Never mind Tbay, what about FILKS ?

[pippin_999]

Carolyn:
> > I suppose they are easy to spot, like Tbay, so equally easy to 
> > ignore if you want to. However, I'd still like to understand the 
> > rationale for them being on the main list. They seem to me to 
be 
> > somewhere between fanfic and OTC.

Richard 
> Ahh... I was wondering when this subject would crop up, and 
although  I was going to raise it elsewhere, this is perhaps an 
opportunity to  get my thoughts out of the way.
> 
> Although I recognise most of the songs, and I enjoy and 
admire  filking as an art, I agree that filks really should have no 
place on  the main list. 
<snip>
, they don't actually add anything to discussing 
> canon and so if we were apply the rules strictly, they should be 
> limited to OT-C.

I can't speak for all filkers, but  my filks usually do have a canon 
point  and sometimes I've found that a filk can actually convey a 
theory better than a straightforward  exposition. 

For example I observed some similarities between the plight of 
Dorothy's companions in the Wizard of Oz and the characters of 
Sirius, Lupin and Snape. Nobody seemed to get it until I filked "If 
I Only Had a Brain."

I'm not sure I understand the concept of certain posts as 
"privileged."  I can see where it would be annoying for someone 
who doesn't care for TBay or Filks to have to read (or skip) those 
posts on the Main List while far more fascinating (to them) topics 
are consigned to OT-C for the sin of being off-canon,  but  I 
wonder if this has more to do with the size of  the potential 
audience. If the OT-C list had as many members as the Main 
List, would this still be an issue?


Pippin
posting on her own behalf