#and i don't think it's war related as i haven't wrote Anything. only reblogged some few posts

[inthecarpets]

Before getting shadowblocked i always thought that the so called shadowblock simply doesn't let your posts into tag searcher. like that's everything people always complained about so i thought it's kinda ehh whatever and could be fake bc Tumblr likes to not let your posts in tags every now and then.

Now with shadowblock on i see, its much more than that 😑

- Can't message anyone from this blog Nor view private messages i had from this blog

- if i send an Ask from this blog it likely won't be visible for the receiver

- can't submit anything to other people's blogs

- my written additions (whether it be tags or words in main body of post) don't show up in the posts nor notifications of other people.

- i simply don't appear in other blogs' notifications

- i can't view asks people send me to this blog Unless it's from my normal notification box. My askbox stays empty regardless

#carpet talks #and i don't even know Why it happened #and i don't think it's war related as i haven't wrote Anything. only reblogged some few posts #and i generally reblog bull all time i could say #why now?? were reblogs really the reason??? #or is it seriously bc i tried to message a person who made a post being like 'i feel like chatting after a bad day. feel free to write to m #JDHFJAJFJAJDJAJ

[depizan]

I'm still boggling over the concept behind the poll I just reblogged. People write fic for things they haven't watched/read/whatevered?

I...I don't get it.

I understand somewhat related things, like someone who hasn't played a video game, but has watched other people play it, writing fic for it. Or people who've only consumed one particular piece of canon. (Almost no one is consuming all of Star Wars canon, much less, say Superman's canon. I'm not even sure someone could consume all of Superman's canon. Or Batman's or any other superhero who's been around for all that time.) Read a Narnia book and wrote fic, sure. Watched some Doctor Who and wrote fic, sure.

But if you have no familiarity with any portion of the source material, what would prompt you to write fic?

I've seen gifs of Supernatural. I know that the main characters are two brothers. I think I know which two guys in the gifs are the main characters. What would I even be writing if I sat down to write a fic for Supernatural. "There's two guys who have a car and also an angel who maybe is in love with one of them, and also there are monsters. And hell." Unless I did a crap ton of research, it would basically already have the serial numbers filed off.

But more importantly, if I had any interest in Supernatural, I would have, you know, watched it. Why would anyone write a fic for a fandom they're not interested in???

I guess, maybe they have a friend who is? But yegad the amount of research one would have to do to stand any chance of getting anything right! I don't even know what kind of car the car is! I'm only 90% certain the main characters are Sam and Dean and I am 0% certain which is which.

Then again, I am a very weird fanfic writer who isn't interested in shipping and only has any desire to write fic for things where you basically write about OCs in a canon universe. (Other than SWTOR, the only thing I'm contemplating fic about is D&D. Not the recent movie (though I quite enjoyed the recent movie!), doing the create characters and novelize an adventure thing that people do, and which I've been quite enjoying other people's versions of.)

I completely understand reading fic for things one hasn't consumed. Its just another story. You could say we do that any time we pick up a published book.

And I guess some people write episodes of TV shows and the like without watching them. But they probably do that whole crap ton of research thing, at least if they're going to write a decent episode. And there's a motivation there: money.

Am I missing something?

Why would someone use their limited spare time to write a fic for a canon they're not familiar with? What are they getting out of it? Wouldn't they get much more out of writing for something they actually liked?

#Mac is confused by fandom