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Fanfiction History - Because Virgil Was A Homer Fanboy (pt 1)
🕑 Added 2025-05-14 16:58:36 +0000 UTCMay I present, for your entertainment, because it's not going public until it's a complete (and very long) video, the first part of my newest project on the history of fanfiction.
Because yes, I decided I'm going to make one of those extremely long videos deep diving into a subject, I hear that's what people are into these days, and I've been wanting to remake my history of fanfiction series for quite a while.
I am very excited. I am currently writing the 'history of copyright' section, but I can hardly wait to get into the history of the fanfic sites themselves, because DRAMA, SO MUCH DRAMA :)
$5+ Patrons, I will see you on Friday (or Saturday if you're Australian, I suppose) and everyone, I hope you enjoy the video. If you have suggestions for topics to cover or corrections or any of that jazz, you know where to put them!
YouTube version: https://youtu.be/aZ1blsq8BWU
Comments
SpicyMcHÃ ggi
and here i just thought Euripedes was the tailor Eumenides brother
Fenrir Wolfganger
Maybe if you tried wooing races and waiting to be rejected before you exterminated them you might have a better rep. Also get a PR firm, and don't exterminate them when you think no one's looking.
Denis Drozdoff
Fun fact: one of the founding texts of Ukrainian literature is a modern!AU (well 18th century "modern") of Aeneid.
Jill Bearup
[please insert the dial-up internet sound here]
Brenton Clark
Ahh, the year 2000, what a time to be a teenager
Michael Witry
Gilgamesh is also home to the story of Utnapishtim, who learns that a god is planning to destroy the earth with a flood and builds a boat to prepare for it. He eventually sends out a dove to see if the waters have receded. Sounds familiar.
Jesse Thompson
The challenge of "true originality" is that anything that *is* truly original is also by definition removed from the life experience of any audience, and thus incomprehensible and uninteresting. We can only ground things in communal understanding by referring back to familiar tropes, at least in *some* fashion or another. 🙂
Sagitta
I bet whoever started ancient king fanfic was annoyed when the Gilgamesh/slash/Enkidu community took over.
Anders
The Iliad has a lot in common with the Mahabharata. Crecganford made a video about it. Recommended.
Anders
Can there be a non-derivative work? Aren't we all drinking from the bubbling cauldron of stories?
Leonard Richard Stanway
I am ten years older than you! Take it as a comfort that I will forever be older than you.
Jonathan Campbell
Jill made the "Saga of Twitch" to warn us that she is extremely vindictive when it comes to those who wrong her legally.
What If Brigade
I like the concept of copyright, however I'll note that patents of 20 years function better. "Life of the author plus 50 years" is a barrier to innovation and has robbed us of so many great works. I should be able to write a book based in the setting of Just Stab Me Now in 2044, not the year 2146.
Haldon Lindstrom
I don't know about anyone else, but I definitely signed up for an amateur stage sword combatant to tell me stuff I didn't know about media I may never have heard of. I'm excited!
Jim Sanderson
Fun video, thank you! Loved the cliff hanger. Speaking of derivative works, Stephen Fry's retelling of the Odyssey came out in the US today.
Ekij
Oh yes when Ishtar wants a monster to go kill someone it's *fine* but when the Daleks do it we're "*evil*"
