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Wed, May. 5th, 2010, 12:27 am
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oula: Tuesday, May 4th 2010
- pinkfinity: Dear Ms Gabaldon - No, no author has to be as understanding of her fans urge to create stories or art or vids based on her works as JK Rowling has been. // But I can think of at least a dozen women who, in the last decade, have written (or beta read) Harry Potter fanfic and gone on to publishing contracts and best-sellers and sales of the movie rights to their books - and I know a dozen more who’re going to reach that milestone in the next year or two. -
- kalichan: *headdesk* - It’s a conversation; a dialogue, if you will. You write, others respond. The book doesn’t exist in isolation; it’s something that we make together. Found art, collage, appropriation, pop art: these aren’t immoral. -
- sheafrotherdon: Stones. Glass Houses. News at 11. - So exactly where does Gabaldon draw the line? Is it simply that she’s being paid to write the sex, whereas fanfic writers aren’t? Is it that she over-identifies with her characters (as her blog suggests, since she holds that reading fanfic is like having someone write porn about her daughter)? I know I’m looking for logic where there isn’t any, but I am overly attached to the idea of reason, and there isn’t any reasonable way to defend sex-as-written-for-money as being okay, but sex-written-for-free as"immoral" -
- woldy: Please keep your assumptions away from my ass (and my characters asses) - I suspect we might see more varied and interesting sex scenes in slash stories if there weren’t How To guides and conventional wisdom about writing m/m sex. I also suspect that we would see less variety in the sex scenes depicted in femslash stories if there were guides about how to write femslash sex scenes and conventional fandom wisdom developed about it. -
- lightgetsin: I grew up here: a short rant - I am personally offended by attacks on fanfiction. Intellectually too, but this isn’t about how these people are usually speaking from an outdated notion of creative ownership, or simple ignorance of the law, or how they are unaware of the misogyny embedded in their critiques. No, it offends me personally. -
- bookshop: I’m done explaining to people why fanfic is okay. - We get it. You hate fanfic. We don’t care. We don’t have to. Fanfic belongs to the tradition of reinvention and reinterpretation that each of the artists listed above has freely, fully participated in. -
- nos4a2no9: "Well, the Cat House was a bit of a letdown. It was full of racoons." - We’ve all heard these anti-fanfic arguments before, but it takes a special snowflake to take the necessary leap from inappropriate comparisons to hyperbolic craziness. I think Gabaldon (author of the Outlander historical romance series, which I will no longer be purchasing) has proven herself to be that snowflake. -