re fantext: the point is not that the story needs to reference other stories that came before (though i'd argue that many of them do, even if they pretend not to, b/c unless the author hasn't read any stories, (s)he's gonna respond to it one way or another, even if only by avoiding fanon cliches!!!) but that you as reader have these stories in your memory, that you have these multitudes of buffys or whatever in your mind...
so i'd argue that unless you have a virginal writer and a virginal reader, you'll have fantext interaction...does that make sense???
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re fantext: the point is not that the story needs to reference other stories that came before (though i'd argue that many of them do, even if they pretend not to, b/c unless the author hasn't read any stories, (s)he's gonna respond to it one way or another, even if only by avoiding fanon cliches!!!) but that you as reader have these stories in your memory, that you have these multitudes of buffys or whatever in your mind...
so i'd argue that unless you have a virginal writer and a virginal reader, you'll have fantext interaction...does that make sense???