building on still needs building
May. 17th, 2014 07:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethFanfic builds on canon. So it skips a lot of the work orig fic needs to do, like basic introductions and descriptions. canon is the status quo, and fanfic only needs to tell the changes.
when a non-canon fanfic pairing is new, everyone has to sell it. they take two characters and have to show exactly how they would fit together, what makes them care about each other, why they feel the way they do.
but then comes a point where everyone is building at least as much on each other's stories as on canon, and after a while, the relationship is just taken as a given. which isn't to say all fic is established relationship now, it's more that of course they love each other, and increasing numbers of stories just skip the parts that show us why and what and how.
which, I'm realising, is the point where increasing numbers of stories stop interesting me. cause what are they even doing then?
show the yearning! make the readers fall in love along with the point of view character! actually write down the little moments that make people think spending the rest of their lives together could be a thing!
even if those moments are mostly porn, there's still a cycle of wanting and getting to go through.
otherwise it's like the story is all ending, everything done and tidy before we get there, and it's weird.
when a non-canon fanfic pairing is new, everyone has to sell it. they take two characters and have to show exactly how they would fit together, what makes them care about each other, why they feel the way they do.
but then comes a point where everyone is building at least as much on each other's stories as on canon, and after a while, the relationship is just taken as a given. which isn't to say all fic is established relationship now, it's more that of course they love each other, and increasing numbers of stories just skip the parts that show us why and what and how.
which, I'm realising, is the point where increasing numbers of stories stop interesting me. cause what are they even doing then?
show the yearning! make the readers fall in love along with the point of view character! actually write down the little moments that make people think spending the rest of their lives together could be a thing!
even if those moments are mostly porn, there's still a cycle of wanting and getting to go through.
otherwise it's like the story is all ending, everything done and tidy before we get there, and it's weird.
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Date: 2014-05-20 11:34 am (UTC)And AUs that have zero in common with canon. Why is that fanfic.