And that can be good news for teens and tweens, particularly those who count themselves as super fans. Writing your own fanfic is a great way for teens and tweens to extend the story, think creatively, and write. Help your kids be careful about searches. My best advice is for kids to read a direct link recommendation or stories from trusted friends.
Encourage them to self-censor if they come upon mature material. If your kids are writing fanfic, I strongly suggest that only mature teens post on the popular fanfic websites. And that they consider turning off comments. There is little censoring of what people comment, and these comments can be inappropriate and hurtful.
If your kids want to share their fanfic writing, consider starting a blog. Again, proceed with caution. Another thing to be aware of with fanfiction is the overall quality. Many fanfic stories are filled with grammatical errors.
Keep that in mind as you read — most of these are not traditionally published stories with editors behind them. Fans get to immerse themselves in a beloved story.
Fanfic reading and writing are filled with wonderful, creative possibilities. And it gives our book-loving kids an opportunity to be part of a community of other book lovers.
Canon : Something that happens in the books. Martin opposing it , fanfiction has recently become a rather polarizing concept. You have no idea why fanfiction gets so much mockery and is presumed to be bad writing when most people agree that reading is great. I can start and finish it. The Mortal Instruments series?
Um, why? Fanfiction writers have done so, so much better. Chances are, in some dark forgotten corner of the internet, some possibly really questionable fanfiction penned by a pre-feminist awakening year old you still exists. The Harry Potter series, for example, sometimes leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to how the female characters are represented, but fanfic writers can totally make it better.
Some, like this incredible series , are completely canon-compliant yet manage to improve the canon. Think again, my friend. Surely, they have better things to do with their time? Not all of it, of course, but a lot of fanfiction tends to be written by younger, more progressive women than the ones writing actual romance novels. As a result, the smut in well-written fanfiction tends to be much better than the published writing. Without any rhyme or reason, the author does a vanishing act and evaporates into something thinner than air molecules.
The warnings, I should clarify, are not to deter people from trying fanfiction. If anything, they are to encourage them. So bearing these warnings, you brave souls, now march into the world of fanfiction without fear. Because curiosity may have killed the cat. But satisfaction brought it back. If you survive the encounter with the monsters, there are multitudes of exciting parallel universes, alternate timelines, and expanded multiverses to explore. Safety advice, to add on to your fantastic post: Longer fanfiction tends to have less really bad fanfiction, in my experience.
Using fanfiction. I, for example, tricked the system by writing an original story and merely switching the names to encourage people to read my story. Hi, Clin! You can find the full story in three different sites: fanfiction.
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Notify me of new posts via email. And fanfiction is not only "unmasculine" but actively feminine, designed for women rather than men — and that makes it gross and dangerous. To some, feminine media has always been considered gross and dangerous, going back as far the novel.
In , an anonymous pastor pronounced it the greatest threat in the world to young women:. I have seen a young lady with her table loaded with volumes loaded of fictitious trash, poring day after day and night after night over highly wrought scenes and skillfully portrayed pictures of romance, until her cheeks grew pale, her eyes became wild and reckless, and her mind wandered and was lost — the light of intelligence passed behind a cloud, and her soul was forever benighted.
She was insane, incurably insane from reading novels. When presented with slash fic, Dan Bergstein writes , you can do only five things:.
Historically, whenever young women are interested in a form of media, we like to tell them it is bad for them and that they are bad for liking it — unless the media goes mainstream, in which case it becomes no longer feminine and hence okay. Novels are dangerous and cause insanity, until they become classics worthy of being studied in college. Beatlemania is the province of "the dull, the idle, the failures," until the Beatles become a band that everyone loves.
Young women are so attacked for loving the media they love that it is a radical act for a young woman to love something unashamedly. And transformative fandom is the most radical act of all, because it reverses that "lady thing to respectable thing" process. It takes a piece of media that may not have been designed for young women and makes it for young women.
The all-male creative team of Captain America: The Winter Soldier may not have intended for the movie to be read as a homoerotic love story, but young women are willing and able to make it one, writing fanfiction and drawing fan art about Steve and Bucky in love.
Fans are well aware that Disney has no plans to put that story onscreen, writes Charlotte Geater. They make their fan works anyway:. We all wrestle with feelings and we can recognise them in stories when we see them. What is scary about transformative fandom is that it's a place where young women love their media without reservation, and where they can make stories for themselves. Because fandom is the province of young women and, culturally, we find young women terrifying.
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