[ SECRET POST #2624 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2624 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Outlander]


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03.
[The Walking Dead]


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04.
[How I Met Your Mother]


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05.
[Twitch Plays Pokemon]


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06.
[Batman, Kill La Kill, Borderlands]


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07.
[Overlord]


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08.
[Red Dwarf]


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09.
[Paranatural]


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10.
[Pitch Perfect]


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11.
[Insidious: Chapter 2]


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Notes:

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Hesitantly seconding part of this, although I don't think Death of the Author is bullshit. I hate it when DoA is used as justification for disregarding everything the author says after people are interacting with their canons. It just seems ridiculously flip and dismissive on fandom's part, like everyone else is now entitled to assert that their opinion of what was meant is valid, and if the author tries to say anything that didn't make it into the book, that's against the rules.

I was appalled at the way fans were dismissing JK Rowling for that interview where she expressed that Ron/Hermione didn't seem like as good an idea to her anymore than it used to. I mean, for fuck's sake, she wasn't trying to embarrass anybody by saying that the way she perceived her characters had changed over time, and people basically responded with loads of "shut up, shut up, you don't belooong in this conversation!" It makes me sad and angry, because I grew up with creators being asked by fans for more ... you know, what they thought of this or that famous thing that they'd made, and for the most part, the hip, cool response was a stony reluctance to admit that they still carried anything around from their finished projects. You what? You want to dedicate interview time to something that's over and done with? Of course I don't have any feelings for that, I'm a professional, let me tell you about what I'm writing NOW ... It was an attitude that left fans looking like complete idiots who over-invested in a thing that even the person who made it wouldn't admit they cared about. And it smacked of utter cowardice on the creators' part, to me. So when I started reading the interviews of creators who were willing to talk about the stuff that didn't make it onto the page for them, and admit that they lived with these characters and had feelings about them (as opposed to just flipping a switch when they were working, as the previous ones would have you believe) I was so happy about it. I felt like maybe, finally, authors/actors/suchlike were willing to meet us halfway, and stop pretending we were just "reading too much into it," falling in love with stuff that had zero connection to them or their psyche. And what I'm saying is that a lot of the death of the author stuff that I don't like feels like ... fandom doesn't even want authors sharing space with us. Because WoG used to be given far too much weight, and now we give no fucks. I wish fandom had responded with scorn back when most creators were protecting their reputation as serious artists at our expense. Not now, when it seems like some of them just want to hang out and talk about something that was important to them and important to us.

In short, the author is not GOD but some of my authors are alive and I value the fact that they are and can talk about what they had in mind. I believe good writing stands on its own merits, but I've had so many good conversations about what was meant, what was behind the words that made it onto the page. It's natural to me that if I want that kind of closeness and extra depth with stories written by people in fandom, I'd want it with people who write big, famous works that I love, too. I'm not going to set up "did I figure out everything you meant from the text?" as some sort of litmus test for the quality of their writing, and then declare they can't tell me anything more. Quite the opposite - if there's more and they're willing to share it, they have a willing audience here. It's weird to me that this isn't a more common POV in fandom.