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heidiWell, I think it's made it 100% mainstream at this point. Look what the New York Times Sunday Book Review section had to say
FFN: You probably finished ''Pride and Prejudice'' thinking, ''That was fine, but I'd have liked at least one hot encounter between Darcy and Wickham, especially if it involved exposed chests and a healthy slathering of cheap cologne.'' Reader, they've written it. Fan fiction (''fanfic'' to its practitioners) is short fiction -- or less frequently, poetry, plays or novellas -- based on TV shows, movies, and, of course, contemporary and classic literature. Fanfic uses the source's pre-existing characters, tends to be raunchy, and has a lingo that can be as bewildering as it is fascinating (a ''plot bunny,'' for example, is a fanfic story idea). There are several fanfic archives on the Web, but FanFiction.Net is one of the few that include a ratings guide. Moreover, the site's header invites you to ''unleash your imagination and free your soul,'' which sounds like a good idea, so long as your soul isn't horrified into immobility by the site's inclusion of 42 fan fiction stories based on ''The Diary of Anne Frank.''
Godawful.net: When you have had your fill of slash, gen and 'ship fiction (fanfic terms for various character entanglements), when you groan at the arrival of each new ''Mary Sue'' (a ludicrously empowered author proxy), when you find yourself wishing every story you read had been beta-ed (i.e. edited), then it's time to visit Godawful Fan Fiction, where the worst fan fiction on the Web is filleted with the hot knife of peer criticism. The Darcy/Wickham encounter mentioned above under FanFiction.Net is just one of many scenarios to have been deboned in the gleefully malicious Godawful forums.
I recommend reading the whole article, though, because it mentions some interesting online communities focused on reading and writing. Sadly, though, they ignore all the interesting writer-generated blogs and sites, like Diane Duane's and Neil Gaiman's.
FFN: You probably finished ''Pride and Prejudice'' thinking, ''That was fine, but I'd have liked at least one hot encounter between Darcy and Wickham, especially if it involved exposed chests and a healthy slathering of cheap cologne.'' Reader, they've written it. Fan fiction (''fanfic'' to its practitioners) is short fiction -- or less frequently, poetry, plays or novellas -- based on TV shows, movies, and, of course, contemporary and classic literature. Fanfic uses the source's pre-existing characters, tends to be raunchy, and has a lingo that can be as bewildering as it is fascinating (a ''plot bunny,'' for example, is a fanfic story idea). There are several fanfic archives on the Web, but FanFiction.Net is one of the few that include a ratings guide. Moreover, the site's header invites you to ''unleash your imagination and free your soul,'' which sounds like a good idea, so long as your soul isn't horrified into immobility by the site's inclusion of 42 fan fiction stories based on ''The Diary of Anne Frank.''
Godawful.net: When you have had your fill of slash, gen and 'ship fiction (fanfic terms for various character entanglements), when you groan at the arrival of each new ''Mary Sue'' (a ludicrously empowered author proxy), when you find yourself wishing every story you read had been beta-ed (i.e. edited), then it's time to visit Godawful Fan Fiction, where the worst fan fiction on the Web is filleted with the hot knife of peer criticism. The Darcy/Wickham encounter mentioned above under FanFiction.Net is just one of many scenarios to have been deboned in the gleefully malicious Godawful forums.
I recommend reading the whole article, though, because it mentions some interesting online communities focused on reading and writing. Sadly, though, they ignore all the interesting writer-generated blogs and sites, like Diane Duane's and Neil Gaiman's.
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Date: 2004-10-03 03:16 pm (UTC)