No, you misunderstand me. I'm not saying that performances are fanfic; I'm saying they're part of the source text. Now when we write as ficcers we may not be responding to any specific performance other than the one we see in the head when we read the script, or an amalgamation of several performances--that's what I mean by an "ideal" performance. But the play exists in fullness only when we consider it being performed.
So I'd resist the notion that what the actors bring to the performance isn't in the "text." It's not in the script, but theatre is always by its nature collaborative.
One is that anthropomorfic is an interesting case because it is, in fact, original fiction.
I think that, in the way that anthropomor_fic constructs its concept of OTP, it does have some sense of canon, so that today I'm writing math anthropomor_fic and tomorrow I'm writing philosophy anthropomor_fic, just like I'd otherwise write Buffy fanfic today and VMars fanfic tomorrow, so I wouldn't call it completely "original"--it's notion of canon are looser, as in RPF maybe, but they are there.
And, for that matter, it's not the only type of fanfic that bears similarities to original writing. A FPF fic with all original characters may exist in a fictional universe only because we are told so by the header; outside of the fannish context it'd be read as original fic. And there's RPF AU's, and....
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So I'd resist the notion that what the actors bring to the performance isn't in the "text." It's not in the script, but theatre is always by its nature collaborative.
One is that anthropomorfic is an interesting case because it is, in fact, original fiction.
I think that, in the way that
And, for that matter, it's not the only type of fanfic that bears similarities to original writing. A FPF fic with all original characters may exist in a fictional universe only because we are told so by the header; outside of the fannish context it'd be read as original fic. And there's RPF AU's, and....