{"id":14161,"date":"2015-08-21T14:13:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T19:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=14161"},"modified":"2015-08-21T14:13:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T19:13:43","slug":"in-praise-of-fan-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/in-praise-of-fan-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"In praise of fan fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/charltonteaching.blogspot.com\/2015\/08\/imagination-and-fan-fiction-versus.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Charlton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The importance of Fan Fiction is that, while very few people can (like Tolkien, Rowling etc) <strong>primarily<\/strong> create a meaningful, purposeful, participative Imaginative Universe &#8211; a much larger number of people can take such a universe and <strong>secondarily<\/strong> create within it; can incrementally extrapolate, interpolate, combine it with other such Universes, deepen and extend characters from it, make new plots using characters from it &#8211; and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Since this secondary creativity is typically done within a better &#8216;world&#8217; than the self-hating mainstream secular-alienated-nihilistic world of modern public discourse; and since the world of Fan Fiction is a part of a person&#8217;s life; this can serve to make a person&#8217;s life more meaningful &#8211; which is to say Fan Fiction can make a person&#8217;s life not just better but <strong>deeply<\/strong> better. And it has done, for very large numbers of people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Charlton: The importance of Fan Fiction is that, while very few people can (like Tolkien, Rowling etc) primarily create a meaningful, purposeful, participative Imaginative Universe &#8211; a much larger number of people can take such a universe and secondarily create within it; can incrementally extrapolate, interpolate, combine it with other such Universes, deepen and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/in-praise-of-fan-fiction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In praise of fan fiction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-and-anti-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-3Gp","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14164,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14161\/revisions\/14164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}