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Jan. 3rd, 2004 07:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
doyleWhile I'm wary of anything calling attention to fandom, I love the article
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While I'm wary of anything calling attention to fandom, I love the article <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/01/03/do0306.xml&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=134677"">here</a>. It was published in the Telegraph and chronicles the journalist's foray into fanfic writing. He (I think) seems to have rather enjoyed himself, particularly his exploration of Gimli/Legolas slash.
I'm a bit disappointed there's no entertaining politics speculation this time, though. Last time a British newspaper covered fanfic, it was an article in The Times about slash, and it pointed out that politicians should think about the untapped well of voters. A little hint of slashy subtext between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, they suggested, and the next election would be a walkover for the Labour party. The journalist, getting into the spirit of things, included some Blair/Brown RPS which they'd written (the satirical magazine Private Eye has done this before too, with their short story 'Born to be Queenie' about Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson).
I'm a bit disappointed there's no entertaining politics speculation this time, though. Last time a British newspaper covered fanfic, it was an article in The Times about slash, and it pointed out that politicians should think about the untapped well of voters. A little hint of slashy subtext between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, they suggested, and the next election would be a walkover for the Labour party. The journalist, getting into the spirit of things, included some Blair/Brown RPS which they'd written (the satirical magazine Private Eye has done this before too, with their short story 'Born to be Queenie' about Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson).
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on 2004-01-03 12:28 pm (UTC)Fanfiction.net is essentially self-policing and includes a set of sensible guidelines: you're expected to give your work a certificate, and nothing X-rated is allowed. You're asked, quite firmly, to do your readers the courtesy of spell-checking your work, and so on. The members of this sprawling literary community seem, in the main, to observe the rules with some seriousness.
Er, this is the same Pit of Voles we're talking about here, isn't it?