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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[doyle_sb4.livejournal.com]

It's even odder than that; people were encouraged to write fic in this AU, until someone filled a comment-fic meme prompt that made the neither-groundbreaking-or-unreasonable-point that this super-close family might not look so perfect to someone outside it. You'd think that fic turning some element of canon on its head would be familiar to anyone with even passing knowledge of fandom, but in this case...

[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.

[ancarett]

Yes, that was a delicious wank. Not just because of the whole "missed the boat on transformative works" issue, but also because you are also UNAMERICAN if you don't bow down and worship their fanfic paradigm.

[robotjen.livejournal.com]

UNBELIEVABLE

[sucrelefey.livejournal.com]

Hypocrisy doesn't help endear fandom towards undecided authors that's for sure.

[raffaella.livejournal.com]

I'm cackling with glee. I remember the OUTRAGE when Gabaldon and George RR Martin had the audacity to say that they didn't like people writing fics of their works. I didn't say anything because I genuinely don't care, but while I think that raging about fanfic is futile, and that comparisons to rape, home invasion and somesuch were overwrought, I wasn't actually shocked to see professional writers feel proprietary about their work. They certainly were wasting their time and I think it's probably preferable, if only for one's peace of mind, to go the Neil Gaiman route, ignore the whole thing, and say "do whatever you want, I'm not particularly interested in it and don't send me your fic, plz" but hey, I didn't think that they were horrible people for not liking it. And I chortled when fandom called them "entitled authors", because I'm pretty sure that they're legally entitled to their intellectual property. Or something.

HANYWAY. This is hilarious. Transformative works are the new face of creativity and published writers are dinosaurs who refuse to admit that they've lost, etc, etc...until someone has the audacity to write a mildly critical interpretation of your beloved derivative universe whose main character actually belongs to an entertainment corporation, and then they'll be drawned and quartered! I love this. LOVE. I expect mass combustion if someone does to them what fanfic writers do to characters created by someone else, i.e. incest, orgies, rape and god knows what.

I need a "points and laughs" icon.

[nutmeg3.livejournal.com]

So basically, fanfic writers are, in their delightful hypocrisy, the family-values and gay is Godless Republicans of the literary world. (I'm so going to get pilloried for saying that, but it's twu, dammit, it's twu!)

Seriously, this whole thing is just so happy-making.