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Old 12-20-2023, 06:50 AM   #2306
John F
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Please note the question mark at the end of your post. If you had posted "Fifty Shades originated as fan fiction." <= notice the period making this a statement unlike your question mark which makes your claim to have looked up the information before posting to appear disingenuous.

The difference between 'John F. is alive?' and 'John F. is alive.' for instance.
I can see how you would be confused. I view adding the question mark as being polite. Sort of self deprecating. May make it easier to accept that an error was made, or a post doesn't really make sense, or a posters view isn't the only one, or a poster lacks empathy, ... Yes, all that in a question mark.

I'll be blunt then. Aleron Ives post really didn't make any sense to me.

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On one of my Discord servers, we were talking about how awkward it is to be reading a novel and then recognize it as a fanfiction with the serial numbers filed off - they never quite read right, taking a story based in an established universe (and usually with established characters) and then just trying to strip every bit of that universe from it.

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How can you not know it's a fanfiction from the start? Do you not compare the titles you buy to the author's bibliography to see if they're genuine before you buy them?
If you pick up the book, how would you know what universe it came from, if the universe information was scrubbed? FWIW, I didn't know what "filed off" was.
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