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#hdu compare yourself with the greats! point proved!!!!
anghraine
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4 years
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I get that fandom can be annoying and worse than annoying, but ... tbh I have yet to encounter a remotely convincing argument as to why fanfic is intrinsically Not Literature.
#i am up to my ears in early modern lit right now and while i wouldn't personally term all derivative literature 'fanfic'
#bc i think the term is more specific
#a LOT of the time when people say fanfic what they mean is 'anything that reuses pre-existing stories/characters for any reason'
#apart from direct adaptations
#and when they're arguing about why fanfic is not Real Literature the derivative quality is /why/ it isn't Real Literature
#'i'm not saying that can't be good ... i'm just saying it can't be THAT good' mmhmm
#and then if you point out that a lot of things generally considered That Good share that same quality
#hdu compare yourself with the greats! point proved!!!!
#the whole rationale just seems totally incoherent and arbitrary to me
#bonus points for 'i can't say why it's different from early modern reinterpretations it just is'
#anghraine rants
#general fanwank
#fanfiction
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