The Fan Fiction Phenomena

this is my final essay for my popular culture class. this essay is about fan culture by the way. hope it can help you guys!

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The Fan Fiction Phenomena

                How many people out here in the fandom world know about fan fiction? Some are familiar, some even never heard about it, some are its lovers, or maybe some are the writers. Fan fiction, usually called fanfic, is a term for stories or fictions which are made by the fans of novels, movies, actors, or bands. The characters in it is based on their idols or the character in the novel or movies. For me myself, the first time I knew about fanfic was when I became a fan of kpop 4 years ago. I believe that fanfics have been around for quite long time, but it becomes popular in the recent 3-4 years. They are spread through the internet and has its own loyal readers. This phenomena currently raise a question, can fan fiction become a new genre of literature or just remain as a fans hobby?

                There are many ways fans can express or deliver their love to their idols. Especially for young people who have different lifestyle and still in the phase of searching identity. They tend to search the right way to express their love. It also can be distinguished by social class. For the middle-upper class, they tend to support their idols through buying something related to , such as the novels and the original CDs or DVDs. Then some are like to following their idols around, such as the concerts, the fan meetings, and the novels fan signs. And nowadays, the fandom world have the new way which is fan fiction, reading or writing. The gender difference is also matter here. 95% of fanfics’ writers and reader are fan girls while fan boys are more fond of spend their money. Through fanfic, fans can make many stories as weird, as wrong, as wild, as happy, as sad as they wanted it to happen to their idols. They put their wildest imagination there. From my own experience writing a fan fiction, making my own story about my idol, Super Junior, always brings joy. The feeling when I wrote it, finished it, and when the readers who also the fans praised my fanfic, are the best feeling. Not only the writers, the readers also will feel the same. Reading fanfic can make the fans happy because it makes them feel close to their idols, knowing something that other people don’t know, or having some extended stories from their favorite movies or novels. In my opinion, the pleasure they have when they are reading and writing fanfic is the one that make them addicted to it.

                Writing fan fiction is actually the same like writing other fictions. The different is just on the characters. Sometimes the story is based on true stories, sometimes it is inspired by other stories, or it is pure from the imagination from the author. Clearly that fan fiction are made for fun purposes. Therefore, there are no legitimate copyrights for them. The fans just likely to publish it in the internet. According to my research, Indonesian fan fiction writers like to publish their fan fiction in their own blog or Facebook. However, there are also fan fiction communities in Indonesia, for example Indohogwarts.com for Harry Potter lovers, fanficskpopindo.com for kpop lovers, and snsdfanfictionindonesia.com for SNSD(Girls’ Generation) lovers. Foreign websites are also really popular. A bit different with Indonesia, they prefer to have one big website that any fan communities can join, such as  fanfiction.net and asianfanfics.com. There are also some specific websites like Indonesia has, like harrypotterfanfiction.com and onedirectionfanfiction.com. from those example, we can conclude that internet is the “playground” of fan fiction’s lovers. They consume and produce fanfics there. However, there is a change of place where they publish their work from the KPOP fanfic writers. If before always published kpop fanfic in the internet, now some of them are moving to wider market, which is book store, like Gramedia. They sell their fan fiction to the publisher and making money from it. In my opinion, there is a change of perspective that they can actually earn money from making fan fiction. It has something to do with the booming of kpop in Indonesia.

                In conclusion, fans become more creative day by day. They are not only spending their money for their pleasure sake, but they tend to be make something that really useful for them. By writing fan fiction, they still get their pleasure, plus they can sharpen their writing skill. Even, they can make money from it. As for the readers, maybe someday they are not only consuming, but also can producing.

An Essay for a Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe

this is my essay for my final exam in 4th semester. I used Psychoanalysis approach to analyze this story, titled  "A Song for a Barbarian Reed Pipe". I only analyze almost-the-end of the story. How is the dynamic between id, ego, and superego of the narrator? hope this is can help. forgive me for the grammar error. please give me as source if you want use my thought.

Pressure Awakes Unconsciousness

            At least there must be one person who can control someone’s identity. It is like  become the role model of that person. In this story, A Song for A Barbarian Reed Pipe, the narrator’s role model or someone who control her is her mother, whether the narrator like it or not. The mother intentionally do it. She tells her daughter to do this and that, and saying that what she said is right, although the narrator doubt it. Their family backgroud as the first generation of Chinese family which become immigrants to America makes them still very influenced by their culture in China, especially the mother. She always tells the narrator what is right or wrong according to Chinese culture. However, sometimes the things that she told does not make sense and does not suit with American culture at all, like when the mother ordered her to ask for candies to the drug store. Eventhough she does not want to do it, but she must according to her mother. The narrator tells the druggist about her mother, “my mother said you have to give us candy. She said that is the way Chinese to do it” (Kingston, p. 170). She did whatever her mother told when she was a child. When she can think like an adult and know what is right or wrong by herself, she starts to become someone who can pour out her own thought and opinion. However, her mother keeps do that until she decide to tell her mother about her “true” self through a list she made. Massive pressure by her mother makes narrator’s unconsciousness release her pleasure.

