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The romantic debate
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: Carter-Orange on July 10, 2011, 08:09:26 AM ---The thing is, I was a late starter to fanfic and only discovered it in 2007 (god knows how I never came across it before). Anyway, on the site I discovered fanfic, all the writers there wrote about themselves with their favourite member of Take That, all the stories were romance and all had banners with the author's picture. I thought that was the way it was done, lol.
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That just goes to show that every fanfic site is different and has its own "culture." I realized that when we were frequenting a site called Refresh, where Tanja was stealing our stories and reposting them as Busted or McFly fanfics. That forum was full of teenies, and they all cast each other in their fanfics. Like, they would almost do casting calls - "I need this many people for these roles in my fanfic; who wants in?" - and other teenies would give their names and physical description, and they would end up being the writer's main characters. We thought that was kind of weird too, but that's because we're cynical and judgmental on this forum. :P
julilly:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 10, 2011, 10:19:10 AM ---that's because we're cynical and judgmental on this forum. :P
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And judging from the comments on Mare's banner hate we're also VERY sarcastic! lol
colorguard_diva:
If someone wants to put themself on a banner, well ok. To each there own. Really a banner or no banner doesn't make me choose to read a story. Some banners without a perdon's pic are just weird, too. LOL. If it makes someone happy than, who am I to judge. I read any story from any genre because it captures me into a story line. Sometimes a pointless Mary Sue, boy falls for girl, everything is rainbows and puppies dogs is what I want...lol. Sometimes I read to escape reality and maybe get a few chuckles. I don't always want to read about death, drama, fighting,etc.
mare:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 10, 2011, 10:19:10 AM ---That just goes to show that every fanfic site is different and has its own "culture." I realized that when we were frequenting a site called Refresh, where Tanja was stealing our stories and reposting them as Busted or McFly fanfics. That forum was full of teenies, and they all cast each other in their fanfics. Like, they would almost do casting calls - "I need this many people for these roles in my fanfic; who wants in?" - and other teenies would give their names and physical description, and they would end up being the writer's main characters. We thought that was kind of weird too, but that's because we're cynical and judgmental on this forum. :P
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I LOVE horses!!! lol
Carter-Orange:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 10, 2011, 10:19:10 AM ---That just goes to show that every fanfic site is different and has its own "culture." I realized that when we were frequenting a site called Refresh, where Tanja was stealing our stories and reposting them as Busted or McFly fanfics. That forum was full of teenies, and they all cast each other in their fanfics. Like, they would almost do casting calls - "I need this many people for these roles in my fanfic; who wants in?" - and other teenies would give their names and physical description, and they would end up being the writer's main characters. We thought that was kind of weird too, but that's because we're cynical and judgmental on this forum. :P
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The site I used to go on was very similar to that! Except we were all in our 20s or 30s. I remember the first story I ever wrote, one member PM'd me asking if she could be in it as Gary Barlow's wife! I really didn't want to do it, because it was my story, but I was a complete pushover and didn't want to offend her (wish I had!). She used to be on to me constantly about what she wanted her character to do, so in the end I wrote that he had a fling with someone else because she pissed me off so much and I was beyond caring if I offended her.
Rachel, you are right. We all like different stories. Wouldn't it be boring if we all liked exactly the same.
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