fanfiction meta – Question of Smoke

quirkysubject:

impishtubist:

quirkysubject:

impishtubist:

Do you ever think about the fact that someday all that may exist of a source material is a piece of fanfic and that people will find it and think that THAT’S the source material?

Or they know its fic (they’ve learned to recognize the genre through decades of clever research) and spend the next 20 years trying to reconstruct the source material – with sonetimes frighteningly accurate, sonetimes ridiculous results. From time to time new fic or fragments of the original are dug up so they can check (and make fun of eacher for being so hilariously wrong).

Which is basically what medieval philologists (and comparative historic linguists for languages) have always been doing.

I appreciate the fact that you add intelligent and insightful commentary to my ridiculous wine-fueled posts thank you 🙂

Wine-fueled posts are the best posts.

I actually have a weird kind of longing to read sone of those hypothetical debates. It would make an awesome kind of meta-fanfic