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Jun. 26th, 2003 10:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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An excerpt:
'...Because it will be wretched. She controls Canon, for sure, but how can she - a flotsam writer on the Zeitgeist at best - compare with us in creativity? There's no surprise we haven't anticipated, no potential scene we haven't written better, no beloved character we haven't tortured, slaughtered, slept with, changed the sex of, forced into bed with Millicent Bulstrode...
That, I think, is the Threat of Fanfiction. No mere author, alone, can outclass us. They give us the Canon, but we get to fire it.'
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An excerpt:
'...Because it will be wretched. She controls Canon, for sure, but how can she - a flotsam writer on the Zeitgeist at best - compare with us in creativity? There's no surprise we haven't anticipated, no potential scene we haven't written better, no beloved character we haven't tortured, slaughtered, slept with, changed the sex of, forced into bed with Millicent Bulstrode...
That, I think, is the Threat of Fanfiction. No mere author, alone, can outclass us. They give us the Canon, but we get to fire it.'
Read the whole of the original entry and the responses here
