All fanfic writers are creatively bankrupt thieves.

[Deleted member 41774]

The only good fanfics are R-18 doujinshis--

 

[Indicterra]

They are weirdly creative in make two characters with no connection fuck each other

 

[Deleted member 84247]

It's just wish fulfillment. It's like smut but instead of actually jacking off, you're metaphorically jacking off all over your favorite fictional series.

It can be metaphorical and actual. You fix the plot, but you also add in the smut. That's how you activate the reader's monkey brains.

 

[cabbag3]

They are weirdly creative in make two characters with no connection fuck each other

Tbf, without fanfics, we wouldn't have a bunch of colored pencil drawings of all the different characters in Harry Potter fucking each other

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Tbf, without fanfics, we wouldn't have a bunch of colored pencil drawings of all the different characters in Harry Potter fucking each other

I have to research this topic more in-depth, perhaps it can change my mind. Can you give me the source of those scientific documents? ?

 

[Kenjona]

Martial arts and sexual cultivation writers are the lowest of lows.

That's right, I said it, what're you gonna do? Go fuck another young masters girl to get stronger?
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Yes.

 

[Rezcore]

This is a bad take. Especially when you consider that every single piece of Fiction is in itself a fanfic of a previous work/current reality. TWD, Night of the Living Dead. And so forth, war movies are fan fiction of wars.

Fanfics gives you a predefined structure to write in.

 

[Deleted member 76176]

What about artists who like to draw non-original characters? Are they creatively bankrupt too?

 

[Slay]

Oh no! I'm sorry for what you have to deal with as a budding fanfic writer!

 

[georgelee5786]

I concur, but only because I don't like fanfic

 

[TheMonotonePuppet]

Bullshit.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

What about artists who like to draw non-original characters? Are they creatively bankrupt too?

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Dante's Inferno is Bible fan fiction.
Bible looks like Old Testament fan fiction.

Most mythology (including portions of the Bible, to be honest), is technically "fan fiction" for the Powers referenced (or of the storytellers who originally passed on the tales).

 

[Deleted member 41774]

What about artists who like to draw non-original characters? Are they creatively bankrupt too?

Can confirm. I am bankrupt--

 

[CharlesEBrown]

This is a bad take. Especially when you consider that every single piece of Fiction is in itself a fanfic of a previous work/current reality. TWD, Night of the Living Dead. And so forth, war movies are fan fiction of wars.

Night of the Living Dead was more of an adaptation - Romero wanted to make a movie of Matheson's "I Am Legend" but the rights had been sold to an Italian production company for more than his entire budget (that company produced the Vincent Price movie "The Last Man on Earth" from it), but rewrote so much of it that it wound up being more its own thing entirely. Now the sequels to it are all pretty much fan fiction...

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Can confirm. I am bankrupt--

 

[BLIGHT_ZERO]

IF I CATCH YOU IT'S SMOKE

 

[CharlesEBrown]

Now are shared universe stories considered "fan fiction" in this context? Say, are stories about the Cthulhu Mythos "fan fiction"? Or is "Fan Fiction" solely "taking either characters or events from established universes and either reimagining the outcome, merging them with other universes, or inserting the author into the story"?
A lot of author-insert stories really are utter trash (there are exceptions ... but these pretty much show the "90% of everything is garbage" axiom to be optimistic).
Universe merging is literally all over the place - from Silverlock in the 1940s to Craig Shaw Gardner's "Cineverse Cycle" near the top to ... some of the nearly unreadable stuff posted to fan sites near the bottom.
Same with "What If...?" scenarios ("What if Harry Potter boned Hermione instead of drooling after Cho Chang?" can be entertaining or just disgusting; and the old Marvel Comics "What If...?!?" series was as mixed a bag as any other fan fiction - and the animated series even moreso).

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Now are shared universe stories considered "fan fiction" in this context? Say, are stories about the Cthulhu Mythos "fan fiction"? Or is "Fan Fiction" solely "taking either characters or events from established universes and either reimagining the outcome, merging them with other universes, or inserting the author into the story"?
A lot of author-insert stories really are utter trash (there are exceptions ... but these pretty much show the "90% of everything is garbage" axiom to be optimistic).
Universe merging is literally all over the place - from Silverlock in the 1940s to Craig Shaw Gardner's "Cineverse Cycle" near the top to ... some of the nearly unreadable stuff posted to fan sites near the bottom.
Same with "What If...?" scenarios ("What if Harry Potter boned Hermione instead of drooling after Cho Chang?" can be entertaining or just disgusting; and the old Marvel Comics "What If...?!?" series was as mixed a bag as any other fan fiction - and the animated series even moreso).

Yes.

 

[Assurbanipal_II]