Fan Fiction

[featherynscale]

They say joy shared is joy doubled, and pain shared is pain halved. I'm going to share this with you, and you can decide which of the two categories it belongs in.

Worst conversation of the day, from the journal of ursulav. The original post is about how she's been reading a lot of fanfiction, and now has the urge to write some. The post details reasons why she thinks this is a Bad Idea. The comments thread is generally full of encouragement to write the fanfic, and includes this little gem (I'm paraphrasing, because I can't be arsed to look it up again to link):

First Commenter: If you're going to write fanfiction, write it for classic stories. That way it's almost respectable.
Second Commenter: Yeah, when you write a Sherlock Holmes story these days, they don't call it fanfiction, they call it a pastiche.
Third Commenter: Uh, not if Holmes and Watson end up doin' it. I'm just saying.

You know, I don't usually have a terribly visual imagination, and I'm utter shite with faces as a rule, but for some reason, I can now clearly see Basil Rathbone in a series of complicated positions... It's no good, I tell you. No good at all.

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[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

That cracks me up! It seems so unlikely, and yet, it exists, and someone I know has read it. I love the internet. :)