Fan Fiction Thursday
Posted by:
Planet Cool (---.elp.res.rr.com)
Date: January 29, 2008 01:23AM
I'm reading First Among Sequels at this time, I'm on chapter 12 or something (right after the part where she talks to the Pride and Prejudice characters, with their book getting a tune-up), and I started thinking about something I think is a bit interesting, considering one of the books early gimmicks. You know how each Thursday is supposed to be from a different TN book? Like, Thursday5 is from "The Great Samuel Pepys Fiasco," and, I assume, Thursday1 for TEA and so on? Well, that got me thinking: if someone were to write a Thursday Next fan fiction story, which Thursday would go there?
See, these are the kinds of things that keep me up at night. Using Ffordian logic, is every fan fiction character their direct equivalent from the original work, or a different one? And if the latter, then does every individual fan fiction have a different version of the character, even if they're "supposed" to be one and the same, or does the same "generic fan fiction character" handle them all? And, by extension, if a FF is not based on a book, but on a movie or cartoon or TV show or whatever, does that mean that there's a MovieWorld, CartoonWorld, and TVShowWorld to go along with the BookWorld? This baffles me to no end. Personally, though, I think ThursdayX handles all the Thursday Next fan fiction jobs. And I base this on absolutely nothing.
What do you think?
...and, by the way, who's Samuel Pepys? Famous? The name doesn't ring a bell.
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