Comments on: If P Then Q Revisited http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2002/06/20/if-p-then-q-revisited/ Cheating on the Kobayashi Maru since 2001 Fri, 29 May 2026 15:19:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: mike http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2002/06/20/if-p-then-q-revisited/#comment-33 Fri, 21 Jun 2002 16:05:13 +0000 http://www.ficml.org/jemimap/wordpress/2002/06/20/if-p-then-q-revisited/#comment-33 You missed another reason for writing/posting fanfic: emotional sharing. I believe a lot of people write fanfic out of their excitement with a show. They want to *participate* and fanfic is one way of doing that, especially for emotional and expressive people, or those more comfortable with non-face to face interaction. Someone is excited. They write something and post it, expecting others to connect to that excitement. When they do, it's a feedback loop of emotion. When they don't, it's emotionally crushing. That's why so many don't care about spelling/grammar/punctuation. It's secondary to the point. And it's why so many get so angry with critical feedback. It's seen as an attack on their emotions, as personal. Hey, it's just my theory but I think it's right. I wrote a whole essay on it! You missed another reason for writing/posting fanfic: emotional sharing. I believe a lot of people write fanfic out of their excitement with a show. They want to *participate* and fanfic is one way of doing that, especially for emotional and expressive people, or those more comfortable with non-face to face interaction.

Someone is excited. They write something and post it, expecting others to connect to that excitement. When they do, it’s a feedback loop of emotion. When they don’t, it’s emotionally crushing.

That’s why so many don’t care about spelling/grammar/punctuation. It’s secondary to the point. And it’s why so many get so angry with critical feedback. It’s seen as an attack on their emotions, as personal.

Hey, it’s just my theory but I think it’s right. I wrote a whole essay on it!

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