I think it bothers me more from a social perspective than any sort of practical concern -- just the fact that you wouldn't be able to plunge wholeheartedly into your own fandom, despite your love for the characters, but basically have to fan in private (or participate under a pseudonym, which would be a trifle odd...).
Hmm, I can see this, but at the same time - in any large fandom I tend to stay on the fringes anyway, because fans can be, er, kind of nutso about their opinions, and I prefer to not argue mine (unless I'm in the mood or start feeling 'threatened' ^^;) And if it were my own work, it would be like that x100, because while I think the whole "it's like seeing my children getting raped!!" thing is crazy, I do get attached to my own chars, in a somewhat different way than I'm attached to the chars I fan on, and I would be more sensitive to criticisms of them. And then, I wouldn't want to risk stifling my own fans by making proclamations like, "I like this pairing and don't like that one!" (actually I'm secretly hoping that I'll inspire crazy non-canonical ships, it'll feel like I was doing something right. When I was doing my webcomic at least one person mentioned shipping two chars who I knew were never going to get together, and that just tickled me, that the chars were gaining that kind of life on their own, apart from what my story was doing with them...)
...I gotta admit, participating under a pseudonym sounds kind of tempting, even at the same time I'm going SOCKPUPPET NO WRONG! (On fandomsecrets recently I saw a secret in which someone wanted to have a fandom based on their original work, just so they could post ridiculous noncanonical smut under a pseudonym and then laugh at the people who cried OOC and said it was against the author's vision! And there's a wicked part of me that totally wants the same ^^;)
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Date: 2010-05-15 12:17 am (UTC)Hmm, I can see this, but at the same time - in any large fandom I tend to stay on the fringes anyway, because fans can be, er, kind of nutso about their opinions, and I prefer to not argue mine (unless I'm in the mood or start feeling 'threatened' ^^;) And if it were my own work, it would be like that x100, because while I think the whole "it's like seeing my children getting raped!!" thing is crazy, I do get attached to my own chars, in a somewhat different way than I'm attached to the chars I fan on, and I would be more sensitive to criticisms of them. And then, I wouldn't want to risk stifling my own fans by making proclamations like, "I like this pairing and don't like that one!" (actually I'm secretly hoping that I'll inspire crazy non-canonical ships, it'll feel like I was doing something right. When I was doing my webcomic at least one person mentioned shipping two chars who I knew were never going to get together, and that just tickled me, that the chars were gaining that kind of life on their own, apart from what my story was doing with them...)
...I gotta admit, participating under a pseudonym sounds kind of tempting, even at the same time I'm going SOCKPUPPET NO WRONG! (On fandomsecrets recently I saw a secret in which someone wanted to have a fandom based on their original work, just so they could post ridiculous noncanonical smut under a pseudonym and then laugh at the people who cried OOC and said it was against the author's vision! And there's a wicked part of me that totally wants the same ^^;)