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Good article about fanfiction from Time Magazine
Sason:
--- Quote from: Meryl on July 09, 2011, 12:29:00 pm ---I hadn't seen that! But I think maybe we're lucky not to be on that list. Some real nutballs there. ;D
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No we don't want to be mixed up with nutballs! Horror! ::) ;D
Meryl:
--- Quote from: Sason on July 09, 2011, 12:45:40 pm ---No we don't want to be mixed up with nutballs! Horror! ::) ;D
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Let's face it, there are nutballs, and then there are real nutballs. ;) ;D
Sason:
--- Quote from: Meryl on July 09, 2011, 01:17:29 pm ---Let's face it, there are nutballs, and then there are real nutballs. ;) ;D
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Oh, I see. The real nutballs are on that list. That's very comforting to know. 8)
Marge_Innavera:
--- Quote from: Buffymon on July 09, 2011, 07:20:25 am ---I love the idea of pairing up Jesus with Judas myself
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Frank Yerby wrote a fanfic novel about Jesus and Judas called Judas My Brother; don't think it was a "pairing", though.
http://www.amazon.com/Judas-My-Brother-Yerby-F/dp/0803742894
Marge_Innavera:
--- Quote from: Meryl on July 09, 2011, 01:17:29 pm ---Let's face it, there are nutballs, and then there are real nutballs. ;) ;D
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--- Quote from: Luvlylittlewing on July 09, 2011, 12:56:15 am ---Scary days of fan fiction here?
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Yes indeed; though not just here. Speaking of "nutballs", I had a few unpleasant communications from a few of them back then. A lot of people might have had their first experience with hate mail around that time. :P
My two favorite quotes from the Time article:
--- Quote ---Fan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. . . . [Fanfic writers are] fans, but they're not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.
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--- Quote ---Jean Rhys published Wide Sargasso Sea, which retold the story of the mad wife from Jane Eyre, and Tom Stoppard staged Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, which borrowed two bit players from Hamlet. In her 2005 novel March, Geraldine Brooks filched the absent father from Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and took him on a tour of Civil War battlefields. March won the Pulitzer Prize.
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