/PREENS. MY EXCITEMENT IS CONTAGIOUS IT SEEMS. (Excellent)
That's very true! I think part of the reason I don't enjoy them as much as I used to is more a flaw on my part than the writer's part, though; I tend to skim when I read something for the first time, which means I tend to lose meaning and implication from a good drabble when every word is significant.
I do agree about fandom and its shared knowledge base, and I actually think that's why I like reading fanfiction so much. You can essentially skip introduction to the characters and world because people would (generally) already know them, and I admit I'm pretty fascinated by the many interpretations of the same characters. It's pretty interesting comparing and contrasting peoples' ideas of the same character while they've (hopefully) kept the character's core personality, and that's just something you generally don't get outside fandom!
(GOING EVEN FURTHER WITH THIS TANGENT, I imagine the upper plane in TWEWY to be something like this. A massive conglomerate of individuals who pool shared knowledge together, not unlike a more united form of the Internet)
Yeah, though I think it's something best done at the beginning/end of the year not... right in the middle of it xD;; I can't help but have a little bit of bile fascination with that Penguin book, though.
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That's very true! I think part of the reason I don't enjoy them as much as I used to is more a flaw on my part than the writer's part, though; I tend to skim when I read something for the first time, which means I tend to lose meaning and implication from a good drabble when every word is significant.
I do agree about fandom and its shared knowledge base, and I actually think that's why I like reading fanfiction so much. You can essentially skip introduction to the characters and world because people would (generally) already know them, and I admit I'm pretty fascinated by the many interpretations of the same characters. It's pretty interesting comparing and contrasting peoples' ideas of the same character while they've (hopefully) kept the character's core personality, and that's just something you generally don't get outside fandom!
(GOING EVEN FURTHER WITH THIS TANGENT, I imagine the upper plane in TWEWY to be something like this. A massive conglomerate of individuals who pool shared knowledge together, not unlike a more united form of the Internet)
Yeah, though I think it's something best done at the beginning/end of the year not... right in the middle of it xD;; I can't help but have a little bit of bile fascination with that Penguin book, though.