Oh, yeah, the use of 'shounen ai' in itself is a German peculiarity -- most international fandoms now use BL.
Still, I don't like it. Even though the Japanese now use BL themselves. And yes, it definitely is peculiar to German fandom (And I thought about editing the fanlore article about ten times already as well.)
But speaking of which, I talked to xavie a while back, about what we really loved about the ficathon_de challenge -- rediscovering to write fannishly in your own language.
Me too, but since they're on LJ and I'm not a big porn writer (no matter the language), I generally miss out on the fun. I did participate in the Wünsche Wochen last Christmas, though.
And I agree, certain things like sex scenes seem harder to write in German. I think it's because on the one hand we lack a certain emotional distance to words like "Schwanz" and on the other most of us are simply so much more used to reading English smut.
Open up yet another strand, this time German people assimilated into English media-fandom re-discovering their own language, and trying to find an audience? I'm not sure if there are enough re-patriates for this to succeed...but I'd sure like to try.
I'm not even sure how many actually left German fandom and how many are sort of ... split. I'm always in favour of German goodfic. And something I would really like is a Yuletide-like fic exchange in German, but I wouldn't know the first thing about how to start and promote something like that.
(My committee is trying to badger coders into writing a 'translation of...' feature into the Archive that links back to the original story and vice versa. That would be so.fucking.awesome.)
OMG that would be super doubleplus awesome! Like on the OTW website with "this content is also available in German/English/Swahili". And what committee are you talking about now *iz confused*?
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Date: 2009-05-03 02:19 pm (UTC)Still, I don't like it. Even though the Japanese now use BL themselves. And yes, it definitely is peculiar to German fandom (And I thought about editing the fanlore article about ten times already as well.)
But speaking of which, I talked to
Me too, but since they're on LJ and I'm not a big porn writer (no matter the language), I generally miss out on the fun. I did participate in the Wünsche Wochen last Christmas, though.
And I agree, certain things like sex scenes seem harder to write in German. I think it's because on the one hand we lack a certain emotional distance to words like "Schwanz" and on the other most of us are simply so much more used to reading English smut.
Open up yet another strand, this time German people assimilated into English media-fandom re-discovering their own language, and trying to find an audience? I'm not sure if there are enough re-patriates for this to succeed...but I'd sure like to try.
I'm not even sure how many actually left German fandom and how many are sort of ... split. I'm always in favour of German goodfic. And something I would really like is a Yuletide-like fic exchange in German, but I wouldn't know the first thing about how to start and promote something like that.
(My committee is trying to badger coders into writing a 'translation of...' feature into the Archive that links back to the original story and vice versa. That would be so.fucking.awesome.)
OMG that would be super doubleplus awesome! Like on the OTW website with "this content is also available in German/English/Swahili". And what committee are you talking about now *iz confused*?