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Rationally Writing, Episode 4 - Fanfiction

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• u/DaystarEld:

  Hey everyone, welcome back! Starting next week, we're going to probably start paying to upgrade our Soundcloud account so we can upload more episodes, and so you all can download more than the current limit of 100. I hope you're all enjoying it so far, and any feedback is more than welcome!
  
  **Timestamps**:
  
  0:40 The Three Types of Fanfiction
  
  3:13 Examples, and where Rational Fiction falls
  
  5:27 What are the pros of writing Fanfiction?
  
  7:38 How do Daystar and Alexander find it useful?
  
  9:25 Con 1: Limited Audience
  
  12:18 Con 2: Expectations from Canon
  
  14:39 Con 3: Lack of Profit
  
  16:18 Genres that are easy and hard to rationalize.
  
  19:55 Genre Ghettos
  
  21:15 Daystar rants about Magical Realism
  
  24:44Fanfiction Ghetto
  
  26:47 Best stories to rationalize
  
  32:44 Finding new solutions, creating new problems
  
  35:53 Bridging the gap between Fanfiction and Original
  Fiction
  

• u/trekie140:

  This is an odd episode for me because I liked what you said even though I disagreed with a lot of it. I would've liked The Metropolitan Man more if it had gone the Irredeemable route and replaced the characters with expys, but I also liked A Bluer Shade of White even though it also ignored what I liked about Frozen. I also REALLY like magical realism, but I can't deny any of your criticisms of it so...shrug?
  
  If you like what Irredeemable did with expy characters you'd probably like the comic book Astro City, which is all about exploring the world and people's lives in a superhero setting without focusing on heroic adventures. It's not very rational, but it does a lot of the kind of analysis and reimagining you often see in rational fiction so at worst it's a gold mine of ideas. [Here is the start of my favorite story arc.](http://www.hellocomic.to/astro-city/c7/p1)
  

  • u/DaystarEld:

    I've heard good things about Astro City :) I'll have to check it out when I get through my current reading list.
    

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