Vid rec... (with a little rantiness)

[ash48]

I have to admit I have had a love/hate relationship with the way Supernatural has broken down the forth wall and made fans look at themselves. The love part is that I find it interesting as a filmic device and it fascinates me that the show has made a decision to go there but the hate part (and there may bit a more of that than love), is the way they did it.

Ever since Becky read out her fanfic story I sometimes catch myself "looking at myself" whenever I'm reading fic (particularly Wincest). Now, I realise that this is probably just me, but I haven't decided if show is making fun of or having fun with the fans when they do this. It just hasn't felt comfortable to me.

And then the wonderful secretlytodream made this promo for Big Bang 2010 and it kinda turned all that on it's head a bit and it filled me with glee!

To me the vid's a celebration of all thing fic and fandom. And (to me) is a bit of an "up yours" to Show for scrutinizing us somewhat unfavorably when it comes to our enjoyment of reading fanfic.

*koff* Or am I reading too much into it?! I have been doing a lot of thinking lately it would seem....

Either way. It's a wonderful vid and if I wrote fic I'd be tempted to join in!!

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

Maybe. I found looking at missyjack's stats post on BB rather interesting. The overwhelming number of stories are actually J2 fics and, as she points out, equivalent to original works rather than fanfic. In the SPN fandom, BB is rather more like NaNoWriMo than a fandom challenge. I'm wondering if there's any other media fandom around right now that has anywhere near our RPS draw (music fandoms, of course, are nothing but RPF), and if so if they tend to get more participation in BB as well.

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Yeah I see what you mean. I suppose I have always categorised RPS as fanfiction. Written by fans for fans.... But the fact that they are indeed equivalent to original works maybe they don't exclusively come under that umbrella.

*g* And I lead a very sheltered fandom life and have only stuck to SPN, but it would be interesting to compare our BB RPS responses to others. See you got me there too - I've only ever considered BB belonging to SPN, I take it other fandoms have it too?

[yourlibrarian]

Yeah, I think the word "exclusively" is key because anything written primarily for a fannish audience differs from something designed to be an "original" work.

I'm curious too about where BB came from because I first ran into it in SPN (it began the year I entered the fandom). But I know others have/are doing it as well, though I don't know if that's an offshoot of its success here.