Ohh, I see, I follow what you're talking about better now. If we keep to the cases I lined out, maybe in that case for the aesthetic/for the meme/lmao why not crackships would actually go under case 3 because the motivation isn't necessarily self-gratifying or a part of a narrative design, but rather if there is a motivation, it's using the context of the ship as the primary "meat" of it, so to speak.
Like, not all meta is deep and engaging or even respectful of the source material -- have you seen some of the stuff I write about Cookie Run? x'D -- and just like case 1 going both from "wanting to tell a specific kind of story with some grand design of communicating an important theme" to "I like this trope, let's make it happen" and case 2 going from "I'm exploring my own kinks due to [whatever reason author wants to give]" to "hoho hot fake guy taking it up the bum", case 3 shouldn't be held to a higher standard. Meta writers aren't inherently more dignified than any other kinda writer.
(That's probably something to clarify -- I am definitely coming at this from a writer's perspective that focuses on what people write and why, and what people read and why also. I'm not really someone who knows how to intellectually engage in visual, immediate and memetic fandom, I'm just not, so that means gaps in my understanding of what motivates people to Do The Thing.)
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Date: 3/11/19 14:18 (UTC)Like, not all meta is deep and engaging or even respectful of the source material -- have you seen some of the stuff I write about Cookie Run? x'D -- and just like case 1 going both from "wanting to tell a specific kind of story with some grand design of communicating an important theme" to "I like this trope, let's make it happen" and case 2 going from "I'm exploring my own kinks due to [whatever reason author wants to give]" to "hoho hot fake guy taking it up the bum", case 3 shouldn't be held to a higher standard. Meta writers aren't inherently more dignified than any other kinda writer.
(That's probably something to clarify -- I am definitely coming at this from a writer's perspective that focuses on what people write and why, and what people read and why also. I'm not really someone who knows how to intellectually engage in visual, immediate and memetic fandom, I'm just not, so that means gaps in my understanding of what motivates people to Do The Thing.)