Assignment: PRAGMATICS

this is my final paper for my pragmatics class in English Studies program 3rd semester. it is about cooperative principle and maxim. I'm so sorry it is brought by Bahasa Indonesia. at that time, I really not in the mood to write paper in English hehehe. so I hope my assignment can help :) please put me as your credit if you want to copy my task ;)

COOPERATIVE PRINCIPLE

            Cooperative principle adalah bagaimana seseorang berinteraksi dengan orang lain. Sebenarnya hal ini menjelaskan apa dasar-dasar atau prinsip-prinsip dalam suatu interaksi suatu individu dengan individu yang lain. Dalam suatu perbincangan atau pembicaraan, si pembicara berasumsi bahwa si pendengar dapat bekerja sama dalam berinteraksi agar mereka bisa mencapai target yang diinginkan dalam perbincangan atau pembicaraan tersebut. Karena itulah, si pembicara berasumsi bahwa si pendengar mempunyai basis ketentuan-ketentuan yang sama dengan si pembicara.

            Namun ada kalanya terjadi suatu kesalahan dalam berkomunikasi atau berinteraksi dikarenakan beberapa faktor. Faktor-faktor tersebut bisa saja karena perbedaan budaya dan pengalaman linguistik yang berbeda antara si pembicara dan pendengar. Dan hal tersebut mengarah kepada asumsi yang salah. Karena itulah diperlukan dasar-dasar dalam berinteraksi atau berkomunikasi. Menurut Grice, dasar-dasar tersebut dibagi menjadi empat conversational maxims, diantaranya adalah: quantity, quality, relation, dan manner.

Quantity: maxim ini adalah dimana suatu percakapan harus mengetahui batas maksimum dan minimum suatu informasi untuk diucapkan.

Quality: maxim ini adalah dimana suatu perkataan harus benar adanya dan tidak mengada-ada atau salah, dan juga harus mempunyai bukti-bukti

Relation: maxim ini adalah dimana suatu percakapan harus berkaitan dan saling berhubungan

Manner: maxim ini adalah dimana suatu perkataan harus jelas, tidak boleh ambigu.

My Same-sex Marriage Essay for My Assignment

yeaaaa so I just finished an essay for my Introduction to American Culture and Literature assignment. I love this subject, it's so interesting, but the lecturer kinda killer so I always nervous in that class -____- tomorrow I should collect it. please pray for me. hope this is satisfied her qualification. she's kinda strict when it comes to an essay assignment. especially the thesis. she always ask the student in my class one by one what our thesis are. god...that so intimidating I must say. so this is my thesis:

"Same-sex marriage are proper and can be acceptable"

actually, I don't know why I choose this topic. Gays marriage. I also don't know why I'm pro gays marriage hahaha. but I really think they worth it to have a freedom to married the one they love, like I said on my essay.

I've done many riset in internet about this topic. then I found that many people are pro about this, so it's like I've been influenced by them and their essay. I should thank them to make me inspired. 

especially to this site: http://www.123helpme.com/search.asp?text=gay+marriage

they have many amazing essay about gays marriage. I have to say that I interested with this topic so much. I hope my essay is great in my lecturer's eyes. at least my thesis.
so this is my essay. don't forget to put me as your credit if you want to copy ;)
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Let Gays Married

            Same-sex marriage are proper and can be acceptable. In the United States, controversy about gay marriage are unsolvable until now. I believe that many people think gays marriage should not be legal because of some reason, especially religious reason. This is a sensitive topic when people have different perspective from one another. United states have not recognize gay marriage as legal, but some of individual states such as California, Connecticut, Columbia, Hawaii, Iowa, New York, Vermont, and Washington are in legal status for gay marriage. How can this happen? Once again, it is because of different perspective of individual. To become a legal-gays-marriage-states, a group of people who want to be recognize and official rights about gay marriage should give a license to the supreme court which take responsibility of this cases. If it is banned by the court, then it still not legal. Whether it is banned or not, it depends on the amandement of those states and also the court decision. However, there is also some states which the license was banned, but present valid ones allowed. This difference of agreement of each states makes an unrest between opponent side and proponent side. While the opponent side are using religious arguments, proponent side are using liberal arguments to make gays marriage legal.

