The thing is it's hard to complain about that to friends when they are completely oblivious to fanfic.
That would be the 'generally familiar' part, yep, in that if you're not generally familiar, then generally you probably don't care (and are free to take the story on its own merits). For those published stories that have a history of once being fanfic, in fandoms with which I am not 'generally familiar', I have a pretty solid disinterest in learning/knowing whether it's too close or too far.
That, though, may be related to the fact that most of the stories proported to have once been fanfic are stories that never really get me so totally beside myself about the story at all, certainly not enough to care if I'm been bamboozled. I guess you could say the story's mostly flat (to me), as an ofic, anyway. And lacking a background-shared-fandom means I don't even have the care for the original story to rouse up indignation over the derived story, if that makes sense.
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Date: 6 Feb 2010 07:41 am (UTC)That would be the 'generally familiar' part, yep, in that if you're not generally familiar, then generally you probably don't care (and are free to take the story on its own merits). For those published stories that have a history of once being fanfic, in fandoms with which I am not 'generally familiar', I have a pretty solid disinterest in learning/knowing whether it's too close or too far.
That, though, may be related to the fact that most of the stories proported to have once been fanfic are stories that never really get me so totally beside myself about the story at all, certainly not enough to care if I'm been bamboozled. I guess you could say the story's mostly flat (to me), as an ofic, anyway. And lacking a background-shared-fandom means I don't even have the care for the original story to rouse up indignation over the derived story, if that makes sense.