I've always wanted to do this meme.

[emmagrant01]

1. Fan fiction writers can write whatever they want. No, really. You don't need to ask permission from anyone to write your story. And no one else has the right to tell you what you should and shouldn't write about.

2. On being "OOC": I don't care if your Harry is so dark and twisted that he is unrecognizeable from the books, or if your Snape is flamboyantly gay, or if your Draco is a whiny princess. If someone else calls it OOC, so what? You wrote it for a reason. It made you happy, or at least it kept you from going crazy to get it out of your head. Someone else probably read it and liked it too. People who didn't like it know where the back button is.

3. On calling someone else's fic "OOC": Just say "I don't like your characterization because it doesn't match mine" and leave it at that. What is and isn't IC is highly subjective. No one in fandom can legitimately claim to know exactly what [insert character here] would do in a given situation, and at best we can agree to disagree. [I edited this one for clarity.]

4. Slash writers are writing for themselves and for each other, and not for anyone else. If you need a man's approval of your fic, then you have some self-esteem issues.

5. It's called "fiction" for a reason. We write about wizards and vampires and Jedi -- and you know, none of that shit really exists. (AFAIK, anyway.) So the amount of reality you inject into your fic is really up to you. I like my sex scenes with a dose of reality, but I don't begrudge anyone else their fantasy sex. See #1.

Comments

[eliminate.livejournal.com]

What do you mean, wizards don't exist??! :O

And well said. :D I like my Alan Rickman Snape to be a sexy bastard.

[furiosity.livejournal.com]

I don't think those are unpopular... they just seem like common sense to me.

Oh wait, this is fandom. Never mind. *runs*

[lagreyeyes.livejournal.com]

Agreed, on all counts.

Though I DO believe magic exists. *g*

[fourth_rose]

Slash writers are writing for themselves and for each other, and not for anyone else. If you need a man's approval of your fic, then you have some self-esteem issues.

*hands you the internet*

[chickadilly.livejournal.com]

I think these all sound like valid opinions! :)

[carpe-slytherin.livejournal.com]

They might be unpopular, but they're one of the most intelligent things I've heard lately. Butbutbut wizards, vampires, Jedi and shit don't exist? *sobs and runs away screaming*

[carpe-slytherin.livejournal.com]

ETA: As my husband just so nicely put it, "If you read fan fiction at all, you KNOW that shit exists."

Bwahaha! He slays me.

[novembersnow.livejournal.com]

4. Slash writers are writing for themselves and for each other, and not for anyone else. If you need a man's approval of your fic, then you have some self-esteem issues.

Yes, yes, and more yes. (To all your observations, really, but especially this one.)

[rolling-scone.livejournal.com]

Yuki icon! ♥ May I ask who made it?

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I totally stole that one from you. ;-)

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I probably could have phrased that better, huh? ;-)

[darthrami.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I think some of them would be wildly unpopular. ITA, though -- just because I want one thing out of my fic doesn't mean I begrudge other people what they want.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Hee! I think I need to add in a disclaimer up there.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

LOL! So true. ;-)

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I guess that's the unpopular part, huh? ;-)

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Oooh, thank you! *cuddles it*

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think so too. But I've wondered about that lately. :-P

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Right, and that's the point. The playground is big enough for everyone, and no one is in charge. I get annoyed by people trying to enforce their own standards of what we should and shouldn't write about, and not phrasing it in terms of their own preferences or opinions. "I prefer" is totally different from "You should or else you suck".

[carpe-slytherin.livejournal.com]

No, you put it perfectly! I'm just a wee bit twisted. :D

[belleweather.livejournal.com]

4. Slash writers are writing for themselves and for each other, and not for anyone else. If you need a man's approval of your fic, then you have some self-esteem issues.

Gah! Perhaps I'm being corrupted by my feminist jurisprudence reading assignments, but the idea that it would be any other way just really pisses me off. It's not as if men ask for women's approval on their shitty porn.

[jgracio.livejournal.com]

Word to pretty much everything, though 3 is debatable.

I mean, I can write a Xander that bitches at Buffy and is carrying a torch for Angel or Spike, and it's ok, but one can hardly say it's IC.

Or a Harry Potter that sacrifices babies to the dark gods to gain power, power he will use to overthrow his father, Lord Voldemort and rule the Galaxy with an iron fist besides the Emperor (until the Emperor has an accident, of course), but well, someone saying it's OOC is probably right.

[vlredreign.livejournal.com]

Amen.

I love you.

That is all.

*some Brian/Justin for you!*

Is this flocked, Emma? I wasn't paying attention. If not, please don't. This needs to be seen for a while, I think.

[wivern.livejournal.com]

*nods* Yep.

That whole OOC thing... I must be lucky, the fandoms I have been active in , that hasn't been too much of a problem. I mean, people would complain about weepy, helpless Obi but it was more a 'that's not how I see him and I can't imagine a Jedi being like that' but then they mostly shrugged and added 'but if it floats your boat... what the hell'.

*g* probably a sign that I need to get more involved in the fandom (both the Stargates) that I do read in now. I'm soooo out of touch.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Yes, I know. It should go without saying, shouldn't it? :-P

[earth-magic.livejournal.com]

*smirks*

Excellent observations and so true.

One person's reality is another person fantasy.