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Vid and Fic Categories by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Fandom - Fandom
22 Dec 2022
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It’s probably a professional tendency but I like to categorize, contextualize and devise labels for things. And lately as I’ve been working on video recs I find that I’m curious about how evaluating vids and fic overlap, and what it is that makes something stand out for me.
Originally posted May 2, 2005
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- Part 1 of Fanfic Genres
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My own response to the whole "slash as anti-feminist" debate in progress. Since I don't write fic myself I'll have to approach this strictly from a reading standpoint, but I do have a few thoughts about it, mostly in terms of how the essay's lack of context seems to be so revealing.
Originally posted March 25, 2008
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- Part 2 of Fanfic Genres
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For a while now, I've been curious what people see as the common stories in SPN. Now that I've been reading around in SPN fic for a while I think I can identify a few categories, but I'm interested in other ideas. I'm not focusing on what typical fanfic plots tend to get used (first times, spell goes awry, bodyswapping, amnesia, etc.), but rather, how canon and characters tend to get repeatedly reshaped.
Originally posted April 22, 2008
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- Part 3 of Fanfic Genres
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Slash vs Het wars, aka: Won't someone please think of the multishippers by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Fandom - Fandom, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, Mad Men, Queer As Folk: US
22 Dec 2022
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I definitely feel sympathy for this prompt's POV. As a reader of gen, het, and slash, I really don't understand why there should be conflict there. Perhaps because of my reading preferences, many of the writers I read repeatedly also write in more than one of these veins, so I have to wonder who it is who is having such problems with it?
My central thoughts about this topic were:
1) Can slash and het actually be called genres?
2) What tends to feed or block one or the other?Originally posted September 16, 2009 as part of the Mini Meta Fest.
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- Part 4 of Fanfic Genres
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I think everyone agrees that RPF/RPS is a form of fanfic, though why this agreement exists seems less clear. I would guess that it's because (1) It's usually written by fans, who are often writing other kinds of fanfic (2) It's non-commercial (in many respects) and (3) It follows various fanfic conventions that we see in FPF whether that's format, archiving, tropes, and so on. So it kind of looks and quacks and waddles similarly even if many circles consider it an uglier form of duckling.
But is it really?
Originally posted August 28, 2008
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- Part 5 of Fanfic Genres
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What makes a romance, a romance? by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Fandom - Fandom, Romance Novels
23 Dec 2022
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Originally posted August 9, 2010
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- Part 6 of Fanfic Genres
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What's in an AU? by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Fandom - Fandom, Supernatural, Supernatural RPF, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
22 Dec 2022
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My issue with the term "AU" is that it's used to mean what I consider to be vastly different things. I find the term always has relevance in indicating that the story is somehow non-canon-compliant. However, the ways in which this lack of compliance occurs may relate to settings, life histories, character development, or timeline changes. And in some cases the term is used mostly to distinguish cloaked original fic from canon-inspired stories. Moreover, the fandom in which the term is used may affect the definition in ways that are not the same across the board.
Originally posted September 30, 2010
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- Part 7 of Fanfic Genres
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While responding to a question of "Should more RPF 'cross the line' and be turned into publishable original fiction?" this was also the week that SPN decided to turn in a mind-bender of an episode with an RP AU.
To me there's automatically a difference between a story that purports to be about a living or deceased person and attempts to use as much evidence as possible to recreate them as they are/were, and stories that merely use the archetype of a person as a framework on which to develop a character. Because if it's the latter, I suspect just about every piece of "original" fiction out there contains characters that are based on people the author knows, or knows of. Writers are like magpies, constantly gathering bits and pieces from their lives to use in their writing, and other people are certainly part of that collection.
Originally posted February 26, 2011
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Fanfic is all about the audience, much less so about the subject of the story. In RP fic, the people in question may be the leaping off point but they're not the final destination, and the celebrity's own story is still very much intact.
Originally posted April 11, 2011.
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- Part 8 of Fanfic Genres
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A discussion of RPF AU stories and whether they can work as original fiction.
