[LMB] Re: Slash (was OT) now Bujold Romance/Slash Meta

[paal at gis.net]

----- Original Message Follows -----
> On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Lois McMaster Bujold wrote:
> 

> > There are readers for whom reading the derivative works, of any
> > sort, actively damages the book-in-their-head, in ways they
> > then can't get rid of.  Where the original work is especially
> > beloved, I suspect the damage will be most keenly felt.
> 
> I did not know this.
> 

I hadn't really thought much about it before Lois pointed that out
explicitly, but yes, that is something true for a lot of people and a
lot of works--consider "Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit..." when
hearing the Ride of the Valkyries, for example!

It's very much a situation akin to permanent fractured fairytale
versions stuck in one's head, whenever reminded of the original or the
derivative work.  Or, after someone who was a long-ago friend said
"Armadildo" for "Amarillo" I could never quite regard the place name
Amarillo quite the same again...

> There are times when I'm annoyed by bad movie adaptations, comic
> book adaptations, fanfiction &c, but it doesn't change the way I
> feel about the originals unless it's a good enough and
> thought-provoking enough piece to change my mind about what the
> book is actually *saying*, which I'm willing to live with.
> 
> (These people should probably avoid my LJ.  Not only do I write
> fic, I write meta about stuff I like.  I did have someone
> complain to me once that I had totally ruined Harry Potter for
> her inner six-year-old, because she couldn't like Dumbledore or
> the Weasleys any more after reading my analyses of their
> behaviour.  But I don't think she is such a person, because she
> writes fanfiction too?)
> 
> ~malfoy :)