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discussion of both themes in the next section, the reader can see the
emergence of a problem arising out of this communal process and the key
issue of canon versus fanon: plagiarism by accident.
Interactive: Eiko
Becoming a member of Yuri’s RPG, many things have struck
me about it. The first thing that surprised me was the
disproportionate amount of time spent in OOC chat, rather than IC
chat. As it is a role playing game, and the purpose therefore, is to
roleplay I would have thought that the amount of roleplaying chat
would be greater than that spent OOC. However, long
conversations will continue in the OOC room, and sometimes
people will repeatedly request IC chat to no avail. There is also a
fair amount of OC chat [another abbreviation for “OOC”] over in the
IC room, placed in brackets to denote it as such, and often it will
take a while for the IC action to begin. While this can at times be
frustrating, it also reinforces the idea that we are not participating
simply to RP, but to form connections.
Another interesting aspect of RPing which I was discussing
with one of the players the other day is how the characters you play
have a tendency to run away with you, and take on a life of their
own. Both of us admitted that our characters were shaping
themselves in ways which were not included in the
characterizations we had originally intended. We concluded that, in
RPing, as in real life, characters are shaped by other characters they
meet/interact with.
3. Writing Fanfics – or fandom from an author’s
point of view
Dinah is a fanfiction author in the Harry Potter fandom: She writes
general fiction, but has also written slash fiction, and appreciates slash when
she can see it in the canon. She reads both slash and gen fic. As an author who
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