When I say, "using other people's characters" I mean fanfic in general, because that's what it is. Using someone else's characters to fulfil your sexual fantasies is plain tacky, IMO.
Ah, I see. Mind you, would there be any way to write porn that wasn't tacky? If one must write porn, at least using someone else's fictional characters is better than writing porn about real people (RPF (shudder)).
We originally wrote the stuff so we could have more Star Trek, or get around something that had bugged us about an episode, but mainly so we could have more of a show that had been cancelled.
And fans still do that.
Have you read Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell? Recommended! It's about a girl who writes fan fiction in a sort of Harry Potter universe - and people have started writing Fangirl fan fiction and the author is delighted!
Cool! I'll look for it.
That reminds me of "A Pocket Full of Murder" by R.J. Anderson (also recommended!) It's set in a city based on 1930's Toronto (only with magic instead of electricity). There's a bit where the heroine has a favourite "talkie" (radio play series) and when she doesn't manage to catch an episode, she writes fanfic for it, imagining alternate episodes to fill in the gaps... Of course, that's not the main part of the story, but it's a little aside that I thought was fun.
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Date: 2017-06-22 12:13 pm (UTC)Ah, I see.
Mind you, would there be any way to write porn that wasn't tacky? If one must write porn, at least using someone else's fictional characters is better than writing porn about real people (RPF (shudder)).
We originally wrote the stuff so we could have more Star Trek, or get around something that had bugged us about an episode, but mainly so we could have more of a show that had been cancelled.
And fans still do that.
Have you read Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell? Recommended! It's about a girl who writes fan fiction in a sort of Harry Potter universe - and people have started writing Fangirl fan fiction and the author is delighted!
Cool! I'll look for it.
That reminds me of "A Pocket Full of Murder" by R.J. Anderson (also recommended!) It's set in a city based on 1930's Toronto (only with magic instead of electricity). There's a bit where the heroine has a favourite "talkie" (radio play series) and when she doesn't manage to catch an episode, she writes fanfic for it, imagining alternate episodes to fill in the gaps... Of course, that's not the main part of the story, but it's a little aside that I thought was fun.