Hmm... there is a popular fantasy author whose work is pretty good, but I can no longer read due to their stance on fanfic. I wonder if it is the same one? It's not so much that they do not support fanfiction, (totally their prerogative) but their insane ranting on how it's EVIL AND WRONG identity theft, and retroactively destroys the original story, blah blah blah irrational-cakes. And now when I pick up one of their books, it's all I can think of!
The thing is a story, is as Scott Lynch says, a venn diagram between what the reader brings to it, and what the author puts in. And I like to think of each fictional universe as an archive, with succeeding variations simply enriching the world further, making the archive more and more complete. [It's one of the reasons I love Ianto as an archivist, actually!]
Yeah, I almost never want to like the characters that the author wants me to, for instance. It always seems so unfair, when the dice are loaded on their behalf. Yay anti-heroes. Doctor Who is rather rare in that regard, since the Doctor is my favorite character.
re: anti-heroes -- I see from your journal subtitle that you must feel the same way?
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The thing is a story, is as Scott Lynch says, a venn diagram between what the reader brings to it, and what the author puts in. And I like to think of each fictional universe as an archive, with succeeding variations simply enriching the world further, making the archive more and more complete. [It's one of the reasons I love Ianto as an archivist, actually!]
Yeah, I almost never want to like the characters that the author wants me to, for instance. It always seems so unfair, when the dice are loaded on their behalf. Yay anti-heroes. Doctor Who is rather rare in that regard, since the Doctor is my favorite character.
re: anti-heroes -- I see from your journal subtitle that you must feel the same way?