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Cimorene ([personal profile] cimorene) wrote2005-10-11 10:12 am
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neat.

[livejournal.com profile] mirabile_dictu has a short meta essay here titled "why read? why write? [why fanfiction?]"

i found it utterly fascinating and will be thinking more about it all day.  and i think she's really right.

And for a long time I would have told you that I read (and wrote!) RPS because I wanted more of them.

Having seen Serenity, though, I realize that's not entirely true. Yes, I wanted more LOTR, but what I really wanted was better. I realize that, at heart, I'm a tinhat and a tinkilt and a tin-everything. I read and write LOTR RPS because those silly men didn't pair up in real life. [...]

But they didn't. Just as Mulder never got with Krycek, nor Jim with Blair, nor Jack with Daniel, and my silly romantic tinny heart longs that they do. And that's why I read fanfiction. I want better.