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« Reply #28380 on: March 06, 2013, 06:50:44 pm »

Camp is one thing but it doesn't describe the array in which one can love something that is terrible.

Camp is just sort of the "affectionate" weirdness you can see... but Camp in it of itself isn't nessisarily bad. Things can be campy but not bad.

Liking something because it is extremely camp but isn't "bad" for it, isn't an ironic enjoyment. Hense why I wouldn't use that word to define it.

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Neo. Neo, friend neo. Fanfiction. Fan. Fiction. Which 50 shades is. There are people. Who legitimately enjoy. Absolutely terrible fanfiction. Not because they like it ironically, but because it presses little joynubs in their brain that makes them happy. That legolas and johnny depp are boinking each other or whatever. There's no need to be confused. Just accept that some folks are wired differently and roll with it.

Yeah SOME people... I like lots of Cinamon on my Pies and applesauce but I wouldn't say that would be the optimal strategy for a wide net.

Which is what confused me. I mean Twilight is bad but its appeal comes from the fact that it channels its audiance perfectly.

As someone who read Stephanie Mieyer's works before Twilight once said: She is a terrible writer but amazing author.

50 shades of grey however? From what I hear of it, it doesn't seem to have many elements I thought could attact non-ironic attention from large portions of the populous.
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« Reply #28381 on: March 06, 2013, 06:58:45 pm »

Camp is more closely related to cheesiness then it is to being bad.  Like Red Alert.  Campy as hell, but can still be considered good.

I honestly cannot understand how someone can like 50 SoG.  I tried to read part of it before I knew what it was, I couldn't get very far.  I can somewhat understand Twilight, even thou it isn't my sort of book.  But I honestly cannot understand 50 SoG's appeal.
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« Reply #28382 on: March 06, 2013, 07:00:38 pm »

My understanding is that 50SoG is basically badly-written porn, right? Well, hasn't that stuff always been popular in a take-it-off-the-bookshelf-when-company-comes-over kind of way?
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« Reply #28383 on: March 06, 2013, 07:03:45 pm »

50SoG is based off a really bad Twilight fanfic, if that helps your opinion any.

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« Reply #28384 on: March 06, 2013, 07:05:57 pm »

You know I never really found a place in my heart for fan fic. It always amount to 'This is my favorite character and I am going to fuck everything to put them on a pedestal! Do you see how awesome they are? Do you see it?!? Look at how special they are!!!! LOOK AT IT!!!'

Why not just write about your own characters?

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« Reply #28385 on: March 06, 2013, 07:09:16 pm »

You know I never really found a place in my heart for fan fic. It always amount to 'This is my favorite character and I am going to fuck everything to put them on a pedestal! Do you see how awesome they are? Do you see it?!? Look at how special they are!!!! LOOK AT IT!!!'

Why not just write about your own characters?
Because sometimes, oh so rarely, they get it right. And it is glorious when they do.
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« Reply #28386 on: March 06, 2013, 07:09:23 pm »

Same reason people do variations on a motif in music, man. Sometimes it's interesting to see what happens when you poke an existing system. It's a neat exercise in extrapolation, and sometimes it's just fun to play with someone else's ideas.

And Max, most good fanfiction is absolutely nothing like that :P You're thinking primarily of Mary Sue crap, which is (almost) universally crap. A lot of the good stuff basically destroys the writer's favorite character (assuming they even have one. Some folks are more enamored to the scenario than any particular critter in it.).
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« Reply #28387 on: March 06, 2013, 07:10:51 pm »

You know I never really found a place in my heart for fan fic. It always amount to 'This is my favorite character and I am going to fuck everything to put them on a pedestal! Do you see how awesome they are? Do you see it?!? Look at how special they are!!!! LOOK AT IT!!!'

Why not just write about your own characters?
Because sometimes, oh so rarely, they get it right. And it is glorious when they do.
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« Reply #28388 on: March 06, 2013, 07:11:05 pm »

It's why those fan-fics aren't all that popular.

One of the more "famous" (at least, most reviewed on ff.net) is a Harry Potter fic that puts everyone on such a pedestal. Raise the stakes. Make the hero super smart? Make his enemy super smart too.

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« Reply #28389 on: March 06, 2013, 07:17:45 pm »

Eh, I honestly have better things to do than wade through rivers of crap in hope of finding a single replica golden idol when I could just read the fabulous gem encrusted totems of original work that have already been separated from their respective feces streams by the wonder filtering sanitizing solution that is time.

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« Reply #28390 on: March 06, 2013, 07:19:04 pm »

Eh, I honestly have better things to do than wade through rivers of crap in hope of finding a single replica golden idol when I could just read the fabulous gem encrusted totems of original work that have already been separated from their respective feces streams by the wonder filtering sanitizing solution that is time.

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You learn eventually how to avoid the crap.
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« Reply #28391 on: March 06, 2013, 07:27:30 pm »

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« Reply #28392 on: March 06, 2013, 07:36:04 pm »

You learn eventually how to avoid the crap.
There's also forums and stuff where people congregate and provide suggestions regarding the good stuff. Plus most aggregate sites tend to have favorites and stuff. Once you find one author or reader (there's often fic-less profiles that just contain a honking huge favorite list) that coincides with your tastes, you can often ride the wave of favorites for dozens of decent-to-good fics. Basically other people filter out the crap for you, to a large extent :P

But yeah, while I was cooking I figured out a much easier way to explain the phenomena. Goes like this:

You know what's great? "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" is great. You know what would be awesome? "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" done on flamenco guitar*. And, you know what? I can do that. I can do that, and then I can share it, and I increase the awesome of the world.

That, right there, is one of the major driving forces behind fanfiction. I mean. You can create something original and make an awesome thing, too, definitely. But in the end, it's still +1 awesome and that is a wonderful and oft-times fulfilling thing. Is the person who makes a good thing great really all that less of a thing than the person who simple makes a great thing? Maybe a bit less, sure. But they both make great things.

*I know this because I've heard "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" done on flamenco guitar, and it is awesome. E: Tangentially, Mozart on snare drum is pretty ballin'.
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« Reply #28393 on: March 06, 2013, 08:12:11 pm »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twvkzugLtu0
The comments and description being russian does not help much. 

And to sum it up for people who don't want to watch- I can't sum it up.  I tried, but I can't.  I stopped once I tried describing the part about the unicorn in a box.
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« Reply #28394 on: March 06, 2013, 08:35:22 pm »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twvkzugLtu0
The comments and description being russian does not help much. 

And to sum it up for people who don't want to watch- I can't sum it up.  I tried, but I can't.  I stopped once I tried describing the part about the unicorn in a box.
Cool !
It appears to be legit too, so great.
Now I want a unicorn to be in Half Life 3.  Or a narwhal.  Or whatever the hell it is. 
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