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⌈ Secret Post #2964 ⌋

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Would you dread the fandom? Encourage it? Is there anything you already dread preemptively?

I would encourage a fandom, but I'd really hope people wouldn't project fanon onto what would become canon.

Also, I have characters who are siblings and I dread the incest!fic.

I would be so fascinated by all the different interpretations of the characters and everything. Even though I know books rarely get fandoms, daydreaming about it is one of the things that keeps me going sometimes.

I'd like to believe that I would be open about fanfiction and stuff. But, I'd be curious how I'd react to the inevitable fic or art that went in a way I wasn't anticipating. There's always something that's too much, and it would be weird if it was with characters that were mine. I don't think you can know how you'll feel until it happens.

I definitely wouldn't interact with fans on twitter or tumblr or facebook. I think I'd only get myself in trouble that way.

But I'd hope that I was patient with the questions I was asked, and could develop a sense of humor and a thick skin for all the inevitable BS.

I'd probably mostly hide in a hole but lurk on forums about my fandom to see what people were saying. If it was too negative then I might not return.

I WOULD READ ALL THE FIC.

And then deny doing so to protect myself from possible MZB lawsuits.

Actually, if there were enough fanartists, I'd probably make AMVs of certain scenes and stuff, because I have a pretty big unofficial soundtrack that's always playing through my head for them.

As for dread... I'm planning on having a time travel portion with unknowing!mom teaming up with her future!son. I suspect there will be incest fic. I will definitely avoid that.

I'd encourage fanfic and shit. But I would not participate or engage.

I would be curious.

I think I would encourage the fandom, but would limit my interactions with the fans. So no communicating with them on Twitter, Tumblr or other social media sites (or at least not a lot).

I'm not sure if I would try to stay as far away from the fandom as possible or lurk in it. If I did the latter I think I would have a couple of "Noooo you're doing it wrong"-moments (though I would keep that to myself), especially on the shipping front, as there are some characters that I'm fairly certain my hypothetical fandom would ship, but it would be so OOC for them to hook up with each other.

I would taunt the fandom by sinking their ships whenever something became popular.

Re: If you wrote a series (books, TV show, whatever) that gained a decent amount of popularity...

(Anonymous) - 2015-02-15 00:26 (UTC) - Expand

Re: If you wrote a series (books, TV show, whatever) that gained a decent amount of popularity...

icecheetah - 2015-02-15 01:10 (UTC) - Expand

Depends on what I am doing. If it's for this book I am writing, then yes. Because I can see people shipping the leads and that misses the whole point of the book. (One lead is asexual who doesn't want to be part of anyone's coupling and the other is looking for a family and nothing romantic or sexual.) I think it would upset me if people were to tell me, "Oh, you HAVE to ship them. And if you are don't it's homophobic." Because, again, you are missing the point of the book. But considering the leads are young, fair looking guys and vampires, I can see that happening.

I would stay away. Let fans enjoy it without my involvement. I hate it when creators are involved in (or even express knowledge of) their fandom.

I'd encourage it, definitely. Although I'd be dreading twitter hate, and I'd not engage that much.

Although I'd seek out what the juggernaut slash ship is - and then make one half of the pairing canon queer (the character who is more main) and put him in a relationship with a different male character.

/uhg how i want teen wolf to do this.

Re: If you wrote a series (books, TV show, whatever) that gained a decent amount of popularity...

(Anonymous) - 2015-02-15 00:13 (UTC) - Expand

I would ignore it. Basically "go ahead, do whatever you want, just don't tell me about it." I don't have a problem with people playing with my toys, I just know the number of missed-the-point ships and AUs that would come out of a fandom for both my current projects would give me a migraine.

Shipping wars are the stupidest thing to fight about in fandom. Who cares if Joe fucks Jim or Susan fucks Kelly or if Joe fucks Susan while Jim fucks Kelly or...or...? (Made up names, no specific characters in mind).

