/lit/ - Literature

I don't mean to be rude. I am sure you made this with good intentions but please, fuck off back to Tumblr.

>>5733437
>>fanfiction is love
>>fanfiction is life
>>fanfiction is my everything
>>fanfiction is a miracle of the universe

fire of your loins, your sin, your soul?

>>5733441
can you give any good argument why ?

Trippy thread dudes

>>5733449
Please. Talk about the books, not the fanfiction based around them.

>>5733449
You are from France or somewhere dumb like that

>>5733454
whats the difference ?

>>5733453
mew~
get tripcode explorer and use one #, you can be paradise!lost or may be even paradise!redeemed

Not OP but there's just as much shitty books as there are fan fictions. You know that's true.

>>5733460
We wish to read original works. Not the bastardisations.

>>5733462
can we b married then? is ur name catherine or some derivative of catherine?

>>5733469
countless authors has encouraged fans to continue there works and have added fan creations to them themself

>>5733437
>fanfics are for the shippers

what does that even mean? people who work in shipping?

>>5733437
Fan fiction is almost always conceptually simpler and easier to consume than the source material (inb4 Ulysses/PL/etc.). It uses the veneer and conveniences of a prior setting/characters and applies tropes to create a simple narrative. Even if it comes from a "highbrow" source it almost always waters down the original content for something much less interesting. It's escapism at best, a complete waste of time at worst.

>>5733492
why would you want to avoid it ?

>>5733467
So?
The best books are far better than the best fan fiction, that's all that matters.

>>5733495
cause any fiction which is not fanfiction is not escapism and waste of time at worst right ?
there are fanfic authors who have took short stories and expanded on the universes and concepts creating 500k long stories which which are far superior to the cannon but like any other medium you must search for the 1% diamonds

Fanfics are for people with poor literary taste.

In fairness OP, your tastes are kinda cool and sociable and stuff, even if incredibly homosexual

>>5733502
for ever book that's has huge fan base of fanficton authors if you search enough you can find fics that can surpass it by adding to the story not just competing whit it

>>5733521
>there are countless 'professional authors who have started writing fanfiction whit the stories of the authors who inspired them to start writing in the first place

>>5733536
them me one thing in fanfiction which is gay that's its not present in books

>>5733547
Your posts are fascinating

>>5733518
You're not searching for the diamonds. You are happening upon them while getting your escapist fix of whatever romantic pairings suit you from the wide array of characters you can choose from to find ones that are your type.

Don't expect others to blindly sift through literature to find a winner when we have a critical review institution to help us find winners from authors who have to display mastery at a much more competitive level to even stand out.

I love people who just bash stuff out on their keyboards, it's like sports commentary which is also fascinating - you know, you learn the bones of a thing by seeing it make mistakes

>>5733554
wish i could tell the same about yours

>>5733565
It's like in Harry Potter where Harry pronounces 'Diagon Alley' as 'diagonally'. J.K. Rowling is a fucken mentalist

>>5733572
You cheeky French bastard

>>5733560
yeah like books don't have genres like romance,action etc.and you don't just read wha your interested in to and happen to find those of high quality and like there are no fanficton competition at all ever right ?
the beauty of fanfiction is that the readers get to be the judges of whats mastery online whit out being limited by money competition whit other writers or any thing at all but what they are reading

>>5733518
Look, you can read fan fiction all you want, it doesn't make a difference to me. You started this thread asking for our opinions.

I read fan fiction occasionally when I was in a big sci-fi phase ten years ago. But it got to a point where I couldn't look past the lazy writing and still find pleasure in reading it. I still read a lot of books I consider "escapist" and the ones I enjoy the most (and find the most immersive) don't rely on tropes or stock characters, they create something unique.

What's the last non-fanfic you've read?

>>5733593
If reading truly makes someone articulate, then your ability to communicate isn't saying much for the quality of what you're reading.

>>5733597
I appreciate taking your time to replay to me but I never said I will not replay back and give counter arguments
like I said in the op I almost never read non-fanfiction I wanted to start to read Les Fleurs du mal but that's only cause I wanna read the maga aku no hana so I can understand the undertones of the series batter

>>5733437
I believe if you want to read fanfiction, read fanfiction

It's getting to the stage that OP can't not be a troll

>>5733603
I read for the same reason I watch stuff/ play video games for fictitious entertainment

>>5733615
and I do but we came here to speak about it whats your stance on it ?

>>5733617
no shit

>>5733632
I don't read it, I read a book and I'm right on to the next one.

>>5733635
He would have to be a rather clever troll, in fairness.

>>5733653
yeah cause we all know its impossible for some one to like something we don't on the internet and be proud of it

>>5733645
can you give me any book names you love and what make you thing you cant find any of that in fanfiction?

>>5733661
I'm not judging dude. I just think this thread fucking owns

>>5733663
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. You see, it doesn't work.

>>5733664
then make it own more join the discussion and bring your arguments about your stance on the subject

>>5733671
what dosent work there are fanfictions about fear and loathing in las vegas you just need to search for what your interested in it

The only kind of fanfic I accept as "entertaining" is stuff like My Immortal, purely stemming from the fact that it is a literary equivalent of browsing /b/. Anything else is simply writers on the absolute beginner level of the skill scale attempting to work on the emotions created in them by their first emotively read book.

>>5733693
this is how fanfction works is about the emotions that the series is based of created in the first place for you on any scale be it you just liked one character for one page or just fucking loved every thing about that universe from start to finish

There was this fanfic I read about Numbah 3 and 4 from Kids Next Door that I liked and one Naruto erotic fic that I fapped to.

I did want to write a fic one day that was about Dhalos to bridge the gap between Tales of Symphonia and Phantasia

This was all of course when I was a preteen. I don't get the obsession about it but it's literally the written equivalent to fanart except it's not as easy to filter out the trash from the more technical, so it looks more overall trashy. I think it's fun for kids and they should have their fun and I mean that as sincerely as I can be on a Finnish Taco Menu Leaflet

>>5733834
if you thing fanfiction is so much for kids why don't you go and search fanfics for your non kids books that your read and compare them you might be surprise what you find if you search enough

>>5733448
It's"love of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul". Get your memes straight.

>>5733437
>fanfiction is for everyone
>fanfiction is for nobody
>fanfiction is for everyone and know one
>yfw also sprach zarathustra is fanfiction

>>5733542
Can you give us names?

>>5734104
stephen king started writing fanfiction for cthulhu mythos

>>5734171
Stephen king is a hack so you're not really giving us much here

>>5734284
Milton wrote biblical fan fiction

checkmate atheists

>>5734104
Virgil?

>>5733454
>>5733469
We only talk about self insert fanfics.

>>5733437
Where can I find some erotic fanfic?

surprised no one did this already

>hopless