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Nele Noppe

Fanfic Symposium: Rana Bob's Field Guide to Mary Sues - 0 views

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  • Overidentification tends to be at the heart of the Canon Character Sue. It's hard not to do it, too, because it seems only logical to fill in unknown details of a canon character's personality with details of your own personality when the character is so similar to you in other ways. This is why, I suspect, so many of the male characters in the source material are "feminized" in fanfiction written by female authors.
Nele Noppe

Fanfic Symposium: Why Isn't there More Attack of the Clones Fiction? - 0 views

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  • One of these reasons is that Anakin is smack in the middle of a major romance (more specifically, a major heterosexual romance.  Not sure how much that matters, but accuracy and all).  No matter how badly that romance is handled (and it’s handled pretty darned badly), we can’t deny that it’s there, and as long as Anakin is professing (badly) that Padme is the center of his universe, it’s a bit harder to throw him into bed with someone else.  Now, you could point out that this hasn’t stopped LOTR writers from slashing Aragorn with 2/3 of the Fellowship, but I would point out that the courtship there is in the past (or in the books, in a glorified footnote), and is a fairly minor part of the story. 
  • The second apparent answer, and perhaps the reason for the lack of such stories, is the lack of any “vibe” between Obi-Wan and Anakin.
  • Which brings us to the most often-cited reason: Anakin’s lack of appeal.
Nele Noppe

Fanfic Symposium: The Overuse of H/C - 0 views

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  • In LFN fanfic, the justification I have heard is 'what would it take to break Michael?' Michael, you see, is the top-op, superspy boy. Always in control, his emotions submerged behind a blank mask. And I understand that hurt/comfort is a common thread in many fandoms. It is the gratuitousness of the violence that bothers me. It’s as if some authors enjoy hurting Michael; please excuse the vulgarity, some actually get off on the idea of destroying this proud, difficult man/character.
Nele Noppe

Fanfic Symposium: Naming OCs:What Makes a Show Eminently Slashable - 0 views

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  • The foremost condition that I can think of is that there must be two attractive characters of the same sex that people would like to fantasize over.
  • Another necessary condition is that the two candidates for slash must not be unredeemably heterosexual.  That rules out shows such as Remington Steele, The Scarecrow and Mrs. King, and Moonlighting, in which the men with looks to die for spent season after season chasing the female lead, frequently culminating in wedding episodes of great pomp and circumstance, albeit with a total lack of credible plot.
Nele Noppe

Fanfic Symposium: The Life, Death, and Life of Qui-Gon Jinn - 0 views

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  • the very level of complexity so characteristic of protagonists is the primary cause of their tendency to arouse boredom in the readers/viewers. Since his or her persona was so thoroughly explored in fiction, very little is left to the imagination of the reader/viewer.
  • No matter how fascinating a person the protagonist may be, it's simply more interesting for the reader/viewer to ponder the background and character of the more minor roles
Nele Noppe

Fanfic Symposium: Age of Consent? Ptui. What About the Real Problems? - 0 views

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  • I notice, though, that many (all?) of the fic archives where Harry appears in stories as a participant, are very quick to note in their intro the age of consent in the UK, though usually they just say it's 16 which as noted above is slightly inaccurate. This is interesting, or maybe only I find it so.  It looks to me as if they don't want to be considered to be peddling paedophilia, which would be an accusation the newspapers (for instance) might make.
Nele Noppe

Fanfic Symposium: Cross Fertilization of Fan and Professional Writing - 0 views

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  • The prevalence of such curious language use led me to think that fan-writers must have influenced one another’s diction because they read so much of one another’s writing, with the result that they incorporated the idiosyncratic as the norm.
  • These are only surface manifestations.  There are deeper phenomena.  The foremost is that the world inhabited by the characters in some fan fiction reflects the limited experiences of the writers. 
  • There is nothing wrong with this if the characters are from the American middle class.  Unfortunately, many popular shows feature people not acculturated in such a milieu—Methos, Duncan MacCleod of the Clan MacCleod, Benton Fraser, Harry Potter, Snape, Tom Paris, Chakotay, Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon. . . .  Consequently, the specter of these characters spouting psychobabble is disconcerting, to say the very least.
Nele Noppe

Fanfic Symposium: On Swinging Both Ways, Fannish and Pro - 0 views

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  • Fanfiction puts narrative back in the hands of the people! It's a folkloric art! It helps us go from being passive consumers of media to active participants in creating the archetypes of our culture!
Nele Noppe

Uses and gratifications - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Nele Noppe on 19 Aug 08
     
    # Diversion - a media text which provides an escape from reality. When a media text temporarily partially covers one's senses. For example playing a video game. # Personal relationships - People create personal relationships with the characters in a media text, they start to feel they know them. This can become dangerous if people start to trust them as well, for example if one trusted a news reporter too much they may take everything they say at face value and not question it, this trust could then be abused. # Personal identity - When a person creates part of their own identity from things they find attractive in people from media texts, for example someone may have a haircut because they liked the look of a similar one in a magazine. This can go a long way in shaping people and people's ideas of values, norms, ideologies and fashions. # Surveillance - the audience gain an understanding of the world around them by consuming a media text, for example print and broadcast news.
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