I put 1-5, too (since there wasn't a zero option). I agree that there probably isn't a connection. I mean, I read fanfic because I adore the characters and am in some way unfulfilled by canon. Not because I want just any old romance or sexytimes, which is what I could get out of mass market romance. My friend reads fic, too, and doesn't read romance either, I believe, so I'm guessing she's of a similar mind. Maybe her thesis will be about how fanfic and romance can have very similar premises (bizarre/melodramatic/unexpected circumstances force characters together, etc.) but people read them for completely different reasons? Dunno how it'll be a feminist theory paper.
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Date: 2011-11-20 04:41 am (UTC)I put 1-5, too (since there wasn't a zero option). I agree that there probably isn't a connection. I mean, I read fanfic because I adore the characters and am in some way unfulfilled by canon. Not because I want just any old romance or sexytimes, which is what I could get out of mass market romance. My friend reads fic, too, and doesn't read romance either, I believe, so I'm guessing she's of a similar mind. Maybe her thesis will be about how fanfic and romance can have very similar premises (bizarre/melodramatic/unexpected circumstances force characters together, etc.) but people read them for completely different reasons? Dunno how it'll be a feminist theory paper.
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