Why do people hate BNFs?
May. 12th, 2004 09:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icarusI really don't understand this BNF phenomenon. I just don't get it.
I don't see why people go "whee, Icarus!" when they find out their review or whatever is from me. I understand "whee, Stories!" -- or -- "whee, Icarus' Stories!" That makes sense to me, because this is all about the stories, all about the fun of writing. If you've liked something I wrote in the past, there's good chance you'll like the next one. I'm the same way about "whee, Candy!"
But I don't know why the focus shifts from the story to the person. What the hell...?
I don't see why people go "whee, Icarus!" when they find out their review or whatever is from me. I understand "whee, Stories!" -- or -- "whee, Icarus' Stories!" That makes sense to me, because this is all about the stories, all about the fun of writing. If you've liked something I wrote in the past, there's good chance you'll like the next one. I'm the same way about "whee, Candy!"
But I don't know why the focus shifts from the story to the person. What the hell...?
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Date: 2004-05-13 12:41 pm (UTC)People are sheep. Fans particularly are sheep. You are a sheep, and I am a sheep. We flock to the in communities, we write characters the same way in fads (see recent jump in alpha!Remus), we pick what kinds of weird/off-beat fics are cool and which are just disturbing based on what a BNF tells us, we squee when BNFs friend us. We want to be bigger sheep than we are, we want to be the rams, able to dominate the herd. We are thoroughly despicable, and in any decent civilization would be taken out into the desert and left to die.
Love ya!
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Date: 2004-05-13 01:36 pm (UTC)Baaaaaaah.
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Date: 2004-05-13 01:51 pm (UTC)Baaaaaaah.