Nobody is better than anybody for their ships, and honestly bullying someone and telling them to kill themselves because of a pairing they like is the most pathetic thing I've ever seen.

Re: Shipping wars...

(Anonymous) - 2015-02-15 00:49 (UTC) - Expand

Re: Shipping wars...

(Anonymous) - 2015-02-15 23:06 (UTC) - Expand

My sister and I used to have a game where we took each other's big story universes and tried to imagine what the shipping fandoms for them would be like. Main het, slash and femslash ships, random crack ships, characters getting shipped with their actual ships ... It was actually pretty fun to imagine.

Would they ship the illusionist saboteur with his murdered commander? With his warlord sister? With the one-armed 2IC of the enemy lord who had his commander tortured to death (she's actually a really reasonable person and not at all like her commander, this one isn't as bad as it sounds)?

Would they ship the spymistress with her long-lost lady-of-war childhood love? With her protege currently playing the king's secretary? With her matriarch-of-a-nation opposite number on the enemy side? With the noble commander she's propped up as a figurehead to turn the nation around? (The first of these is mostly where I'm at in canon, but I'm kind of tempted to have them in a threeway relationship with the enemy matriach-of-nations, mostly because she's awesome, and managed to outsneak the spymistress in one specific area for most of a war, which is very hard to do).

Said noble commander is also having slash vibes all over the place, which I didn't realise until my sister pointed it out. I almost hope somebody crack!ships him with his longsuffering Minister of Civil Affairs, mostly because it's the most out-there ship I can think of for him.

If it ever got written and there ever was an actual fandom for it, though, I'm not sure how much I'd want to watch it. I mean, out of curiosity to see who was shipping what and how popular certain characters were and stuff, but I'm a bit hair-trigger protective of characters in other people's work, I don't want to think what I'd be like with my own. I suspect actually interacting with the fandom would be a bad idea for me.

I have the feeling the SJ crowd would eat me alive for writing one of their pet causes wrong. I'm not sure which one it would be, but it probably doesn't even matter.

I'd want nothing to do with it. Or any attention for that matter. I'd end up being one of those shut-in creators, honestly.

I would not acknowledge the fandom publicly(simply because I've seen that end badly but I also wouldn't mock it or the fans either) but I would totally go and find it and see what people write meta about, what the main ship(s) are, popular fanon and probably read some of the fic.

If it ever would get televised, I'd dread the actors being shipped in RPF and being harassed about it.

I wouldn't care about fics, but it bothers me when I'm misinterpreted, so I would have to stay far away from any meta. I wouldn't be okay with people saying that my characters are so OBVIOUSLY white and/or straight.

I like creators who are supportive of fans and engage with them at conventions and stuff but I also feel like the fandom is the fan's playground and I should keep a healthy distance.

Encourage it. So much. And state my preferences, hoping that some fic authors would write glorious fic of it. And yes, I'd get a profile, write reviews, etc. But under another name. They'll never know. hehehhee

I would ban all fanfiction, whine about fans being entitled, and compare fanworks to rape.

just kidding. I'd secretly be a fan, write crackfic and start drama.

For some of my ideas, I dread the things fandom would do if it got popular.
For others, I am really curious and ready to potentially laugh at what fandom does.
In the latter category is wondering, for one particular story, how many people will ship the one of the main characters with another main character who is literally an ash cloud.
edit: and some of these responses make me dread, in the same story, people shipping an elf with a... let's just say an older than the solar system aromantic asexual human who has a job that requires her to move around a lot.

Edited 2015-02-15 01:15 (UTC)

I would not want people to assume that my main female character was going to get together with her male companion/friend. I wouldn't want people to want it either. They're supposed to be like sister and brother.

In the process of writing something. It probably won't get very big, but we joke about who's going to get slashed with who all the time.

I don't dread fandom at all. I'd be gratified if anyone thought what I wrote was good enough to do any sort of fanworks for.