I could write whole papers, I believe, on the motifs and stereotypes of lemon fic in the InuYasha fandom. There is a huge amount of modeling on each other that goes on, a little fanon of its own, one probably for each major pairing, both canon and alt.
But I think this way...in terms of motif and similarity, and clustering of things into groups. I'd like to trace the evolution of some of the fanon conventions over the years, but I don't know if I have enough access to some of the early fics, like where did the convention that building a house was a courtship activity (it's not in that period in Japan), or several other things I've been curious about. I like to watch and study the evolution of story variants and ideas.
If I was still in academe, I'd be doing some of this. But now I'm just curious and have no reason to really push to find the answers.
Right now, instead of fanfiction, I'm studying the very early, mostly Welsh stories about King Arthur and their relationship to some of the Irish legendary material, and thinking about writing something that has no connection to InuYasha at all...although I did find something that could be used in a AU context: A mythic battle against a group of beings called Dogheads...(shows up in both Irish legends not about Arthur and the Arthurian material) LOL.
I have occasionally run across a story which I believe was derivative of one or another of my post manga bits, but long as it's not real plagarism, but just derivative, I don't care a whole lot. I don't mind being an influence; I would be upset, though, about being ripped off.
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But I think this way...in terms of motif and similarity, and clustering of things into groups. I'd like to trace the evolution of some of the fanon conventions over the years, but I don't know if I have enough access to some of the early fics, like where did the convention that building a house was a courtship activity (it's not in that period in Japan), or several other things I've been curious about. I like to watch and study the evolution of story variants and ideas.
If I was still in academe, I'd be doing some of this. But now I'm just curious and have no reason to really push to find the answers.
Right now, instead of fanfiction, I'm studying the very early, mostly Welsh stories about King Arthur and their relationship to some of the Irish legendary material, and thinking about writing something that has no connection to InuYasha at all...although I did find something that could be used in a AU context: A mythic battle against a group of beings called Dogheads...(shows up in both Irish legends not about Arthur and the Arthurian material) LOL.
I have occasionally run across a story which I believe was derivative of one or another of my post manga bits, but long as it's not real plagarism, but just derivative, I don't care a whole lot. I don't mind being an influence; I would be upset, though, about being ripped off.