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Sunday, 15 July 2012 01:22 pm
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An older and more successful fellow Web cartoonist just wrote and publicized a "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic" fanfic. I've given thought to doing the same, but it always seemed beneath my dignity.
Thing is, I have made FIM fanart. Why should fanfiction be different? It's worth noting that I would never draw straightforward fanart; I have to make it ridiculous somehow. But with fanfiction, I feel this obligation to stay as faithful as possible to the source material, as if to prove that I could match the canon in writing skill. Well, I probably could match the dumber FIM episodes, but I think it would do no real favor to what little cred I have. Does this make sense?
As I read the fanfic in question, I became newly aware of another seemingly irrational aspect of myself: I have little patience for fiction in text on the computer screen. I can read lengthy forum discussions, work papers, and online articles for many minutes if not hours uninterrupted, but even a good story will have me looking away before long. This is not a problem in hardcopy. I can attribute it only to an idiosyncratic psychological phenomenon.
Thing is, I have made FIM fanart. Why should fanfiction be different? It's worth noting that I would never draw straightforward fanart; I have to make it ridiculous somehow. But with fanfiction, I feel this obligation to stay as faithful as possible to the source material, as if to prove that I could match the canon in writing skill. Well, I probably could match the dumber FIM episodes, but I think it would do no real favor to what little cred I have. Does this make sense?
As I read the fanfic in question, I became newly aware of another seemingly irrational aspect of myself: I have little patience for fiction in text on the computer screen. I can read lengthy forum discussions, work papers, and online articles for many minutes if not hours uninterrupted, but even a good story will have me looking away before long. This is not a problem in hardcopy. I can attribute it only to an idiosyncratic psychological phenomenon.