Funny how fandom develops.
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valis2I'm reading a very interesting fic right now called Morning Has Broken, and in it there is this line:
He’d begun to purchase Re’em blood, which was an expensive and rare commodity. It was used in potent Strengthening Solutions...
In tLS I have this line...
He looked closer at the bottle...“Strengthening Solution,” he said, intrigued.
“Yes,” she said curtly.
“But it’s quite concentrated...Re’em blood, perhaps...”
“It is an entirely legal blend...”
I love this synergy, when two people find a canon detail and use it in a similar way independently of each other. There's a term for this in evolution that I suddenly can't seem to remember.
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marginaliana has just reminded me of that terrific essay I read last week...Thank you!
It was extremely absorbing...it talked about the specific, and the general, as applied to fandom. Certain personal details/items/inventions are so tricky and personal that no one would be able to replicate them independently, while other facts can be extrapolated from canon and show up more often in fanon. The essay says it better than I ever could.
He’d begun to purchase Re’em blood, which was an expensive and rare commodity. It was used in potent Strengthening Solutions...
In tLS I have this line...
He looked closer at the bottle...“Strengthening Solution,” he said, intrigued.
“Yes,” she said curtly.
“But it’s quite concentrated...Re’em blood, perhaps...”
“It is an entirely legal blend...”
I love this synergy, when two people find a canon detail and use it in a similar way independently of each other. There's a term for this in evolution that I suddenly can't seem to remember.
marginaliana has just reminded me of that terrific essay I read last week...Thank you!It was extremely absorbing...it talked about the specific, and the general, as applied to fandom. Certain personal details/items/inventions are so tricky and personal that no one would be able to replicate them independently, while other facts can be extrapolated from canon and show up more often in fanon. The essay says it better than I ever could.
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Date: 2006-08-19 04:25 pm (UTC)So many ideas float about, and it's logical that, as we've all read the canon books, we might come to the same conclusions independently.
Just fascinating!
Of course, along with putting together these new things, we have to come up with new controls, such as scarcity of availability or side effects, in order to explain why they're not used often, or to limit their power/effects.