            Gay couples also have rights to married the one they love. With United states as a liberal country, I think it is clear that gays marriage are individual rights. They should be able to be in a relationship or married to whoever they desire to choose. Marriage definition itself is a commitment of love between to people, so I think there is no reason gays marriage cannot be legal. Neo-christian people or whoever against gays marriage with religious or traditional reason behind it just to strict and did not think about the freedom of each people. That people should be realize that gays are also human being who wants to feel how could life be when they can married the one they love. Eventhough there is anti-discrimination laws for gays in United States, gays still should be live in a secret life, they cannot adopt and raise them, and also sometimes they get mentally bullied by people around them. There is a cases in Washington, a teacher who has a nice record get fired when the school know he is a gay. However, even they are treated not very well same as other straight people, gays make many valuable contribution to their communities. For example, they help for the charity event, serving on school boards, pay taxes well, and helping on their neighborhood. Therefore, they are not only married for make their own life better, but for their neighborhood as well.

            There are a case about unmarried gays couple named Lindsey and Beth who live together in the same house. When Beth died because of a accident, Lindsey lost everything that she used to be has when she live with Beth, such as children they raised and the house they used to lived. This problem will not be happen to Lindsey if gays marriage are legal and they have same rights like other straight married couples. If there are a difference between gays and straight like that cases, I think United States are back to the era when there are huge difference between black and white or men and women. With gays are treated same as low citizen, goverment should take a firm step about same-sex marriage rights. Beside cannot born their own children, I think there is no disadvantage of gays marriage. Religious society also should know if that marriage are a sin, those gays are understand and mature enough to deal with that. So I think there is no reason to against same-sex marriage. Let them love.

sketsa robot

I just want to share one of my essay for drama assinment in my college. The essay is about a theatre, the title is 'sketsa robot'. Because of that theatre, now it become one of my passion.

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The title of the theatre is sketsa robot. My first impression about this theatre from the first time I know about the title is I thought it was about the future world when human live together with robot. However, when I watch this theatre I realize although the story take place in the 2030 but the conflict of this story is about the conflict what we face this day in 2010.

            The first scene, it started with a woman named Dewi Sartika enter the house with sophisticated technology. She enter the house with phoning with someone. We could see from her look and what she said to someone in the phone that she is a success career woman. Then it was continue with she looked for her husband and robot daughter. As I can see from the scene, the husband named Sudirman and the daughter named Lolita was flirting when Dewi is not at home. Then, Dewi and Sudirman was arguing about their realationship, Dewi was so angry to Sudirman because when she work very hard for their sake, husband did not do anything and having fun with their richness. Dewi’s anger increase when she knowed that Sudirman is changed Lolita’s type of robot become S3X, and it effected to Lolita’s attitude. She become overreacting and always want to have sex with anybody. Then, Dewi decided to register Lolita to University of Robot Indonesia or URI after the mechanicman suggest that university to her. She hope Lolita could have high moral standard. And she did not allow Sudirman to meet Lolita.

            The second scene, it begin at large room with many parents and students inside it, and there is two man named Budi and Yohannes. It was register time for enter URI. There are Lolita and her mother, Firman and his father, Terminari and her father, Barbra with Barie and their mother, Hidayah and her mother, and there is one mother with his son. Budi and Yohannes explain the rules in URI and the price that they must pay if they want to enter that university. The price is differentiate between platinum, gold and silver. However, for Firman and his father those price are too expensive and they can not pay with those high price, so they ask for dispensation, but Budi and Yohannes did not give it and they tell Firman and his father to meet the head of university if they want dipensation. They said, “No money, no education”.

            The third scene, it begin at the head of university room. The head of university was interviewed by one of TV program, the presenter is Kusuma Perdana. The program is about the university, the presenter was asking the head of university about the law in university. They also discuss about economis and politics in that country. Then when the break time, the head of university protest to Kusuma because his question is not in the script and hard to answer, Kusuma said that he must do that to make this program interesting and people who watch that program would not bored. When Kusuma and the head of university was chatting, Firma and his father enter the room. At first all people in that room was confused, but when Firman’s father explain about what they want, the ead of university understand and allow the to sit. Then Kusuma ask his cameraman to record that event. The head of university give Firman dispensiation, and Firman and his father really thankful to the head of university. Then the head of university said to Kusuma that he often to give a dispensiation to his student.

