I'm here from metafandom, and I just want to wholeheartedly agree. I first started posting fanfic online in 1997, back when it seemed like the most freakish and subversive thing anyone in the world could do. My first smut? I posted it under a pseudonym, because in my fandom adult fiction was completely unheard of.
It was the most wonderful, giddy, incandescent feeling to break laws that hadn't even been written yet. These days, fanfic is just too close to pro. It's the farm team, which makes it serious in ways it never used to be. Like so much of the internet, the Wild West has been tamed into corporation-sponsored suburbs. Which is a major bummer.
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Date: 2007-06-05 11:56 pm (UTC)It was the most wonderful, giddy, incandescent feeling to break laws that hadn't even been written yet. These days, fanfic is just too close to pro. It's the farm team, which makes it serious in ways it never used to be. Like so much of the internet, the Wild West has been tamed into corporation-sponsored suburbs. Which is a major bummer.