nekare

It sometimes surprises me how much of a niche activity fanfic seems to be, or how it's considered the epitome of geekdom, when it comes so naturally to everyone starting from childhood. Everyone's wondered about what happens later after a movie, or a show or whatever. And aren't sequels a kind of pseudo-fanfic, even though approved by canon? I think most children write stories about them getting to hang out with their heroes of favorite characters, and who hasn't drawn themselves with say, a favorite disney character, or named their teddy bears after people on movies or cartoons and then play with them and make up new stories for them? Hell, even Matt Smith wrote fic about the Doctor traveling with Einstein and getting drunk and gettin dirty with Cleopatra! (and I would pay good money to read that)

I mean, I used to dress up as Sailor Moon and go around the house in a bathrobe handed down to me and all of my mom's bad fake 80s jewlery on top of me and pretend I was saving the world in the name of love and the moon crystal; doesn't that count as fanfic? I was a fan, and I was making up fiction about that fandom. I think that, deep down, it's one of those things that come really naturally to all of us.

And that's one part of what makes it so sad when authors refuse to allow fic for their work. Because making up stories is a large thing of what makes us people, and in the case of an established canon, we do it out of love.