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Two Thoughts
Mar. 29th, 2007 11:27 amI'm back. I went to St. Louis for spring break, then I had to catch up on sleep and homework, but now I'm back. With thoughts!
First thought, a question:
Okay, maybe it's because I've just started dipping my toes in the House fandom, but why is Chase always such a wuss in fic? And in slash pairings, he's always at least a low-grade sub. To this convention, I aim a great, big, WTF? The guy's a canonical dabber in the S & M scene with dom leanings (1x20 "Love Hurts"). Why hasn't anyone taken this concept out for a run?
Second thought, an observation:
There appear to be three main motivators when it come to the impulse to write fanfic. They are as follow.
1) The author is a serious or semi-serious writer (by nature or nurture), whose subconscious has been eaten by a show/book/movie to the point that plot bunnies spawn from 'verse canon instead of a strange mishmash of real life stuff.
2) The author has been lurking around fandom and wants todo what all the cool kids are doing give back in some way.
3) The author really, really needs to get laid and is displaying their fandom-based fantasies for all to see. (Clearly, this motivator is only applicable to non-gen fic.)
These motivators almost never appear one at a time, and are often combined with each other (1 primary/3 secondary and 3 primary/2 secondary are the most common mixes) and/or AU fiddling (from "crazy crackfic" to "mild alternate ending/scene curiosity" to "OMG they ruined the show! 'repairs'") / wish fulfillment.
Fandom is weird.
::<3's fandom::
<dom voice>Now, rec me some good House fic, worms.</dom voice> Please?
First thought, a question:
Okay, maybe it's because I've just started dipping my toes in the House fandom, but why is Chase always such a wuss in fic? And in slash pairings, he's always at least a low-grade sub. To this convention, I aim a great, big, WTF? The guy's a canonical dabber in the S & M scene with dom leanings (1x20 "Love Hurts"). Why hasn't anyone taken this concept out for a run?
Second thought, an observation:
There appear to be three main motivators when it come to the impulse to write fanfic. They are as follow.
1) The author is a serious or semi-serious writer (by nature or nurture), whose subconscious has been eaten by a show/book/movie to the point that plot bunnies spawn from 'verse canon instead of a strange mishmash of real life stuff.
2) The author has been lurking around fandom and wants to
3) The author really, really needs to get laid and is displaying their fandom-based fantasies for all to see. (Clearly, this motivator is only applicable to non-gen fic.)
These motivators almost never appear one at a time, and are often combined with each other (1 primary/3 secondary and 3 primary/2 secondary are the most common mixes) and/or AU fiddling (from "crazy crackfic" to "mild alternate ending/scene curiosity" to "OMG they ruined the show! 'repairs'") / wish fulfillment.
Fandom is weird.
::<3's fandom::
<dom voice>Now, rec me some good House fic, worms.</dom voice> Please?
