Ah fanfiction
we go a long way back shudders at memories of twelve year old Cam
Ahem
Allow me to ramble about this
I have, I used to be obsessed with a couple shows and books and i just wanted to make content. Cue a thirteen year old Cam with a barely understandable English trying to write fanfic. I think it’s safe to say that wanting to finish my fanfic on Wattpad is one of the reasons i began learning proper English grammar.
Not really, though i have a couple friends who have introduced me to new stories and games and i have a couple ideas for fanfiction. Now, if i’ll ever actually make them… only time will tell
Cue war flashbacks
the project i worked on the most… was a Sherlock fanfic
a part of my dark past that will forever stay with me, apparently, since i’m too attached to actually delete it from my wattpad
i also wrote some things for The Mortal Instruments, a piece of Malec angst (the one decent thing i wrote) still gets comments every now and then
my favourites shall go unnamed, but if you ever show interest on one of the fandoms or pairings i’ve read, i may just give you a recommendation
Eheheheheh
stretches hands and adjusts glasses
Fanfiction has been a part of history of literature for a very long time (although it has not always been called that, of course)
In Medieval Spanish literature, the works that were derived from others, that continued other plots or used other characters were held in high regard, to the point that it became a prompt to say “this work is not originally mine, it’s from something i found on [insert random, real or made up piece]”, Don Quixote is a good example.
Talking about Don Quixote, the plot for the second book is based on a fanfic someone (no one really knows who it was, although there’s been some interesting debates about it) wrote while Cervantes hadn’t published a second part, and the plot is like “oh man, someone’s writing bad stories about me? i gotta find them and fight them” it’s a brilliant work, honestly, playing with the fourth wall and making Cervantes-like meta comments
A couple other Spanish stories have fanfic that’s now considered part of the Spanish literature canon, too, so fanfic writers, don’t get discouraged
a couple other authors have written works based on other existing stories, such as Dante in his Divine Comedy and Ovid in his Metamorphoses
for another example (though this is not as much fanfic as it is just taking ideas from a canon work and putting them in your own works), there’s also the story about J. R. R. Tolkien, who was so disappointed in Macbeth that he added his own “fix it” to LOTR, with the trees actually walking and a loophole in the “no man of woman born” prophecy
i don’t know if i’m making any sense here but basically i just wanna say:
write what you like, and if what you like is fanfic, then go ahead and write that too
fanfic, although not as esteemed nowadays, is and has been a great thing, so don’t let anyone discourage you
and then The Revenger’s Tragedy is a parody of Hamlet! Literature is a lot more convoluted than people make it out to be!
I usually prefer working through “imagines”— a part of me died when I said that on public right now fjjdjdkskw
