 of Outside Views
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Public Reading and the Rights of Characters by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: No Fandom, Jane Austen - Fandom
16 Dec 2022
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Despite a lot of fail going on in the conversation, the discussion concluded with two interesting points that could have used an hour's conversation on their own.
1) Digital book buying means an end to privacy in book sales. One can download free content anonymously but digital content requires registration of some kind. This led to a related point…
2) Reading is moving away from being an isolated, private activity and towards being more public and collective.
Originally posted June 8-10, 2011.
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- Part 8 of Outside Views
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Part of the appeal of fanfic is that it is, usually, a non-explicit discussion of the story through fiction, a way to be both "enlightened about motive and meaning" and to realize one's own perspective through either agreement or disagreement with another text.
Originally posted May 5-7, 2012
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- Part 9 of Outside Views
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Funny that she would use the word "romances" given that early sales of 50 Shades, not to mention the early success of the eReader market, have been largely ascribed to women NOT wanting other people to know (and judge) what they're reading.
Originally posted June 14, 2012
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- Part 10 of Outside Views
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What we call what we read.
Begun in May 2009.
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- Part 11 of Outside Views
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I have to wonder to myself about the recent trend of mansplaining going on re: fanfic.
Originally posted July 25, 2011.
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- Part 12 of Outside Views
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Even in the article the writer takes issue with how literary porn is seen to be higher class somehow than visual content -- suggesting that he's well aware that someone has to make an effort to take in literary porn whereas visual porn is in your face whether you want to look at it or not.
Originally posted September 20, 2012
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- Part 13 of Outside Views
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Just once I'd like to see someone focus on the reasons for having to rationalize their tastes as well as examine what it might mean that people are sharing them more freely.
Originally posted May 18, 2013
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- Part 14 of Outside Views
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Genre fans are not the problem with moviegoing -- but they may be keeping movie theaters afloat.
Originally posted March 9, 2019 and updated March 18, 2022
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- Part 15 of Outside Views
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