Write about writing about something someone else wrote

[quislibet]

"Contributions are sought for a proposed collection of essays about
Harry Potter fan fiction."

Comments

[cislyn.livejournal.com]

this is all way too meta for me

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

No navel is too small for the academic gaze.

I'm going to wet myself.

[puffpastry.livejournal.com]

Laughing myself out of my chair, here. Ahhhhh, good times, good times.

Bizarrely, I could basically WRITE a piece about fan fiction. Not HP, but maybe LOTR, having laughed at, er, I mean, PERUSED quite a few fan fic sites.

The other day, one of the people on my friends list went looking for slash fiction pairing Marlin and Dory, from "Finding Nemo". I myself draw the line at reading about the fictionalized erotic liasons of cartoon fish.

Re: I'm going to wet myself.

[lilithraevyn.livejournal.com]

No, no. You haven't been properly mentally violated until you read Nemo and... uh, shit. Willem DaFoe's fish. Yeah, Nemo and Willem DaFoe Fish slash. oh my god.

Please don't ask why I read it. ...I mean! It was like a trainwreck! I didn't want to read it! But I couldn't help myself!!!

Re: I'm going to wet myself.

[puffpastry.livejournal.com]

Oh
My
GOD.

Okay, I am officially traumatized. I am now pale and shaking, under my desk. That's, like, PEDOPHILIA! Poor little Nemo...oh lordy...

You know, I thought I had reached an all-time low in my life when I spent an entire night reading Hobbit Porn. Thanks to Nemo and (Scar? Slash? Fin? Spear? Willem DaFoe.), I know now that I have a lonnnnnng way to go.

Re: I'm going to wet myself.

[lilithraevyn.livejournal.com]

yeah. I dance with Insanity, trying to reach an understanding, an answer to the question -

WHY, GOD, WHY?!

Re: I'm going to wet myself.

[quislibet.livejournal.com]

Speaking of meta-fanfic, I have discovered that here on livejournal there is fanfic fanfic, to wit:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/roy_inclingfilm/

... which writes stories about Roy Orbison and cling film (or plastic wrap, if you prefer), patterned after similar stories by the master (http://www.michaelkelly.fsnet.co.uk/karl.htm) of same.

I meant just to link to the original site as an example of "Most Preciously Germanic Fanfic Ever," but google led me back to our own virtual back yard.