Why such animosity towards fan works in the original fiction community?

I would fall over in a fit of giggly-squee if someone wrote *good* fan fic of my stuff. Bad fan fic is of course the stuff of nightmares, and akin to my bad dreams of everyone hating and mocking my work. But - good or bad - I probably won't ever be able to admit that I read it. I don't know how Naomi Novik manages it; the legal issues alone would keep me wistfully silent.

DancingMaenid said:

. I've seen fan communities built around bashing a particular character, and it just seems like a waste of time and energy to me. If you hate a character, why would you want to devote so much energy to bashing them?

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Tell me about it. One of my fandoms has been in meltdown for months over it - divided into those who hate, those who love and those of us who think everyone just needs to grow the hell up.



**coughcough**caryl vs bethyl**coughcough**

OMG, I Googled that and it made my head hurt. I don't think I was that invested in Star Wars or Tolkien back in the late seventies, and I fancied myself a rabid fangirl of both.

[Snark.] Thanks, Kuwi.

Nice, Kuwi.

Waifu/husbando wars are serious business.

kuwisdelu said:

Waifu/husbando wars are serious business.

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They can get pretty scary sometimes.

RevanWright said:

They can get pretty scary sometimes.

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kuwisdelu said:

Waifu/husbando wars are serious business.

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You guys are better than tumblr and a reverse harem anime fan site put together.

Additional reading.

A relevant theory.

Understanding your waifu.

...that's all for now.

That last one, Kuwi? For the Win. Thank you.

+10 waifus for the OreImo reference.

Also, Kuro/Kyou forever.


Brings me back to my fansub IRC days. Not sure if that's a good feeling or not.

Liosse de Velishaf said:

+10 waifus for the OreImo reference.

Also, Kuro/Kyou forever.


Brings me back to my fansub IRC days. Not sure if that's a good feeling or not.

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Fight me IRL

Now, now, take it outside if there's gonna be blood. None of you - I repeat *none* - are as pathetic as I was. Some words which will mean nothing outside LotR fandom: Feanor. Fangirl. In 1980. In flyover America.

NRoach said:

Fight me IRL

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Well, that depends on your ship for that series.

To my deepest shame, I still have a Thing for clever mastersmiths.

Liosse de Velishaf said:

Well, that depends on your ship for that series.

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Ayase/Kyou

NRoach said:

Ayase/Kyou

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I thought that one was really fun as a what-if exercise, but if we were deciding permanently, I'd have to stick with my previous assertion.

Kirino x Ayase best ship.

Liosse de Velishaf said:

I thought that one was really fun as a what-if exercise, but if we were deciding permanently, I'd have to stick with my previous assertion.

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Then you're truly beyond saving.

kuwisdelu said:

Kirino x Ayase best ship.

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This comes a very, very close second.

kuwisdelu said:

Kirino x Ayase best ship.

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NRoach said:

Then you're truly beyond saving.



This comes a very, very close second.

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Going Kuro/Kyou for the main ship, Kirino/Ayase would definitely be the complementary ship I would support the most.