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Post by Admin on Apr 23, 2018 9:50:26 GMT -6
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Post by vitugglan on Apr 26, 2018 2:49:06 GMT -6
 I see they've ignored every alt-Iron Man fanfic out there.  |
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Post by Admin on Apr 28, 2018 13:43:35 GMT -6
They tend to ignore the stuff done in fandom. I think it keeps the lawyers from chewing on the fans..
Besides, if they acknowledge the fandom stuff, there would be no room for the canon. It would be all variations of MarySue and GaryStu
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Post by vitugglan on Apr 29, 2018 5:49:47 GMT -6
Alternate explanation is that they like the fans to be happy because it keeps them coming back.
Mary and Gary need to get real jobs. They've been in fandom too long.
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Post by Admin on May 1, 2018 0:50:46 GMT -6
Mary and Gary are probably as old as fan fiction itself and will probably live long and pi$$ people off for as long as we have fanfic. I did some fan fiction long before I had even heard the terms "fanfic", "fanzines", "Mary Sue" or "Gary Stu". All the way back in 9 th grade with a co-conspirator. We burned through reams and reams and reams of college rule notebook paper putting Paramedics Gage and DeSoto (from Emergency!) through absolute literary hell. True to form, our pen names (I've blocked the names from memory) were spawned off either the character crush or Celeb crush. Or, knowing us back then, a mix of the two. One would wonder how on earth these two even managed to survive a shift before we fine, clever lasses came into their lives  . But, the one thing we didn't do was share them with others. Or take them at all seriously. It was just a way to exercise our fevered imaginations and giggle until we couldn't breathe. |
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Post by vitugglan on May 1, 2018 2:25:33 GMT -6
We didn't write it down, we just played it. Sixth grade was our Monkees crush period and we all chose a Monkee to adore. We each insisted that we looked like our crush. We pretended out some Monkees-type adventures.
Now Star Trek was cool. A friend and I would go tromping around the slough, which had huge reed plants that were so tall even an adult couldn't see over them, making it the perfect alien planet. Naturally, we were both Vulcan. Even better: the Star Trek toys were out so we had phasers that shot brightly-colored disks so when we went into the alien gully down the street from my house we didn't fear the alien paper wasps.
If you go back to my early childhood you'd find me doing the same thing with cartoons (my favorites were Matty Mattel and his sister Belle, Rocky and Bullwinkle, and Ruff and Reddy though I'd occasionally explore Tom Terrific's universe and of course the live-action Sky King and Roy Rogers.)
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I see they've ignored every alt-Iron Man fanfic out there. 
. But, the one thing we didn't do was share them with others. Or take them at all seriously. It was just a way to exercise our