I'm actually fascinated by the yuletide stoeies b/c they collectively to me create a boundary case simply by definition.
Oh, I agree! To agree with what you said, on the one hand it is a produced by an important fannish mechanism of production, the ficathon. Indeed, in many ways it is the ficathon, and holds a very special place in fandom's imagination and self-understanding. While I can't speak to all 800 participants, certainly those who run and maintain it are fans. It relies on the same sorts of infrastructures (LJ communities, archives) as unproblematic fanfiction. On the other hand, a signficant portion of the fics--including my own--are to public domain works and thus not copyright infringment and thus potentially salable, which I think makes up one of the axes. Also, I've found they are less likely to "read like fanfiction."
And yuletide stories are useful because they are problematic, and are a chance to let one examine one's intuitions and/or language use. If I have to choose between excluding yuletide or excluding drawerfic, I know which of the two I personally consider to be closer to the fuzzy boundary: the one not produced from within the boundary.
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Date: 2007-04-13 01:51 pm (UTC)Oh, I agree! To agree with what you said, on the one hand it is a produced by an important fannish mechanism of production, the ficathon. Indeed, in many ways it is the ficathon, and holds a very special place in fandom's imagination and self-understanding. While I can't speak to all 800 participants, certainly those who run and maintain it are fans. It relies on the same sorts of infrastructures (LJ communities, archives) as unproblematic fanfiction. On the other hand, a signficant portion of the fics--including my own--are to public domain works and thus not copyright infringment and thus potentially salable, which I think makes up one of the axes. Also, I've found they are less likely to "read like fanfiction."
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