Can you even prevent people from writing fanfiction about your characters? I think it's impossible. Same with shipping. People will ship just about anything even if it will never happen.
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Can you even prevent people from writing fanfiction about your characters? I think it's impossible.
You just answered your own question it's literally impossible
As long as the fanbase isn't rabid who cares?
Just avoid places like A03 and you should be fine.
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There’s nothing you can do to prevent it. What you can prevent is creating an environment where your fans think they have permission to harangue you into making their fan theories come true. Basically if you allow any fan ideas into your mixture in a misguided attempt to pay them homage, you’re inadvertently giving them license to think they have real say in the story. Fan fiction belongs outside the source material, never in it.
>Can you even prevent people from writing fanfiction about your characters?
Nope. The only things you can do are tell people you don't want to see it, make fun of those who insist on informing you about fanfic anyway, and then move on with your life.
This is the right idea
how hard is it to just stop thinking about it? it should be easy to care about literally anything else
Imagine if you were having a mental breakdown and your wife sighed in admiration and said "He's so handsome" instead of showing concern.
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>writing fanfiction ?!?!?
there are people 3d modeling and making 3d prints of my character .
Thats not something we can avoid ...
What is your character?
With the internet existing, people are free to do whatever they want.
So you're saying we have to kill the internet?
Without question.
it's impossible and it can only be stopped legally if a fanfic writer tries to profit off it because belief or or not, some put their "work" behind pay walls. So it's generally something that most people accept even if they dont like it.
Personally, I wouldnt mind it because fanfic just fuels fandom and therefore keeps the product and its value alive longer this profit.
You can try
How could she make a book series centered around two effeminate sexy vampire falling in love and not expect people to write fanfiction about it? That was inevitable from the start and she should have known that.
It's like trying to prevent porn from being drawn, impossible, the best you can do is ignore it.
Honestly unless it's gets to the point where people are fighting over ships/fanfics, it's nice seeing people so invested in your creation that they create their own story within it
I believe it's possible to psyop a fandom, you just have to take careful steps to do so. The only way to make a fandom into the community you want is to cultivate it from the very start: you have to be a huge nerd and a prospector of how fandom culture works to understand what I mean: if you don't want people shipping the hero and villain, don't give them the tension or relationship that would attract hero/villain shipping, for example.
I firmly believe it's possible to do what you're talking about; my proposed solution is to make it anti-fandom - don't make relationships so close that they're almost romantic but don't make it so they're sexless either (as it has the opposite effect most of the time).
I'll use Zutara as a perfect example of this: Zutara was NOT the intended endgame ship that Bryke wanted, preferring Kataang. Yet Zutara lives on in spite of canon, and that's precisely because Zutara as a ship (in-canon) is born of dramatic tension and a dynamic that evolved and ultimately has resolution within the narrative. There is intrigue, depth, and a good story between the two. Girls in particular love the ship because of Katara's agency and control over what she wants - Zutara is less about the bad boy getting the good girl and more about the good girl earning and owning the bad boy (who is not so bad and simps for the good girl).
The problem is Bryke DIDN'T intend this; what they wanted was Kataang, except Kataang didn't appeal to girls because of Aang lacking traditional masculine traits, particularly reliability and a commanding and courageous presence. Aang acts too much like a little brother, not enough like a MAN. As a result, only boys like Aang, and no girl wants Aang nor does a man want to be Aang. He has nothing to desire or envy.
What they should have done was make it so Aang was the sort of person Katara was attracted to (and by extension, appealing towards women), and that Aang became a man worthy of her attention and love, but that didn't happen.
Ultimately, you have to put in the work to make a fandom want the things you want, otherwise you end up fricked over.
>don't give them the tension or relationship that would attract hero/villain shipping, for example.
The trouble with that is that the show will likely feel drained of emotion and make the show weaker. I’ve definitely seen some cases in cartoons where you can tell the writers were trying to stop people from liking a ship and it just made the show boring, confusing, or frustrating to watch. It becomes pretty obvious when you can tell the writers are giving two characters fewer and fewer scenes together and their animosity is just never resolved or just stuck in limbo.
The idea is to not give them animosity to begin with, or to include characters that fulfill the romantic void so you don't pair the hero with the villain - this means giving female characters and love interests active roles in the story and having agency and importance, which is something a lot of people don't get right.
Starfire/Raven is a huge pairing historically because both Raven and Starfire have an active interest and their relationship is emphasized more than Slade and Robin's. Had TT put Slade and Robin's focus over the former, fandom would have responded appropriately.
This is kinda why everyone pairs Steve with Bucky; Bucky's lack of agency in-universe and emotional connection and constant focus from Steve as a character is what allows him to be popular with women. Bucky is a tortured soul used and abused by everyone evil, and is only saved by THE HERO who is willing to do anything to rescue him. There's more importance of Bucky in the moment that Peggy's ever was, and the only way to stop gay ships from happening is to make more female characters important and big to the narrative, and able for women to properly identify with (and by extension, desirable by men).
meant to say Starfire/Robin, whoops.
In short, it's a careful procedure of balancing emotions, interpersonal conflict, and tension. Shipping will only follow character dynamics centered around obsession and passion.
Incest shipping happens when a story is primarily centered around a family and ONLY a family for the most part. Pinecest was popular because the only characters women could relate to in S1 was Mabel, while lusting after Dipper on his road to maturity. There was no one else outside the family to go bananas over tension for. Pinecest died once Mabel's character was thrown away in the trash during S2 and when Pacifica eclipsed Mabel as the new hotness who women could relate to and identify with. Encanto family shipping is popular for the same reason: it's all in the family.
One last thing is to just make the other person ugly and gross (and not even in a sexy ugly bastard way). Nobody ships the hero and villain if they're ugly and gross but BORING at that. Some women will go "YES THIS UGLY GROSS OLD MAN IS FRICKING ME", but as long as you make them boring and NOT sexy or cute, it won't happen.
This is also why NTR occurs so often: if the main couple aren't feverishly and dangerously obsessed with each other (Gomez and Morticia), women will flock to relationships in the story where that tension and passion exists: where the woman is at the mercy of the villain or the rival.
Just make the women characters more important and able for women to identify (and so men can simp). Give them agency. That's all.
No, but here's my exhaustive list of ways that it COULD happen, that you'd be able to make a show that doesn't have any fanfiction or shipping:
A. Making a show that gets canceled before it airs and it's canceled so early that no character designs or summaries get revealed
B.
Or you could just keep them entirely to yourself.
That technically kinda falls under A, but I'll give you that.
Yes you can by being absolutely unpopular.
Sniff.
It would require a boring show.
You can’t stop people from writing fan fiction. If you try to stop it you’ll just look like an butthole, potentially alienate some super fans, and in the end people will still write it. Unless someone is trying to sell it, either ignore it, or better yet, give them a little shoutout. It’s usually a good idea to encourage people who fell in love with your work.
I remember seeing foot fetish art of this character but it makes no sense because we've never seen him barefoot in the show, not even once.