Some completely unrelated things

[opusculus]

1. You know, I was about to say that I'm surprised none of the professional authors who hate fanfic and forbid it have ever done so because fanfic tends to reflect a certain level of quality, where it's good enough to attract people but not so good that those people don't see the holes and want to fix them. And then I remembered that that was my primary theory for why LKH and Anne Rice forbade fanfic. Never mind then!

2. I was rereading Hundred Thousand Kingdoms because it's awesome, and I really do regret that Kinneth died before the book starts because she hits so many of my pings. Yay for crazy awesome!

3. Why am I contemplating mermaid ethnicity and how a group of people turned into half-fish might actually evolve over millennia once they got transformed like that?

Comments

[katharos]

Re: Kinneth

I know! Yet at the same time it's really awesome for the dead parent being amazing in the backstory and dominating and shaping events from beyond the grave to be the mother for once.

[harukami]

I don't really agree that it's about fixing the holes, per se, but it does tend to me to have SOME element of 'expanding on what exists in the canon'... I definitely don't think it's about the quality, though, at least from the perspective of THIS fic author haha.