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I'm really hating this trend of "fanfics turning into books", it's just lazy.
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I actually don't mind people turning fanfiction into books....HOWEVER, the main problem many of these defenders don't understand is two things.

1. Fanficition usually has some taboo subject or is highly NSFW or 2. Fanfiction has not usually been properly edited so you get errors up the ying yang. If you avoid these two things that's fine, but then you have the issue of taking an established work, changing the names and calling it your own. Last time I checked that was pretty frowned upon. It's one thing to have your own original LGBT story. I'm in full support of that. I'm also supportive of taking inspiration from stuff you like. We don't live in a vacuum after all. But I think it really kills part of the originality you could've had with your own story.

Fanfactions, even the ones that are edited are sometimes filled with common errors, and even then many times, fanfiction that isn't an AU is just shipping fodder. Some books have this mind you, but it's comparably small to the amount of horrible fanfiction out there. For every decent fanfic you have to go through 100's of shipping fodder, grammar/spelling errors, and crazy NSFW. If someone moves past this and makes a decent book, fine. But many times, it's not really the case, sadly.
 
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Tanti-Fanti said:
I actually don't mind people turning fanfiction into books....HOWEVER, the main problem many of these defenders don't understand is two things.

1. Fanficition usually has some taboo subject or is highly NSFW or 2. Fanfiction has not usually been properly edited so you get errors up the ying yang. If you avoid these two things that's fine, but then you have the issue of taking an established work, changing the names and calling it your own. Last time I checked that was pretty frowned upon. It's one thing to have your own original LGBT story. I'm in full support of that. I'm also supportive of taking inspiration from stuff you like. We don't live in a vacuum after all. But I think it really kills part of the originality you could've had with your own story.

Fanfactions, even the ones that are edited are sometimes filled with common errors, and even then many times, fanfiction that isn't an AU is just shipping fodder. Some books have this mind you, but it's comparably small to the amount of horrible fanfiction out there. For every decent fanfic you have to go through 100's of shipping fodder, grammar/spelling errors, and crazy NSFW. If someone moves past this and makes a decent book, fine. But many times, it's not really the case, sadly.
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I'm gonna respectfully disagree and say that only inspiration is appropriate. There's actually a published line of books called Shadowhunters that started off as a Harry Potter fanfic and it's godawful. I think one key element to the failure of published fanfiction, other than it being an entryist field full of younger teens, is that FF relies on the reader being familiar with and liking the series the FF is based on. It essentially becomes its own world within the world, open to the type of people who not only like the original but are also open to character shipping, potential out of character exploration, alternative settings, etc etc.

The problem with that is that it discludes the general population. I certainly don't care about an alternate story where Luke and Leia hook up and I love pre-Disney Star Wars.

This brings us to the name switching. One would think it would be so simple to change the name of a Harry Potter or a Leia Organa or a whatever acting differently, but because those names get changed it removes the context of the character in the first place to that general reading population. Why is this character acting like that? Oh well they're a dependable farm hand, or a stand-up politician, even though in this world they're a teacher or a courtesan or something else. How the hell does this power work, in detail? Et cetera.

Essentially published fanfiction is a work of half-context in addition to any problems the writer themselves have with things like worldbuilding, characterization, quality of prose and handling of subject matter.
 
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Marco Fucko said:
I'm gonna respectfully disagree and say that only inspiration is appropriate. There's actually a published line of books called Shadowhunters that started off as a Harry Potter fanfic and it's godawful. I think one key element to the failure of published fanfiction, other than it being an entryist field full of younger teens, is that FF relies on the reader being familiar with and liking the series the FF is based on. It essentially becomes its own world within the world, open to the type of people who not only like the original but are also open to character shipping, potential out of character exploration, alternative settings, etc etc.

The problem with that is that it discludes the general population. I certainly don't care about an alternate story where Luke and Leia hook up and I love pre-Disney Star Wars.

This brings us to the name switching. One would think it would be so simple to change the name of a Harry Potter or a Leia Organa or a whatever acting differently, but because those names get changed it removes the context of the character in the first place to that general reading population. Why is this character acting like that? Oh well they're a dependable farm hand, or a stand-up politician, even though in this world they're a teacher or a courtesan or something else. How the hell does this power work, in detail? Et cetera.

Essentially published fanfiction is a work of half-context in addition to any problems the writer themselves have with things like worldbuilding, characterization, quality of prose and handling of subject matter.
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Shadowhunters didn't start off as a fanfiction, Clare is just a former fanfiction author. She did recycle some passages from her previous work into Shadowhunters and the series has certainly been accused of being derivative of Harry Potter many times, but as far as anybody knows it was original fiction since the very beginning.

His Majesty's Dragon supposedly started life as an Aubrey-Maturin AU fic and that's pretty good. I think the fanfic to origfic transition mostly only works with AU stuff (as most published fanfics have been)--those are already usually pretty far removed from canon to begin with.
 
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friedshrimp said:
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I'm really hating this trend of "fanfics turning into books", it's just lazy.
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It's like a fucking punchline every time some dude writes about "my fanfiction is TOTALLY getting published guize!" and then fails to drop a projected publication date, the publisher, the title of the book, ISBN, anything. Like yeah I totally believe you're getting published and didn't just send HarperCollins a manuscript full of errors and called it a day.
 
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BeepMareep said:
Apparently that would mean every My Little Pony character is trans too, because that's how Hasbro named the toys.
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A good chunk of notes to that post state exactly that.
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Also someone on my dash posted this link and the title alone killed me
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How the straight agenda ruined 'Avengers: Endgame'

Marvel's obsession with straight romance is why several characters wound up with clumsy endings.
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If they had played the fucking game, they would know that Warframes are basically meat sacks that have no capability or thoughts of their own. It's kinda like saying that your T-shirt is gay. baffling and wrong. (also wisp looks like she has no solid theme when it comes to her abilities. Fuck you DE I was looking forward to a spoopy ghost frame)
 
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UnsufficentBoobage said:
www.dailydot.com

How the straight agenda ruined 'Avengers: Endgame'

Marvel's obsession with straight romance is why several characters wound up with clumsy endings.
www.dailydot.com www.dailydot.com
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I once had a friend who was extremely invested in shipping those two as well as "Destiel" from the show Supernatural. Ship whatever you want, but you look exponentially more retarde.d when you attempt to have some political conversation about why it should be real because your pairing is diverse and marginalized or whatever the fuck
 
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scathefire said:
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I once had a friend who was extremely invested in shipping those two as well as "Destiel" from the show Supernatural. Ship whatever you want, but you look exponentially more retarde.d when you attempt to have some political conversation about why it should be real because your pairing is diverse and marginalized or whatever the fuck
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This entire article reads like the author is having a tantrum because their ship isn't canon. The worst part is I don't think the author realizes that's what they sound like, I think they're under the impression they're being a righteous crusader of anal sex.
 
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scathefire said:
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I once had a friend who was extremely invested in shipping those two as well as "Destiel" from the show Supernatural. Ship whatever you want, but you look exponentially more retarde.d when you attempt to have some political conversation about why it should be real because your pairing is diverse and marginalized or whatever the fuck
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It's okay if your ship isn't canon.

That's what fanfic is for, you entitled numpty.
 
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