smh

[maevele]

okay, so i'm a fan, but not in the fanfic way. I've read maybe a dozen fanfic my whole life. nothing against it, I just never got into it, always had 47 other things to do online. recently i said i liked eric from trueblood enough to maybe start reading fanfic, even.

But I am still in fandom at large, etc, and have been aware of the fanfic scene. So I'm keeping up with the warnings argument. which as someone who isn't in the fanfic scene, my opinion is moot. But in the warnings argument, i saw the second reference to rent fanfic just now. (third if you count this icon)

RENT FANFIC, DUDE.

fine. you guys got me. i read fanfic now.

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[morpheus0013.livejournal.com]

Years ago, I found an MST3K script for RENT that someone had written. It wasn't great, but it was kind of nifty that someone bothered.

[takumashii.livejournal.com]

Mwa ha hah.

That said, Rent is one of those fandoms where I Like That and I'll Read Fanfic About That don't overlap; I'm not sure if it's because I'm afraid badfic would reflect badly on the original in my own head (in the same way that the movie made the flaws of the original stand out just a little more) or because my emotional experience of Rent is so tangled up with My First Adult Experience of Live Theatre, and prose can't quite go there.

[maevele.livejournal.com]

I dunno, all i've read so far is mark/roger slash.

and i have a weird relationship with rent because my damn kids like it better than i do, so i see certain numbers from it like 30 times a week, and i've yet to see it properly on stage, so i only hold the fanfic up to the standard of the film, and a little to the dvd of the broadway.