From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 1/8/15 2:10 PM, Elaine T wrote:   
   > On Wed, 07 Jan 2015 06:59:40 -0900, Bill Swears    
   > wrote:   
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   >> I tried fanfic when I was just a kid, but never got anywhere.  I like to   
   >> read the occasional fanfic, but it's pretty low on my priority list.   
   >> For me the characters just don't seem to come alive.   
   >>   
   >> My daughter, on the other hand, has written some fanfic and hangs out at   
   >> one the the fanfiction sites a fair amount.   
   >   
   > So does mine, and I blame Sea Wasp.   
      
   	Muaaahahah!   
      
      
      Some years ago he posted either   
   > here or on sf.written about reading a fanfic where Harry Potter uses   
   > the Kamemeha (?) Wave spell against his enemy.   
      
      
   	It was a short-short someone had written partly on my remarking on the   
   crossover potential. As I recall it, Harry had vanished and Voldemort   
   then made his move, Hogwarts is in ruins, and then Harry shows up.   
      
   	"Voldemort was puzzled. Harry wasn't even using a wand, just moving his   
   hands! And those words weren't Latin! He tried to make sense out of them:   
      
   	"Ka... Me... Ha... Me..."   
      
      
   > I asked the daughter   
   > if she knew what that was (I don't watch anime/read manga and it was   
   > clearly from one of those) and she did, and was interested when I   
   > explained why I asked.  So she looked up the story read it, browsed,   
   > read more....starting writing her own.   
      
   	The most famous HP fanfic is probably "Harry Potter and the Methods of   
   Rationality", with "Naked Quidditch" pretty high up there (and despite   
   the name, it's not pr0n).   
      
   >   
   > And then proddded me to read some so she'd have someone to talk to   
   > about it... Some can be good.  And it's making her a more discerning   
   > reader by a long shot.  "These aren't characters (in canon), they're a   
   > collection of traits placed to be  plot devices!"   
      
   	Yes, an unfortunately common phenomenon, as is "... a mysterious girl   
   appears! Hero and Best Friend are dazzled by her!..."   
      
      
   >   
   >>   
   >> I had a conversation with   
   >> her that made me very uncomfortable the other day.  Apparently slash is   
   >> short for gay pron fanfic.  I'm not sure where to go with this information.   
      
   	The term comes from Star Trek fanfiction, which triggered the modern   
   fanfic movement, and derived from the notation of who you were pairing   
   with who, such as Kirk/Spock, pronounced "Kirk-slash-Spock". One can see   
   how that quickly made "slash" the term of art for pairings, and because   
   of its early usage, specifically male-male pairings, though it broadened   
   a bit afterward. In Japan, the term for male-male is yaoi and for   
   female-female is yuri.   
      
   >   
   > There's a lot of that, which I'm also not comfortable with the idea of   
   > her reading it - whatever variety.  She says she doesn't like it  -   
   > romance and love stories and sex aren't her thing.  Friendships and   
   > other relationships are fine, just not romance.   
      
   	I'm not into those either, though admittedly I read VERY little fic;   
   I've written volumes more than I've read (a million words in the Saint   
   Seiya/Samurai Troopers/DBZ universe alone).   
      
      
      
      
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