What really yanks my chain are people who denigrate 'netfic'... What's wrong with posting your fic on the net???? I go through the same editing process for stuff I drop on my site as I do for a zine.
But it's all so fast yanno! Fic is much much better when you have to wait for it forever to turn up in your letterbox, all the meanwhile cowering gratefully at the feet of the author in humble obeisance, etc etc...
On a more serious note, I think that this attitude to netfic is part of a fear of the new. All these new people coming to discover what used to be our little secret and suddenly we/they don't control things any more.
Never mind the great influx of creativity and talent in so many areas that just wouldn't have happened without the intervention of new technology.
It used to be that fandom was something you got into because you were 'in the know', while now it's much more accessible. While that has its drawbacks (and moronification is one of them) the sheer speed of the Net means new ideas cross the globe in seconds, making the 'community' a more representative one and allowing people who'd otherwise have never been involved with it to participate equally. Sure some of that participation is going to be crap, but them's the breaks...
I bet the Babylonians, chipping away in cuneiform, thought just the same thing about this new-fangled ink invention. 'Look at the riff-raff communicating away, scratching on that parchment like they own the place...'
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Re: Golden Schmolden
Date: 2002-10-14 12:06 pm (UTC)But it's all so fast yanno! Fic is much much better when you have to wait for it forever to turn up in your letterbox, all the meanwhile cowering gratefully at the feet of the author in humble obeisance, etc etc...
On a more serious note, I think that this attitude to netfic is part of a fear of the new. All these new people coming to discover what used to be our little secret and suddenly we/they don't control things any more.
Never mind the great influx of creativity and talent in so many areas that just wouldn't have happened without the intervention of new technology.
It used to be that fandom was something you got into because you were 'in the know', while now it's much more accessible. While that has its drawbacks (and moronification is one of them) the sheer speed of the Net means new ideas cross the globe in seconds, making the 'community' a more representative one and allowing people who'd otherwise have never been involved with it to participate equally. Sure some of that participation is going to be crap, but them's the breaks...
I bet the Babylonians, chipping away in cuneiform, thought just the same thing about this new-fangled ink invention. 'Look at the riff-raff communicating away, scratching on that parchment like they own the place...'