Moralization of Fanfiction
First off, is moralization a word? Even if it isn't; you know what it means, so let's roll with this down to earth topic.
There's a group of people out there who does not stand for fanfiction; and they ask us, how we would feel if they shipped us with coworkers we possibly will never be involved romantically, often explicit content - at that.
Many if you might already be disturbed by the idea of it; but hold that thought until I explain myself here.
I'm not going to say heart-less inhumane dumb things like how idols have signed up for it or how they know that it's happening or that it's a part of marketing; because those are the half- reasons I've heard from many of the fanfic readers here. The reason I finally decided to address this matter is because I found recently an author who deleted everything she had written on AFF because it disturbed her to realize how she would hate it if this was done to her.
(I have nothing against any personal decision she has taken; but I am only being critical of the situation here, please understand that first.)
Also I realize that I am stepping toes off my safe line to discuss this matter publicly, but I am trying to be as honest as possible and my intention is not to offend you at any cost.
Fanfiction isn't defined by ual, ographic content. That is the first thing I'd want to state.
Of course, it is a bigger part of fanfiction than intended, but I find myself offended when put on a label of a ert simply because I write fanfiction. That's not right. (I am not denying that I am a ert, but these are fine lines and I can assure you that I am not -crazed)
Also, fanficiton isn't simply an outlet for creativity.
This was a lie I had lived by for years; telling myself that these ideas and stories and plots can be be for anyone else, any other original character I can simply switch names with, but that is not the case. Fanfiction can be an expression of love, hate, discrimination, closure towards a group of people you really care for. (Does that sound stupid? I really care for BAP; I'm not here only because I get to visualize their - and again, the word only needs to be underlined.)
If I was asked to turn every fanfic I wrote into a story with original characters I would be simply devastated.
Because while writing about them, I had them in my mind and molding it saying that everything came out simply from my brain sounds unfair to me.
These characters are based off of them, and to me, a bit of them is in every story.
Don't ever counter attack me with Violent Yongguk because he's a huge furry in real life chasing tiggers and world peace. He has a tough image on screen and camera and it's a part of him that he wants to express, and this is build off that image he himself had portrayed
Same goes with the other members. Youngjae and Daehyun are trolls in real life but the soft, gentle images you can't say is not a part of them.
I write things that aren't related to BAP, completely original stories and random crazy and yes, they do not gain as half as exposure as my involved gay fanfics do, and [honestly - this is also one of the big problems because people just write fanfics for exposure... (you can tick these ones right off the bat because the characters are so off themselves)] personally, that's fine. This is why I say that there's a difference in writing fanfiction because you sort of love them together; and calling it just an outlet for creativity.
Exposure is good; I love it, I love the comments you leave me I'm happy when I'm upvoted like - why say it's not important? But that's not everything that's to fanfics. Because I did deactivate for few weeks in total and it didn't stop me from writing about them :)
(Heck; Im concerned when I'd ever be able to stop)
At any rate,
I am offended when people brand fanfiction as ography.
Because it is not.
To me, it's not just an outlet for creativity either.
Writing is like breathing to me and it helps me relax and get my mind off of and it's something I would fight for if I must.
I don't know how this justifies anything, but I feel like it should be said here now that I've started this rant anyway.
You can't build a fence around a mind.
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