            The fourth scene, it begin with more than ten students and their teacher are singing the URI song. After that, they started study. In that class there are robot students and real-human students. The human students once protest to the teacher because they could not remember the matery in instant like robot, because they did not have machine like robot who have memory processor. But the teacher did not want to understand and still forced themselves to study harder. In the middle of class, suddenly Firman came to class, he bring a letter from the head of university, the letter said that Firman is allow to have a class and study. Some of students are protest to the teacher because Firman do not have money but he can study, but other students are very nice to Firman and ask the teacher to allow Firman to join them. Then, the teacher asked Firman to sit on the floor. When the teacher want to continue, Budi and a woman enter the class, and Budi asked permission to the teacher for a moment because a woman that he bring named Cassandra want to tell something to students, so the teacher allow her. Cassandra told the students that she have a company that looking for new employee, and she open the recruitment to the students there that want to work and have big salary. The recruitments of the job is woman, and especially robot. Suddenly, Lolita father’s, Sudirman enter the room and looked for his daughter, the teacher very shocked then she called a security to take Sudirman out. Sudirman was very angry so he tell Yohannes. When Yohannes enter the room, he confused why Budi was there, so Yohannes told the students to go out from the room. After that, Yohannes asked Budi why he there, then Budi told him that he has a business with Cassandra to employed the students on the ilegal worked but the profit is very high. Yohannes was very angry about it, and that two best friends were fighting.

            The fifth scene, it began with Barbra and Fernando was singing a love song at the university park. After they sang, Barbra asked Fernando why he look so upset, the Fernando told her that he was angry because he did not like if Barbra hang out with another boy except him because he is her boyfriend. Barbra is a robot but Fernando is human, so when Fernando told her that he jealous, she did not understand. When Fernando told her that he love her, she ask what love is. And it make Fernando confused how he can explain his feeling to Barbra. Because Barbra was confused too, the she asked Fernando to flirted with her at that park. Fernando agree, but when they were having sex, there is a gardener there disturb them, so Fernando give him much money to keep him silent and do not disturb them. Then suddenly, Firman came and asked Barbra to go with him, and it make Fernando was very angry, and they were starting to have a fight. Because they were fighting so noisily, Budi come to make the situation cool. Budi punish Fernando and Firman. Then, Budi asked Barbra to come to his office at the night.

            The last scene, it takes place in Yohannes room. Yohannes was talking to a hacker who hacked Budi’s room and put a camera in Budi’s room. The hacker give Yohannes what he got. It is a record from the camera that the hacker put, the video was showed that Budi is having sex with Barbra, and it make Yohannes so happy because he can get a revenge to Budi. Yohannes call Budi to come to his room. When Budi come, Yohannes show the video and it make Budi really upset. He tried to get the ipad but fail, the he start to beg Yohannes to forgive him. But Yohannes did not forgive him that easy, he said he will give the video to the head of university so he could get fired. With Budi beg for Yohannes forgiveness over and over, Yohannes said to him that he will waiting for Budi next morning in ten o’clock, if he late, Yohannes will give the video to everybody. Budi accept that and got out from Yohannes room. Yohannes was very satisfied, he laugh very hard and praise himself. Then, Lolita and Barbie enter the room, the flirted with Yohannes.

            Total scene in Sketsa Robot is six scene. All the scene that have played, have their own moral in it. The story and the character want us to understand what they want to convey to the audience. For the first scene, they tried to convey that there is the changing in household nowdays., the wife is more have a role in family, they become the head of the family, busy with their own work, and they did not do what a housewife work as usual. Then the husband is more happy to stay at home, not working, they want to be ordered by their wife, and do what wife have to do. The wife become ‘husband’ and husband become ‘wife’. The second scene, they tried to convey that nowdays “no money, no education”. For people who want to study but they do not have money, they cannot school or attend university. The payment was too expensive and there is no dispensation. The third scene, they tried to convey that in this country now there is many problem from economics, politics, and education. The fourth scene, they tried to convey that nowdays is often a unknown people offer something that dangerous to student and the student should not accept that. The fifth scene, they tried to convey that many teenager did not care about their reputation, flirted with their friend wherever they want even at the park, and they can keep someone to shut up just with money. The last scene or the sixth scene, they tried to convey that nowdays many bestfriends become a backstabber, people now framed each other and difficult to believe with someone now.

            The setting of this drama is at Indonesia, 2030. Human live together with robot. People in Indonesia is hard to have babies so they make robot to become their children, or people who do not want to die they can change theirselves become robot. I think the setting was really great, the properties is really show how cool Indonesia when 2030. This drama also have a good plot. From one scene to one scene maybe did not have same moral and meaning, but it still connected each other, and it did not make the audience confused. The music also great especially when the changing of scene, it make the audience did not bored when they see the blackman change the scene.

            The actor and the actress in this drama is really a lot. There is no the main characters in this drama, all artist are the main character. The character of all the artist are showed by the dialogue and what they do. Many artist that did not have a line, but with their gesture we can know what are their character.

            This theatre do not have exact ending. This theatre let the audience to decide the ending with their own perception because the type of this theatre is realistic and naturalistic.

            It is impressed me how this theatre showed the problem and the conflict with a different way, serious but still have many humor in it. Then it make the audience not bored and we could understand easily what the character or the story want to tell us.