Are werewolves ruining YOUR creativity?
Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 2:46 am
We may have discussed if we're ruining werewolves, but are werewolves ruining you?
I'm aware that some of us do "our own thing" when it comes to werewolves, be it innovation, deconstruction, dark parody, twist, antithesis, or self-entertainment. To me, this is absolutely natural, as natural as making art for yourself or experimenting with more ways to make music.
But what really concerns me isn't the quality of the ideas people create, as you can just make it well-written enough that people might just forgive you for being unoriginal (thus this is another discussion completely), but rather just how far people want to take it with these ideas, especially when they declare that they want to be more service-minded to the werefandom.
I have seen instances where authors and artists alike claim that they can pull off an innovative werewolf story and/or lore to impress the fandom, regardless of how (over)confident or how humble they are, saying, "I've added X, Y, and Z to the lore, people are gonna love this", or "I do X, Y and Z for happy reader, I happy reader too". While pulling off something like that is commendable in itself, I find it rather tedious whenever I find out that it's NEVER what I expected them to say.
In other words, this is what I'm still seeing in the fandom:
I have tried to be patient with this kind of issue. I do blame myself for my inaction, because I myself can make my own ideal form of self-entertainment, and forget everything about this... But doing that all the time feels about as good as masturbating; it can only do me so much until it starts becoming painful and stale.
I really want to see someone blowing me away with something better than what I come up with... and I'm fully aware that this is like wishing for transcension into godhood without any form of qualification for such a thing, no thanks to my incredibly high standards. I still haven't found anything that I consider to be above me, and because of that, I will keep waiting under the stars, hoping that I'll stumble into my jar of Branston Pickle: Moonlight Paste flavor.
Failing that, I can still leave this fandom indefinitely in hopes that I'll be a little bit more at ease with myself. After all, many in the fandom already agree that my take on shapeshifters are so far away from their comfort zones that I might as well be part of the sci-fi/fantasy crowd - one crowd I surely wish to stay away from.
I'm aware that some of us do "our own thing" when it comes to werewolves, be it innovation, deconstruction, dark parody, twist, antithesis, or self-entertainment. To me, this is absolutely natural, as natural as making art for yourself or experimenting with more ways to make music.
But what really concerns me isn't the quality of the ideas people create, as you can just make it well-written enough that people might just forgive you for being unoriginal (thus this is another discussion completely), but rather just how far people want to take it with these ideas, especially when they declare that they want to be more service-minded to the werefandom.
I have seen instances where authors and artists alike claim that they can pull off an innovative werewolf story and/or lore to impress the fandom, regardless of how (over)confident or how humble they are, saying, "I've added X, Y, and Z to the lore, people are gonna love this", or "I do X, Y and Z for happy reader, I happy reader too". While pulling off something like that is commendable in itself, I find it rather tedious whenever I find out that it's NEVER what I expected them to say.
In other words, this is what I'm still seeing in the fandom:
I have tried to be patient with this kind of issue. I do blame myself for my inaction, because I myself can make my own ideal form of self-entertainment, and forget everything about this... But doing that all the time feels about as good as masturbating; it can only do me so much until it starts becoming painful and stale.
I really want to see someone blowing me away with something better than what I come up with... and I'm fully aware that this is like wishing for transcension into godhood without any form of qualification for such a thing, no thanks to my incredibly high standards. I still haven't found anything that I consider to be above me, and because of that, I will keep waiting under the stars, hoping that I'll stumble into my jar of Branston Pickle: Moonlight Paste flavor.
Failing that, I can still leave this fandom indefinitely in hopes that I'll be a little bit more at ease with myself. After all, many in the fandom already agree that my take on shapeshifters are so far away from their comfort zones that I might as well be part of the sci-fi/fantasy crowd - one crowd I surely wish to stay away from.