Draco doll and fanfic musings
Jan. 18th, 2007 07:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
czeriApparently there's going to be a high quality Draco doll. Isn't it the prettiest thing ever?! I have to visit Harrods one of these days to see if they'll be available over here and if so for how much. Now, if only they made a Lucius doll as well. They'd go together so beautifully! ;-)
In other news, while reading the requests in one of the numerous exchange fests recently I've been struck by the realisation that a large part of fanfiction is not actually based on canon but instead on kink-fulfillment. The starting point for many a fic is not a plausible extrapolation of canon but a scenario or image into which the characters are forced to fit. Naturally the fit is rarely good, which results in loads and loads of OoC'ness. That's a pretty fascinating phenomenon, isn't it? After all, as the name itself suggests fanfiction is fiction written for and by fans of a particular show/book/film/whatever. Which would imply that fanfic writers find their source material appealing and have a strong emotional bond with it. Why then are so many of them ready to completely ignore it? And shouldn't the stories that are produced in this way be more accurately called anti-fanfiction? Hmm...
In other news, while reading the requests in one of the numerous exchange fests recently I've been struck by the realisation that a large part of fanfiction is not actually based on canon but instead on kink-fulfillment. The starting point for many a fic is not a plausible extrapolation of canon but a scenario or image into which the characters are forced to fit. Naturally the fit is rarely good, which results in loads and loads of OoC'ness. That's a pretty fascinating phenomenon, isn't it? After all, as the name itself suggests fanfiction is fiction written for and by fans of a particular show/book/film/whatever. Which would imply that fanfic writers find their source material appealing and have a strong emotional bond with it. Why then are so many of them ready to completely ignore it? And shouldn't the stories that are produced in this way be more accurately called anti-fanfiction? Hmm...
