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[rm]

Why fanfiction isn't a dirty word, low-culture or non-art:

http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007459.html#121781

My own thought on the content of the above is merely this: Stories don't end. That they do, or exist in any way that is linear in time, is the most fundamenal part of their illusion.

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[britgeekgrrl.livejournal.com]

Love it!

Another one of my fave sayings re: fanfic, although I forget who said it: "Fanfiction is what happens when corporations own stories" which isn't the same point.

Strangely enough, that got cut out of an interview I gave re: fanfiction for one of the Matrix documentaries... Then again, a whole LOT got cut out of that interview. :(

[rm.livejournal.com]

Also, didn't we all read Wide Sargasso Sea in school? Why is this so hard to grok?

[kalichan.livejournal.com]

Or Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead or, I don't know, Romeo & Juliet?

This is so great, & I'm totally stealing this link.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Or Paradise Lost and for that matter, HDM.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Also, if you're procrastinating, will you go over to Jaida's journal and explain to her why she much watch QaF RIGHT NOW?

[raaven.livejournal.com]

God, that's marvelous. Thank you for posting it.