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Writer's Block: Sheldon and Penny 4ever!
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010 07:52 am[Error: unknown template qotd]
You might as well ask me if I like stories. (UM, A LITTLE.) If I like myth, if I like ideas, if I like to sit around with my friends and ask 'what if' and wonder how things might have gone differently. Do I like the idea that stories and characters have meanings, have long lives, outside of their first telling? (Hello Alice, hello Wendy and Peter; hello Anansi, Loki and Coyote, Hercules; hello Dracula and Juliet and Holmes and Robin Hood and Superman. And so on.) Do I like to watch people take an idea and roll around inside it for a while and find something new to say, some new way to say it? Sometimes, do I just like to laugh, or say 'ooh- never thought of that!'?
Basically, I think it's the human condition. And humanity I love, am in love with, even though we are often flawed and cruel and even when we type in that horrifying alternating capslock and lowercase that I won't replicate here. Fanfiction is not a new invention brought about by some imaginary death of originality. Fanfiction is us doing what we have always done, which is tell and re-tell and re-think and re-build worlds and stories we know and love. It can be a sprawling, flawless epic or it can be 500 words of badly written self-insert pron; overall, it has meaning.
That was probably ten pounds of tl;dr in a two-pound bag, but whatevs. I bet you wish I'd written 800 awful words of porn instead of this. Anyway. I am graduating this week and I am ridiculously emotional and keep scrubbing the floors (literally) to work off the crazy energy. I love you guys. I love fandom! I am not embarrassed to sob on your shoulder and sing sad drinking songs about my overwhelming love for everyone right now.
TAKE THAT WRITER'S BLOCK
YOU PROBABLY REGRET ASKING.
You might as well ask me if I like stories. (UM, A LITTLE.) If I like myth, if I like ideas, if I like to sit around with my friends and ask 'what if' and wonder how things might have gone differently. Do I like the idea that stories and characters have meanings, have long lives, outside of their first telling? (Hello Alice, hello Wendy and Peter; hello Anansi, Loki and Coyote, Hercules; hello Dracula and Juliet and Holmes and Robin Hood and Superman. And so on.) Do I like to watch people take an idea and roll around inside it for a while and find something new to say, some new way to say it? Sometimes, do I just like to laugh, or say 'ooh- never thought of that!'?
Basically, I think it's the human condition. And humanity I love, am in love with, even though we are often flawed and cruel and even when we type in that horrifying alternating capslock and lowercase that I won't replicate here. Fanfiction is not a new invention brought about by some imaginary death of originality. Fanfiction is us doing what we have always done, which is tell and re-tell and re-think and re-build worlds and stories we know and love. It can be a sprawling, flawless epic or it can be 500 words of badly written self-insert pron; overall, it has meaning.
That was probably ten pounds of tl;dr in a two-pound bag, but whatevs. I bet you wish I'd written 800 awful words of porn instead of this. Anyway. I am graduating this week and I am ridiculously emotional and keep scrubbing the floors (literally) to work off the crazy energy. I love you guys. I love fandom! I am not embarrassed to sob on your shoulder and sing sad drinking songs about my overwhelming love for everyone right now.
TAKE THAT WRITER'S BLOCK
YOU PROBABLY REGRET ASKING.
