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[threeplusfire]

Dear Author of the Week...

A fantastic post that lists a huge number of examples of fantastic works and their relation to fandom, how a huge number of published/professional works are derivatives of older source material/inspired by love of previous stories/are essentially fanfiction. LOTS OF THEM WON PULITZERS. Don't even get me started on Boondock Saints II which was essentially fanfiction. Or that Star Trek "reboot" and Trek fandom. Or the Jane Austen VS Zombies/Sea Monsters/Carnivorous Plants/Etc.

Author of the Week is currently pretty whiny. She also compares people who write fanfiction with people out to seduce her husband or rape her daughter. Um, just wow. That's a bit of overreaching. This whole argument that fanfiction is some illegal cabal is tired and tiresome. Don't even start here in this journal. Feel free to not enjoy fandom or to find it weird or whatever. But stop witht he hysteria and the absurd comparisons that have no basis in reality.

Comments

[fleurdeliser.livejournal.com]

I keep saying this everywhere, but I'll say it again. I have a hard time believing that people who take such a hard and fast line against fanfic and things have ever experienced being a FAN of something. Of loving a work of fiction or art or music or whatever so much you don't want to stop experiencing it.

[splix.livejournal.com]

Diana Gabaldon's rage makes me LOL. Her books [well, Outlander, anyway, I never read any of the others] are tripe anyway.

[avidbeader.livejournal.com]

Heh, and this is rich coming from an author who has stated in multiple interviews and her own companion book that she based her main character on a "Doctor Who" character to the point of naming him from "Who" characters. *rolls eyes* If I ever get published and become famous, I will welcome the fanfic.

[psylent1.livejournal.com]

That news generated a lot of good discussion tonight.(She reminds me of Lars Ulrich in the whole anti-Napster whining.)

[horosha.livejournal.com]

YESSS x 1000. I get tired of whining criticisms of fanfiction for that very same reason.