{"id":7290,"date":"2018-04-26T04:18:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T04:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2018\/04\/26\/atreefullofstars-docincredible\/"},"modified":"2018-12-04T08:54:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T08:54:05","slug":"atreefullofstars-docincredible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2018\/04\/26\/atreefullofstars-docincredible\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-7290 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2018\/04\/26\/atreefullofstars-docincredible\/attachment\/7291\/#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tumblr_p5cfp2NjbG1uxea8lo1_640-150x150.jpg\" 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height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tumblr_p5cfp2NjbG1uxea8lo8_640-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tumblr_p5cfp2NjbG1uxea8lo8_640-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tumblr_p5cfp2NjbG1uxea8lo8_640-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2018\/04\/26\/atreefullofstars-docincredible\/attachment\/7299\/#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tumblr_p5cfp2NjbG1uxea8lo9_640-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" 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http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/tumblr_p5cfp2NjbG1uxea8lo10_640-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atreefullofstars.tumblr.com\/post\/173313425129\/docincredible-rainbowrowell-fanbows\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">atreefullofstars<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/docincredible.tumblr.com\/post\/171712561574\/rainbowrowell-fanbows-rainbowrowell\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">docincredible<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rainbowrowell.tumblr.com\/post\/171705570466\/fanbows-rainbowrowell-reminding-us-why-shes\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">rainbowrowell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fanbows.tumblr.com\/post\/171704210019\/rainbowrowell-reminding-us-why-shes-our-queen\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">fanbows<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tmblr.co\/mwhkdWRiU_MXihK6PAeCYSA\">@rainbowrowell<\/a> reminding us why she\u2019s our queen ?<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rainbowrowell\/status\/971892332101537792\">x<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rainbowrowell\/status\/971892702588624896\">x<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rainbowrowell\/status\/971893804818161664\">x<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rainbowrowell\/status\/971893934627713026\">x<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rainbowrowell\/status\/971894490242961409\">x<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rainbowrowell\/status\/971895367318102016\">x<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rainbowrowell\/status\/972168495084572672\">x<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rainbowrowell\/status\/972168999487393792\">x<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rainbowrowell\/status\/972169648715247617\">x<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rainbowrowell\/status\/972171904911101952\">x<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sharing because I did in fact say all this \u2013 not because I feel ?-ly\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As someone who loves stories that are nothing but two interesting characters having long and rambling conversations, and is absolutely terrible at writing plots, I get where these tweets are coming from but\u2026<\/p>\n<p>When people say\u00a0\u201cit reads like fanfiction\u201d, they usually means\u00a0\u201cthis\u00a0reads like <b>bad<\/b> fanfiction\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t tell you how many times I\u2019ve said to myself\u00a0\u201cMan, I really wish I could just read something about this character dicking around on their off day\u201d and finding fanfiction to that nature\u2026 only to find that it is a bunch of sentence fragments and Meaningful Capital Letters assembled into the shape of the same hackneyed plots as the last ten stories I\u2019ve found, written in the first person by someone who doesn\u2019t understand the constraints of first person writing, who <i>might<\/i> understand the inner workings of the character I\u2019m interested in, but I can\u2019t tell if they do or not because rather than write about the character I\u2019m interested in they wrote about a completely different original character and then stretched the skin of the first character over and claimed it was the same character.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn\u2019t mind books being more like good fanfiction, but books being written like bad fanfiction is how we get the lowest tier of sentence fragments and Meaningful Capital Letters written in first person by someone who doesn\u2019t understand the constraints of first person young adult urban fantasy novels that go absolutely nowhere with anything (even though they promise that they have a ticking clock to apocalypse). I definitely want every novel to have a ticking clock, even if the only thing it\u2019s doing is telling the time.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese light novel series Bakemonogatari is an urban fantasy series that basically consists of long rambling conversations about complex Japanese wordplay and cute anime girls who are troubled by vaguely Lovecraftian mythological creatures, but it\u2019s one of the most successful light novel series ever. Because it promises precisely that and delivers on precisely what it promises. It\u2019s really, really good.<\/p>\n<p>When it was first posed to him that they adapt his book series into an anime television show, author Nisio Isin had no clue how they\u2019d do it. Not because it was a theoretically complex undertaking, but the opposite. The second story, Mayoi Snail, is pretty much nothing but one long conversation about a multitude of topics between the main character, his girlfriend, and the titular cute anime girl as they meander around an otherwise abandoned playground.<\/p>\n<p>How do you make an interesting animation out of that? But, somehow, they did it. By god, did they ever. And, most importantly, it\u2019s a very faithful adaptation. The Bakemonogatari anime series is a fucking visual trip, even though it\u2019s so sparse and barren there literally aren\u2019t even any background characters (though later seasons, which actually had a budget thanks to the first seasons success, would turn that into a stylistic narrative tool). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=e6hqNQJRGDI\">Hell, the first series wasn\u2019t even able to fully animate itself, but they turned the missing parts into a visual aesthetic.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When Rainbow Rowell says that she wishes books were more like fanfiction, she\u2019s probably thinking of a book a lot like Bakemonogatari\u2019s first volume (which contains what are probably its three strongest and most evocative stories, including Mayoi Snail), and not something like Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (which isn\u2019t a book, but does feel very much like bad fanfiction).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fanfiction is also where a lot of a) innovation and b) representation happens that doesn\u2019t to the same extent in mainstream published fiction. That\u2019s another facet of fanfiction I would like to see reflected in publication.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>atreefullofstars: docincredible: rainbowrowell: fanbows: @rainbowrowell reminding us why she\u2019s our queen ? (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) Sharing because I did in fact say all this \u2013 not because I feel ?-ly\u00a0 As someone who loves stories that are nothing but two interesting characters having long and rambling conversations, and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2018\/04\/26\/atreefullofstars-docincredible\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7301,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290\/revisions\/7301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}