This is a really interesting question. And thank you for de-lurking so I could check out your journal! To be honest, I've never thought about WHY. I'd been reading SPN fanfic for about a year when I found a prompt meme that I was enjoying and saw a prompt that caught my eye. I thought "I could give this one a shot" and I did and it got all sorts of good comments so I found another one to fill and twenty-odd stories later, I'm still filling prompts on various comment meme sites. And why WOULDN'T it be a valid form of expression. I mean I know the characters have already been created but there are all sorts of scenarios and untold stories that could involve them. In the Supernatual fandom there are things left hanging and scenes that could be so much more and I've read some great fics expanding on the show as well as some that just plain would never happen on the show. And I've enjoyed them either way. And in the SPN universe I KNOW fanfiction plays a part in the show, because, in a couple of great episodes they actually go there. Online SPN sites, slash, Sam girls and Dean girls and just amazingly hilarious meta joking on the fans and the more wincesty fanfictions. And in a point that was made upthread, I have no interest in writing anything else. Most of my stories have been from prompts so although I expand on the ideas, they're not really my own. And I'm grateful for the imagination of others, because I would never have come up with some of these ideas myself. Sorry for meandering a little here. And fanfiction is about love for the subject. Once characters are out there, they are public domain as long as no profit is being made off of them. I think.
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Date: 2009-12-07 10:37 pm (UTC)