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 Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 1:43 pm
Taken from another site:
Of course, fanfiction probably goes back as far as literature; even such luminaries as John Stuart Mill contributed unauthorized, original stories set in a fictional universe. Before medieval French troubadours were shipping Launcelot and Guinevere, the ancient Greeks were writing plays about relationships between characters in The Iliad. In Plato's Symposium one character complains that a fanfic play by Aeschylus got the characterization of Achilles and Patroclus wrong.
The distinction between Fanfic and original fiction, as we know it today, is largely created by modern copyright law; much of classical writing is actually "fanfiction" based on older sources. The major distinction between fanfic and a story inspired by another story is that the story a fanfic is based on has one or more "official" versions, usually owned by a company, a creator, or both. Thus, things like The Infancy Gospel of Thomas, a piece of biblical apocrypha featuring Angry!Uber!Baby Jesus, or variations on Arthurian legend where there is no Holy Grail and Lancelot's affair with Guenivere never happens, would not "count" by this definition.
Discuss.
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 4:22 pm
Did you wiki or google that because that reminds me of parts of history classes that were more interesting than most. NVM i skimmed over that though it seems like something google or wiki would give you.
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 4:23 pm
I got it from a TV Tropes article. (Note the link at the top.)
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Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2012 10:14 pm
Wow, I actually did not expect for fanfiction to go back that far. Of course, they didn't call it 'fanfiction' at the time, but still. How fascinating! biggrin
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Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2012 2:36 pm
I have always been told that historically the term 'Mary Sue" was taken from a satirical Star Trek fan fic. I will try and find more on this for when I do not have to babysit destructive toddlers.
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 2:44 am
The Fanfiction Nymph I have always been told that historically the term 'Mary Sue" was taken from a satirical Star Trek fan fic. I will try and find more on this for when I do not have to babysit destructive toddlers. This is what I found, from Wikipedia: Quote: The term "Mary Sue" is from the name of a character created by Paula Smith in 1973 for her parody story "A Trekkie's Tale"[1]:15 published in her fanzine Menagerie #2.[2] The story starred Lieutenant Mary Sue ("the youngest Lieutenant in the fleet — only fifteen and a half years old"), and satirized unrealistic and adolescent wish-fantasy characters in Star Trek fan fiction. Such characters were generally original (non-canon) and female adolescents who had romantic liaisons with established canon adult characters, or in some cases were the younger relatives or protégés of those characters.
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Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2012 7:26 am
Kitsune No Tsubasa The Fanfiction Nymph I have always been told that historically the term 'Mary Sue" was taken from a satirical Star Trek fan fic. I will try and find more on this for when I do not have to babysit destructive toddlers. This is what I found, from Wikipedia: Quote: The term "Mary Sue" is from the name of a character created by Paula Smith in 1973 for her parody story "A Trekkie's Tale"[1]:15 published in her fanzine Menagerie #2.[2] The story starred Lieutenant Mary Sue ("the youngest Lieutenant in the fleet — only fifteen and a half years old"), and satirized unrealistic and adolescent wish-fantasy characters in Star Trek fan fiction. Such characters were generally original (non-canon) and female adolescents who had romantic liaisons with established canon adult characters, or in some cases were the younger relatives or protégés of those characters. YAY! You found it for me. 3nodding Thank you.
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 9:25 pm
Fan culture is very fascinating to me. If you think about, this current generation is very keen on participatory culture. In the past, culture has often been built by an elite few, but especially in the 21st century we see contributions to culture coming from a wide variety of sources.
emotion_yatta
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2012 9:32 pm
Fan culture is very fascinating to me. If you think about, this current generation is very keen on participatory culture. In the past, culture has often been built by an elite few, but especially in the 21st century we see contributions to culture coming from a wide variety of sources.
emotion_yatta
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