Who: Stiles Stilinski and open What: Podcast When: Saturday night Where: Broadcast on the network Warnings: TBD but the topic is fanfiction Status: Open
[ooc note: replying to this works like a network and is the same amount of points, it is podcast being done live and people would have gotten an alert on the network]
"Okay so people pretty much know that I have a thing for gossip posts. I do still collect all the information...trust me there's not much I don't hear about so just know that like Santa Claus, Stiles is always watching." Making a podcast had been an interesting idea, Stiles liked to keep involved with everyone and he had a lot of wild theories about a lot of things that more often than not tended to end up at least partially right. This was just another way to connect without having to actually go hang out in a crowd.
"Okay so you might be asking yourself, Stiles, what are you doing making a podcast? Well, self, Stiles is making a podcast because it's easier to make notes on what I want to talk about during the week at work and then just sit down and talk. Some of you may be aware that I like to talk. And if you don't you're going to figure it out shortly." He was also able to sit around in sleep pants and not comb his hair which was a plus.
"So the topic of the week is fanfiction. In case you don't know what fanfiction, or fanfic, is then you're either in for a treat or a heart attack. Fanfic is where people other than the author or creator of characters writes stories about them. It's a way to enjoy stories that you like by immersing yourself further in their world and try to understand them better. Of course it's also a way for just about every character in fiction to find themselves paired up into relationships and sexual situations with ever person in their books slash movies...oh and trust me we'll be talking about slash in a minute...and sometimes they get paired with all of those people at once. Trust me, it's the internet, not much is off limits when it comes to that."
"Then there's the whole slash genre. Told you we'd get to that right? Well it's all about the same sex pairings whether it's friendfic, or smutfic, and it got it's name from the way people marked their stories. See if it was two girls you'd mark it 'F' slash 'F' and guys would be 'M' slash 'M'. So it was the slash in the middle that became the shorthand that it was a same sex pairing story. In fact there's a whole rating system that's actually pretty complicated, character pairings, how adult are the situations, is there violence and of course is this a story from the actual universe that the characters are from or did they write it in a different universe and just borrow the characters to play in it?" He honestly thought that last one was just stupid. If you were going to write a story and make up a whole different univers e why not just make up some new characters to go with it?
"So now that I've had a lot to say, and trust me I could say a lot more. Why not send in some remarks or questions? What do you think about fanfic? Have you ever written fanfic? Go ahead and let's see what you have to say. Come on tell your fun stories and I’ll tell you mine. Just as a note, I am not editing obviously since this is live so whatever you say will be heard by people. You have been warned."