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making_excuses) wrote2013-03-13 08:54 pm
making_excuses) wrote2013-03-13 08:54 pm
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Why is it that the only ship I actually ship in Game of Thrones, got all of one fanfic? Seriously, how can I be one of like two people who ship 'em?
I wish I could write fanfics, then at least I could write for the pairing myself
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What's the pairing?
(Don't tell me if naming it would be a spoiler for after book 2. I'm partway through book 3.)
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The pairing is the shows fault, not the books, and they have a grand total of one scene together, also known as The Hound and Bronn...
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I've only seen one episode of the show. I wish I could see it somehow without having to go through HBO because I'm poor =(
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It should be spoiler free.
Also another scene later which isn't completely spoiler free so I will not post it.
Also I got odd ships in a lot of fandoms, but I think this is the only one where I am basically the only one shipping the pairing...
Oh and it sucks that you haven't watched the series because it is quite good, maybe you can buy the dvds when they are on sale? I could offer to lend you mine, but well they are in a different zone and shipping DVDs to America would be seriously expensive:)
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and man I really do not have the money for DVDs right now =/ and I'd rather get into a fandom by trying out the source material first, then deciding if it's worth spending money on. I feel like this ties into GRRM's attitude towards his work but I'm not sure if he had any control over HBO's exclusivity (though I guess he *did* choose to let HBO run the show...)
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I know the feeling:) There is always ways of getting stuff online though. Or the library? They tend to lend out DVDs and stuff too!
As our professor said on Monday when he talked about all the films we have to watch for the subject: "You guys always find a way of getting them and I will leave it at that."
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The library may be a good idea, but would they get it so soon? idk
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We got both season one and two of GoT in our school library, so you should have gotten it?
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Hopefully you're right about the library! I'll have to look this summer to see if I can find them at my local library at home.
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There you go, all links are safe and should be working. I download all my shows from that page.
(I thought you where one of the people whom only watch shows online, but don't download. I'm sorry I assumed that)
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No, it's just that I could never find it (at least without having to do a big survey or shit and I never trust sites like that).
I'll watch some soon!
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Anyway, it's a free world and nobody can prevent me from slashing, it happens automatically. But I haven't made up my mind yet as to whom I want to slash with whom exactly. Lol I have a thing for Jon Snow, and I like Tyrion and Jorah Mormont. Well, I can't decide whether these would make a good slash pairing for me.
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I actually read a lot of the comments people left on his entry, and what I was reading there made me really upset, sometimes. I don't get what's so bad about fanfics. Hell, if it weren't for fanfics I would never have bought the books in the first place. In fact, it was a slash fanfic that introduced me to GRRM's works. Tse.
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If it's money-grubbing then that's kind of dumb. He's getting paid for a lot of things, and people who have really successful book series tent to make a lot of money from the franchise, and not just from selling the books themselves. And who gets paid to write fanfiction? Nobody. That's the point of fanfiction, it's just for FUN.
If I wrote a book series I'd be over the moon if people liked it and my characters enough to want to write fic for it. I'd also be fascinated to see what people came up with.
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That's exactly what he doesn't get. He thinks people who use his characters and write fanfictions should rather use their creativity and talent and invent their own characters. This issues from the thought that one is only "lazy" when s/he uses characters/settings someone else has racked their brains about. Again, apparently he doesn't get that people who write fanfics do not want to invent their own characters because they just love what he has come up with and want to play with his characters.
Based on his comments, I think he is convinced that you either should write your own original fiction or you should pay him and ask for his permission when you want to write fanfic about his characters.
I think this is, excuse me, bullshit. The moment he publishes his books his characters, his world etc. will be explored by his readers. He can't stop them to pair up his characters as they see fit or imagine different plot threads or what else it is they want to do. So what if they share their work with other people completely for free, just for the fun? It's not that bad. As I said in my previous comment. I discovered his books through fandom. If it weren't for fanfics I wouldn't have bought a lot of things in the first place. He should be lucky fanfics spread the love. In some way it's advertisement for free.
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