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Scott6373:
When you get right down to brass tacks, the film "Brokeback Mountain" was the first and best canon. It just happened to be on film. Fanfic is all a matter of taste, and the more emotional the source material, the more opinionated folk get about their fanfic preferences...I think.
one_of_one:
--- Quote from: louise van hine on July 26, 2007, 02:25:08 pm ---Every author has their own vision,
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I agree, and I think that's fine. My problem has always been when certain authors profess to write canon and believe that their work *is* as close to canon as can be and other authors are not when each and every one of us is writing from our own life experiences and bringing them into whatever we put down on the page.
And also what you say about which canon is which. I tried early on to reconcile the two but realised that it was an impossible task because I believe that there are fundamental differences between them.
louisev:
Hm, well out of consideration for yb being a foreign speaker of English, I might offer to translate?
There are some stories were are discussed at immense length, and, without citing a reason in favor or not, when I started writing "Taking Chances" that got a great deal of discussion - and in fact, way too MUCH attention was paid to parts of the story which in hindsight probably were unimportant. I believe that stories that are written, that people read, but may not have generated a great deal of discussion when they update - at least in a forum environment or in LJ entries, might be considered underrated - at least as compared to others of its kind.
louisev:
--- Quote from: *Helen* on July 26, 2007, 02:55:34 pm ---I agree, and I think that's fine. My problem has always been when certain authors profess to write canon and believe that their work *is* as close to canon as can be and other authors are not when each and every one of us is writing from our own life experiences and bringing them into whatever we put down on the page.
And also what you say about which canon is which. I tried early on to reconcile the two but realised that it was an impossible task because I believe that there are fundamental differences between them.
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The belief that we each have our own vision is actually built into the rules of this forum area. We actively discourage members from touting one story as authentic or authorative over another - because it's ALL fanfic, and no one has the blessed holy vision of Jack and Ennis.
mvansand76:
--- Quote from: *Helen* on July 26, 2007, 02:55:34 pm ---I agree, and I think that's fine. My problem has always been when certain authors profess to write canon and believe that their work *is* as close to canon as can be and other authors are not when each and every one of us is writing from our own life experiences and bringing them into whatever we put down on the page.
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Helen,
I am not entirely sure what you mean, because how do you know that the writer believes that his/her work is as close to canon as can be?
Sticking to character in my opinion is not the most important thing when you write a story in which events take a different turn (is that canon, I never did get familiar with the terms), because people can change and things can happen to them that changes the way they look at life. What is more important is if the story you write is compelling and makes people think about how things could've gone differently, sometimes by changing just a single aspect of the story.
I think AU/AU's are so popular right now, not necessarily because they stray so far away from the original characters J&E (because they often do not, Ennis is still often the reticent guy and Jack the open, talkative one), but because we can follow them through the whole falling in love ritual again in a whole different setting, that is what makes it so interesting to read.
Thinking about it now, I have an idea where fanfic is heading: I think there will be more and more extreme AU/AU's (situations totally away from the BBM setting) and then, after a while, writers might start to replace the names Jack and Ennis and write an original story because it has hardly anything to do with BBM anymore.
Mel
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