I swear, some days I think that if I open One. More. Story. in a fandom I think I know and, ten lines later, find myself wondering whointhehell those characters are, I'll give it all up and buy a Chia Pet.
It's not just that these people don't know the characters or the show, or that they failed to convey what knowledge they did possess over to their story that bothers me.
It's the fact that it's not only okay to write that way these days, it's considered in the worst possible taste to want fanfiction to actually connect to the source material that you're ostensibly a fan of.
I miss real fandom. I miss ClassicFandom. This new stuff is just icky.
Maybe I'm naive-- I haven't been active in fandom in quite a while-- but the sense I get from following various journals and blogs in fandom is that good writing is still a requirement for and from good writers. It's the crap writers who say you're being a jerk for asking for quality.
posted by: McSwain! on 12.29.04 at 07:23 PM [permalink]No, you're not naive. There are plenty of people out there who still care about quality. They're a bit harder to find, what with the rush of clueless idiots in the past few years, but they're there.
I just find it easier to complain about the idiots than to do the work to find the smart people (other than the ones I already know).
posted by: Anne on 12.30.04 at 09:07 AM [permalink]