Perhaps you could do one episode on what it is exactly that makes fanfiction distinct from any other kind of fiction? And I mean beyond the ol' "fanfiction is not real literature" argument. It isn't even worth dignifying.
But to really question why people place it in a category of it's own at all. Just how much literary elitism affects our perception of art & distorts our understanding of the world, & of the very concept of originality. Does such a thing as absolute originality even exist?
Nothing comes from nothing. Every story began somewhere outside of its creator's control, & they found it, remembered it, transformed it, either consciously or subconsciously. If all characters ever created are amalgamations of the people we have known (including ourselves) & characters already in existence, & the stories we conjure just byproducts of the media we consume & a point of inspiration lying somewhere between experience & fantasy (& what is fantasy if not just another story), then isnt all fiction fanfiction? Would that make the first story ever written RPF?
Anyhow, dont mind me, just talking nonsense. Fascinating stuff, transformative artistry. Love the podcast, though I have yet to listen to the episodes of writers I am unfamiliar with. Still, love the very idea of it, yaknow. Good shit.
Oooo I LOVE this comment! I could easily do a 15 minute bonus episode sometime all about this. I have so many thoughts on the very nature of fanfiction, how it stems from older folk storytelling traditions, and how modern commercialism and concepts like ownership and copyright law shape the way fanfiction is placed into a category on its own. I would agree that literary elitism fits into this with precise messaging on how they think we ought to perceive certain art forms. In many ways fanfiction is a defiant response and a continuation of the storytelling traditions humans have always participated in. Nonnie, you should come on and discuss it along with me! PM or e-mail me if you'd like to do that. I think this would make a great bonus drop. Also, thank you for the support! I'm so glad you like the idea of what the show is all about. 'Good shit' is what I aspire to. Cheers!
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Memes to come out of spngate/spn s16 thus far that I can remember:
Super mega turbo hell
Homophobic Jackles
DestielPutinElection
Lamp
Tree
Onion
Party city wig
Dean getting nailed
Carry on wayward son evanescence cover
All cars go to heaven
Sam's blurry wife
Heller Jackles
Jensen release the tapes
Rancid nuts
Spanish dub supremacy
Bilingual dean winchester
Rogue translator
Obama is a Heller confirmed
Jensen x handprint
The 66 seals of Gay
Theller Swift
Adam Williams the vfx guy
Misha Collins/Bill Clinton sex scandal
Go diane winchester
The Beastiary aka dean's diary entry
Instructions unclear I fucked the micheal sword
Ally Sam Winchester
Wait what's Supernatural?
Destiel hasn't been home in a few days
Here's how endgame Sastiel can still win
Feel free to add.
bow leg boy’s family dedication theme
jay gruska’s americana theme, played on a hand-crank music box
hehe. gays in art gallery
re-linking my museum network. for being gay. be gay go museum :)
Google's data collection's flip side effect of making the world available, the virtual culture tour. plus when there's ads u are contrubuting to the museum by watching those, so its a win-win. It has anthroproligacal museum's street view too.
John wolff's museum of musical machines and mechanical calculator. sajdbasjfgasjfgasjkfakjfazCad
Louvre, for all for us.
Chicago's art museum, from byzantine to contemprory
the museum of BROKEN SHIPS, yep, romantic possesions.
Tucson's online Gay Museum, curated with infinite care and effort. Precious.
Rjks Museum, where u can create your own route with the studio.
The vatican muses
Natural history, life over years.
Museo Galileo, a theme based art museum, society in rooms.
The museum of COMPUTING asajdhjaffdskjfa
smithsonian initiative digitization of national museum of african american history and culture, because america's a home to many, and there are always stories when u live somewhere.
Holocast history, depressing, but filled with stories we must hear.
Women's History, because we need to know of The icons that made strategies and bombs in Vietnam, died hugging trees that were razed down, wrote papers without recieving credit, gave each other violets, and are just so so AMAZING.
St louis art museum walkthrough.
*cracks knuckles*
chaotic gooood at its highest.
Castiel: [becomes god] I'm god now
Castiel: [kills a homophobe] [kills a homophobe] [kills a homophobe] [kills a homophobe] [kills a homophobe] [kills a homophobe] [kills a homophobe] [kills a homophobe] [kills a homophobe] [dismantles the kkk] [kills a homophobe] [kills a h
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Get lost in the beauty of our star with Seán Doran’s film “One Month of Sun”. Constructed from more than 78,000 NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory images, the video shows solar activity from August 2014. (Image and video credit: S. Doran, using NASA SDO data; via Colossal) Read the full article
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The shine on the leaves glowed brightly. The left over rain and dew dropped fell from the hands of my house, the ground caught the drops with gratitude. Tvs turned on and the indistinguishable murmurs vibrated the walls. The birds echoed in the distance, welcoming the sun that arose once more. And I sat here and watched it all, hopelessly awaiting a million more .