LotS of Women
May. 31st, 2010 12:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
velvetficI read trancer21's awesome Mrs. & Mrs. Mord'Sith (and you should too!) and now I've somehow used 500MBs of my download limit this evening just downloading YouTube vids and reading deej's Gay for Kahlan! recaps. This is what I think is so great about fanfic when I hear an author or someone complaining about it - good fanfic writers can introduce new fans to a fandom. fembuck did it with Birds of Prey and Gossip Girl for me, and ![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png)
liz-estrada.livejournal.com made me want to watch Women's Murder Club. Fanfic is another way for fans to become more engaged with the show or the book or whatever, leading to more sales, more viewership, etc. I understand the dangers of actively encouraging fanfic, but it seems counter-intuitive to me when writers don't just look the other way.
And having read up more on Legend of the Seeker, and seen the vids of Cara kissing Dahlia and Charisma Carpenter's character... so the Mord'Sith are dykes who live together, have a gigantic hot tub where they all swim naked, and fight with dildos? RenPics, it's been a rocky relationship over the years, but this is why I love you.
trancer21's awesome Mrs. & Mrs. Mord'Sith (and you should too!) and now I've somehow used 500MBs of my download limit this evening just downloading YouTube vids and reading deej's Gay for Kahlan! recaps. This is what I think is so great about fanfic when I hear an author or someone complaining about it - good fanfic writers can introduce new fans to a fandom. fembuck did it with Birds of Prey and Gossip Girl for me, and liz-estrada.livejournal.com made me want to watch Women's Murder Club. Fanfic is another way for fans to become more engaged with the show or the book or whatever, leading to more sales, more viewership, etc. I understand the dangers of actively encouraging fanfic, but it seems counter-intuitive to me when writers don't just look the other way.And having read up more on Legend of the Seeker, and seen the vids of Cara kissing Dahlia and Charisma Carpenter's character... so the Mord'Sith are dykes who live together, have a gigantic hot tub where they all swim naked, and fight with dildos? RenPics, it's been a rocky relationship over the years, but this is why I love you.