Gorgeous, and sums up my opinion on fanfic in general. To parse it more closely would be jacking off butterflies, IMO. Also, you're right, the addendum is the cherry on top.
Puts me in mind of Heinlein's old hero, I forget his name, the one that married into the Lazarus Long family. He was an author mainly because, as he put it (and I'm paraphrasing here), you can take Shakespeare, "file off the serial numbers", and turn Macbeth into a completely new story. That is the same story, of course, lol. I get a chuckle whenever I see a review for something like March, thinking of how the author has just filed off the serial numbers...
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Date: 22 May 2010 03:22 pm (UTC)Puts me in mind of Heinlein's old hero, I forget his name, the one that married into the Lazarus Long family. He was an author mainly because, as he put it (and I'm paraphrasing here), you can take Shakespeare, "file off the serial numbers", and turn Macbeth into a completely new story. That is the same story, of course, lol. I get a chuckle whenever I see a review for something like March, thinking of how the author has just filed off the serial numbers...
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