Fanfiction with fanfiction as its canonI mean, we all know that fanon spreads and grows and eventually becomes accepted fact. Just look at Prowl/Jazz, Medic Swoop, and Ratchet's hands as in indication of how one person's fics can change the way a whole group of authors see the core - heck, I've seen new fans swear that Prowl/Jazz is canon, and I figure that eventually it will be the same with Sam/Bee ... I can't actually think of any Het pairings that work like this, I think that most (if not all) of those are stated or implied in the canon sources.
Anyway, I have recently been finding myself playing in PuraJo's sandbox, specifically with her Special Ops Trine fics. It just struck me last night, as I was writing, and asking her advice on how she sees her characters just how interesting the phenomenon really is. I mean, I doubt that I'd ever stop Simon Furman at a Botcon to ask his thoughts on how I portray Ratchet/Megatron (not that I didn't try ... but he was gone by the time I found him).
But I'm rambling. I've found that Botcon has recharged my creative battery. Stories that have been the barest of bunnies for the longest time are finally getting written, and edits are well underway on the fics that need them. I have to admit, it's nice to be creative again. Maybe by November of next year when NaNo rolls around again I'll have a clean plate to work with ... yeah, who am I kidding!
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Never be afraid to be yourself.
NeilxTieria(Gundam 00) is my kind of heroin(sorry Stephanie Meyer,but its true)
"Life moves pretty fast.If you don't stop and take a look around once in a while,you could miss it"Ferris Bueller, Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
Many of the pairings out there (be they het or slash) aften come across as "banging the pretty things together", but when a good writer gets their hands on a pairing, they can turn the stranges things into pure gold. I mean, I imagine that when Nightwind first wrote Prowl/Jazz the response was probably one of disbelief, but she made them work so well that the pairing became accepted to the point that for a time you'd be hard pressed to find a slash writer who *didn't* pair them up. It was just accepted fact.
There are certain pairings that you can justify as "true" canon (even if you have to squint): Op/Elita, Ironhide/Chromia, Red Alert/Inferno, Powerglide/Astoria, Ratchet/Megatron just to name a few, while others, the ones I'm talking about, as "fanon canon" - if such a thing is even possible.
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Never be afraid to be yourself.
NeilxTieria(Gundam 00) is my kind of heroin(sorry Stephanie Meyer,but its true)
"Life moves pretty fast.If you don't stop and take a look around once in a while,you could miss it"Ferris Bueller, Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
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"The heroes get to make the hard choices." Ratchet TF:A
"Don't start with me, woman!" Starscream TF:A
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"& get back in the race;
"1 more small piece of you,
"Starts to fall into place."
(And it is ramblings. Please don't take me too seriously)
I know I felt the same way as you did about slash. I had not seen a well written slash fic and I was of the belief that such an animal did not exist. ... and then I read some transformers slash and I started having my mind changed. ... as I recall it was a fic by Wilderness.
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Never be afraid to be yourself.
NeilxTieria(Gundam 00) is my kind of heroin(sorry Stephanie Meyer,but its true)
"Life moves pretty fast.If you don't stop and take a look around once in a while,you could miss it"Ferris Bueller, Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
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