[ SECRET POST #3056 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3056 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

I think the feeling is just different, I guess? You can use certain narrative devices in fanfic (making unelaborated-upon references to canon events or status quos) that you can't use in original stories unless it's near the end of the story after the plot has set up a large amount of the "canon." Whereas the reference to established canon can be the starting-point for fanfic. And exposition in fanfic does feel different than exposition in an original story, though of course that's more nebulous.

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AYRT

I understand that, I suppose my issue comes with the fact that if you're in a fandom for something then you've HAD to do that with the original canon. Whatever it was -- TV, movie, book -- couldn't use those narrative devices, but clearly you could deal with that if you were invested enough to be in the fandom.

And again, the complaints about infodumping in the original post is just bad writing, whether it's original or not. I just don't see how they're comparable.

[(Anonymous)]

I gotta admit, I'm more tolerant of infodumping in original stories than in fanfic. In fanfic I guess I just expect less infodumping because in fanfic you can always go off of various info that was dumped in the canon rather than making up all-new info (eg, using canon incidents or canon minor one-off characters rather than making up a whole new plot if it's just an infodump-y "this is the context of what's happening" sort of deal.)