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Just because I whine about something doesn't mean I want you people to take out your credit cards! *feels silly* Thank you tstar78 for the extra icons and paid time, and rivkat for even more icons. What a pleasant surprise to find in my inbox this afternoon! Just wow. I'll have to do something to thank you both...

I'm updating on a school Mac. It's always strange to make the switch from frankenPC to Mac. Things are all in the wrong place and just wrong, wrong, wrong in general. Also, the monitor just looks odd. How do people use these hideous things?

I was sitting in a lecture on Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept and my thoughts drifted to fic. Specifically, fic as biography.

1) Does the space between writer and appropriated characters prevent fic from being biography? Should it? Is that desirable? Does the space make it more likely that fic will be biographical?

2) Are there any fics written as fictional biography (i.e. The Life and Times of Albus Dumbledore)? How would keeping an explicit biographical goal in mind change the process of writing a fic?

Anyone have interesting thoughts to share on the search for the authentic in fanfiction?

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[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Are there any fics written as fictional biography (i.e. The Life and Times of Albus Dumbledore)? How would keeping an explicit biographical goal in mind change the process of writing a fic?

I can't think of any off the top of my head, but Wicked by Geoffrey Maguire is published, professional fanfiction, and its subtitle is "The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West."

I have no other interesting thoughts, except to say that searching for the authentic in fanfiction is the same as searching for it in pro fiction, except that you have more filters between you and it (the author's perception of the characters, your own preconceptions of both author and canon).

Writing porn now, so no higher brain functions available to ponder...

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*snugs you* I know I didn't have to buy it for you, I just wanted to. I was feeling crappy and when I feel crappy, I buy my friends presents. Besides, think of it as a belated birthday prezzie!

[theatresm.livejournal.com]

2) Are there any fics written as fictional biography (i.e. The Life and Times of Albus Dumbledore)? How would keeping an explicit biographical goal in mind change the process of writing a fic?

Putting a link to my journal in because the answer was long, rambly, and probably bears no resemblance to your question at all.

How this idiot wrote Brave New World (http://www.livejournal.com/users/theatresm/45207.html#cutid1)