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Be original!
May. 7th, 2014 11:12 pmOog, this week has been a wild ride. But tonight I had a wonderful spaghetti dinner with my friends, so I can't complain there. :)
At dinner, the topic of fanfic came up. One of my pals brought up a good point, and I can't help for agree with him on this one. That there are some folks out there who have spent multiple decades writing fan fiction, and devoting large quantities of time on characters they do not own. Fan art and fiction has its place, and it's definitely fun to be able to bring your favourite characters to life now and then. But at some point, why haven't these people ever made the jump to ORIGINAL fiction? Write about gay male couples they've made up themselves? Or take the gushy warped doey-eyed out of character version of "Sentinel-hippy-dude" they've thought up and just change his name and make him their own?
This is why I'm glad I'm furry. Furries strive on originality. We want to stand out, we want to create, and we want to make our own characters. Yes, sometimes we will draw (ha!) on childhood cartoons for inspiration, but for the most part, we're fans of each other and of our own original creations. I guess it boggles me how people outside of furry insist upon creating and creating and creating, and yet in the end fail to make that jump to completely original work.
At dinner, the topic of fanfic came up. One of my pals brought up a good point, and I can't help for agree with him on this one. That there are some folks out there who have spent multiple decades writing fan fiction, and devoting large quantities of time on characters they do not own. Fan art and fiction has its place, and it's definitely fun to be able to bring your favourite characters to life now and then. But at some point, why haven't these people ever made the jump to ORIGINAL fiction? Write about gay male couples they've made up themselves? Or take the gushy warped doey-eyed out of character version of "Sentinel-hippy-dude" they've thought up and just change his name and make him their own?
This is why I'm glad I'm furry. Furries strive on originality. We want to stand out, we want to create, and we want to make our own characters. Yes, sometimes we will draw (ha!) on childhood cartoons for inspiration, but for the most part, we're fans of each other and of our own original creations. I guess it boggles me how people outside of furry insist upon creating and creating and creating, and yet in the end fail to make that jump to completely original work.