Inspired by Restraint by DarkEmeralds.
Originally posted February 28, 2011
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- Part 10 of Fanfic Genres
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Of Sexiness by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel the Series, Supernatural
22 Dec 2022
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A post at the TWC symposium blog caught my attention as it focused on a strand of fanfic I don't see enough of. I'm not sure I'm convinced that threesome fic, particularly the M/F/M variety, is growing in quantity. Of course, that may be because I've been reading in SPN fandom for the past few years and simple het is scarce on the ground. But as our Classic Recs session just ended again at buffyversetop5, it was easy enough to look at the numbers in a verse that was built on het.
Originally posted November 3, 2011
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Obviously what's funny is in the eye of the beholder, but I spent some time thinking about what factors make something either a funny story, or one with humor in it.
Originally posted September 17, 2015
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- Part 12 of Fanfic Genres
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The Who Does Matter by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, RPF - Fandom, Fandom - Fandom, Marvel Cinematic Comics TV Universe
24 Dec 2022
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I don't believe I've ever written my own "Why Slash?" post, however two things prompted this one. The first was an interesting post which took on the topic and offered an explanation I hadn't yet seen. And the second was that the topic's Fanlore entry points out "while no equivalent existential soul-searching exists for "why het"." It was that second part that seemed to me the key issue. I don't think that slash is that different from het in the bigger picture. Rather there is a larger question of why we write who we write that is at the heart of it at all.
Originally posted January 26, 2018.
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- Part 13 of Fanfic Genres
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Is the use of babies in an epilogue to a romance story common, and has that changed over the last decade?
Originally posted November 17, 2018 / April 30, 2022
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- Part 14 of Fanfic Genres
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Thoughts about reboot culture and the most fanficcy trope.
Originally posted August 12, 2019.
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- Part 15 of Fanfic Genres
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Meta Manifesto: Enemies to Lovers Stories by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Fandom - Fandom, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Merlin [BBC], Killing Eve (TV - 2018), Marvel Cinematic Comics TV Universe
23 Dec 2022
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Spoilers for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Merlin, Killing Eve and Avengers.
Although the EtL story type is highly popular, I think there are ways in which it works more deeply or successfully. What counts as "success" though is the crux of the story, as well as whether the characters are truly enemies.
Originally posted May 8, 2021.
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- Part 16 of Fanfic Genres
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Originally posted January 5, 2012.
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- Part 17 of Fanfic Genres
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Why I Like Fusions by yourlibrarian
Fandoms: Fandom - Fandom, Sense8, Marvel's The Avengers (2012), Blade Runner (Movie), Elementary, Sleepy Hollow, White Collar, Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Trek - All Media Types
24 Dec 2022
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As part of the Meta Manifesto Challenge, a look at some of the typical elements of fusions and why they can make for rewarding and insightful faworks.
Originally posted May 14, 2022.
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- Part 18 of Fanfic Genres
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Celebrity can't be outsourced, because its very value lies in its scarcity.
Originally posted February 17-18, 2011.
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- Part 19 of Fanfic Genres
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One piece of outrage for some people discussing the use of the Haiti tragedy's aftermath as a story setting (by more than one author, no less), was that these stories were romances. At the same time, I was reading a post titled, rather unfortunately, "Romance means never having to doubt your choices".
I think an element that is heavily in play in fanfic fandom is the idea that enjoying something means turning off your brain and ceasing to have any critical thought about what you're reading/viewing/playing. In contrast, you have events such as the "fic warnings" debate that indicates that there's only so much "turning off" that anyone can do before your own sacred cow is gored. The residue of that debate leaped out at me when I read this phrase:
"I totally agree with the idea that each novel in the romance genre represents a safe space for readers to enjoy without apprehension."
Originally posted June 19, 2010
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- Part 20 of Fanfic Genres
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Does fanfiction really improve on commercial content?
Originally posted March 17, 2019
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- Part 21 of Fanfic Genres