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hazelwillow posted a wonderful post about fandom a couple of weeks back. I also want to ask you guys a few questions about fandom-related stuff.
First, I'll direct you to an interesting post I saw on Tumblr a while back: it's a possible explanation of where "fake geek girls" come from.
My first question is, do you think Fake Geek Girls exist? Or is it just a concept that the maledoms have come up with to prevent unwanted people from entering what they think is "theirs"?
My second set of questions pertain to the significance of canon. If we are to admit that the alteration and recreation of a piece of work are valid interactions with that said work, than is there any importance to canon at all?
For example, I've been hopping into more and more popular fandoms recently, and what I've noticed in these large fandoms is something called "shipping wars". Yes... they are very noticeable. People actually get death threats over them. And seeing that canon can only cater to a select number of ships, what usually happens is that in order for some ships to sail, fans willingly disregard canon in favour of the ships they've created. Now, I've experienced something like this before. When Finnick died in Mockingjay, I told myself that it's okay to believe in some alternate version of HG where Finnick lived. I really understand the urge to change something that I didn't like. I too am a fanfic writer, and I know what it's like to want to "fix" things, or imagine AUs, or imagine bits and pieces that happened in between scenes.
But from a creator point of view, as someone who also likes to create my own worlds and stories and characters, I feel kind of sad and disappointed that if I ever (fortunately) get to be published, perhaps my readers wouldn't care about what I wrote; maybe they'd just care about what they can do with the things that I've created and slap their own piece of headcanons on them. Then it's like... what's the point? What is the point of writing, when consumers are only concerned about altering it? I guess to a larger extent, at what point does the author end and the reader begin? Or is it all just up to the readers? It's kind of demotivating... at least for me.
So, how about you guys? How do you feel about canon? Do you think it's okay for people to ship whoever they want? If some of you are published authors (or would like to be) how do you feel about fans disregarding pieces of your story?
hazelwillow posted a wonderful post about fandom a couple of weeks back. I also want to ask you guys a few questions about fandom-related stuff.First, I'll direct you to an interesting post I saw on Tumblr a while back: it's a possible explanation of where "fake geek girls" come from.
My first question is, do you think Fake Geek Girls exist? Or is it just a concept that the maledoms have come up with to prevent unwanted people from entering what they think is "theirs"?
My second set of questions pertain to the significance of canon. If we are to admit that the alteration and recreation of a piece of work are valid interactions with that said work, than is there any importance to canon at all?
For example, I've been hopping into more and more popular fandoms recently, and what I've noticed in these large fandoms is something called "shipping wars". Yes... they are very noticeable. People actually get death threats over them. And seeing that canon can only cater to a select number of ships, what usually happens is that in order for some ships to sail, fans willingly disregard canon in favour of the ships they've created. Now, I've experienced something like this before. When Finnick died in Mockingjay, I told myself that it's okay to believe in some alternate version of HG where Finnick lived. I really understand the urge to change something that I didn't like. I too am a fanfic writer, and I know what it's like to want to "fix" things, or imagine AUs, or imagine bits and pieces that happened in between scenes.
But from a creator point of view, as someone who also likes to create my own worlds and stories and characters, I feel kind of sad and disappointed that if I ever (fortunately) get to be published, perhaps my readers wouldn't care about what I wrote; maybe they'd just care about what they can do with the things that I've created and slap their own piece of headcanons on them. Then it's like... what's the point? What is the point of writing, when consumers are only concerned about altering it? I guess to a larger extent, at what point does the author end and the reader begin? Or is it all just up to the readers? It's kind of demotivating... at least for me.
So, how about you guys? How do you feel about canon? Do you think it's okay for people to ship whoever they want? If some of you are published authors (or would like to be) how do you feel about fans disregarding pieces of your story?
