I procrastinate too much. I got an art deadline at Sunday by midnight (for an IAACSC) and I'm still only working on the line art - it's been four hours since I did any work on it (I've been reading in the capslock_naruto comm on LJ instead)...

By the way, why is my LJ friends page overrun with Hetalia fanart? I mean it's cute, witty and all that, but the situation is starting to get insane!

I’m at the uni library - and will have to stay for another hour yet - and I seriously don’t want to read or write pr0n when logged on the computer terminal with my own student account... I so need my weekly fanfic fix, but I know I will have to work tomorrow and the weekend will be filled with essay writing (and I seriously need to work on my thesis - I’m waaaay behind...)

It’s not as if I’m only reading or writing pr0n, but reading Tenzsaku is just as bad even if it’s just PG-rated, isn’t it? Still, Buffy was a major series and it did depict the romantic relationship between a teenage girl and an immortal three hundred-something year old - fifteen versus twenty-seven isn’t that big an age gap when the most serious offence is a peck on the cheek - I had girlfriends when I was at upper secondary school (about fourteen or fifteen) who had twenty-something year old boyfriends (I always considered those blokes suckers though, who could only pick up underage girls...), but still...

And let’s take a moment to consider Nabokov’s Lolita! Or, maybe we shouldn’t do that...

Perhaps I really need to stop rambling and get actual work done?

There was a discussion on the [Kakairu @ lj] community about fan fictions that don’t get recommended even though they’re great, while other fan fictions, albeit great as well, get recommended over and over again. The interesting question to this problem is of course: why is that?

In all fandoms there are fan fictions that are considered to be classics, of a sort, and they are “always” rec-ed even though they are year old, while other fan fictions – some old and some new – are just as brilliant, if not more, yet are “never” rec-ed.

In every fandom there are fan fictions that make up the core of the fanon and “everyone” knows of them, bases their own character and canon interpretations on them, as well as generally completes the circle by recommending it to the next generation of fans.

Why’s that?

The simplest answer I have is that a BNF comes across the fan fiction, likes it, and recommends it – the BNF’s “fans” then decide they like it, because their messiah liked it, and recommends it – the circle goes on.

「悲しい出来事は忘れなさい」- it's fandom.