A thought that could also be a question for other writers

[leethet]

Given the upsurge in readership post-movie, I find it feels really odd to me to think of people reading my stories and picturing the movie-verse guys in them. I can't even imagine it - not having seen the film I can't see those actors/characters at all, let alone in my stories - but considering the possibility is really weird.

Am I the only one who thinks about that?

Comments

[elmey.livejournal.com]

Having seen the movie, I can't picture the movie characters in my stories at all. Until you said that, it never occurred to me that someone else might--but I suppose they do. I can't imagine it's a very satisfactory read though.

I tend toward psychological examination of the characters more than anything else and the characters really are very different.tbh when someone says you could read this story and exchange the characters and it would still work, I suspect it's pretty much an any two guys story and pass it by.

[leethet.livejournal.com]

I think it's just that I'm assuming a lot of the hits I've gotten recently are from folks who have only seen the movie - they want some fic, but they aren't viewing the fic as from the series, because they only know the movie. It's a guess, of course, but it was an interesting thought. How do the movie-verse characters fit into a story that has no conception of them?

[elmey.livejournal.com]

I check out the mfu tag on tumblr every now and then. There are definitely some movie fans that have checked out the TV show. I'm sure there are some new readers because of that, but how many I have no idea.

I have noticed (from doing short stories) that anything fairly new marked explicit has had an explosion of readership--I'm not sure all those readers are looking for true to canon characters ;)

[leethet.livejournal.com]

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