almost time to go home

[hermionesviolin]

Prompted by conversation with musesfool about remixredux:

[Poll #701226]

Also: Nicole and I are going out for happy hour (followed by dinner) tomorrow [Friday! Huzzah!] after work. So clearly I'm going to spend my commercial breaks tonight flipping through my bartending book to remind me of what options exist and what's actually in assorted girly drinks. Sidenote: Mary Alice and I were discussing Scotch at lunch today. Good times.

Comments

[helholden.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't consider it a bother. I always read it. I just want to read the one I've heard of first, which has so far always been the remix. I'm not concerned with knowing ahead of time how it was altered. In fact, remixes are usually better read first. At least for me.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I have huge adaptation issues, so I always wanna read the original first, and I adore that Remix Redux is set up in such a way that it is easy to get to the original from the remix.

Personally I hate reading a remix and crediting the remixer with ideas that were in fact original to the original author, and I just generally feel like I get more out of a remix if I'm seeing what they did with the original (unless the remix doesn't add very much to the original, but then well it's not a very good remix).

[helholden.livejournal.com]

I never saw it as giving credit to first one who I read it from, since I know that the original idea wasn't theirs. But if I read the original first, then the remix won't have the weight of a proper fic behind it. You know what I mean? I know it's technically not an original creation, but I want it to matter as much as the original when I read it. Instead of just being a "copy fic" or something. So I read it first, knowing that if I read it afterwards, it won't have the same power because the original will overshadow it.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

But a lot of times a remix adds a lot to a story that wasn't in the original, so there can be plenty of stuff in a remix that the remixer invented (like a "missing scene" fanfic adding to a source text).

So I read it first, knowing that if I read it afterwards, it won't have the same power because the original will overshadow it.

Part of my insistence on reading the original fic first is my knowledge that I become very attached to the first way I experience a text, so if I read a remix first it would in some ways feel like the "definitive" take on the events that it and the original were tackling, and that feels wrong to me.

I tend to think that the best remixes can stand beside the original as an alternative point-of-view on the same events, or an alternative way that events could have played out or whatever.

[helholden.livejournal.com]

True, true. I have see that before.

Most of the time I think I just read. I don't often like to complicate things.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

:) Complicating's pretty much what I do.