I knew you were going to like the line about the pencil. *wicked*
...I knew I'd kept my copies of LOVE CONTROL for a reason. *makes note to revisit*
now I may have to write a sequel someday with Yoshi and Miya-chan starring in Mochimune's movie!
Heh. All yours. At this point, I'm more likely to write poems or flashfics of scenes from M's movies (both the ones hinted at here and in the Encore / Hazard Cast drabbles). Just on a practical level, I don't have to know quite as much about Japanese moviemaking logistics to flesh out those plots, you know?
I caught a bit of the character-ownership kerfuffle, and while I understand that strangers playing in one's sandbox can be weird and threatening and just plain massively complicated, I do also feel it's a failure of both imagination and realism on the part of those authors when they want to restrict their readers to react to their texts only via conventional criticism (i.e., book reviews, essays, and fan mail). I do understand that things get tricksy when readers start playing with one's toys, and to be honest, if you were someone I hadn't already interacted with a fair bit already, I'd probably have asked permission before even trying to write this, just to confirm that you'd be okay with what could be interpreted less charitably as potential interference with your existing storyline.
But the whole interaction loop is chicken-and-egg anyhow, where I'm concerned, given that I'm more likely to invest my time and mental energy in long comments and AU meta-fic when the author/roleplayer/fan responds as positively and thought-provokingly (and bunny-wakingly) as you. This current round of comments alone is getting me to re-examine my favorite character from angles I hadn't considered earlier, and that wouldn't be happening if we weren't exploring the what-ifs via fic - comments and essays are all useful in their way, but they rarely haul my brain out of its existing grooves with the same emotional urgency that comes with devising/reading good narrative and dialogue.
To give a specific example, it's the difference between someone simply declaring, "Sometimes you can't help showing your love to someone who doesn't want it" vs. reading, Kenzaki looked more like a stray dog begging for a kind word and maybe a pat on the head, but not really expecting to get either. The former's true enough, but it doesn't ask anything of me - I can just leave it -- whereas I feel so bad for poor Kenzaki that I'm going to be on pins and needles until Part 17 shows up (and probably even after then, ne?), which means I'll keep revisiting various angles of canon and fanon while anticipating/dreading what you're going to show us next.
Which is my long way of saying, it's a pity the anti-fanfic zealots don't recognize (or are too squicked by) the connection between writing fic and deeper engagement with their characters. (To be fair, though, not all writers on either side find that level of engagement desirable or fun -- but I also think some of the more vocal complainants would want it, if they were to grasp that fan-writing = fans spending way more time with canon than they would otherwise.) But conversely, I had no idea when I started reading Haru that there was going to be so much glee in store for me, and you and your fics have been very much responsible for much of that glee. :-D
...I knew I'd kept my copies of LOVE CONTROL for a reason. *makes note to revisit*
now I may have to write a sequel someday with Yoshi and Miya-chan starring in Mochimune's movie!
Heh. All yours. At this point, I'm more likely to write poems or flashfics of scenes from M's movies (both the ones hinted at here and in the Encore / Hazard Cast drabbles). Just on a practical level, I don't have to know quite as much about Japanese moviemaking logistics to flesh out those plots, you know?
I caught a bit of the character-ownership kerfuffle, and while I understand that strangers playing in one's sandbox can be weird and threatening and just plain massively complicated, I do also feel it's a failure of both imagination and realism on the part of those authors when they want to restrict their readers to react to their texts only via conventional criticism (i.e., book reviews, essays, and fan mail). I do understand that things get tricksy when readers start playing with one's toys, and to be honest, if you were someone I hadn't already interacted with a fair bit already, I'd probably have asked permission before even trying to write this, just to confirm that you'd be okay with what could be interpreted less charitably as potential interference with your existing storyline.
But the whole interaction loop is chicken-and-egg anyhow, where I'm concerned, given that I'm more likely to invest my time and mental energy in long comments and AU meta-fic when the author/roleplayer/fan responds as positively and thought-provokingly (and bunny-wakingly) as you. This current round of comments alone is getting me to re-examine my favorite character from angles I hadn't considered earlier, and that wouldn't be happening if we weren't exploring the what-ifs via fic - comments and essays are all useful in their way, but they rarely haul my brain out of its existing grooves with the same emotional urgency that comes with devising/reading good narrative and dialogue.
To give a specific example, it's the difference between someone simply declaring, "Sometimes you can't help showing your love to someone who doesn't want it" vs. reading, Kenzaki looked more like a stray dog begging for a kind word and maybe a pat on the head, but not really expecting to get either. The former's true enough, but it doesn't ask anything of me - I can just leave it -- whereas I feel so bad for poor Kenzaki that I'm going to be on pins and needles until Part 17 shows up (and probably even after then, ne?), which means I'll keep revisiting various angles of canon and fanon while anticipating/dreading what you're going to show us next.
Which is my long way of saying, it's a pity the anti-fanfic zealots don't recognize (or are too squicked by) the connection between writing fic and deeper engagement with their characters. (To be fair, though, not all writers on either side find that level of engagement desirable or fun -- but I also think some of the more vocal complainants would want it, if they were to grasp that fan-writing = fans spending way more time with canon than they would otherwise.) But conversely, I had no idea when I started reading Haru that there was going to be so much glee in store for me, and you and your fics have been very much responsible for much of that glee. :-D