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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stardrop
#1
I don't think the problem are the people who write/read fanfictions but those who bring it up to the idols and especially since this comeback, Youngjae has been asked shipping so many times and this is NOT okay.
Honestly, if you wanna write a fic about me and my co-workers feel free if it makes u happy just don't bother me with it.
Shippers come in many forms, not only in the form of fanfiction so I wouldn't necessarily rule this down to fanfics only.

I made the line for myself by strictly staying within AU's and not reading or writing fics about B.A.P as a group. Like this, I borrow their physical form in some way and form a story around it and fiction stays fiction. I enjoy seeing them together and as a fanfic writer, my mind has always some OTP scenarios going on. But in reality, I know this is just a fan fantasy and should stay within fandoms.
Mihomikko #2
Why, I can't agree more with this. You juz wrote everything that every fanfiction reader/writer probably wants to say.
I really do hate the fact that people think fanfiction is vulgar and i hate it when they generalise fanfiction as ography...and you explained that well.
I tell myself all the time that fanfiction isn't something we HAVE to hide away from everyone else, it isn't something that we should be embarrased about; yet, there's always part of me that's ashamed of myself for having any connections with fanfiction. Reason? How people view fanfiction.
But your blog post just inspired me, I guess. Everything you said just flushed my insecurities abt reading/writing fanfiction down the toilet. Such a great motivation.
(Don't get me wrong, this isn't flattery. I was truly touched(?) while reading through this blog.)
Koni_Fox
#3
I know this wasn't the point of your post, but I thought you might be amused by the fact that, in college, one of my housemates totally wrote a giant fanfiction about all of us. I personally thought it was funny, but I suppose you really need to be in the right mindset for that sort of thing.
On a more related note, I know that my stories could easily be rewritten with original characters in the place of idols, but it would be a disservice to the story. Hell, my second story was 100% inspired by 'Error' by VIXX- and not just the song, but the huge growth and maturity I saw between Error and Eternity, so I wrote a story about that. I, too, hate the stigma of fanfiction as erse. None of my stories even contain , but in my every day life, you'd never catch me saying I write fanfiction. I'm ashamed because of the negative connotation fanfiction has.