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Thanks for explaining all that. Reminds me of the old “sparkledammerung” posted on Live Journal where an ex-Mormon woman broke down where Twilight was heavily inspired by Mormon ideas. They felt Meyer’s descriptions of Edward felt eerily similar to what they were taught about Joseph Smith!
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Guess who just saw an excerpt from the anal scene in Fifty Shades Freed https://twitter.com/america929/status/1246272961503318016?s=21
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chitoryu12 posted:Guess who just saw an excerpt from the anal scene in Fifty Shades Freed 
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Reminder this also indicates Hellspawn doesn’t think women 30+ are attractive. You’re welcome. Also as someone who read the entirety of das_sporking’s 50SoG reviews I hate that you reminded me of this.
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SUPERMAN'S GAL PAL posted:Reminder this also indicates Hellspawn doesn’t think women 30+ are attractive. They're awful books by a garbage writer. That said that's a bit of a stretch.
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There's a myth that when the Finnish edition of Atwood's The Robber Bride was being published, the graphic designers were all on strike.
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Wow. What do you think - first page on shutterstock.com?
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chitoryu12 posted:The ease of magic is one of the things I wish Rowling had covered more instead of using it for a few gags. Wizarding society has actually stagnated because (in addition to their self-imposed isolation from non-magical humans) access to magic has made life so easy that they've gotten used to using it as a crutch. It would be interesting to see the deeper implications, like wizards and witches having an extremely poor grasp of science and technology compared to Muggles because their education is almost exclusively about magic and they've never had to learn it as deeply as someone who needs to use science to improve society. Or their reliance on using magic to solve all their problems means a lot of them grow up with poor problem-solving skills and are hopeless when confronted with a situation that they can't magic away. I’m currently writing a spec script (just for fun, I don’t anticipate it going anywhere) that’s basically “The kids at Hogwarts that are aspiring lawyers/business owners/etc create a makeshift trade school inside the school.” It’s such an interesting world, it’s a shame all JK can think to do with it is fan-service.
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dirksteadfast posted:I’m currently writing a spec script (just for fun, I don’t anticipate it going anywhere) that’s basically “The kids at Hogwarts that are aspiring lawyers/business owners/etc create a makeshift trade school inside the school.” It’s such an interesting world, it’s a shame all JK can think to do with it is fan-service. Or fan disservice, considering a lot of fans were not white straight kids.
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dirksteadfast posted:I’m currently writing a spec script (just for fun, I don’t anticipate it going anywhere) that’s basically “The kids at Hogwarts that are aspiring lawyers/business owners/etc create a makeshift trade school inside the school.” It’s such an interesting world, it’s a shame all JK can think to do with it is fan-service. Cut out the Rowling references, make it your own setting, and make it a thing. Rowling didn't invent magic schools, and that ladder-pulling TERF doesn't deserve any more exposure.
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Screaming Idiot posted:Cut out the Rowling references, make it your own setting, and make it a thing. Rowling didn't invent magic schools, and that ladder-pulling TERF doesn't deserve any more exposure. I built a world for another series of books I wrote, which was a blast but it’s fun playing around in someone else’s sandbox for a while. The references start and end with the mechanics of the world, with the premise hinging on recognizing how broken it all is. I appreciate your sentiment though.
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There's a very specific joy in taking something full of holes and trying to patch those holes. I'm familiar with the feeling because I've been watching through the TOS run of Star Trek and keep feeling a compulsion to make the stories, you know, not terrible.
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I've never read a Harry Potter book or seen a Harry Potter film.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I've never read a Harry Potter book or seen a Harry Potter film. Okay.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I've never read a Harry Potter book or seen a Harry Potter film. I don't have that problem. Goodbye!
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I've never read a Harry Potter book or seen a Harry Potter film. Now tell us if you have a television
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I WILL NOW LIST ALL THE CHILDREN'S BOOKS AND MOVIES I HAVE NOT READ OR SEEN *ahem* 1) Atlas Shrugged
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capitaldelendaest posted:Now tell us if you have a refrigerator
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Djeser posted:There's a very specific joy in taking something full of holes and trying to patch those holes. I'm familiar with the feeling because I've been watching through the TOS run of Star Trek and keep feeling a compulsion to make the stories, you know, not terrible. That way lies fanfiction. Actually I was talking to a friend about what makes good fodder for fanworks, and Harry Potter and Star Trek were my titular examples.They both have good world-building and characters paired with a middling story and I think that's what draws people in the most when it comes to making their own versions of something.
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Carthag Tuek posted:I've seen the films but I don't really remember them That seems like the pretty standard response. They're kinda nothing. And towards the end they entirely stopped bothering making them coherent if you hadn't read the books.
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there wolf posted:That way lies fanfiction. It’s the simple equation of the work having more rules than moments. I made it through 4 HP books and without the movies I could have probably named 3 or 4 memorable moments per book if pressed, but I could rattle off the rules of Quidditch or different magic items with ease. It makes the books seem like glorified Zelda dungeons in retrospect, because it was always “here’s a new magic toy I never mentioned before...it’ll be used once again in the finale and then dropped entirely for the rest of the series”. dirksteadfast has a new favorite as of 22:10 on Apr 26, 2020 |
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My partner pointed out that the huge gaps in the release schedule (especially before Order of the Phoenix) meant a lot of people turned to fan-fiction to fill their desire for more HP content.
