Macai
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I think these kinds of things serve as experiments, a fanfic writer doesn't need to worry about creating a setting, or any characterization, the reader is already aware of those. It's an easy way to practice fiction.
I don't know why anyone reads them though, they're really crap. I had a friend who delighted in their far-fetchedness and poor grammar. I guess it's a sort of irony?
There are people who read them, and take them very seriously.
I bet you anything that I could write a Harry Potter fanfic about Voldemort using sinister magic to seduce Dumbledore into bed with him, and then finish the spell by giving Dumbledore the first instance of the AIDS virus in the Harry Potter universe, and someone out there would laud it as a brilliant piece of literature.
Is it your implication, then, that the idiots who write/read fanfiction represent fanfiction writers/readers as a whole, or that those who write/read good fanfiction ought to be lumped in with them?
I write fanfiction. I try my damndest to to write
good fanfiction, and so far have failed to disappoint anyone who has read my long-term work. And I'm not just talking having received sugary praise from morons -- I've had intellectual debates on various points, and have corresponded with some very intelligent people. The only reason I'm not providing you with usernames, and challenging you to call these people morons to their proverbial faces, is that I don't want to do so without their consent; I will, however, happily attempt to obtain such consent if you please.
The quality of my work is not diminished due to stupid people who write badly, any more than the quality of a given novel or movie is affected in any way by the quality of the other novels or movies coming out at the same time, any more than the flip of a coin influences the roll of a six-sided die. Your "fanfiction has an overall low score" argument is at best an ad hoc, and has no bearing on what you were trying to state, and indeed invalidates the rest of the statements you have been making. You have stated that all fanfiction is bad, and then attempted to retract the superlative nature of that statement just enough to allow for the proof being tossed in your face, while still somehow imagining you can maintain the initial assertion. This is so illogical it makes my brain bleed, mostly because your overall language-based articulation leads me to believe you would be smarter than that.
Your demands that your concerns be addressed are illogical under your own premise as well. No one but you can subjectively address them -- others can only objectively do so, by the nature of opinions, but you have already stated that objective assessment is invalid. Essentially, you are demanding an impossibility, and then using others' failure to accomplish it as evidence that your opinion is unassailable and your point correct -- a classic example of negative proof fallacy. Ergo, you are using the forums as a soapbox, cultivating discussion only insofar as that allows you to technically comply with forum rules, and refusing to allow any real challenge to your opinions to be valid.
So please -- this forum is not a soapbox. Take it someplace else.
