Mega Mega Mega Fanfic Poll!!!!

[teaberryblue]

I was having a discussion with sunnyrea about fanfic yesterday and I decided to make a poll about it!



[Poll #1784264]



Whew! Um. That thing. Cookies if you read it all?

Note: the last question is not to suggest that anyone should/should not feel a certain way, but is just to collect most of the major objections I have heard from people and see how many people actually feel that way!

Comments

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I agree with your sentiment here. I don't write fanfic in a fandom where the author explicitly discourages it but to me it's all about creating more love.

This isn't a disagreement because I know that's not what you're saying-- I think television/fanfic may have altered the way we perceive romance in a lot of stories but to be honest, I don't think it ruined love-- love goes so far beyond just romantic pairings and into realms that even human imagination has never completely worn out, and in some ways turning things around and around in words and seeing every permutation of a single creation adds to that and enhances it.

[yachiru]

I agree with you there. Ruined might be too strong a word. It was this snarky British show. Booker or Brooker I think and it was mostly that our expectations have been colored. Love at first sight, your one true soul mate and no other, etc... the expectation is that finding and keeping someone to love is terribly easy. When in most cases it's not. :(