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karadinart) wrote2013-03-05 12:12 pm
karadinart) wrote2013-03-05 12:12 pm
Meta and a sense of entitlement
I post I read was a plea to the show runners and writers to read meta as an indication of the seriousness of the fandom audience. Their take was that when show runners, writers (and actors) only look at fanfiction and fanart they'll always think of fandom as fluffy and plain bad and never realize that there are very good and 'valid' reasons to make (for example a certain ship) changes to canon.
This makes the assumption that all meta is well-thought out and considered, and not that there is as much illogical thinking and wishfullfilment in meta as there is in less serious 'fanfic' and 'fanart.'
But along with that comes the idea that internet fandom is the only fandom, that there are not many thousands or even millions who watch a show, but never make fanfic, fanart or meta, but still impact the writers and creators and actors nonetheless, through the medium of snailmail! conventions and most directly, ratings!
Here is the nature of entitlement, that if an argument is backed up by bulletpoints and time and effort, it should be listened to, over the desires of the people who make the show (or write the book, or produce the film, or the play, etc.) What meta can be is intriguing, thoughtful, funny and envigorating, just as the mediums of fanart and fanfic, what it can't do, is force anyone to do what they don't want with their own creation.
This makes the assumption that all meta is well-thought out and considered, and not that there is as much illogical thinking and wishfullfilment in meta as there is in less serious 'fanfic' and 'fanart.'
But along with that comes the idea that internet fandom is the only fandom, that there are not many thousands or even millions who watch a show, but never make fanfic, fanart or meta, but still impact the writers and creators and actors nonetheless, through the medium of snailmail! conventions and most directly, ratings!
Here is the nature of entitlement, that if an argument is backed up by bulletpoints and time and effort, it should be listened to, over the desires of the people who make the show (or write the book, or produce the film, or the play, etc.) What meta can be is intriguing, thoughtful, funny and envigorating, just as the mediums of fanart and fanfic, what it can't do, is force anyone to do what they don't want with their own creation.
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