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sw_meta and fanlit_project.
SW meta! discussions! serious analysis of fanfic OMG OMG AWESOME
(As far as I can tell, nobody has yet objected to, OMG, linking to work posted freely on the Internet and talking about it. *happy face*)
Even when I completely disagree with something, they remain awesome. It's happy-making just that there's a place for these kinds of discussions, where you will never never never hear 'you're thinking too hard about this' or 'it's just fanfic.' (The latter, in case it's not blatantly obvious, is a particular peeve of mine. A work is a work, and what genre it belongs to says nothing about what merits it may or may not possess. Derivative =/= bad. *points to icon*)
I haven't participated in any way yet. I'm ... a bit too discontinuity-happy to be a proper fan, SW-wise. 'It didn't happen' isn't exactly conducive to thoughtful discussion. But it's still really, really cool that it's there, and I love reading the stuff by fans armed with canon-welders instead of discontinuity bins.
Also, somebody onswrecs asked for fics where Vader and Anakin are not the same person. I did that here, twice (Anakin = Vader's teacher's best friend in the first, his father in the second), but it honestly never occurred to me that anybody else might ever have. Except Alan Dean Foster, and that didn't happen. (See!) And then this intrepid soul considered writing a fic about where SW seemed (to him/her, obviously) to be going, back when SW consisted entirely of ... well, Star Wars. I AM NOT THE ONLY PERSON TEMPTED BY THIS. *flaily hands of glee*
sw_meta and fanlit_project. SW meta! discussions! serious analysis of fanfic OMG OMG AWESOME
(As far as I can tell, nobody has yet objected to, OMG, linking to work posted freely on the Internet and talking about it. *happy face*)
Even when I completely disagree with something, they remain awesome. It's happy-making just that there's a place for these kinds of discussions, where you will never never never hear 'you're thinking too hard about this' or 'it's just fanfic.' (The latter, in case it's not blatantly obvious, is a particular peeve of mine. A work is a work, and what genre it belongs to says nothing about what merits it may or may not possess. Derivative =/= bad. *points to icon*)
I haven't participated in any way yet. I'm ... a bit too discontinuity-happy to be a proper fan, SW-wise. 'It didn't happen' isn't exactly conducive to thoughtful discussion. But it's still really, really cool that it's there, and I love reading the stuff by fans armed with canon-welders instead of discontinuity bins.
Also, somebody on
swrecs asked for fics where Vader and Anakin are not the same person. I did that here, twice (Anakin = Vader's teacher's best friend in the first, his father in the second), but it honestly never occurred to me that anybody else might ever have. Except Alan Dean Foster, and that didn't happen. (See!) And then this intrepid soul considered writing a fic about where SW seemed (to him/her, obviously) to be going, back when SW consisted entirely of ... well, Star Wars. I AM NOT THE ONLY PERSON TEMPTED BY THIS. *flaily hands of glee*