I disagree so deeply with the notion that the impulse to create transformative content only bursts into being when the original work is mediocre/generally pretty bad but has a lot of “wasted potential”, and I wish people whose fandom presence works like that didn’t go around advertising their perspective as the norm. I have never been enticed to write fic about a piece of media I didn’t enjoy in a significant manner. to me making fandom content is about appreciating what a story contains, so much that I want to play with the elements it presents for longer than any movie/book/tv show/videogame could ever allow, so I take them and start making my own shit with it.
I’m not saying this is the “right” way to do it, everyone knows their own reasons for being in fandom and nobody owes anyone an explanation of their motives to create. I just deeply resent the normalization of a culture of rejection/contempt for the original work in which a fandom is based of. from my experience this does nothing except creating bitter fandom environments where people seem more focused in talking about all the ways in which canon let them down than in doing anything else.
(via comfortstars)
