The interesting thing about that is that it seemed like bellatrys (who was replying to a comment of mine) and later lil_shepherd didn't even HEAR what I was trying to say, which is that outside the fanfic community, they're not judging these pieces AS fanfiction.
When people judge fanfics as fanfiction, frequently what they are judging is how closely a given piece of fic fits into their own interpretation of canon, authorial intent and characterisation--which may not be anything like the writer of the piece's conception/interpretation of canon and characterisation, not to mention that some fanfiction writers privilege authorial intent and others don't or even actively subvert it.
People who read fanfiction as fiction for its own sake, who may or may not even know the source canon, really don't care about that stuff. They're only interested in whether the story has consistent characterisation internally.
And so many people didn't even want to get that point. They were just sure that it had to matter to everyone who read that fic that Snape and Nicky were OOC, even if these people had never heard of Snape and Nicky before they read the fic, and so the Snape and Nicky they were seeing were the first Snape and the first Nicky they had ever seen.
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Date: 2006-05-21 10:29 pm (UTC)From:When people judge fanfics as fanfiction, frequently what they are judging is how closely a given piece of fic fits into their own interpretation of canon, authorial intent and characterisation--which may not be anything like the writer of the piece's conception/interpretation of canon and characterisation, not to mention that some fanfiction writers privilege authorial intent and others don't or even actively subvert it.
People who read fanfiction as fiction for its own sake, who may or may not even know the source canon, really don't care about that stuff. They're only interested in whether the story has consistent characterisation internally.
And so many people didn't even want to get that point. They were just sure that it had to matter to everyone who read that fic that Snape and Nicky were OOC, even if these people had never heard of Snape and Nicky before they read the fic, and so the Snape and Nicky they were seeing were the first Snape and the first Nicky they had ever seen.