Moments of delicious irony: when fanfic writers object to fanfic of their fanfic

[lesbiassparrow]

Look it's wank about Stargate fic on fandom wank! (I have no idea why so many people actually think there is a subtext to any of the Stargates. Digging for deeper nuances in any of them seems to me like looking for subtlety in a hammer to the head.)

I get objections to outright plagiarism but deciding that no one else should have a right to play in your fanfic universe and that to read fic (or hear of it presumably) that messes with it hurts YES HURTS AND THUS PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE RESPECT FOR YOUR CREATION can not but make me boggle at the lack of self-awareness. For added delight one of the people involved IS ONE OF THE PEOPLE BEHIND DREAMWIDTH. You know, the place where fandom can be safe against, er, people not wanting them to write fanfic.

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[lage-nom-ai.livejournal.com]

This has been bringing me joy ALL WEEK. Come to Dreamwidth, where we'll GO TO THE WALL FOR YOUR FANFIC RIGHTS VS PRO AUTHORS. But if you mess with MY FANFIC? YOU GO TO HELL. YOU GO TO HELL AND YOU DIE.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

MY FANFIC IS PURE. AND SHOULD STAY UNTAINTED BY YOUR GRUBBY HANDS. NOW GO AND WRITE SOME PORN ABOUT HARRY AND THE SQUID.

[raffaella.livejournal.com]

This has made me deliriously happy! So, so happy! For real, I want to send a link to Diana Gabaldon, George R.R. Martin, and every writer who has been the target of fandom rage for having the UTTER GALL to say, however clumsily: "I don't like it when people do disturbing things -- well, disturbinger than what I've done, but then I've created them, assholes, and did the actual worldbuilding work, so I actually have the right-- to my characters, really." This is a thing of beauty.

Fandom, you never disappoint.