I should write something funny & insightful about fandom, but for now I am just going to post some images here (partly just to clear my desktop!).
BELOW: Comic artist Stephen Byrne illustrates one reason creators might make fanworks (like his Star Wars 7.5. comic) rather than original content (his Sidekick): the audience.
Yep. The fanfics I posted two weeks ago have 400 hits each. If I wrote a short story, who would read it? (Not that that's why most fans write fic! But...)
Below: Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman (1975-1979):
BELOW: The new Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot). (Best thing in the new superhero movie, not that that's saying much--it was pretty bad...)
Things I didn't know there were fanfic of (thanks, Mithen!):
ABOVE: Michael at OCA sent me this xkcd comic ^ from 2011.
The alt-text says Strunk/White slash is "virtually guaranteed to be well written." Funny comments (and stabs at S/W slash) here: Language Log
BELOW: Comic artist Stephen Byrne illustrates one reason creators might make fanworks (like his Star Wars 7.5. comic) rather than original content (his Sidekick): the audience.
Below: Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman (1975-1979):
We have a lot more women heroes now but not a lot more pairs of women heroes. They tend to be on their own, I notice, not paired the way males are commonly partnered as brothers-in-arms, cops, or robbers (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid).
BELOW: My screen saver: Rey (Daisy Ridley) in the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens, photographed by Annie Leibovitz.
And--Lupita Nyong'o voices an animated character who looks nothing like her, but BELOW, another great photo from the same series by Leiovitz:
Things I didn't know there were fanfic of (thanks, Mithen!):
Star Wars:Force Awakens fans are into Poe/Finn, but Poe did not invent lip biting.
[Modern fans are quite... blunt.]
