It's here! Virgil was a Homer Fanboy: History of Fanfic Pt 1
Added 2016-10-04 13:55:17 +0000 UTCStorygami version on Maven is here: https://www.maven.video/c/jillbearup/HkolSVZA
but for those who prefer YouTube and no bells or whistles, tada!
This took SO LONG to write, but I'm so proud of it.
Hope you like it as much as I did!
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Six years on, if you're looking for HOFF Pt 1 it's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAkvQr_lVpE
Dave Sheddi
2022-11-30 22:04:16 +0000 UTC*googles Michael Drout* Awesome! Yes, there's a definite 'the creator is all and perfect and only the creator's opinion counts' thing in the backlash against fanfic.
Jill Bearup
2016-10-06 08:45:50 +0000 UTCThis kind of reminds me, obliquely, of all the fuss of bother that happened when people finally started studying oral history and realized Homer wasn't actually a real person (probably). I think some of the backlash against fic might be tied in to that same need for the works that move us to have been created by some gifted genius that we can put on a pedestal. We want to hold these stories that mean so much to us inviolate and yet just the act of our absorbing them through our own perception (I really couldn't think of a better sentence here, I swear I tried) changes them. I look forward to knowing what reading/listening/watching you did for this episode. I liked Micheal Drout's lecture series on oral literature (an oxymoron that he explains in the series).
De
2016-10-06 05:52:06 +0000 UTC
