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⌈ Secret Post #348 ⌋

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28. I can't help but think this is wankbait. Does disliking a certain form of fic really mean you must therefore have zero respect for anyone who produces it?

I guess what bothers me is that, okay, maybe it does take a lot more commitment to turn out a (finished, lol) novel-length fanfic than it does to write a drabble here and there. But I don't think it's like any of us somehow owes it to fandom to produce anything. If you enjoy producing something, great, produce it. Put it out there. Share it. Let us enjoy it. But if you simply don't enjoy writing in a certain form, why should that matter?

It's like...I don't know. You have a group of friends you hang out with. One person sometimes brings cookies. You might like that they do that, but it doesn't make that other girl who doesn't bring cookies a less fun person to hang out with. My analogy probably sucks, but I don't think contributing a lot of effort to fandom somehow makes you better than someone who hangs out, partakes of the discussion, and occasionally makes a small contribution of their own. We're here to have fun. If fun, for you, is writing long fics, awesome. If you'd rather stab your eyes out with a spork than write a fifty-thousand word epic, and you much prefer writing a drabble here and there, that should be okay too!

29. Piett! ♥ Not my favorite Imperial (the good parts of the EU have pretty much cemented Pellaeon into that position for me), but I liked him.

I can't help but lol at Needa, though. Saying the wrong thing at the wrong time costs a lot when Vader's running your fleet. :(

44. omg, yes. I dislike how anime is kind of treated as a single genre. It's not a genre, it's a medium, within which you get works spanning a lot of very different genres. Saying "I like anime" isn't like saying "I like science-fiction," it's more like saying "I like movies" or "I like books." Admittedly, there are some cultural things and tropes that you get tons of in anime and not so much elsewhere, but it's...not like it's a single genre, not by a long shot.

I would actually slightly disagree about the Saying "I like anime" isn't like saying "I like science-fiction", because I read/watch a lot of science fiction (and a decent amount of fantasy), and a lot of is NOTHING like each other and occupies completely different sub-genres underneath the "umbrella" of sci-fi. Show wise, think the 'Gates versus BSG, or Doctor Who and Babylon 5. I could go into author specifics which would be much better examples, most sci-fi writers tend to be completely unknown outside of the sci-fi world.

I'll concede that point.

I just think that people treat it as having a more narrow scope than they ought to, as if the magical girl genre was the be all and end all of everything. Even in a genre, there's definitely a lot of room for difference, but I still do think that treating anime as a genre is less accurate than treating it as a medium, even if there's more room for difference within a single genre than my comment implies, if that makes sense.

Yeah, I agree. I admit I'm a little overprotective of sci-fi (especially since I've been working in a bookstore for nearly two years). I hadn't thought of defining anime as a medium instead of a genre before (I don't watch any really), but it makes a lot more sense. Because it doesn't tell you what the story involves at all, just the manner in which they will present it to you.

Edited 2007-12-20 04:08 (UTC)

Your analogy reminds me of the essay Slash Fiction is like a Banquet (http://trickster.org/fannishbutterfly/hummus.html), which I think sort of applies to this situation. I recommend reading it just to get people thinking on fan contributions.

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