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[seekingferret]

This year there's a panel on fanfic at Philcon, which would be mildly shocking except for its title:

"Fan Fiction: Stepping Stone or Cul de Sac?"


Oh, Philcon, never change. ;-)

(The description is possibly better than the title makes it sound: "Many writers nowadays start off writing fan fiction. Some stay and some move on. Is this a helpful stepping stone to other forms of writing fiction? Is it possible that fan fiction may be seen as an art form in its own right?")

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[sanguinity]

Well.

I'd almost call it cute, if it wasn't so condescending.

[seekingferret]

The standard for SF greybeards at Philcon was set for me during the 75th anniversary Philcon history panel where someone quite earnestly asked "Why did we ever get rid of the First Fandom/Second Fandom/Third Fandom system of ranking fans based on how soon after the first Worldcon they started getting involved with Con-going fandom?"

Compared to that, this is adorable.

[ambyr]

There was a similar panel at Capclave this year, which was happily nothing like the description promised (the panelists were all fic-writers).