Talk:Fan fiction

I think calling Mosaic "official" for the purposes of this article is something of a stretch. There's an "it's not official" disclaimer at the bottom of every installment. We need different wording. --ItsWalky 19:18, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

If Mosaic isn't official do Van Reyk and Knowler really qualify as fan fiction writers having made the jump to official media to begin with? Not to rib on these guys (they do great work on the project), just asking for the sake of the article's accuracy. --74.57.3.251 22:22, 19 March 2008 (UTC) (Detour at work)

Crossovers

"Crossovers. The other property used varies at times, and the quality of the story seems directly linked to the writer's skill and the second party used with the Transformers."

Uhhhh, isn't the quality of a story ALWAYS directly linked to the writer's skill? I would change it but I'm not really sure what this sentence is supposed to mean. Anybody want to take a crack at it? --Khajidha 10:35, 12 May 2010 (EDT)

Yeah, this article was full of redundant language. I pulled a lot of that out (Why add that this is a "fanfic favorite" WHEN THIS IS ALREADY A LIST OF FANFIC FAVORITES) and also yanked a few piggy-backed fanfic "genres" that I didn't think were really all that archetypical. Really? Are there that many fanfics where Transformers are babies? --ItsWalky 11:19, 12 May 2010 (EDT)

It seems to inspire a lot of "art" over at deviantart, don't know how much is written about it. --Khajidha 11:21, 12 May 2010 (EDT)

Yeah, a list of typical fanart genres would be a lot different from a list of typical fanfic genres. They lend themselves to different topics. --ItsWalky 11:31, 12 May 2010 (EDT)

From what I come across when looking for fanfic, I'd say there are enough babyfics (or otherwise very young children) to warrant a mention as category. They are not always about baby versions of the main cast though. Sometimes, they are the baby versions of OC's (children of canon characters then). Geewunling 15:05, 12 May 2010 (EDT)