Should we as a community allow FanFiction onto the Story & Art Board?

Darrosh Jewfist·3/12/2015, 2:21:52 AM·1 votes·1,200 views

I know this is ultimately Riot's decision but on the side it says:

DO vote on discussions based on their relevancy to the community (use your heart).

My heart, it shall go.

From what I can see, the Community Creations tab seems to favor image links, cosplay, and youtube videos far, far, more than written text. Comics are probably an exception but because it's a visual media that is ready and quickly consumed, I imagine that's why they're upvoted higher. I mean, even then - the number of fanfictions on the CC boards are low.

Yet a recent Red Post was made regarding a fan written short work: "Living Life as Noxian Soldier."

The Red Post said "Really Good :)"

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/story-art/qkmpZsK3-living-life-as-a-noxian-soldier

So I mean, isn't this indirectly condoning some fan works, as long as its relevant to lore, on these boards? Ever since the move from the forums to the boards, the FanFiction forums lost the ability to update its main thread of recommendation/archives. They now have to compete in an upvote system that clearly favors quickly consumable media over written text.

Should we as a board, accept fanfiction (or maybe at least those relevant or speculating on the lore) within these hallowed boards?

Besides, it isn't like there's much to talk or speculate on besides a Retcon that occurred half a year ago.

;_; Muh tuh sents.

8 Comments

Narasimha3/12/2015, 3:45:52 AM3 votes

I'm honestly going to have to say no. Story and Art is for exactly just that. You could argue that we should have fan drawings here, but thats why we have a board called Community Creations. This little board is more for discussing Lore and occasionally Riot's artistic choice. If you want to make and share a story, that is great. But thats literally what Community Creations is for. The Sion story was good, don't get me wrong. But I still feel its in the wrong place.

TerraRising3/13/2015, 4:47:20 AM3 votes

A better solution would be to have Community Creations split into "Fan Art," "Fan Fiction," and "Cosplay."

GenoXx3/12/2015, 3:07:03 AM2 votes

Certainly. So many people have a talent to tell interesting stories, why not? I don't mean the trolls who spam love stories(Xano) but Just like that one guy who wrote about how it is to be a noxian soldier. I for one would love to tell stories i have in mind, but I'm not sure if i can post a story or not.

Either way it's not fair to not let the community not post fanfiction. If, Narrative is scared they might take take ideas(so they say) then don't read it. Simple as that.

bad arcade kitty3/13/2015, 5:03:12 AM1 votes

they should just rename the board 'art and story' to 'official art' because it's not clear how it's now