Twitterpated

• 06:44 Looks like we're doing the trillion-dollar bill thing for real. Let's hope Mr. Burns doesn't steal it. tinyurl.com/2f38kxw #
• 13:13 A post on Ozian lords and ladies vovatia.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-idle/ #
• 13:56 Just when I decided I needed to go back to my therapist, I found out she's leaving the practice. I'm going to try this other guy. #
• 13:56 Not really used to male therapists, but I guess it shouldn't make too much difference. #
• 13:59 @eehouls Ewww, I hate licorice. #
• 14:00 Who would win in a fight between Mickey Rourke and Mickey Mouse? Or maybe special guest star Micky Dolenz? #
• 14:03 @eehouls What does Goblazers think of Pizza Schmizza? #
• 14:04 Do I have to receive the Drexel magazine just because I graduated from there? #
• 14:08 @JaredofMo I'd probably just eat the donuts AND the granola bars. #
• 14:08 While it ended up working out all right, I probably should have set my alarm after dropping off @NowIsStrange and her mom this mornin
  g. #
• 14:10 @JaredofMo Ever read "The Gardener's Boy of Oz"? There's a whole section about the Music of the Kubes. #
• 14:14 @JaredofMo You once thought of me as a white knight on his steed. Now you know how happy I can be. #
• 14:15 @MarzGurlProd I think the fact that you're not really an actor is part of your charm. #
• 14:17 @AlBruno3 Maybe they've lost twenty fingers between them. #
• 14:19 @NowIsStrange I can't blow bubbles at all. That's probably why you're no longer interested in me. #
• 14:22 @margaretcho Maybe they misread the word "bear" as "bare." #
• 14:22 @JaredofMo What babe? #
• 14:23 @colleenanne It will someday! #
• 14:24 Why is Bob Marley trending? Did he die again? #
• 14:35 Ask someone else for money, Walnut Street Theater. #
• 14:53
  @JaredofMo What power? #
• 18:15 @JaredofMo Who do? #
• 18:19 @DanielFlorien I believe Terry Pratchett wrote a similar line in "Jingo." #
• 18:19 If water balloons are filled with water, what are weather balloons filled with? #
• 18:21 @DVDBoxSet But I don't know your number! #
• 18:22 @MikeConway I doubt it's very magically delicious anymore. #
• 18:52 @JaredofMo Do what? #
• 19:25 @JaredofMo Balls! #
• 22:00 So do the "Glee" writers know that the Star Worlds are from Super Mario World, not Super Mario Bros. 3? #
• 22:02 I'd buy tampons for that girl with the bike. #
• 22:03 Are thongs as uncomfortable as I think they seem? #
• 22:28 Nobody punches anyone when they see a Jetta! It's only for Beetles! Was ist mit diese Scheiss, Volkswagen? #
• 22:35 Chester Cheetah sounds different now, doesn't he? Tougher, or something. It doesn't really work. #
• 22:40 Why do the people I get along best with often get viewed as mean? #

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While I'm never opposed to it, I tend to think some fandoms really support it more than others do. I've written Oz fanfiction myself, although most of that was prior to ever having heard the term "fanfiction." I think the common term back in the pre-Internet days was "pastiche," although I feel that this is really only appropriate when you're purposely trying to ape the original writer's style. I think the fact that the publishers found other writers to continue the series after L. Frank Baum's death means it always kind of came across as a collaborative effort to me. Even Baum wrote in his introductions about using ideas from readers. Since many of the books are now in the public domain, that means there have been some professionally published fan-written Oz books. On the other hand, I know there's Discworld fanfic, and I can't bring myself to read any of that. It just seems to me that Terry Pratchett's own style is integral to those stories, and stuff written about the same universe by someone else just wouldn't be the same. Then again, maybe that's how I would have felt about Oz books by anyone other than Baum if I'd lived in the early part of the twentieth century. I guess a lot of it is precedent.

As far as TV-based fanfic goes, I really don't read it, but since TV shows are usually collaborative efforts anyway, I don't think I'd have the "not the original writer" objection to it. I'm just not really interested, even if it's based on shows I like. Overall, though, if you like the characters and want them to have other adventures, I don't see any problem with writing them yourself. I'm not entirely sure why it's so popular among fanfic writers to make unlikely characters have sex, but even then I think the important thing is making sure they remain in character. If you're going to make the established characters act like they wouldn't really act in anything other than a parody, why even use those characters?