: Sunday, May 9, 2010
- nihilistic-kid: George R. R. Martin is wrong about Lovecraft - Writers can have all sorts of waterheaded ideas about what copyright means. If they manage to prosper despite their ignorance, good on 'em. But at the very least they should avoid rewriting history by trying to show Lovecraft as a negative example of the power of fanfic when ultimately, Lovecraft's reputation is what it is today partially because of fanfic. -
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naraht: Classical composer RPF: the profic version - So I've discovered that a woman named Sonia Orchard wrote and published a novel about the Australian pianist Noel Mewton-Wood, who was an accompanist and friend of Peter Pears. The narrator is fictional but the history is very real. If I had written this I probably would have posted it on AO3. Remind me again why RPF is immoral and/or illegal? And why we should be embarrassed to write it? -- selenak: New rant, same as the old rant - There are few more guaranteed turn-offs for me in the midst of enjoying a slash story than a variation of the following: "X realised he had never loved/desired *name of female canon love interest* anyway/ X realised that his feelings for *name of woman* could never compare with the true love/ overwhelming desire he felt for *other name of slash pairing*". -
- eumelia: Fiction Matters* - Other's in this debate have said that fic is dialogue, reaction and transformative. All this is true, and I myself have donated and am a member of OTW.But fan-fiction is two other things for me. It is a coded meta-reading of the world that is being written and read, and it is an act of devotion.We are devoted to the canon and we create our own liturgy, nothing is true and all is permitted. -
- wrabbit: my addition to the fanfiction debate - I think the problem with this whole debate is a failure to define terms. Specifically, what is the nature of intellectual property, even more specifically that of a creative work? If I write a character, Mrs Figment for example, can she exist outside of the text that I've just written? The thing is, I don't think she can. -
- grrm: Someone Is Angry On the Internet - One of the things I mislike about fan fiction is its NAME. Truth is, I wrote fan fiction myself. That was how I began, when I was a kid in high school writing for the dittoed comic fanzines of the early 1960s. In those days, however, the term did not mean "fiction set in someone else's universe using someone else's characters." It simply meant "stories written by fans for fans, amateur fiction published in fanzines." -