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Large gaps in releases at the height of fanbase interest, and especially when most of them are in the throes of their teens, have a tendency to make fanbases get seriously overproductive in fanfiction and just generally go a little bit nuts. See also Homestuck.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Large gaps in releases at the height of fanbase interest, and especially when most of them are in the throes of their teens, have a tendency to make fanbases get seriously overproductive in fanfiction and just generally go a little bit nuts. See also Homestuck. In one memorable case, this resulted in eight seasons' worth of high-budget televised fanfiction.
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dirksteadfast posted:It’s the simple equation of the work having more rules and moments. I made it through 4 HP books and without the movies I could have probably named 3 or 4 memorable moments per book if pressed, but I could rattle off the rules of Quidditch or different magic items with ease. It makes the books seem like glorified Zelda dungeons in retrospect, because it was always “here’s a new magic toy I never mentioned before...it’ll be used once again in the finale and then dropped entirely for the rest of the series”. Well put. That's exactly what I meant by deep world building. Lord of the Rings and Star Wars also come to mind, because the sheer level of addenda to both give people so much to build on.
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Anything where there's a lot of structure is really conducive to fanfic. There's a reason why Star Trek was the one that got loads and loads of fanfic while Star Wars never quite took off in the same way. The entire world of Star Trek is basically set up to have adventure hooks, so it's trivial to make your own, to shuffle the characters around, and so on. With Star Wars, there's a lot more work involved in explaining what's going on if you want to see Leia fighting an ice monster on a lava planet. I think that's partly why you see so much fanfic of book series and television shows compared to movies. Outside of like, Marvel movies (which are part-comic book anyway, as hard as they try to distance themselves from that) most of the big fanwork-heavy media properties are episodic or serial in nature.
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I'm reminded of the weird phenomenon where despite having reams and reams of licensed tie-in books and comics, Star Wars 'Expanded Universe' material is almost always either the core Star Wars characters or blatant knockoffs of them doing stuff that's not quite the events of the films but obviously going through the motions. Also if a character from species/planet X is seen or mentioned doing a thing in the movies, then obviously that thing is the core aspect of their culture which their entire world revolves around, so the Bothans are the espionage planet and Corellions are the gutsy rogue planet and so on. Oddly enough, apparently Star Trek novels do the opposite and assume any character must be a bold iconoclast doing something their culture looks down upon.
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It's all terrible. Which is appropriate, given what thread we're in.
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Groke posted:In one memorable case, this resulted in eight seasons' worth of high-budget televised fanfiction. ...that being?
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Dabir posted:...that being? Game of Thrones.
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After the initial set of books a lot of the early Star Wars EU stuff was made by West End Games for people to run pen-and-paper RPGs with.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I'm reminded of the weird phenomenon where despite having reams and reams of licensed tie-in books and comics, Star Wars 'Expanded Universe' material is almost always either the core Star Wars characters or blatant knockoffs of them doing stuff that's not quite the events of the films but obviously going through the motions. Also if a character from species/planet X is seen or mentioned doing a thing in the movies, then obviously that thing is the core aspect of their culture which their entire world revolves around, so the Bothans are the espionage planet and Corellions are the gutsy rogue planet and so on. To be fair the Star Trek: TNG show does that too. The only main Borg characters are weirdos who disconnected from the collective, the main Klingon crew members are a naive True Believer who is often too blinded by his culture to see how garbage the other Klingons are at following it and his son is destined to be the only Klingon Politician who will try to unite the houses. There is a lot of "This Planet Wears this Hat but This Particular Character Doesn't Care To"
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BioEnchanted posted:To be fair the Star Trek: TNG show does that too. The only main Borg characters are weirdos who disconnected from the collective, the main Klingon crew members are a naive True Believer who is often too blinded by his culture to see how garbage the other Klingons are at following it and his son is destined to be the only Klingon Politician who will try to unite the houses. There is a lot of "This Planet Wears this Hat but This Particular Character Doesn't Care To" I mean yeah, the Star Trek tie-ins at least have significant precedent for that, given almost every representative of a non-Federation alien culture is shown as being the exception rather than the rule. (Worf, Q, Hugh, Rom and Nog, Odo, Seven, etc) Though as said, Star Trek is explicitly written as a big universe with lots of things going on and lots of stuff you can explore. Star Trek also does a lot more crossovers, mostly in comics. There was a TAS/Transformers one recently.
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Dabir posted:oh yeah right that All of it except for the first season coming out during the interval (allegedly) between two books.
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The problem with sex scenes is that everyone responds to them in different ways. Everyone has different thresholds of what they feel is "not enough" or "too much" information. Add to that everyone has different turnons and turnoffs; one person's sexy scene is another's farce. So when authors write sex scenes, we get an uncomfortably intimate look at a total stranger's sexual desires (and possibly kinks). You can have a whole sexy world existing with a couple well-timed fades to black. Don't need a blow-by-blow description. I'll stick with erotica, where the kinks are all up front. And the sex scenes are better written.
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