Let's Discuss...Fanfiction
Monday, August 25, 2014
Fiction written by a fan of, and featuring characters from, a particular series, film, etc.
Fanfiction is becoming increasingly popular, but honestly sometimes it really shocks me how graphic it can be; for example certain one direction fans and their 'Larry Stylinson' tales..I don't really want to know about Harry and Louis's sex life in your mind thank you!
Fanfiction is becoming increasingly popular, but honestly sometimes it really shocks me how graphic it can be; for example certain one direction fans and their 'Larry Stylinson' tales..I don't really want to know about Harry and Louis's sex life in your mind thank you!
Like my experience with YouTube I cannot recall ever discovering fanfiction. It seems to have just appeared, although thinking about it I imagine I first came across when I realised that Fifty Shades of Grey was first a fanfiction of twilight. I'm a huge twilight fan so this fact intrigued me, I'd seen some One Direction stuff in the past and it made me feel quite awkward some of the graphic things people had written! I mean some stuff that's been written by girls my age is borderline fifty shades of grey in itself *green face sick emojiii*.
Don't get me wrong some fanfiction is great fiction; it shows how talented some young teenagers are but do we really need the erotica that makes me feel like gauging out my eyeballs with a screwdriver just so I don't have to accidentally be scarred for life?! What annoys me is that everyone presumes fanfiction only existed when it was first written on the internet. Beckie, what are you saying? Well friends I'm saying that before we used the internet to publish and share everything, people had no choice but to write on paper. Can I prove this? Yes, yes I can. Go into your local waterstones (or whichever shop picks your fancy) and you will find proper fanfiction in actual paperbacks.
I love fanfiction but it has it's darksides. Some people do choose to write awful fanfictions that make certain people look like terrible people just because they don't like the character or band member. However, it is fascinating when you read certain stories, I find it amazing how people can think of these stories, write them and aren't even much older than me most of the time!
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