@Roz said:
@HelloRaptor said:
@Roz
I don't actually think all of MU* RP is fanfiction, it's just a dumb sweeping generalization to make that fanficcers are all batshit insane. So I brilliantly countered with another sweeping generalization.
Two wrongs don't make a right. C'mon, we need you to be the adult here. 
Ugh fuck you why do I get stuck with it! (β―Β°β‘Β°)β―οΈ΅ β»ββ»
Fanfiction often gets thrown under the bus in fandom as kind of a "wrong" way to be a fan, which often means the "female" way to be a fan, so I'm biased in the other direction.
What? I mean, obviously, yeah it's totally the 'wrong' way to be a fan, but what's that got to do with women? Is this a stereotype I've managed to go decades without picking up on? My personal experience with fanficcers has been pretty well distributed between men and women.
I don't really write fanfic myself anymore -- I used to when I was a bright-eyed, eager youngster who needed to write all of her DBZ feels after Toonami -- but I've certainly some bullshit. I certainly know way more female fanficcers than male, but that's just personal experience vs. personal experience. There are definite threads throughout fandoms of criticizing certain WAYS of being a fan, and they all tend to be ways where women are more active than men. It's just fandom policing bullshit, AS PER USUAL.
I don't know how common this is, but when I write a fanfiction, I do try to stay as close to the source material as possible, for the most part. Like, if it's from a TV series, I try to make the story sound as much like a typical episode (or better, if the writing in the TV show hovers around sub-par). I do the stories I think should have been filmed/animated/written but weren't, officially. I've been writing fanfiction since 1989. (and yeah the old stuff wasn't as good, but back then fanfiction I didn't even know was a thing that other people did, and there were no internets in my house until 2000, so I had no idea fanfiction was a term or that it even existed (outside what I wrote)! So thankfully my teenage years didn't base themselves on what anybody thought of what I wrote (and I didn't bother showing it to very many people anyway), so I didn't turn all "fan-bratty", nor did I take severe offense if someone didn't like what I wrote. Hell the whole reason I started writing fanfiction in the first place was The Transformers Cartoon went off the air completely.
I mean sure, I've done a couple "wish fulfilment" style stories, who hasn't? But then comes the internets and I read fanfics of others, and facepalm at the fanbrattiness of some writers who get upset at the mildest of criticisms (such as grammar or text block of doom that should really be separated into paragraphs), as if the critic had kicked their puppy across the road or something. It's like all of a sudden there's a crop of people whose egos need to be stroked constantly or something or they'll get mad, regardless of whether they're putting out something of quality or not (most often not).
