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time magazine features fanfiction.
Jul. 16th, 2011 12:24 pmAnd it's surprisingly sympathetic.
"The Boy Who Lived Forever"
- Lev Grossman, 7 July 2011
[reposted from fandom_lounge on JF]
"You can see both sides of the issue. Do characters belong to the person who created them? Or to the fans who love them so passionately that they spend their nights and weekends laboring to extend those characters' lives, for free? There's a division here, a geological fault line, that looks small on the surface but runs deep into our culture, and the tectonic plates are only moving farther apart. Is art about making up new things or about transforming the raw material that's out there? Cutting, pasting, sampling, remixing and mashing up have become mainstream modes of cultural expression, and fan fiction is part of that. It challenges just about everything we thought we knew about art and creativity. "
As someone who generally tries to keep mention of fandom away from those not of like mind, and who has had to defend herself and fandom from haters, I have mixed feelings on this article. But it's both honest and largely positive, which is even more awesome coming from a journalist I don't think is personally involved.
"The Boy Who Lived Forever"
- Lev Grossman, 7 July 2011
[reposted from fandom_lounge on JF]
"You can see both sides of the issue. Do characters belong to the person who created them? Or to the fans who love them so passionately that they spend their nights and weekends laboring to extend those characters' lives, for free? There's a division here, a geological fault line, that looks small on the surface but runs deep into our culture, and the tectonic plates are only moving farther apart. Is art about making up new things or about transforming the raw material that's out there? Cutting, pasting, sampling, remixing and mashing up have become mainstream modes of cultural expression, and fan fiction is part of that. It challenges just about everything we thought we knew about art and creativity. "
As someone who generally tries to keep mention of fandom away from those not of like mind, and who has had to defend herself and fandom from haters, I have mixed feelings on this article. But it's both honest and largely positive, which is even more awesome coming from a journalist I don't think is personally involved.
