[ SECRET POST #5346 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5346 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Even leaving aside the difficulty of turning a fic into an original I think a lot of people way underestimate the difference between popularity with a fannish audience and popularity with a wider audience. Yes, 50 Shades, but I think sometimes people forget that just because your fanfic for super popular slash ship of the moment gets a ton of kudos and reviews that doesn't mean that the random general audience out there is also going to be all over it without the fandom angle to lean on. For example, lots of people like Marvel movies but in comparison to all the people who watch those films the percentage of people who also like even bigger pairings like Stucky is probably not nearly as large as someone inside fandom thinks, and when you then take away the fandom angle is this really that appealing to anyone else.

Also arguably being a Twilight fic probably helped 50 Shades in this regard, Twilight itself is sorta wish-fulfillment 'imagine yourself as the bland lead' as a story so it's way easier to sand the numbers off because the fans aren't so much attached to Edward and Bella as they are Hot Vaguely Dangerous Lead and Imagine The Female Lead Is You. I think it's easier to sell Edward Expy and Bella Expy to general audiences because they don't have much character to begin with in the original canon and you're going for the audience who likes that, whereas a fic about two very specific leads with more complex canon characterization is going to be much harder to sell to audiences who don't already know these characters.

[(Anonymous)]

I have written some fic in an elaborate crossover AU and every so often someone who likes it suggests I should file off the serial numbers and publish it as an original fic. And, granted, it is so AU that it's practically original in some ways... but it's still fic, and it just doesn't work unless you already know the main fandom it's in. It just would not work as an original story-- I actually think it's pretty good and I am proud of it, but I have read enough to be sure it would not be publishable as original fic.

I appreciate the compliment when people have said that, but sometimes readers and authors do underestimate how much context and attachment to the characters from canon etc affect your view of a fic. Like, bless you if you can do it but it seems like it would be pretty rare for it to work