*crickets chirping*
Well, I took that a little further than I had intended. Hello all, just your movie watching, book reading, theater loving blogger here. Today, I want to talk about something that is very near and dear to my heart: Fanfiction, or the shorter version, fics. Now, most of you have probably never had the experience of turning out all your lights, surrounding yourself with trans fatty snacks, your furry child curled up next to you, and reading fanfiction until your eyes feel like the Sahara desert....Or maybe you have. I don't know your life. Anywho, fanfiction is any story that a fan has created based on another story they like. For example, there are several Sherlock fics. Fans of the BBC show Sherlock, (i.e. people who have seen the show), will take ideas for situations they would like to imagine the characters in, and turn them into short (or sometimes, not so short) stories, or even the occasional fan art or podcast. These fans genuinely love the worlds that have been conjured up by the creators and simply want to expand it for their own, as well as others, enjoyment.
I'm gonna let you discover that for yourself...
You may be wondering, "Why would someone want to spend that much time in a fictional story? Seems a bit obsessive." Well, naysayer, you may be right, but there is no difference between what we fans do, and what sports fanatics do, with their bumper stickers and assumption that everyone on the planet is rooting for their team. No, customer at the establishment where I work, I am not "ready for the game." Can you imagine if I walked around asking people, "Hey, you ready for that new Supernatural episode? I hear one of them is going to die again"....Yeah, it'd be weird. That's society for ya. Ok, back on topic.
Fanfiction is an amazing way for writers to get their work out there. It's also great for someone like me, who can't write fanfics to save my life. I just enjoy reading, and that's ok too. There are fanfictions for virtually anything. Plays, movies, books, graphic novels, bands, celebrities. If you can obsess over it, you can fic about it. A couple of my favorite fic sites are Archive of Our Own, and FanFiction.net. That being said, be warned. You have to dig through a lot, and I mean a lot, of bad fics to get to the good ones sometimes. And there's also tons of sex. So if you're not into that, watch out. There are some truly beautiful pieces out there from very talented writers though. Read their stuff, support them, leave nice comments. This is good advice for other things too, like, oh I don't know, a blog you happen to be reading. *cough*
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