Are mods fanfiction?
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Are mods fanfiction?
I hate to use that word, because of the bad connotations that come with it, but that's what we're dealing with, right? The video game form of fanfiction. I mean, the WADs of ID's later games were basically DLC before the term DLC was even coined.
I prefer to use the word 'fanon' for fan material that's actually competent. The collective of keen mods I would call fanon, while some teenager's random s^&* garggy doom map with bad recolor sprites pasted in is fanfiction.
I prefer to use the word 'fanon' for fan material that's actually competent. The collective of keen mods I would call fanon, while some teenager's random s^&* garggy doom map with bad recolor sprites pasted in is fanfiction.
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Regardless of any unsavoury connotations that the word may hold for you, fangames are still technically a form of fanfiction - fiction made by fans of the franchise.
I feel like "fanon" is a word that more closely refers to theories and stuff, right? Ideas that aren't actually presented as fact in the official work, but which are held by some fans. Like headcanon.
I feel like "fanon" is a word that more closely refers to theories and stuff, right? Ideas that aren't actually presented as fact in the official work, but which are held by some fans. Like headcanon.
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Gonna have to stop you there.
What we have here is a classic case of Poe's revision. That is, 'I don't like a lot of something therefore anything bad is that and anything good isn't.'
Fanfiction is not defined by shark-jumping or Mary Sues, if it were then no show would ever go downhill because as soon as it did it would cease to be official. (As much as we wish that were the case it isn't so.) Fanfiction is defined simply by its source. It is unofficial and doesn't even have to be made by fans. (See: Hatefiction, Anti-fans, Fandumb.) Fanon likewise is lore that is not official but beleived by fans (Even if that's only one fan. See also Headcanon.)
Your definition would raise many problems. Would Gor be fanfiction? It's an original property if an utterly horrible one. And who would do the defining? Twilight sells. 50 Shades of Grey sells. You can rant and rave and whine all you like about it, but money doesn't lie. You are outvoted.
Mods, even TUIT are thus fanfiction. As are the rare Keen stories on this board and a lot of artwork. I like to think that the Keen community has produced a remarkably high gold to dross ratio for fanstuff.
What we have here is a classic case of Poe's revision. That is, 'I don't like a lot of something therefore anything bad is that and anything good isn't.'
Fanfiction is not defined by shark-jumping or Mary Sues, if it were then no show would ever go downhill because as soon as it did it would cease to be official. (As much as we wish that were the case it isn't so.) Fanfiction is defined simply by its source. It is unofficial and doesn't even have to be made by fans. (See: Hatefiction, Anti-fans, Fandumb.) Fanon likewise is lore that is not official but beleived by fans (Even if that's only one fan. See also Headcanon.)
Your definition would raise many problems. Would Gor be fanfiction? It's an original property if an utterly horrible one. And who would do the defining? Twilight sells. 50 Shades of Grey sells. You can rant and rave and whine all you like about it, but money doesn't lie. You are outvoted.
Mods, even TUIT are thus fanfiction. As are the rare Keen stories on this board and a lot of artwork. I like to think that the Keen community has produced a remarkably high gold to dross ratio for fanstuff.
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You've done it now!VikingBoyBilly wrote:everything on fanfiction.net
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11090259/1 ... -Reckoning
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Gonna have to stop you there - there are *some* decent fics on fanfiction.net. True, about 50% of the content is utter crap and most of the other 50% is kinda meh and not really worth reading, but every now and then you can find some gems that will really leave you entertained and with no regrets. Usually one-shots and believable humour fics.