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04-01-2008 04:48 AM ET (US)
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May the Force be with you... cheaply...Clive Thompson writes about the phenomenon of fan art, focusing on the incredibly awesome Star Wars: Revelations -- a 40 minute fan-made featurette that cost $20,000 to make and is better than the two latest movies put together. Sure the acting is shitty, but it's actually kind of addictive after a while. The fx are mind-blowing ($20G???) and the plot is actually interesting. And, perhaps most telling, no one is thinking ahead to a tie-in line of toy products. (If you're balking at the 250 meg download, you can get a BitTorrent client like the one I downloaded today. The movie just breezed in.) Home
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10-29-2004 05:37 PM ET (US)
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Yeah, poorly put, oral literature.
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10-28-2004 11:07 PM ET (US)
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My vote is for Peter on top, Harry on the bottom...Just when you think you've seen it all, someone comes along and says fan fiction is what's saving oral literature. Fan fiction is generally derided as a semi-literate, usually pornographic genre providing nothing but in-jokes for geeks. It's true that sex plays a big part of this genre; sexy fan fiction has its own jargon - the term for it is "slash", as in Peter/Hook - and ratings to put off, or entice, underage readers. The sex goes all the way from the explicitly violent to the sort of softly suggestive games of consequences you might expect if an innocent Peter Pan met a lonely Harry Potter on a rooftop... By putting in the sexuality, the humour and the irony that the original tales often lack, these writers can change the way some readers see the works, and not always negatively. Indeed, if you have the patience to trawl a few websites, you can find memorably acute homages to various tales. Some of these fan fiction writers, with their mixtures of absurdity and seriousness, originality and nostalgia, communicate something of the hallucinatory way that readers first react to fiction. When you first fell in love with literature, didn't you weave the characters right into your life, into your own fantasies? Show me your wand, Harry, and I'll show you my Tinkerbell. Yep. That's oral literature, all right. Home
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05-27-2004 11:44 PM ET (US)
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And what if I write a pornographic fable fated for extreme popularity based on the hedgehogesque gardener Hairy Podder?
Jool smiten I shall be.
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05-27-2004 09:29 PM ET (US)
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I Just Want to Hug JK Rowling*She's given her blessing to fans to produce web-based fan fiction, so long as no one tries to make money off it, credit the work to her, or write the long-awaited shower scene in which Harry and Ron compare their thrumming, newly-burgeoned manhood. (*And maybe quickly mug her, but only very gently so. I bet she has a servant who walks behind her dragging a giant treasure chest dripping with, like, tiaras, bullion, and jools. I could seriously go for some jools right about now...) Home
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01-04-2004 09:41 PM ET (US)
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Is Fanfic Wrong?Hey, we're still waiting for ninja fanfic. And maybe even some slash fiction. Rowwrr. Home
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12-16-2003 10:14 PM ET (US)
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"Fan fiction is one of the greatest and most wildly entertaining forms of copyright infringement this side of Kazaa"I can see how this would be fun, especially with some friends gathered round. Hell, I used to do something similar with a slush pile. But I think this dude was alone. There's a fine line between investigative journalism and a slow decay into madness. Home
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