never too much seriousness, and it's not exclusive from porn ;)
I know canon has pre-Roche Ror as all chatty and put-together, but I do prefer fanon (ha ha, a lot of it is yours) where his messed up life and childhood does show a little more realistically even if he's not yet insane and speaking without pronouns. Canon also has every hero-like male character shaped like a Ken doll, even Rorschach.
It's a bit fangirlish, in the sense of "dubious artistic integrity", to think that bad things shouldn't happen to characters you love. I feel this way all the time, of course, and I adore good fixit fics. What do you think Spy's stories are anyway :D
But a point that's hugely important in this fandom is that the canon doesn't have perfect artistic integrity. It's not perfectly coherent and watertight. That's why we can have such a big, busy, crazy fandom. And anyone can write their own interpretation into their own fanfic; there's no mandatory level of /literal/ (I say literal because I mean that it's sufficient if your fic INVOKES the canon characters or themes in a way that's compelling and recognizable to readers; it doesn't have to parrot the canon exactly) canon-fidelity required for a fic to be counted as good. Who could even measure that fidelity anyway, Alan Moore?
Think about anyone who actually calls anyone else a "horrible fangirl" in earnest. You wouldn't seriously give half a crap for the opinion of a person like that would you? (tbh, I've only seen such opinions voiced on Fandom Secrets, but I'm convinced those people are trolls and thus the supposed Watchmen Fandom Police are actually mythical creatures, though loathsome to imagine) Never worry about A) stupid spiteful people B) stupid spiteful people WHO PROBABLY DON'T EVEN EXIST.
- No one deserves Rorschach's life, it just happened that way..."deserves" is kind of an odd angle, IMO - It's probably fangirlish to want to give him something better. It's definitely plausible and fair to imagine that he'd have come out of it better - not crazy and broken - if only he had someone with him who knew and cared...that's how regular people deal with trauma, right? - It's also plausible that Dan could have been that person. That's like a foundational tenet of our fandom, so no one will ever call you a hack for following it through. - I had sympathy for him at first ronch (possibly it was "schlorp lep", I can't recall exactly ;), if only as a campy bombastic quirky protagonist in a genre that usually abhors quirkiness and is too oblivious to its own campiness. Then, the handshake, the lift shoes, the unmasking and psychologist interviews -- sympathy was EASY.
...see, this post, KIND OF like a sword in the sense that it goes into point form towards the end. hurr hurr hurr, GET IT?
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what a knot you've got, sword plz
Date: 2009-05-07 07:19 am (UTC)I know canon has pre-Roche Ror as all chatty and put-together, but I do prefer fanon (ha ha, a lot of it is yours) where his messed up life and childhood does show a little more realistically even if he's not yet insane and speaking without pronouns. Canon also has every hero-like male character shaped like a Ken doll, even Rorschach.
It's a bit fangirlish, in the sense of "dubious artistic integrity", to think that bad things shouldn't happen to characters you love. I feel this way all the time, of course, and I adore good fixit fics. What do you think Spy's stories are anyway :D
But a point that's hugely important in this fandom is that the canon doesn't have perfect artistic integrity. It's not perfectly coherent and watertight. That's why we can have such a big, busy, crazy fandom. And anyone can write their own interpretation into their own fanfic; there's no mandatory level of /literal/ (I say literal because I mean that it's sufficient if your fic INVOKES the canon characters or themes in a way that's compelling and recognizable to readers; it doesn't have to parrot the canon exactly) canon-fidelity required for a fic to be counted as good. Who could even measure that fidelity anyway, Alan Moore?
Think about anyone who actually calls anyone else a "horrible fangirl" in earnest. You wouldn't seriously give half a crap for the opinion of a person like that would you? (tbh, I've only seen such opinions voiced on Fandom Secrets, but I'm convinced those people are trolls and thus the supposed Watchmen Fandom Police are actually mythical creatures, though loathsome to imagine) Never worry about A) stupid spiteful people B) stupid spiteful people WHO PROBABLY DON'T EVEN EXIST.
- No one deserves Rorschach's life, it just happened that way..."deserves" is kind of an odd angle, IMO
- It's probably fangirlish to want to give him something better. It's definitely plausible and fair to imagine that he'd have come out of it better - not crazy and broken - if only he had someone with him who knew and cared...that's how regular people deal with trauma, right?
- It's also plausible that Dan could have been that person. That's like a foundational tenet of our fandom, so no one will ever call you a hack for following it through.
- I had sympathy for him at first ronch (possibly it was "schlorp lep", I can't recall exactly ;), if only as a campy bombastic quirky protagonist in a genre that usually abhors quirkiness and is too oblivious to its own campiness. Then, the handshake, the lift shoes, the unmasking and psychologist interviews -- sympathy was EASY.
...see, this post, KIND OF like a sword in the sense that it goes into point form towards the end. hurr hurr hurr, GET IT?
don't mind me, it's late.