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Irritated fans produce fanfic like irritated oysters produce pearls.
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Asking whether fic stands on its own is “interrogating the text from the wrong perspective” – to put a famous quote by the well-known fic-opponent Anne Rice to a use she would likely hate. Fic can be uncomfortable for writers who believe they create autonomously in a void.
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Fanfiction also responds to – and even helps bring about – very specific shifts in technology and culture, and it does so more quickly, nimbly, and radically than anyone who benefits from the commercial status quo is ever likely to.
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Fans, it often seemed, were paying more attention and saying smarter things than my Ivy League students.
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Literary avant-gardes tend to attract and be discovered by those who already evince a marked distaste for both the literary and commercial entertainment status quo. Fanwriting communities enjoy and consume commercial culture voraciously, celebrate it, even as they challenge and transform its products for their own sometimes radical purposes.
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Writing and reading fanfiction isn’t just something you do; it’s a way of thinking critically about the media you consume, of being aware of all the implicit assumptions that a canonical work carries with it, and of considering the possibility that those assumptions might not be the only way things have to be.
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You play with our stories with toys, which you pay for. Writers play with our stories on paper, which you also pay for. But don’t you play with our stories on paper, because that would be stealing.
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One reason slash is appealing as a genre is that an equal relationship between a man and a woman is not possible in the patriarchal society in which we live, and slash between men enables writers to examine relationships between characters who are equals. Whether the same is true for femslash depends on who you ask. Academics Lamb and Veith55 argue that women are not equals in a patriarchal society, even if they may be equals in a lesbian relationship.
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Monet was a radical before he was a calendar.
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