From: elaine@   
      
   On Thu, 08 Jan 2015 18:48:07 -0500, "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)"   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 1/8/15 2:10 PM, Elaine T wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 07 Jan 2015 06:59:40 -0900, Bill Swears    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>> 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).   
   >   
      
   Yeah, I remember running across the quidditch story quite a few years   
   ago.  Lots of fun.   
      
      
      
   >>   
   >> 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!..."   
   >   
      
   She doesn't even bother reading fanfics where the summary looks like   
   that happens.  But she first noticed the plot device pretending to be   
   a character in the anime/manga canon texts.   
      
   Which reminds me, the person who started this thread wondered why   
   people might write fanfic.  My girl started just for fun, but has now   
   invested in fixing the end of a manga/anime series where the manga   
   just stopped ('on hiatus' *we* think the author couldn't figure a way   
   out of the hole s/he had dug), in a really bad place, and the anime   
   forced an ending that she sees as not really very good for any of the   
   characters.  So she's writting a better continuation and end, blending   
   both storylines.   
      
      
   Although she's also been attacked by plot ideas for crossoevers now   
   and then and seem to be eithe rjust  fun, or prompted by realizations   
   about the original that no one else who writes in those fandoms seems   
   to have either thought about or used.   
      
      
      
      
   >	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).   
      
   She doesn't recognize the first two, but has followed DB/DBZ although   
   I think she gave up on it a while ago.   
      
   BTW, what's the status on Polychrome?   
      
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