redbrunja: (Daydream Of A Boy)
redbrunja ([personal profile] redbrunja) wrote2008-11-26 03:25 am

The Boy Looks Good In Black & White

Okay, so for Sai's birthday, I meant to post fic.

Only I came home so wiped I went to bed at 9, mom hijacked the computer to watch The Incredible Hulk, and then I woke up an hour and a half later to watch the end with her and regained the computer right when lj decided to go screwy on me.

So, Sai, you get fic.... later today.

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On that subject, I need to relearn how to write fluff, because I've forgotten and it's sad.

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I'm debating whether or not I have too many Sakura/Kakashi icons uploaded.

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I walked into one of my classes today to find Annoying Girl informing the teacher about fanfiction porn being called "lemons" and homosexual relationships being called "slash." I find this horrifying on so very many different levels.

Now, I'm not saying profs shouldn't KNOW about fanfiction, but I don't think you should ever TELL them about it. It's like Fight Club. If you don't know about it already, you shouldn't.

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Bleach is annoying me. Right now I'm so pissed that Ichigo can apparent pwn everyone and his brother with little to no effort and that Renji is such a fucking moron. Protip: if you have to get defeated before you go 'save Rukia' than you lose any points you might have had by saying that. Don't be so fracking indecisive.
The chibi vice captains were adorable, though.

Also, is there any scene where Orihime gets to pwn coming up anytime soon?

[identity profile] ivy-chan.livejournal.com 2008-11-27 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
I don't see a problem with informing a professor or anyone else about fanfic and fandom. It's hardly secret, you can easily find it with a few button clicks on the internet, and I don't see the point in assigning it some sort of mystique. I've told a professor what it was in my Creative Writing class, where someone wrote a fanfic as an assignment and the prof. was struggling to find a word to describe it. (He called it metafic. I kind of like that word.)

I've spoken to friends about fanfic and fandom when they weren't previously involved in it, mainly because that's a part of my life and as my friends I think I should be able to talk to them about the stories I write or about shipping wars when I feel ranty. I don't see how it's disrespectful to inform people about fanfiction, or who it is I'm disrespecting by doing so. Fandom isn't a private club or a secret society. I can see not making money on your endeavors or sending your work to the actors or makers of the stuff you fanfic for, but just informing people about its existence is harmless enough.

It would be disrespectful if you purposefully bring it up to use it as a joke or insult it. It would be disrespectful if you pulled stuff off the net and used it with the sole intention of mocking it. But simply informing another person that fanfiction exists as another form/genre of writing, or bringing it up in a conversation about something relevant? I don't see the problem in that.

[identity profile] redbrunja.livejournal.com 2008-11-29 10:03 am (UTC)(link)
Rationally, you might be right. However, emotionally I felt like there were HUGE boundries being crossed and that fandom is something you shoudl kind of find on your own, and not have a student (who I already have issues with) pimping it out to a literature proff who I do not think will understand it.

I just... it skeeves me.