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"Oh those don't count as newspapers. Newspapers are professional. Those are just zines."

It's why I hate people looking down on fanfiction, too. Aliens was Alien fanfiction. The New Testament is OT fanfiction. Hell, nolan's The Odyssey is fanfiction.

The establishment uses terms to dismiss outsider art as less-than, and this isn't much different. (They of course get to decide what the "inside" is)



>Aliens was Alien fanfiction

Just because an established Hollywood director was a fan of the first Alien movie does make his script for Alien's sequel "fan fiction".

Cameron had already written and directed The Terminator when the owners of the Alien franchise chose his script for the sequel.

(Fifty Shades of Grey in contrast really did originate as fan fiction.)




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