1. ...shit, I know this stuff, hang on. I know ontd_ai did something fairly recently, but since I'm not actually in the fandom, my knowledge is very scanty. The thing where people bid on fanworks to raise money for charities is Sweet Charity (http://www.sweet-charity.net/). I know of individual fen who will do fundraisers for things; synecdochic has done so (http://synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/tag/any+soldier), and I'm pretty sure miss_porcupine has. Although I think those two are less fanworks-fandom related and more fandom-fandom (the community) related. It's a vehicle to tell a story.
2. I write fic because there's a story I want to tell that isn't told within the context of the original work. Maybe background, or aftermath, or in-between scenes -- all the things that are hinted at and promised but not actually there. My concept of canon is...fluid, I suppose. *clears throat* I started out in HP fandom before the movies had really taken hold; there was One True Canon. People who wrote using movie canon were mercilessly mocked. (This is why I had major, major issues (http://bedlamsbard.livejournal.com/240305.html) coming into Narnia fandom writing movie canon, I kid you not. I am still slightly shocked I managed to get over those.) I am not really sure how my rigid canon turned into what I consider fairly fluid canon; with Narnia, at least, I pick and choose my canon between books and movies, which I think may come from the fact that for a while there, I was reading (not writing) on the edges of various comics fandom -- especially with the ones that have ten trillion incarnations (Batman, Fantastic Four, Superman/Smallville), you really can pick and choose your canons, or even what pieces you want from the canons. With fic...don't even get me started on fic, I don't think I can handle talking about it right now. *kicks Dust* (And when it comes to porn, I mostly write it because...uh, well, I want to. I don't know. I have no interest whatsoever right now in writing PWP fic; I have the original for that.) Okay, wait, I think I have to add something here. In my own fandom, the fandom that I'm writing in? I'm generally a selfish fan. I don't like to read in the fandom I'm writing in. I don't like disagreeing with people; I don't like reading fic or watching vids or reading meta that disagrees with my vision of the world and the characters. I can do that in fandoms I'm not deeply invested in; I have problems doing it in fandoms that I am. I get into a writing fandom because I see the source material and want to do something with it; I have very clear ideas about what that might be. And I'll read early on, but later? Later, I can't, or at least it becomes a lot harder for me to do so. I don't recognize the people or the places that are being written about, not anymore. This is why I don't read Narnia fic, I don't watch Narnia vids, I don't read Narnia meta -- although the meta I can generally handle a lot more easily than fic or vids. But then again, I don't go looking for it, and if I do find any of it, it's generally from that circle of people that agree with me. (Holy shit, I sound closed-minded.)
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2. I write fic because there's a story I want to tell that isn't told within the context of the original work. Maybe background, or aftermath, or in-between scenes -- all the things that are hinted at and promised but not actually there. My concept of canon is...fluid, I suppose. *clears throat* I started out in HP fandom before the movies had really taken hold; there was One True Canon. People who wrote using movie canon were mercilessly mocked. (This is why I had major, major issues (http://bedlamsbard.livejournal.com/240305.html) coming into Narnia fandom writing movie canon, I kid you not. I am still slightly shocked I managed to get over those.) I am not really sure how my rigid canon turned into what I consider fairly fluid canon; with Narnia, at least, I pick and choose my canon between books and movies, which I think may come from the fact that for a while there, I was reading (not writing) on the edges of various comics fandom -- especially with the ones that have ten trillion incarnations (Batman, Fantastic Four, Superman/Smallville), you really can pick and choose your canons, or even what pieces you want from the canons. With fic...don't even get me started on fic, I don't think I can handle talking about it right now. *kicks Dust* (And when it comes to porn, I mostly write it because...uh, well, I want to. I don't know. I have no interest whatsoever right now in writing PWP fic; I have the original for that.) Okay, wait, I think I have to add something here. In my own fandom, the fandom that I'm writing in? I'm generally a selfish fan. I don't like to read in the fandom I'm writing in. I don't like disagreeing with people; I don't like reading fic or watching vids or reading meta that disagrees with my vision of the world and the characters. I can do that in fandoms I'm not deeply invested in; I have problems doing it in fandoms that I am. I get into a writing fandom because I see the source material and want to do something with it; I have very clear ideas about what that might be. And I'll read early on, but later? Later, I can't, or at least it becomes a lot harder for me to do so. I don't recognize the people or the places that are being written about, not anymore. This is why I don't read Narnia fic, I don't watch Narnia vids, I don't read Narnia meta -- although the meta I can generally handle a lot more easily than fic or vids. But then again, I don't go looking for it, and if I do find any of it, it's generally from that circle of people that agree with me. (Holy shit, I sound closed-minded.)