#.........I can hear anghraine screaming ''THAT'S NOT HOW ADAPTATION THEORY WORKS'' at me from many miles away

[notbecauseofvictories]

Final word on this, I swear, but the truth is I have a hard time seeing adaptations as anything except transformative works. So the prospect that the director of Good Omens (2019) or As Yet Unnamed LOTR Director might take Terry Pratchett or Tolkien and turn them into something I don’t recognize is....nonthreatening. Even intriguing?

If what they make is good---awesome, you go, you funky little fan-filmmakers! Excited to see your vision! If it’s bad, well, there’s a lot a bad fic out there in the world, I can always click the back button.

The idea that just because you have a cinematic budget and Real Actors means that your adaptation is somehow more valid strikes me as very dumb. When I was twelve I rewrote whole books from the perspective of some other character; my next door neighbor and I would reenact scenes from Harry Potter on our shared trampoline, both the Tolkien and Star Wars fandoms at large have made some extremely impressive fan films. This isn’t a new endeavor on anyone’s part! And if these adaptations are really only just technically impressive, well-funded fanworks, then they are no more Legitimate or Official or Real than anything anyone else sticks up on AO3.

In conclusion, basically, the world of adaptation and canon makes more sense to me if we all admit that actually, Extremely Famous Director is no better than someone on the internet whose headcanons are wrong.

#.........I can hear anghraine screaming ''THAT'S NOT HOW ADAPTATION THEORY WORKS'' at me from many miles away #but sorry not sorry #saw a tweet the other day to the effect of ''if you want to call superheroes modern mythology then you have to get comfortable #with the fact that your mythology is owned and controlled by corporations'' #and trust me. copyright laws are as absolutely enormous many-armed and all-encompassing as decades of corporate lobbying can make them. #so this is my tiny little fuck you to all of that #you can control the mythology. you can copyright every image every word every idea more narrow than a ''concept'' and build option contracts #like fucking fort knox #but I will not regard your creations as any more ''official'' or ''real'' than mine or anyone else's from this part of the internet #my shitty fic is exactly the same as your glossy television show #put that in your pipe and smoke it.